Last week I spent four days at the 2007 Classical Association conference, and I’ve just about caught up with emails/sleep/other things. Apart from being in Birmingham (by far the ugliest and unnavigable city I’ve been to so far), the conference itself was great. There were lots of panels involving computing and classics in some way, […]
Gridlock
I’m not sure entirely what to make of the most recent episode of Doctor Who, apart from the fact that it’s now broadcast more episodes than Star Trek (although it’s been around longer anyway, the only reason why it didn’t pull ahead before was due to the cancellation of the show in 1989). There didn’t […]
The Shakespeare Code
Tonight’s Doctor Who episode was great, lots of quotes and linguistic nods. The Harry Potter references in particular made me chuckle – I hope my sisters were watching it because they would have enjoyed those (apparently it’s now cool and perhaps even trendy to watch Doctor Who, unlike when I used to be ribbed mercilessly […]
Saving the Ancient History A level
If, like me, you’re concerned about the end of Ancient History A-level, then there is now an e-petition that you can sign to try and stop OCR’s plans. I don’t think it will make that much of a difference because as far as I’m aware the Prime Minister doesn’t have much control over education as […]
Some changes about these parts
I’ve finally given up maintaining my old custom blogging system and, after several hours of messing around with SQL statements, have converted over to WordPress. All the old entries and comments have been moved across and the design is still the same for the most part, although I haven’t finished editing the templates for all […]
Third series of Doctor Who
Doctor Who is back on our television screens once more for a third (or twenty ninth if you see it as a continuation of the classic series) season. I watched the first episode on Saturday night and thought it was okay, although I still feel that the stories are a bit short and over too […]
Conferences, courses and societies
Conferences The UKUUG conference was fantastic, I got to listen to lots of interesting talks and speak to people from all around the industry and academia (I even met someone who used to live in the same building as one of my ancient history tutors, which shows how small a world we live in). Everyone […]
Rock climbing and presentation feedback
I went indoor rock climbing last night with some people from Friends of the Earth, which is something that I haven’t done before. We started off with basic climbing and belaying (holding the rope for someone else in a nutshell) and I went up first, although it was a bit trickier later on because the […]
Quick update
So busy at the moment, only time for a quick update before returning to work: In terms of my course, I still don’t really feel like I fit in properly, which is annoying. I gave my core seminar presentation yesterday, but I don’t think I’ll have got a very good mark, even though I felt […]
Normal service will be resumed shortly
Last week I finally delivered my paper at the postgraduate conference that I’d been worrying about for several months. It went much better than I expected and I was told that I managed to field all the questions admirably. About two minutes before I was due to go in, several people came over to say […]