nick’s (n)-line life

Unfortunately, having neglected my blog [again!], and just come back to try after a long time away, it seems that it has developed some technical problems. Specifically, the pesky thing just wiped the post I had finished writing. Grrr… Anyway, a Wordpress Upgrade is somewhat overdue anyway, so I will try and get this [...]

Oops, my site has been suffering from some serious neglect since I graduated from Cambridge in the Summer… my general state of lethargy in regard to the site means it hasn’t been very interesting. This is a shame after all the work I’ve done on it… I think I’ll try and update it more frequently [...]

I haven’t posted for a while as I’ve been wrapped up with my dissertation deadline. Happily this is now all wrapped up and, despite word deciding it was going to loose 4 hours of my work on the morning of hand-in day, it seems to have ended happily. Now it’s just a question of finals [...]

Discussion of the OFT report declaring bank charges illegal linked with personal recent experiences of the charges and possible legal claims against the banks.

Looks like a lot has been going on in Singapore this week:
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s government dissolved parliament on Thursday and called an election for May 6, a poll that will be the first real test of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s leadership. [ Via SingaBloodyPore ]
As a country approaches a general election one [...]

The sixth week of the Cambridge term came to a terrible end last Friday, bringing great sadness for Girton. One of our first year students, a bionatsci named Tom Mansfield, was killed during his morning cycle into town, not even 2 minutes from the entrance to college. From what I can gather, just before 9am [...]

Calendar now working again. Sorry about this, my bad. I changed the sftp password a few weeks back and forgot to update my upload script, it was quite happily sitting there and wasting my resources every half-hour!