Monthly Archives: June 2007

Moving in Progress

I’ll write something better when I’ve finished moving and have a working phoneline. At the moment my new house is full of half opened boxes and piles of junk. Yesterday I went back to the old place to collect the last of my things and mop the floor. While I was there the landlord appeared with two people to look round the place. He told me to just post the… Continue reading

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I passed my PGCE :-)

Got this through the post today…
I am pleased to inform you that at the meeting of the Board of Examiners held on 15 June 2007 it was recommended that you be awarded a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (Schools)

Blah blah well done, come to the graduation ceremony in November, blah blah wish you well

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Adapt and Overcome

Oh for fuck’s sake

I decided to ring the estate agent’s just to make sure there wasn’t anything else I needed to bring. Good job really since the woman who does the rentals is out until Monday.

Gah… Just… gah…

So that means I have to wait until Monday to get the keys and move and stuff.

It’s fortunate the van-hire people are flexible, isn’t it.

Amusingly I’ve

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Hai, can has link to blog pleez

Memes are funny things. One minute you’re a sensible, thinking being writing a post on the Internet, next minute you’re on teh interwebs spouting all sorts of nonsensical junk. It’s really weird, nobody sits down and says “OK, this is a new meme, you can reply to anything with all your base… and if you feel like it, the form I iz in ur <noun> <verb>ing ur <other noun>“… Continue reading

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A Marble Binary-adder

Once again proving that there’s nothing magical about the insides of a computer, this website shows a binary marble adding machine in action. It’s a six-bit binary adder which uses a system of rockers and marbles to add numbers together. The marbles fall down channels onto rockers which then dump their marbles onto the rockers below, performing simple binary addition. And to all the techies reading… Continue reading

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