Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 08:24PM 
We had our two and a half hour meeting this morning where we discussed all the marks and made sure everything lines up. Then it was onto the road for the journey back. The route my SatNav chose took me right past the Angel of the North sculpture. So I stopped to spend a couple of minutes taking pictures.
Life Monday, June 14, 2010 at 09:16PM 
Headed off to Newcastle for external examiner duties today. Used the SatNav in the car and got lost as usual. I’ve done this before in this town. For some reason the arrangement off junctions and roundabouts they have render instructions like “Turn Next Right” strangely ambiguous. The good news is that I never end up lost for long, as after a hundred yards or so the system tells me to turn round and head back.
Spent the day going through exams and project work (it is actually more fun than you might expect). Then a nice meal and off to bed.
Life Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 07:19PM 
According to a scientific study (so it must be true) people who research by following loads of links on the interwebs and not concentrating on the job in hand don’t tend to do as well as those who focus a bit. No kidding. I’d love to do a study like this. Take something that everybody with a bit of common sense already knows and then get paid a lot of money to prove that is is true after all. I suppose there are other studies in the works involving bears in the woods and the religious affiliation of the pope.
If you follow things like LifeHacker you will know all about techniques that you can use to improve your focus, even going to extremes like turning off internet access so you can get on with something important. Worth a look.
Life Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 07:04PM 
One way to fly the flag I suppose…
We had a nice trip to York today. The place was full of folks all dressed up for the races. Fortunately I was wearing my “wherewouldyouthink” T-shirt and so I was also looking ultra-stylish. I like York, you can point your camera in pretty much any direction and get a nice photograph out of it.
Boat and bridge
Bridge Side.
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 09:00PM 
We had a “mini-Bash” today, with those students who were still around on the very last day of the semester getting together for some fun and frivolity. We had enough people for a good game of Team Fortress 2, some Lego Rock Band, Buzz Quiz and Wii Sports, with some amazingly amusing sword fights… The pizza turned up right on time and fun was had by all. We even had a Super Word Search with Super Prizes.
Helen with one of the “super” prizes and a completed wordsearch.
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Sam discovers that yes, unfortunately the speakers are working….
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