Irony...

As stated elsewhere, I don't think there's anything to any astrology beyond being an an inspiration to cause people to be a little introspective, and to project their own thoughts onto what are usually either 50/50 statements to go one way or the other, or reasonably safe moral certainties. Amongst the tons of spam I filter every day, this little gem popped it's head up

It may be tough to get past a breech of trust today, especially if someone close has disappointed you. Nevertheless, you may have to forgive him or her, no matter how hard this is to do. Don't let your sensitivity get in the way; swallow your fear, move past your old hurts, and accept that you aren't responsible for fixing all the wounded people in your life.

So, I would suggest this falls into the moral certainty category, but it's a good thought, and trust is a theme close to my centre, so, even though the method is nonsense, the effect is real.

Peace out kids!

27th of november and all's well, nothing of interest here.

Which is to say... I'm compiling jzkit3, which incidentally is going to be the most stonking thing to hit the open source library world in years, and generally avoiding work..... In the course of this afternoons full build and regression test, I've listened to two lectures on quantum spin by Richard Feynmann, blundered around facebook, mucked about with my fedora internet desktop and generally made a pain of myself in the office, and discovered death cab for cutie. Ooh I also wrote some technical questions to ask in the latest round of recruitment, had a browse of some blogs I read, and am saddened to discover that some of my faves have gone away. Such is the nature of the old interweb I guess. So thats it, I'm either out of interesting things to do for the day, or the things left to do need more brain power than I have left....... whats left to do but write to the future me by piling yet more crap on the internet :)

ooh it's training tonight, which I'm just enjoying so much at the moment that it hurts (No, really, it actually does, but only in a good way). Usually by this time of year I'm into raw willpower mode to keep myself going until the long winter evenings lift, but for some reason things seems well with the world, and most things seem to be unfolding as they should. In academic land my new hobby is trying to get to grips with bioinformatics.. the latter part isn't so bad, the former is a nightmare for me... praise be for Genetics for Dummies, and for the OU :).

Anyways, thankyou whoever you are (*slaps self for marillion reference*)

Peace out,
e.

Open Office for Uni Courses - SHU Biomedical Science

Hmm... not sure if this post really belongs here or on my work blog.. I think here.

I had a teeny run in with a Uni recently when it was suggested that Microsoft Word and Excel must be used for production of various assignments. I'm wasn't suggesting that the eventual hand-in couldn't be a .xls or a .doc but purely that mandating the tool wasn't a legitimate thing to do, and indeed that I felt it was ethically very shaky position for a uni to adopt, particularly given recent EU rulings. Anyway, long story short, the official party line is that students can use whatever tools they like, provided that they hand in something that can be opened in word or excel. Peachy!

We all know the truth tho, sometimes, OOo does have subtly different menu structures and features to different versions of the MS tools (Just as different versions of the MS tools themselves do) and sometimes, documents don't open in different versions of office as they do in OOo. I offered to update the Excel for Biomedical Sciences workbook with annotations for OOo, an offer which met with stony silence, go figure. But the problem remains, how do we organise it so that Biomedical, and other science students generally, can use OOo toolset and be confident that the output will be acceptable in it's .doc and .xsl forms, and that it's easy to find out how to perform a function that is located in a different area to the MS Office toolset.

So, in the interests of being community spirited, I'm going to try and use the following delicious tags SHUBioMedSci and OOo whenever I find a resource about using OOo for Bio Medical Science at Sheffield Hallam, yielding the following Search for SHUBioMedSci AND OOo which will hopefully return useful resources to anyone interested.

Peace and Love,
e.

Doncaster Balloon Festival - TKD Demo

Testing vid upload to youtube, an old vid of Mr Graham Churchill and I from a while ago.