Meh

OK, so the blog-a-day experiment was a miserable failure. The good news is, it’s because I’ve been keeping busy in real life. Lots of fun, and some secret plans – which I’m sure I’ll be posting about soon. Anyway I went to a talk by Roger Penrose today, and am quite proud of the fact I survived three quarters of an hour before getting totally lost. His new theory is quite cool, if a little confusing, maybe I’ll find time to write about that (or what I understood it to be) It’s scary – I got there 20 minutes early and the lecture theatre was almost full. And this is a BIG lecture theatre, given that it seats all the Part IA Phys NatScis for Maths lectures. Apparently they had to turn away 200-300 people.

Also, Screenwipe is back. Huzzah!

Blog-o-fail

Ok, so there was no post yesterday. I blame being unexpectedly dragged into the lab, resulting in being out from 8.40 till half past midnight. Although the later bit may have been due to watching “classic” 80s music videos in the MCR. Hooray for Sky! I did make it home for about half an hour actually, but getting food somehow took priority.

Anyway, I finally took a look at the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Annual Report. It’s impressively professional, it really shows how far the Foundation has come. And I say this having been to a careers fair today, where I was bombarded with many nicely put together booklets. I think the WMF one is my favourite, and not just because it’s something I’m rather close to. The report is well worth a look if you want to find out more about Wikimedia – the “anatomy of a wikipedia article” in the middle is particularly wonderful.

El Presidente

Apparently there’s some sort of election going on. I did think there’s nothing I can write that hasn’t been written already, but apparently I can. I’m strongly favouring Obama, and I don’t think I know (in real life) a single person who would vote for McCain given the chance. But whoever wins, the world will still carry on tomorrow. If McCain wins, the Earth probably won’t implode (although if he snuffs it and Palin comes to power, that might be a different matter). And if Obama wins, life isn’t all fluffy bunnies and rainbows from here on out.

No time for a title

Well, Brianna posted about “NaBloPoMo” – National Blog Posting Month. Even though I’ve missed 2 days, and have less than 10 minutes left to post this, I’m going to try and post every day for the rest of November. Should be a challenge, given my previous neglect of this blog. There’s a few things I have in mind to write about, and just never get round to it, so this should be an incentive. And I’m sure I can throw in some filler without enraging too many people.

Here’s some awesome music to start things off: