Archive for December, 2006

The Presents

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Here it is then, the moment you've all been waiting for... the list of stuff I got for Christmas this year! £851GB Wii (SD) Memory CardCadbury's Selection BoxCall of Duty 3How Cool Stuff Works BookLegend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)Les Miserables Anniversary Concert DVDMission Impossible 3 DVDNintendo Wii (inc. Wii Sports)Red ...

Un-Rejected!

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

"I am writing now to let you know that after careful consideration it has not been possible to offer you a place at Jesus College to read Physics, and I am sorry to have to inform you that your application is no longer under consideration by any other colleges at ...

Rejected!

Monday, December 18th, 2006

That's pretty much what the letter I got through the door Saturday morning said. Despite my best efforts, it looks like I'm not good enough for Oxford University after all. Not that I care - whilst I was there last week I decided that I didn't really like it anyway. I'm ...

And with a little ingenuity…

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

...I think I've solved my hard drive overheating problem. Yes, that really is one of those little fans that you buy for £2.99 to keep you cool in the summer. It's now keeping my hard drive cool in the winter. And appears to be working well - it's lowered the temperature ...

Typical

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

As I'm sure most the people who live in Didcot will now have heard, St Birinus School is closed for the remainder of term (all 2 days of it) due to a major electrical problem of some kind. Great... for most people, but not for me unfortunately. Why? Well, I happen ...

Comics

Friday, December 15th, 2006

I came across the following comic and found myself laughing uncontrollably for a short while. I figured I'd share it with you and also link you to some of the other web comics I have bookmarked. Rob and Elliot Gone with the Blastwave Maths for Laughs

On Valve Oil…

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

...I just found a bottle of Valve Oil in my pocket. I put it in there before Brass Band this evening because the bottle in my case was empty and then forgot about it. Strange. Anyway, I found it was really warm. Hot in fact. Like really hot. Not so ...

And Counting…

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

When it comes to programming, I like to think I have a fairly good grounding. I'm no master hacker, but I can quite easily hold my own in a whole host of programming languages. So when I got my new phone (see my touching tribute) yesterday, it obviously wasn't going ...