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Inside

I had fun not revising for an exam on genetic algorithms the other night, instead going through old posts from insolence.co.uk .. it’s a horrible perfumeadvertisingflashsite now, but I was pleased to find my second favourite news article in the world survives - Philippine Troops Threaten to Attack MILF Over Soldier’s Death. Fantastic choice [...]

A Day in the Life

Eleven hours in the labs and we’re not even in the last fornight :\
I made my Last.fm charts program available for anybody to use and it’s had a positive response, hurrah, though people are far too reluctant to give feedback. It’s good to know there’s others out there who like to investigate every inch [...]

A Few Things

Third year 0_o. I’ve chosen Operating Systems, Computer Design, an Introduction to Vision & Robots, Logic Programming, Agent Based Systems, Security and Language Semantics and Implementation (the best of a bad bunch, no way I’m doing ADS eh), along with a course in professional issues, an individual practical and a group project. We [...]

Mexican Standoff

Days are happy and spent watching Six Feet Under and thinking about going outside to museums of surgeons but we watch the rain fall instead and it’s much better. I have a new flat in a brilliant location but it doesn’t feel like a home, it feels like a student flat and it’ll take [...]

149 Own Goals

Not posted any of these articles in quite a while, so here’s my favourite of all time. It’s from the Times some time in 2002. The manager’s decision just makes no sense whatsoever!
A worthy world record to hold. Apparently their punishment was quite harsh.

Already There

The text may be a bit faint but the choice quote is ‘This is the latest in a series of Becoming Invertebrates which investigates our ideas of humanness and animalness and the points where the two converge’.
Right.

Tractor Chase

Nearly all people living in the English countryside are like this. Battles with local police slowly potter about in most counties throughout the year, pausing only when Last of the Summer Wine is on television or The Archers is on the radio. Curfews and sanctions were imposed but were almost totally ignored, with [...]