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Archive for March, 2003

To do list

12:01 pm on the 13th of March, 2003

Purely as a reminder to myself, not a plea for sympathy, not yet at least.

  • Maths EE1Y Block 1, Assignment 2, due Friday 21st.
  • Revise for Elecronics class test, Wednesday 19th
  • Maths EE1Y, Block 2, Assignment 1, due Monday 22nd April
  • Physics Lab Report, due April 25th
  • Maths EE1Y, Block 2, Assignment 2, due Monday 25th May
  • Electronics Exam, 27th May
  • Intoductory Programming Exam, 4th June
  • Maths Exam, 6th June
  • Physics Exam, 6th June

photo’s from Saturday

10:47 am on the 13th of March, 2003

Finally got round to putting up a few photos from Saturday night at Lisa’s where we celebrated Robert’s 25th.

goto the photolog to see them

some advice:

10:26 am on the 13th of March, 2003

If you’re going to buy a sandwich in the morning knowing that you’ll not have time to get it at lunch time and you put it in your bag until then make sure it’s not a ploughman’s that is going to leak smelly pickle over all of your notes.

CV again

8:59 pm on the 12th of March, 2003

I’ve been doing little bits to it again tonight. Playing with the layout as advised here and here

Thanks for the tips before, I’m not sure where to put in more about things I did at school, I have most of them in interests at the moment and I know that’s not ideal but I don’t know what header to put them under, could I get away with career experience?

How is it now? This is the old file just to compare

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.

I need opinions…

1:58 pm on the 7th of March, 2003

…from those in the know.

What does my cv look like to you? Is it alright? Does it need changed before I send off prospectively for Summer jobs?

Any thoughts, good or bad are welcome.

Wow! Don’t you just love it when you find clothes you thought you’d lost?

1:39 pm on the 7th of March, 2003

Well don’t you?

Also, just found this story: very odd.

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Beans on toes puzzles police

The rain it cometh down!

6:31 pm on the 5th of March, 2003

As promised it is now absolutely chucking it down.

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.