I was thrilled to help out last minute at Space school at University of Strathclyde on Thursday, the week long event introduces secondary school students to the exciting world of space and ships and all the engineering/science/maths that it involves as an encouragement for more school kids to do those subjects at university level. Oh, [...]
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A common issue I find with Linux is sound. The latest bump is when I installed openSUSE 11.1 on my HP M9351 Desktop, to be fair, it’s not a show stopper but infinitely annoying. Basically, I cannot play sound only through the headphones, and instead it continues playing via speakers plus headphones and [...]
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I have two phones in mind for my future, and both are good, these are the main deciders for me
Nokia N97
+ QWERTY keyboard & touch screen
+ Nokia has proven track record at providing useful firmware updates
+ 32 GB internal memory
+ OVI App Store, Nokia online marketplace
+ Reliable S60 5th Edition [...]
Today was the Memorial for my friend Magnus who passed away recently due to an epileptic fit, It was a relaxed affair, where music symbolising aspects of his life, and of how how he affected those left behind was played, it’s amazing how much you learn of a person after their death, seeing the friends [...]
And with it, some bad news. A good friend of mine passed away on Monday due to an epileptic fit, a friend and I were due to visit him at the end of May but alas fate had something else in mind. It’s been a year since I last saw him, when he graduated from [...]
Today the final year MEng (5th year university) students had a tradeshow, to show off some of their project work for the past year. I did this myself last year, so I’m quite keen in what they have been up to.
It’s always a good time and as expected sweets and drink were available. Not that [...]
Right! That was a long two weeks, Easter has come and gone I only got one egg but it came with a Homer Simpson mug . Cheers Linda x
Mum isn’t home so everything’s a bit untidy and it was the perfect opportunity for some redecorating so spent weekend cutting stuff and [...]
*yawns* It’s been one of those days, stuck writing up experiment/simulation, well not stuck. I just need to do it and honestly I can take a break from the reading. Just spent an entire day collecting results, then realising that “Hmm, this isn’t the best set up for the simulation” and so I must return [...]
Mum’s away and cake piccy