Archive for May 2007

24 May

Feeling Guilty

This just goes to show how little time I spend in the department: After my meeting with Stefan today, we went to photocopy the work sheet, and I checked the pigeon holes for any mail. Shamus…

21 May

Hannah and JC’s Visit

This weekend, Hannah and JC have been up to Durham — JC to disturb his brother’s revision, and Hannah to return a book to our library. We met up in the Swan & 3 (where else) on…

17 May

Countdown Numbers

As a mathematician, obviously I have particularly poor mental arithmetic, but I’m usually okay at the Countdown numbers. Not quite as good, however, as this guy: I got 953, in…

12 May

Spider-Man 3

We went to see Spider-Man 3 for Jay’s birthday today. I’ve seen the second, and really enjoyed it. This one, I must admit, was no different — despite warnings from critics and…

10 May

Ooh, Vector Art

Today I stumbled upon this vectorising tool, called textorizer, that converts images into SVG format. You can specify your own text and size, as well as playing around with the edge-finding…

8 May

MySQL Joys

1NF teaches us that we should not store repeating groups in fields. Given that we have a table satisfying 1NF containing values as such: 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3,…

6 May

College Day

Always a great day, and this one was no exception! Not wanting to start with the provided champagne breakfast, as it was a little early, we had our own — much better in my opinion!…

3 May

My Favourite Number

I love the Internet. I love how countless code monkey hours are wasted trying to stop the inevitable. I love how people actually think it’s possible to remove information from the Word…