Archive for May, 2006



I hate Microsoft Word

Is it just ME or is M$ Word the most annoying piece of software EVER invented?
My thesis is probably going to end up somewhere in the vicinity of 50-60 pages. But I *swear* the bigger the document/file the more cumbersome Word becomes.
It makes my styles go all funny, cos everytime I do some small thing [...]

The Thesis Survival Pack

Manda and Travis dropped by earlier tonight to give me a survival pack for the next week. Lots of thanks for the goodies ^^ I take back my previous post that there can be too much junk food, cos I fully intend to eat all these!
One ‘Thesis Survival Pack’ contains:
- one nestle kit kat
- one [...]

Fred has flowers!

I didn’t know this - but Fred actually flowers! I got Fred a few years ago, when I asked my dad to buy me an indoor plant. He went to the garden show and got me some of those ‘air’ plants. They don’t need soil and you can just stick them into some rocks. Dad [...]

Most of my friends graduated today! I was a little jealous :P They’re all out in the workforce, earning money, having a blast and I’m still at uni \: It was really good to see everyone though, there’s a few people that I haven’t seen since last
year I don’t think. We’ve all been busy and [...]

FINALLY…..

Fixed the stupid thing. I worked out that when they transferred my stuff, they obviously didn’t check the tables very carefully. They forgot to make the postid field of the posts table AUTO INCREMENT in which case, the thing kept falling over when I was trying to post, because it went “oh, default value 0… [...]

Harry and the Potters

Two Harry Potter related things today, and also a test to see if all the DNS changes have gone through so my site is actually being hosted at the new place.
First off, a new dinosaur has been discovered, and the paleontologists have named is Dracorex Hogwartsia, The Dragon King of Hogwarts which is pretty cool [...]