Archive for October, 2004

Funny goings-on in the world of print-media?

Sunday, October 31st, 2004

It’s been a bit of a funny weekend in the newspaper world. First is the shocking news that the venerable Times is going fully-tabloid from Monday! While I’m hoping the content of The Times won’t make a similar shift from broadsheet to tabloid, this week’s NTK highlighted that The Guardian, of all newspapers, has recently […]

Upcoming Seminars

Monday, October 25th, 2004

I’ve grown rather sceptical about attending seminars lately as often about half way through I find myself thinking that the time might be better spent reading the associated paper instead! However I am rather tempted to attend the following: Wed 27th October: What every Computer Scientist Needs to Know about Software Licenses — Andrew Adams […]

Freshers’ Week in review

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

Another year, and another freshers’ week (well, fortnight for us grads 🙂 ) gone by… This was the first year I haven’t been involved in organising things — starting in January meant my first freshers’ week was also the first year I was on the GradSoc committee and seeing it from the other side was […]

GMail Atom Feed

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

This is cool — liferea (Linux Feed Reader) news says that Google provides Atom feeds with a list of new messages in your gmail account! https://gmail.google.com./gmail/feed/atom Unfortunately https:// can’t be accessed directly by liferea, but you can use an external tool such as wget or curl to grab the feed — liferea supports this directly, […]

“Ultimate” Hangover Cure

Sunday, October 3rd, 2004

A lot of Jesus grads (me included!) were wandering around yesterday looking slightly…. “tired” after Friday night’s GradHall. While I’m normally quite a cynic when it comes to “miracle cures” Ed made me this fantastic drink which really did make me feel substantially better after a whole pint of it! Cheers, mate! The rest of […]