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Soon this year will be over. I, for one, am glad. It's been a crappy one for many of the people I love. Here's to a better one starting in a few hours.

One of our applicants for next year's student placement (an Aberystwyth student who shall remain nameless) has decided not to accept our rejection, and sent Mick a strongly worded email to that effect at ten to midnight last night ( Read more... )

Sin, cos and ex went to a party. Sin and cos mingled with the other guests while ex just stood in a corner by himself. At the end of the night, sin and cos asked him why, and he said: "I tried integrating, but nothing happened".I heard this at the kick-off meeting for the next release of our major product. That's what working with mathematicians ( Read more... )

Last year, NAG opened an office in Manchester (our second UK base). However, owing to the glacial rate of change around here employees based in Manchester still recieve any emails which are sent to the whole office here in Oxford. Since these messages are typically arranging social events or informing people of cake/chocolates etc, a certain amount ( Read more... )

I've had a really awesome couple of weekends. The weekend before last, JTA and I celebrated our minus-first wedding anniversary (our last ever minusiversary*!) by taking off to a little hotel in rural wales and spending some quality time in a hot tub on a balcony looking over a lake. This last weekend, Dan and I embarked on an epic adventure taking ( Read more... )

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I've recently discovered and been amused by autocomplete me, a site which collects some of the more random sentiments expressed through google's autocomplete thingy. This afternoon I invented a game of my own - typing obscure words in to the search bar and trying to find ones where it has no suggestions. It only counts for single, real words (no ( Read more... )

Don't you just hate it when you're looking for help or support with something that's troubling you, and those you turn to won't stop trying to debate the point on whether you made the right choice on getting into it in the first place?

I am, of course, referring to google, which was stuffing its opinions down my throat earlier today:


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I got my enrolment letter for our (rather spiffy) USS pension scheme today. My official retirement date is 26th October 2049. In 14594 days, I won't have to work anymore. Except that they'll probably change the rules before then ( Read more... )