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 […]
Struggling with Greek
I’m really struggling with learning Ancient Greek at the moment, partially because everything is pronounced and spelt using a completely different alphabet. I don’t really like the tutorial group sizes as I think they’re a bit too big and if you pause for even a few seconds it feels like everyone is looking at you—plus […]
Friends of the Earth conference
I spent most of Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Friends of the Earth Conference with eleven other members of the Manchester group. The whole weekend was a bit of a strange experience. For starters, all the expections I had were exceeded, especially when it came to the food arrangements. I wasn’t surprised to find […]
Course musings
I’m starting to get a bit nervous about the course, wondering whether I’ve taken the right decision in applying for it. I think it’s partly because I’ll be going in at the bottom of the class and I’ll probably be really far behind everyone else to start with. I’m worried about whether I’ll be able […]
Harry Potter in Latin and Greek
Amusing discovery of today: you can buy Harry Potter in both Latin and Ancient Greek, such is the popularity of JK Rowling’s work.
Off to be an arts student
I’ve kept relatively quiet about this for the past few months because I didn’t know what was going to happen about it, but this Thursday I got a letter from the University of Manchester making me an unconditional offer to do an MA in Ancient World Studies, starting this September. No, I haven’t gone completely […]
Last day at work
So, today is my last day of work at the University, at least in my current position anyway. The experience has been interesting, I think because I was a graduate (and also perhaps because I knew my supervisor beforehand) I was given more responsibility than the other vacation students.
Lone coder
Due to the way holidays have worked out, I’m currently the only member of the Qurator team who is still in the department, at least for the next few days. The person who I’m working with on the code doesn’t come back until Monday at the earliest, and I finish on Wednesday, which doesn’t really […]