Haven’t posted for a while due to essay deadlines, exams and just generally being busy… Blink This week’s Doctor Who was a bit weird, not to mention depressing. The Weeping Angels were extremely creepy, perhaps one of the most frightening (in terms of both visuals and what they do) Who monsters yet. The story itself […]
Powering up
Last weekend I spent more time in Birmingham (which is still as horrible as I remember it) for Power Up 2007, run by Friends of the Earth. It was a good, albeit short, time away from Manchester—the workshops were informative, the food was great (as is always the case at FoE events—why can’t classics conferences […]
Essays finished
After slogging away pretty much constantly for the past week, I’ve finally finished the two essays which together form a third of the mark for my MA. I’m fairly happy with both of them, more so with the Demes and Democracy one as I’ve had more time to research that area but the Later Roman […]
48 hours
Well, that was an interesting and rather unexpected 48 hours of randomness. Will post again if anything else happens as a result.
Northern Gathering
I’ve spent this weekend at the Northern Gathering 2007, which is a sort of residential weekend away for Friends of the Earth groups in the North of England. Basically we all go to a hostel somewhere (York this time), do some workshops, have a site visit and generally socialise and network with members of other […]
f2o to close its doors
I was a bit sad today when I opened my email to see a message from Dan Cody announcing that freedom2operate (f2o) will be shutting down in the next few weeks due to the time and cost of maintaining the service and the abuse of some of the free accounts. I don’t know if anyone […]
Classical Association conference 2007
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 […]