May 2007
Monthly Archive
Students: sheep amongst wolves?
Posted on May 23 2007 | Tagged as: The Stupid
Over the past year or so I’ve begun to realise just how much nannying goes on in and around University, and it really pisses me off.
It starts immediately upon arrival in halls: registering with a local Cardiff GP is a necessary condition of enrolling. The subtext? We can’t be trusted to take responsibility for our […]
“Everything is average nowadays”, Kaiser Chiefs
Posted on May 21 2007 | Tagged as: RIBs (Reviews In Brief)
Quod erat demonstrandum.
A lack of self-awareness?
Posted on May 20 2007 | Tagged as: The Stupid
This piece in today’s Observer talks about how, via web services such as MySpace and Facebook, a generation is freely giving up their privacy.
Interesting reading, and I partly agree.
But wait. The writer, Peter Bazalgette, is Chief Creative Officer of Endemol. As in Endemol, the company responsible for Big Brother, about as large a prostitution of […]
Climate change lies
Posted on May 12 2007 | Tagged as: Technology, Science
Well, not quite. But…
My screensaver does clever things — it downloads data and analyses it to contribute to a couple of science projects, almost justifying not bothering to turn my computer off ever. I imagine it’s doing it now. I don’t know.
One of the projects is a climate change model, from which the following are […]
Is Cardiff Uni some sort of Higher Education “special school”?
Posted on May 08 2007 | Tagged as: The Stupid
These are actual, genuine contents of emails sent by University staff to, respectively, my diploma class (average age ~23-24) and a group of psychology PhD students:
** High Priority **
Can you all make sure your names are on your submissions please.
And
Once you are in your new offices please note that when crossing Park Place you should […]
The ride of his life
Posted on May 01 2007 | Tagged as: Raggy Dolls
Meet London’s new stunt-riding teacher
Bira Nicolella pulled his first wheelie aged 24, a young guy messing around on a Honda motocross bike in his native Brazil. Twenty-five years later, he’s still riding, and in July will open his own stunt riding school in London, the first of its kind in the UK.
While other schools […]