Although I barely post, I have been doing a lot of things recently, so I feel like typing a few of them up for you ( Read more... )

I am not a great fan of political correctness. To be honest, most of the time I hate it ( Read more... )

Today is the first and only full day I will be working this week. This is mainly due to the whole site losing power at 0820 on Monday morning and it will be another day or two before we get back on the grid again. The place is currently being powered by two MASSIVE generators ( Read more... )

Following some re-structuring we now have a School of Computers and Advanced Technology.

They may have thought that having an acronym of CAT was cute/fun/etc.

Having an alternative acronym of SCAT is not so great, especially when students get to know about it.

In the process of deleting some of the spam that comes to the staff list that I moderate, I recgonised a word that I would not expect to see in a spam email ( Read more... )

This is a tale about a friend of mine who also goes to Live Roleplaying events ( Read more... )

This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished, and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved ( Read more... )

I rarely watch TV, it was only due to me baking some bread yesterday that made me catch a couple of progs ( Read more... )

Look out road users!

I PASSED!!!!!

11 Minor Faults and 4 of those were stalling.

Someone has recently installed several Terabytes of disk with appropriate tape backup in our machine room ( Read more... )