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Archive for February, 2006

Google Mail Chat

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ok, the Gmail/Gtalk integration is just damn cool and it just works. So, it means you can chat using the Gtalk network via your Gmail page. Lush.

Edited to add this strange link i got offa Metafilter > Manimals 

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February 27th, 2006 at 10:43 pm

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Reading list.

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So got the first set of stuff through from Worcester regarding my PGCE. So, the term starts September 11th (that’s 196 days). I have a now extensive reading list to go through, there’s one of five books that i should read as a general preparation, a science and english books that i must go through (basically, the basics) and a list that has the note - ‘the following are highly recommended titles’ - i am taking that to read, read these or else. Mum is seeing if she can get them from the library at work, i’m not buying them. I’m just not. I think i bought, well i don’t think i bought one in three years at Sheff.

Anyway, quite looking forward to it really. Everything. Scared in equal measure of course.

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February 27th, 2006 at 10:38 pm

Posted in PGCE/Teaching

Mauritius

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Originally uploaded by vwlssck.

Soon enough…

It’s my favourite tag (and thus my favourite Bloglines feed) on Flickr.

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February 26th, 2006 at 2:02 am

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Smoke my pole!

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So this scene cost me £15, i was on a bit of a buzz and well i slipped and went to Tesco

Hey, Will and Grace,
back to work.
Hey, Haziz, can you just
give us a second?

We're just kind of
in the middle of something.

I'm on my break, okay?

Fuck off, Haziz.
Leave us alone, all right?

Fuck off? Fuck you!
Fuck you!

Fuck you! Fuck off.
Fuck off.

I'm gonna kick you
in the nuts, asshole.

Hey, hey!
Watch the language, okay?
I have a family.

Watch how you talk to me!

It's a free country, Bambi.
I can smoke out here
if I want to.

Smoke my pole.

You are a very unkind man.
Get inside!

This is not professional.

And also, downloading BBC shows is really quite difficult. It is like they don’t want you to do it and instead want to throw Chris Moyles ‘podcast’ at you. It is do-able though, apparently i heard of a friend’s cousin’s brother’s piano tuner. errrr honest.

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February 23rd, 2006 at 12:00 am

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PGCE me up

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Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

That is all. :)

So, i got my place and start my PGCE Primary 5-11 years with extended subject study science this September and i really can’t wait. There was me thinking the interview didn’t go so well.

Edit to say: in Worcester

:)

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February 22nd, 2006 at 9:43 am

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Lounge

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February 20th, 2006 at 6:15 pm

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Big companies are stupid.

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Dell has joined the domain name hall of shame, alongside such notables as Microsoft, the Easy Group and BAA, for its flagrantly unjustified hounding of website www.dellwebsites.com.

What a bunch of fucks. Incidentally, as mentioned, Dell’s revenue was up 20% to $23 billion and that’s just for the first half of the year. Have they really got nothing better to do with the money then spend it on lawyers who say:

the owner of Dellwebsites is committing “an act of parasitism” and “creating a risk of confusion” between himself and the online PC vendor Dell. It wants the domain signed over to it, at the owner’s cost.

I’m funding them too. :(

The Register article/Friends of Paul Dell

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February 17th, 2006 at 8:42 pm

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Lee from Holloaks is on Emmerdale!!

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He was, far and away, the greatest character Hollyoaks has ever and will ever see. I mean, he was a complete idiot but he was completely clueless and that made him endearing.

That is all.

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February 17th, 2006 at 8:16 pm

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