Summer Bash

We are having our biggest ever bash on Thursday 11th June. The department now has a licence for Team Fortress 2, and so we will be using this, along with all the usual attractions and even an Unreal Tournament programming competition.

The arrangements are as usual. Tickets will cost £2.00 and go on sale on Monday 8th of June in the Departmental Office at 10:00 am.

The bash will run from 4:00 to 8:00 pm, in room 312 of the Robert Blackburn Building, among other places....

You can keep track of the details at http://www.robmiles.com/events

Ultimate Power

Put a new battery in my MacBook and got this when I started up. Impressive eh?

(actually, it has now settled down to a more believable 1 hour 37 minutes).

Mystery Stickers

I was doing some tidying up recently and I found a sheet of stickers:

I really have absolutely no idea what they were for. They remind me a lot of the notice that I once saw in a lake that said “Do not tie boats to this notice”.

Nobody Else on Twitter

If you are bored with Twitter or it is taking over your life I’ve created a social service user called “nobody_else”. If you let me know your Twitter username I’ll make this user follow you, so that you get the immortal message “Nobody Else is following you on Twitter”. You can then shut down your account and move on…

True Story

Whilst scanning the receipt for my MacBook (which I needed to do to validate the purchase date and get the broken battery replaced) the battery in my MacBook Pro failed.

Update on Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 11:30AM by Rob

I've just remembered that the first thing I did with my new MacBook when I bought it last year was to lend it to Number One Son because his MacBook Pro was away being mended because, yes, you've guessed it, his battery had given out.