2007 + 10 Minutes

Here in the UK it is 2007 plus 10 minutes.

I've just logged off from Second Life (cue jokes about having no first life) where I had a brief New Year fly around. I was only in there a few minutes - honest.

The first time I've spent New Year in a virtual environment. Unlike my teenage years when it was spent in a rather jolly state, or later surrounded by drugged up goths, or the odd year surrounded by even more exotic characters. Good job they didn't have digital cameras or camcorders back then. Things were transient and probably better for it in some ways. You only had somebody's word for it - it being anything suitably embarrassing - not a blog entry and high quality image the next day.

The neighbours are firing off fireworks which I'm worried will wake the kids.

I'm guessing the really big booms are the cheap Chinese rockets one reads about.

Whatever - they are loud, as are the screams of my neighbours.

Good for them - just don't wake the kids!

If 2006 wasn't the best of years for you then welcome to 2007. Of course if you follow a different calendar then all I can say is Good Evening (or Good Morning - depends where you are and when you read this entry)!

Regards from, Phil

Server Downtime

Good job that Blogger is generally very reliable or I wouldn't be able to moan about the VLP being down. Enough work avoidance! Back to the assignment...

December 31 2006

Well it's 15.33 local time and as that happens to be GMT it's a relevant one if we're counting down to the end of the year. Trying to get back into work mode and get on with my PGCHE assignment.

I haven't been able to access my work email via the VLP (NTU's VLE) for the last couple of days. Yesterday I got in via a different route but today that too is down. So it's a good job I copied over various files I might want before I left work just before Christmas and printed off some as hard copies.

Two big jobs to complete during the next few days and only time to complete one of them at best... ah the joys of academic life.

Phil

Happy Birthday!

Christmas Day! So Happy Birthday JC*!

Happy Birthday too to my sister in law.

* Though I learn from QI that Jesus wasn't actually born today?

Barrow and Blogging

Yesterday various national news bulletins carried the story of someone who was sent to work in Barrow in Furness (my home town) and who got into trouble when the local paper cottoned on to his blog postings, including one where he describes the town as a shithole. I must chase this up at some point as a nice example of how blogging can get you into trouble and, for me, it has the added interest of being about somewhere that I know rather well.