Have done this for the last three years, so here I go again… Best bands seen: Haven’t seen any, though I was mercilessly mocked for not knowing who Ash and Damien Rice were (or indeed James Blunt, but people were more of the opinion that this was a good thing). Worst bands: As above. 🙂 […]
Busy
Ack, it’s been almost a month since I last posted a proper update. I’m so busy at the moment (even more so than usual, if that’s possible), think I may well have taken on slightly too much this year and should probably drop some of my responsibilities, though I’m not sure that I can do […]
R.I.P Verity Lambert
Doctor Who’s first producer dies (she also worked on Jonathan Creek and May to December, amongst many other things, as was the youngest (and first female) producer at the BBC).
I am not a lecturer
As mentioned in the previous post, I finally got the results for my MA this week, so I am now unofficially an arts graduate (unofficially as I haven’t actually graduated yet). I’m not entirely sure what mark I got for my dissertation, I think Campus Solutions displayed 60% at one point, which is disappointing as […]
Master of Arts
According to Campus Solutions, I am now ‘Paul Waring BSc (Hons) MA MIET MBCS’. Woo!
Dustiness
Research topic After the confusion caused by last week’s meeting with my advisor, I didn’t really know where I was going with my research. Thankfully though, this week my two supervisors confirmed that what I had originally been thinking (i.e. detecting and linking events on the web, broadly speaking) was the right path to be […]
The first hurdle
I think I’ve hit the first big hurdle in my PhD which has made me stumble somewhat. I had a meeting with my co-supervisor on Wednesday, we went through some ideas and I tried to explain the direction of things to him, and we both ended up with a clearer view of where I was […]
Games of varying silliness
Silly Games Silly Games seemed to go down well last night, even though we started late and didn’t play as many of the games as we have done in previous years. New people outnumbered the elders for once though, which is always encouraging! I am mildly annoyed that my team’s record for Sticky Toffee was […]
PhD progress
My PhD seems to be going really well at the moment, I’m starting to get to grips with my research topic and I’m heading in a definite direction with something specific to do now (first task is to define what I mean by ‘an event’, which is complicated in itself). I think I’ve settled into […]
First week of PhD
It looks as if I’ve managed to survive the first week of my PhD—or technically MPhil as that’s what I’m registered for. Most of my time has been spent doing admin work (making sure I’m in the right groups on the network, arranging regular meetings etc.), but I now have my own desk in the […]