Category: Daily

  • New Shoes

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    I’ve been getting bored again recently. I’ve had to put an awful lot of hours into my job for the last couple of months to ensure that the students will be as prepared as possible for an upcoming exam, and because I’m organising two modules at once. Consequently I’ve had neither time nor appetite for…

  • Coke Zero

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    I have a bit of a coke problem. In that I often drink too much of it, and it contains far too much sugar. There seems to be a new branding thing here, but I’m not sure how this differs to Diet Coke. It doesn’t taste too nutrasweety (or maybe that’s just because I drank…

  • Pre-Royal Visit

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    The University is full of police searching the grounds today, before tomorrow’s Royal Visit. We had a fire alarm this morning so the Fire Brigade turned up too. Almost a full suite of emergency services.

  • Sun, beer and jenga

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    A sunny weekend, spent with good friends in Cardiff. Excellent.

  • Hosting Limits

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    For the first time I had an automated warning email this morning, telling me that my hosting space is about to reach it’s transfer limit. I have a 10GB transfer limit on the server space that I rent for a bunch of websites (including this one) and this is normally plenty. The culprit is cardifftri.net,…

  • Scan scan scan

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    I’m not PC bashing, really I’m not, and I do understand some of the problems of running the same operating system as 90% of the rest of the world. You see my office PC has just had a network-delivered install of Symantec anti-virus software. This is on top of the Windows Defender beta, Zone Alarm’s…

  • The Paranormalists

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    Currently listening to podcast: The Legend of Brown Willy-Part 1 from the album “The Paranormalists” by Crocanapple Productions.

  • Working from home

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    I’m working from home today for a couple of reasons (one of them being time-related). I’m writing web stuff for the medicine students as fast as I can, and I can do that easily from my study. Unfortunately the room is still looking really bland. We’ve had problems with the finish on the walls of…

  • Royal Visit

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    The Prince of Wales will be visiting Swansea University at the beginning of next month. He’s not interested in the School of Medicine though, more the Institute of Environmental Sustainability. Full story

  • Cardiff Tri Chair

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    Dave “Gumby” Gunthorpe has stepped down as Cardiff Triathletes’ Chairman. I think it’s a fairly time-consuming and tough chair to sit in, and Jeff made it look easy for years and years. Thanks for all your hard work and effort, Gumby. Does this mean the pressure’s off me to sort out the website? Next!