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 […]
jUA
Warning: Fairly technical UA/Java post ahead. 🙂 I’ve started writing a client for UA, written in Java and unimaginatively entitled jUA. Although qUAck works fine most of the time, I know some people prefer to have a graphical interface, but uaHTTP is really slow sometimes and you generally have to wait for it to refresh […]
23 Questions
Via Kate: 1. Elaborate on your default icon. The flame is something I created ages ago, I can’t remember how – I seem to remember taking an image that I found on the Internet and applying a few effects in Paint Shop Pro until I got something that I liked (you can see it on […]
Graduation photos
Since a few people have asked me about this, I’ve uploaded my graduation photos to my Flickr account. Although there’s a lot of pictures from my graduation, I’ve only uploaded the ones I think are ok. I hate having my photo taken and I look awful in the vast majority of them, so there’s only […]
Work update
For the duration of my ‘placement’ (I can’t really think of a better word to describe it) I’m working with the Qurator team in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. Qurator is basically some software that helps bioinformatics people to run quality views on protein datasets under different critera – at […]
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest
I went to see the the second Pirates of the Carribean film with Kirk this afternoon, mainly because I hadn’t been to the cinema in ages (excluding X-Men 3, which we don’t talk about) and it was about the only thing on that I thought was worth going to see. Unfortunately I haven’t seen the […]