University to The Real World and back again

Graduation -- is it like this? uComics Web Site: Non Sequitur <grin>

I told you I was ill...

LOL

Exam today

Students from my Databases and the Web module are taking my examination today and I'm nervous! It 's the 1^st exam paper I've written for a while so I hope it goes smoothly ... good luck to everyone at the exam venue in Chessigngton!

Backup your work! Don't be an unprepared dumbass...

PC users know that shit happens when using PC software (maybe Macs are less prone?) so it's ridiculous to forget to backup your work ... Please do a backup that works (test it!) and don't end up on this list of Computer Stupidities: Backups.

The Lecture List

A service advertising lectures in the UK at various public places (e.g. Borders bookshop in Kingston!) and institutions (e.g. The Darwin Centre, part of London's Natural History Museum): The Lecture List. (And KU School of Maths is here.)

Newsmap in Flash

Interesting visual display app. for Google's news aggregator -- size reflects the "importance" of the item (as measured by Google's "related articles"). Here's a link to UK's Nation+Business+Tech+Entertainment+Health: newsmap ... best viewed on a big screen!

Cool new Blogger features

Kudos to the Blogger team! My quick'n'dirty blog now has pages-per-post and comments facilities  :-)  ... no trackback yet but I can hope!

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Yay! H2G2 movie progress at last! Hitchiker's Movie Blog ... All it took was DNA's untimely death :'-(  (via Boing Boing Blog)

Sasser virus hits

Lo! and behold! Despite M$'s patch for the exploit used by Sasser being a month old my University was not protected and today every PC in the place was hit ... Admittedly it took less then 2 hours for the necessary updates to be propagated (go support!) but still it was embarrassing to explain to the dozens of students trying to hand-in electronically assignments for my module that they had an extension due to the problems. Ironically the most historically unreliable service in the Uni (Blackboard) was safe as it's not running on a Window$ system <grin>

Developing With Web Standards

Good article for next year's WebTech: Developing With Web Standards. Especially the CSS crib sheet?