/F/o/u/r/ Five Things Make a Post

I am about to be migrated to Vista. Help! Can I have 3.1 back please? It was much nicer and didn't try to do stuff for me. (First lecture using Vista's version of Powerpoint today; that is a huge shift in the appearance. Where have they hidden the Open File command?)


Jacqueline Wilson has been age-banded despite her opposition to it - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/02/jacqueline.wilson.cookie.ageband - supposedly a book printed before the fuss. So much for consultation. She decided to make nice and not have the print run pulped. I see dangerous precedents.

Can I has my jolly now, plz?

Around 80 members of staff from Edensor Technology College will today check into the Andalucia Plaza Hotel near Puerto Banús, while their students are off school for the rest of the week.

The 380-room hotel boasts three swimming pools, a sauna, poolside bar, beauty salon and fitness centre, and is near a casino and several golf courses.

Have suggested it for our away day next September.


Sometimes dying is no excuse - Friedrich Schiller hasn't paid his TV and radio licence fee.

The air ambulance which has been landing and taking off all day from just outside my office (I assume as drill) has stopped. Chiz.

First Day of Teaching

We'll skip over the nightmare of persuading Vista to work - after what is the best part of six months being introverted, I was teaching very big. It doesn't help that I was having to say the name BRIAN BLESSED which demands to boom out and rattle the furniture, and curiously I found the need to say it several times, as well as digs at Lucas, Schwarzenegger and Sprout Boy. It was late in the day so they needed waking up and keeping awake. But. Can I keep the energy up.

This morning's lecture was also big and too long - the conflation of two lectures but not sufficiently cut. But I hope they know what is teasing and what is insult. Or maybe I hope they don't, in some cases.