Tag: nightline
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Reflections
Ruth wrote:
Something surprised me today. I was looking through the various blog-posts relating to the nastiness with the Union, and I was quite shocked to realise how many of the people that I (certainly now, probably always) think of as nightliners are now, in fact, ex-nightliners.
And I thought about the influence that those … -
A Bad Slogan Put To Good Use
My apologies to those of you to whom this means nothing.
Things look better in the light of a new day. I suppose that means something on several levels.
Desktop wallpapers and high-quality versions of the image above are available here. [update: link very dead]
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Jen's Camping Social
Apologies for potato quality. Smartphones weren't very smart yet in 2005.
A camping-themed social gathering for members of an Aberystwyth student society.
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Nightmare Before Halloween
Despite all the fun last night brought, the alcohol evidently went to my head somewhat and I had a particularly awful nightmare. I dreamt that, later this month (on the 29th, in fact), Claire dies of a terminal illness. I don't remember much of it; only that we were making preparations for Halloween when she …
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Freshers’ Fayre
Freshers' Fayre was a success, as Kit reports. Although it must be said that he's probably right to be concerned that this may be the last year we're able to pull such a stunt. Which is a real shame. We worked really hard - harder than we ever do at the jobs from which we …
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Fresher’s Week - Part Two
I've registered for modules this year which better than last year reflect my individual interests within my field - an emphasis on telecommunications and the internet and on software engineering practice, and away from artificial intelligence and from hardware-layer stuff. Some of my new modules - many of which were not available as courses last …
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It’s Over
Tomorrow's the first day of the Fresher's Fayre, and Dan can't sleep.
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Bovini: A Week Well-Spent
It's been a busy week. I've spent a lot of my time at the office, trying to get the replication model for Bovini working - causing much stress as it failed time and time again. For those of you without a grounding in computer science theory, replication is the art of making data be identical …
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Kit’s Rant
I agree with Kit's rant:
I learn today that the funding may be cut *again* to the Nightline here is Aberystwyth. I don't care what the reasoning is - cutting the funding anymore is plain dangerous.
Its lie after lie in the Union. I have seen little in five long years that has actually … -
Dark Side Of The Moon
Spent last night in a dark room with Paul, Kit and Claire, listening to a DTS-encoded 5.1 surround sound version of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon". It was the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long while. The sound quality was unbelievable - the patterns moved and shifted around and through us. …
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Scanning And Zelda
Talked with ICQ-friend Summer for the first time in over six months this afternoon, which was great, because I've missed chatting with her. Caught up on each other's news, then chatted about Love, Sex, and What It All Means for awhile. Refreshing. Made her promise to be online more often in future. We'll see.
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Dreadful Deadlines
Just been working like a demon towards a 13:00 deadline this afternoon, delivering a piece of software to a client. Barely made it, but what a buzz!!! Celebrated with a pub lunch with two colleagues, Lisa (the SQL Queen) and Alex (the CodeMonkey, our office pet).
Claire called from Norfolk to say "Hi!" I'd have liked … -
Gender Balance
Rengor wrote:
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Also an interesting group are the developers, not the ringers, but all the other game developers playing this game, and there's quite a few of them. Im curious if they can say why they chose this game instead of Sims or Everquest etc?
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I'm a dev. (not a PP dev., of course), and … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #28:
Escape from your hall's "Punch Party", and go to a bonfire instead, because you *know* that if you start drinking vast amounts of free sub-cocktail you'll just *keep* drinking and you've got to be up before 9:00am the following morning … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #27:
(1) What with being excessivley busy, and a network failure last weekend, fail to get out a "Cool Things". Feel the need to apologise to everybody (SORRY!), and give them three "Cool Things" to help make up for it.
(2) Be …