My youngest sister amused me this weekend by buying a copy of ‘Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis’ (the first Harry Potter book, translated into Latin) for my birthday. She’s a big Harry Potter fan and is always trying to get me to read the books, although I don’t think my Latin is quite up to […]
Catching up on the last few weeks
The useless organisation that is British Telcommunications plc has managed to stuff up my phone line in various ways over the last two weeks, leaving me with no access to the Internet for the most part and a huge backlog of emails and RSS feeds to catch up on, and this is a minimised update […]
Book review online
The UKUUG have finally got round to publishing my book review on their website if anyone is sufficiently bored to want to read it (I haven’t posted it here because they own the copyright, in exchange for letting me keep the book). Annoyingly they didn’t send out a list of books to review for the […]
Course fun
Just a quick update to say that I’ve got through the first week of my MA and I’m having a great time studying Classics and Ancient History. For the first time in years I’m actually wanting to do background reading and work, whereas in Computer Science it was always a case of “I want to […]