Exam panic

My first exam, Software Engineering I, is tomorrow afternoon. Usually I’m reasonably calm about exams, even though I really dislike them, but this time round I suddenly feel really apprehensive and nervous. I don’t know why, perhaps it’s because these are probably the first exams that really mean something (A levels were important, but mainly […]

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Labour poster campaign slogan

“Lowest mortgage rates for 40 years” Correct me if I’m wrong, but last time I checked the Bank of England started setting the base rate of interest independently of the government as of 1997. Given that variable-rate mortgages are based on this figure (they usually rise/fall within a month of it changing), how the hell […]

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Rogue Students is back

After much deliberation over what content management system to use, I’ve finally brought back Rogue Students, which is now powered by vBulletin forums and some extra files courtesy of vBadvanced to make the home page display the latest news. Any feedback on the site would be appreciated, and if you want to get involved all […]

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New Year’s Eve party

For those of you who didn’t know, we decided to bring in the new year in style by having a house party at the place where I live in Manchester (well, actually there were various plans being thrown around until it was decided on a house party and as usual I opened my big mouth […]

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Happy New Year!

Ok, I know this is technically a few minutes late (due to me being absolutely shattered and travelling all over the place in the last 24 hours), but I wish everyone a Happy New Year for 2005.

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Review of the year

Via Jennie and David: Best Local bands seen: Don’t know any local bands. Worst local bands: As above. 🙂 Exotic towns/cities visited: Nowhere, not really one for travelling. Girls I fancied but failed to get anywhere with: Ha ha, wouldn’t you like to know. 😉 Girls I fancied and did get with: None. 🙁 Great […]

RSS feed available

After requests from several people (including Samir), I’ve incorporated an RSS feed into my site. In common with the rest of Rogue Tory, I wrote the code myself rather than finding someone else’s solution—and in fact it wasn’t particularly difficult because at the end of the day the feed is just a simple plain text […]

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New blog online

After nearly two days of solid PHP/MySQL coding, I’ve managed to get my new weblog system into a state where it can be used by the general public. It now supports commenting and displaying of entries by year/month/day/individual entries using some fancy mod_rewrite magic (ok, not that fancy, but it works!) to make the URLs […]

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New machine

After much deliberation and mulling over specifications, I finally went out and bought the components for a new computer. My flatmate Mike helped me assemble it, and it’s now handling DNS requests for my local network at home in Bury, plus it hosts and provides the DNS for two of my domains. It’s also running […]

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Full speed ahead

Now that I’ve finished for Christmas and have some spare time on my hands, I’ve finally got down to working on my new weblog system properly. Already the main page is done, the archive page is on the way and the pages for individual months/days will use almost exactly the same code and therefore should […]

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