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 […]
Fame at last!
Totally crazy day today, ended up being interviewed by both Channel M and BBC Radio Manchester about waste and recycling on behalf of Manchester Friends of the Earth. It was a bit nerve wracking, especially as the radio interview went out live (Channel M interview goes out tomorrow at 5pm and 9pm I’ve been told), […]
Happy New Year
Last night I went to Sarah’s house party last night which was great fun, although I only knew a few people there. We ended up scaling a maintenance ladder to get on the roof in time for the fireworks at midnight—it was amazing being able to look out over a large part of Manchester and […]
Review of the year
I did this in 2004 and 2005 so here I go again… Review of 2006 Best bands seen: I haven’t seen any bands this year, unless you include Razorlight and KT Tunstall and I didn’t really ‘see’ them. Worst bands: As above. 🙂 Exotic towns/cities visited: I haven’t been anywhere special this year, mainly because […]
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone. 🙂 (will post a proper update when I get five minutes peace).