wiki-fact (noun): Something as portrayed as fact by someone who’s sole source is the online encyclopædia, wikipedia. Earliest known usage: Jorge Cham during a lecture at the University of Cambridge, October 2007. The relationship between the variables p (probability that a wiki-fact is true), and b (the number of Internet users who believe the wiki-fact [...]
I predict that the JCN talk on Monday will be excellent. So excellent in fact, I’d make the trip up to Cambridge to hear it and to catch up on what the SRCF has been doing since the end, just under a year ago, of my three-year involvement with the society.
Sadly, British Rail1 have other [...]
Sadly my @cam.ac.uk email account was cancelled on Friday — I had be warned that this would happen at some point, but annoyingly the Computing Service failed to give me any specific warning and so I only found out when I couldn’t login last night.
I haven’t actually used this address to send email [...]
… would buses run less frequently during peak times. From University Estate Management:
The published service frequency will change from 15 minutes to 20 minutes during peak hours (07.00-09.00 and from 16.00). The published off-peak service frequency will remain 15 minutes.
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 [...]
New photos in the photo gallery, including some from my recent trip to New York and Philadelphia, and May Week in Cambridge.
From the ucam-webmasters mailing list — yet another reason to switch to Firefox:
After application of SP2 to Windows XP there seems to be an interaction that we haven’t yet managed to isolate, which causes html files sent from IE to the validator at validator.w3.org (by either method) to be given the mime type of text. [...]
Someone should rewrite the About JCN page to be:
“I was at the JCN BBQ. Incredible experience… I think they must be the only set of people who would have a barbeque with three computers, a webcam, a network connection and hub, and no means of lighting the barbeque…:-) So they all clustered round the computer [...]