katielou

October 2005



offline blogging, anyone?

Sunday, 30 October 2005 12:45 P GMT+01
I just found this on my cousin Bill's blog. Blogjet, an offline editor for blogs. Looks quite interesting, in that you can drag and drop text from browsers and photos, record sound files (back-door easy entry to podcasting!) and has built in range o
Category: blogging

Visit to Thames Valley Park, home of Microsoft

Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:50 P GMT+01
Wow. I hate myself for saying this, but Thames Valley Park is seriously impressive. Oracle have a complete city out here, and Microsoft are expanding rapidly. The 'events' building has quite a scary-looking security chap who pounced on me as I put my
Category: work

friends 2

Tuesday, 25 October 2005 8:16 P GMT+01
The thing I was grappling with yesterday evening, was a deep sense of disturbance about how well you know people you think you know. 'well' being a relative term.
Category: blogging

friends

Tuesday, 25 October 2005 12:52 A GMT+01
(...Romans, countrymen...) Just a quick contemplette before bed (yes, I know, Ian, we got off the phone half an hour ago and I came back downstairs) on the subject of friends. I'm not entirely sure I totally subscribe to the idea that strangers are f

durham cathedral

Thursday, 20 October 2005 9:33 P GMT+01
Is a cathedral a scary place at night? Beautiful in full moonlight. I got some bad shots of the building, but this glorious one of the shadows of the full moon in cloister. Cool, huh?
Category: play

gender differences

Thursday, 20 October 2005 8:30 P GMT+01
Funny what people see, isn't it? Show a woman a photograph, and she looks at the subject in a totally different way to a bloke sees the same picture. That's scientific research that is. Based on a sample of a few. Absolute results. I'm amused, anywa
Category: play

being a mature student

Wednesday, 19 October 2005 2:06 P GMT+01
I've seen an unexpected face at our University Open Day today. Just to say, I really hope you apply, and I really hope you get in. I think you'd love it, and I think that Teesside is a great place to start over and get a degree - it's perfectly accep

BlackCT

Tuesday, 18 October 2005 8:36 P GMT+01
Oh go on then. Mostly since everything else has already been said seventeen times over, but I don't suppose I can really let it go. But I'll restrict myself to a short rant post. Blackboard and WebCT to merge. Well, there you go. I for one hadn't see
Category: work

overwork and planning

Sunday, 16 October 2005 12:47 P GMT+01
I've been doing some reading up on the continued success of the Warwick Blogs, and whilst looking to see if the presentations had been posted from Shock of the Old, I found myself reading more of Robert O'Toole's blog. This entry interests me. Not so
Category: work

handwriting practice

Sunday, 16 October 2005 11:01 A GMT+01
OK, I'm so bad my mum doesn't want letters from me anymore - she gave up trying to read them years ago... And my handwriting has got worse over the years. But here's a great link to some ideas for practicing improving your handwriting. And now mum wi

blogging is good for you

Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:59 P GMT+01
Just been reading Corrie Bergeron's blog entry on the BlackCT merger, and followed her link to this. All the reasons some of us (you know who you are) should blog more....
Category: work blogging

new job

Saturday, 15 October 2005 9:56 A GMT+01
How inspiring. Maybe I will be a plumber one day!

hum...

Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:02 A GMT+01
don't you hate it when you're waiting for a particular message from a particular somebody, and they seem to have vanished from the face of the earth....
Category: general

I wasn't afraid

Thursday, 13 October 2005 4:55 P GMT+01
This morning at the time the bus blew up exactly 14 weeks ago, I walked my normal route along Euston Road, round the corner at St Pancras Church, along Woburn Place to Tavistock Square. Not, in fact, because I needed to do that route today, but beca

wot no blog?

Tuesday, 11 October 2005 9:53 P GMT+01
Oh my god. I've just logged in and my blog is showing June. Of course I have haven't been backing it up.... Thankfully it all seems to be there, just for some reason it only wants to display from June on the main page. Well, I tell you, taught me tw
Category: general

[80s] oldies are the best...

Sunday, 9 October 2005 10:22 P GMT+01
oh don't you just love the classics?! can't beat a bit of patrick swayze dancing. oooh and a nice bit of cocktail to follow. aaaaaaah.

isn't wikipedia wonderful?!

Sunday, 9 October 2005 7:54 P GMT+01
I thought maybe I should revise a little. Not that I think it matters, particularly, but since I was asked, best to know what I'm answering. And I'm still excited about the prospect of exploring the unseen bits of the cathedral. Sad, innit?!

the ox at laon

Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:47 P GMT+01
or, a lesson in cathedrals! When I was a little girl (or it seems so long ago now), ok, as an undergraduate I studied the art of medieval France with the unforgettable Brian J Levy (how sad, his obituary seems to have disappeared from the web, but th
Category: culture

out of coffee, out of wine...

Sunday, 2 October 2005 10:20 P GMT+01
What a weekend! And I won't even do you the honours of today's fight for a parking space outside the house v a barbie doll driving a mini cooper that seems to belong the chap doing up the house next door (you have a double bloody garage - it's all I

isn't there a law saying what time you can wake people up?

Saturday, 1 October 2005 9:08 A GMT+01
Oh for Pete's sake. (sorry, Petes) Eight am and there are three blokes outside with a stone circular saw cutting stripes in the new house opposite and the pavement. Sounds like the houses are coming down. I get up, pu my dressing gown on and get to t
Category: general