35/36 for maths. Not bad eh?
Current uni status: – Physics/Genetics: final assessments posted. Will find out in 2 months if I passed (ungraded) – Maths: 13/13 so far, with 23 questions left on final assessment (online). Hard stuff to come, due Friday (ungraded) – Web Design: 90% for first assignment – Javascript: 94% on first assignment – ASP: first assignment [...]
Posted my Genetics final assessment today. Although the study was easier than Physics, which Cath wasn’t doing, the assessment was harder because Cath and I have to remain scrupulous about not discussing the answers. Last thing we’d want after three months of study is an accusation of collusion or plagiarism. Only Maths now to go [...]
I think I’m going to have to learn to moonwalk.
I have been amusing my co-workers with antipodean outbursts of exasperation this week. Firstly, I referred to my job as “less fun than ironing my ballbag” and later referred to an impending meeting with our chief executive as an opportunity to have “a Ken-shaped pineapple inserted in my arse”. Apparently the English find such vulgarities [...]
Papa is apparently getting a bit better. We are all keeping our fingers crossed for him, hoping he’ll make a full recovery. In other news, our apartment in Newcastle (Aust) settled at about 3am London winter time. We are finally homeowners or, more accurately, are now actively engaged in buying our apartment back from the [...]
Tonight we ate well. Carluccios (the italian restaurant downstairs) was having their mushroom festival, with all sorts of snooty mushroom growers in attendance. We thought it appropriate to indulge and, after paying over 8 quid for a combination of girolle, porcini and (other, almost black) mushrooms, decided to make a special meal of it. The [...]
The path of the righteous developer is beset on all sides by the inequities of the salesperson and the tyranny of evil clients. Blessed is he who, in the name of best practice and good maintainability, shepherds the weak through the valley of documentation, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of [...]
Still at work. At some point someone will realise that coding takes as long as it takes – there’s not much you can do to speed it up. Heard from Dad that Papa was deteriorating, then that he was improving. Wish I was there now…
Is it just me, or is a spring chicken something that you can only not be? Have you ever heard of anyone described as “a spring chicken”?
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