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Archive for March, 2003

gosh, imagine that.

10:48 am on the 20th of March, 2003
The number of children taken to hospital for emergency treatment soars in sunny weather, according to a Scottish study.
really, d’ya think?

I can’t work out why that might be. I mean, that kids go out and play in fields and rivers and beaches when it’s nice weather (which happen to coincide with holidays) is just absurd. Surely there are more injuries when they’re sitting inside on rainy days at their desks at school?

pooh sticks championships

8:18 pm on the 19th of March, 2003

It was the 19th annual pooh-sticks championships on Sunday.I had never realised there was such a competition but now I do I’m determined towin it next year, who’s with me?
BBC NEWS | England | New ‘pooh-sticks’ World Champion

spacebarmadnessgrrr

10:31 am on the 18th of March, 2003

thespacebarhasjustgoneonthiskeyboard
sorry
nomorelongand
interestingpoststilligethome,
unlessyoucanactuallyputupwiththies?ohno,nowthebackspaceisbrokentoo.
timetoslinkoffbeforesomeonenotices.

cohabitation with animals

10:28 am on the 18th of March, 2003

greenhamster today reveals the spider the size of a puppy living above him to be a squirrel. funny that, i’ve come to the conclusion that there are rabbits living above me, going by the sounds i hear.

apologies

10:24 am on the 18th of March, 2003

this site looks godawful in ie5 i’ve just found out. that isn’t my apology, my apology is that i don’t care enough to make it better. use mozilla. or if you insist, ie6

Guardian Journo goes mad

1:12 pm on the 15th of March, 2003

via nu-produkt:

18th over: New Zealand 60-5

Chris Harris is the new man in. The rest of the over passes by without event, rather like our lives.

Guardian Unlimited Sport | Special reports | India v New Zealand

smiles per hour

1:44 pm on the 11th of March, 2003

In the week where Glasgow announce they’re abandoning their ‘Smiles Better’ slogan another council launches this, signs that change according to your car’s speed.

Wind-ows Med-ia PL-ay-er

2:07 pm on the 7th of March, 2003

Does anyone know how to stop Windows Media player pausing between tracks that run into each other? It make listening to Abbey Road more than a bit frustrating.

This is an insult…

6:27 pm on the 5th of March, 2003
All new undergraduate and postgraduate students of the University of Glasgow must obtain certification of having reached the IT Baseline.

The Baseline currently consists of the following skills, awarenesses and knowledge:

  • Logging on and off a network
  • Familiarity with a graphical user interface
  • Essential File Management
  • Use of electronic mail
  • Basic Word Processing
  • Insertion of non-text objects into documents
  • Use of on-line library facilities
  • Location, retrieval and evaluation of online resources
  • Basic use of a spreadsheet
  • Integrating IT applications
  • Use of Help systems and documentation
  • Consideration of appropriate use of IT facilities
  • Adoption of a responsible approach to use of IT facilities
  • Responsible use of IT facilities

I have to sit a test in this stuff before I can go on into 2nd year. It’s absolutely ridiculous. As if I can’t do that stuff! You have to show you can send and recieve email in the test, but to arrange the time and date of your test they email you!

I have already done a module here as part of my course on various bits of software and applications like excell. In all of my highers I had to use word and I ran the school website and now of course my own.

It’s hard to belive anyone could get into uni now without being having these ’skills’ because you can’t avoid them at school, so why they feel the need to test people on them I do not know.

Have a look at the ‘online study aids’ I have to be able to do to pass and then give me your sympathy for this beaurocratic nonsense.

Aero-foiled

1:29 pm on the 4th of March, 2003

I overheard this story earlier this morning. I don’t know the name of the guy who told it so I con’t credit him. Anyway:

A friend of mine was doing some dull security work with long shifts. There were often long boring nights and so he took to writing funny letters complaining about stuff. One night he got an Aero bar without any bubbles in it, he didn’t really mind because he got a big chunk of chocolate but he wrote a letter moaning about it anyway. About a week later he recieved a package containing a sealed aero wrapper with nothing but air in it and an apologetic letter saying he hoped the bar of solid bubbles made up for his disappointment.

How about that for a heartwarming story on a miserable rainy Tuesday?