Should Have Pressed F9.....

Just found out today that my beloved Yellow Book, which is the basis of our First Year programming course, has an insane table of contents. It is not wrong, it is wildly wrong, referring to a number of pages that don't actually exist. I've really no idea how this happened, I suspect a change of printers caught Word 2007 on the hop, causing it to kick back by inventing a page 253.

This is rather annoying as we've had loads of them printed. If you have got one of the hallowed tomes, then let me know and I'll send you a PDF with the right numbers in. The only good (if somewhat inexplicable) news, is that the index seems to be correct.

Musical Question

Do trumpet playing courses have tootorials?

Have They Learnt Nothing?

Today, with the news full of stories about collapsing banks and financial meltdown, I get a letter from the bank that says they've just increased the limit on my credit card......

Postgrad Party

Another day, another party. This time it was the turn of the postgraduate students. So it was out with Rock Band and the rest, and another set of specially "Jon Purdy proof" quiz questions.

These folks came first, with a rather impressive score, in spite of the horrid questions.

One point behind came this crew.

..and we had three teams that tied for third.

Well done everyone. Great stuff. And I still managed to get away without singing. And managed two ace serves in a row at Wii Sports Tennis.

First Day of Teaching

Today was the first day of teaching and I got to kick off both of my First Year courses. I think the lectures were successful, if only in terms of managing to offend just about everyone at some point during the presentation.....