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I decided to go to the pub quiz last night at the Bristol Pear (a great place - they are the only pub in Selly Oak who have good music on - I would rather there was no music but at least it is good music). I do not go to the pub quiz that often anymore. It was great fun as we (me, Alex, Emma and Katherine) were joined by Eleanor. However having me and Eleanor there was no help as we came 2nd from last as always! |
I think this is what is used to bleach hair - guess the Martians like the blonde look! :-) Now to be serious, if I can ever do that, the reason I mentioned Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) is because astronomers have detected it on the Red (well maybe bleach blonde in parts) planet. This is important because it is the first time that a chemical catalyst of this sort has been found in a planetary atmosphere other than the Earth's. Catalyst are very important in the chemical cycles on the Earth and so means that theories about the Earth can be applied to Mars (and other bodies) with some sort of observational backing. For more info see: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0403/01marsatmosphere/ Now for a wonderful image of Mars!
Image courtesy: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2003/22/image/a |
Yep I had another one of those awful exams again. Well it went bad, I revised more than I had for the last one and I think it has gone worse! It doesn't help when they ask you parts of Nuclear Physics that as an astrophysicist have not covered since it was in a course you did not do! It was not a hard topic as I came across it on Sunday doing practice questions they set us, but with everything I was trying to revise one extra thing to learn just was too much to squeeze in! Fun, that's all I can say. Apart from that today went well. I had a good afternoon and a relaxing evening, had a few drinks while I wrote up my lecture notes and then did some work on my group studies. Oh and I install some extra Emoticons on the Krioma.net Boards. :-) |
Rosetta is in space at last - no earlier morning firework show this time off the Ariane launcher! See: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v158/040302launch.html for more info.
Rover confirms past liquid water on Mars! The Opportunity Rover appears to be in a region which was soaking wet in the past. This is a great discovery and was determined from the chemical composition of rocks within the region. See: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_04077_water_on_mars.html for more.
On a more personal note today I have had a good day, one problem - I did some calculations of exoplanets I believe that TPF (Terrestrial Planet Finder) can find, guess what I don't agree with NASA. Well there is obviously one answer - they are wrong! Only joking - guess I better look into it to see what I am missing out on. Damn interferometer!
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I was just browsing the web whilst listening to the Queens of the Stone Age and the below image caught my eye whilst listening to Hangin' Tree. Something made me sit back and think these go together quite well. Something about the colours and the tune, well it is probably me just being strange!
NGC
6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula The below is an explanation from Astronomy Picture of the Day: Explanation: Ten thousand years ago,
before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light must suddenly have
appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this
light was an exploding star and record the colorful expanding cloud as
the Veil Nebula. Pictured above is the west end of the Veil Nebula known
technically as NGC 6960 but less formally as the Witch's Broom Nebula.
The rampaging gas gains its colors by impacting and exciting existing
nearby gas. The supernova remnant lies about 1400 light-years away towards
the constellation of Cygnus. This Witch's Broom actually spans over three
times the angular size of the full Moon. The bright star 52 Cygnus is
visible with the unaided eye from a dark location but unrelated to the
ancient supernova. |
A brilliant film and it is even set in Birmingham.
From the start the you know what this film is about and that is about rude and crude jokes - just what I want in a comedy! A friend even recently commented that the jokes reminded her of me and it was sort of like they took all the rude jokes I could come up with and put them on film. I have to agree with that, obviously some of the things that go on in that film are way over my rude brain but some of them are not. I have to say the writers of this fantastic british comedy have to be commended for such a great film. The British media do not get it and well they would not now would they! It is at points and obscenely adult film and well they are not allowed to like this sort of thing. No one is as it is too loud and crude to be an award winner - in fact I don't even reckon a typical American audience would get any of the jokes. But well I think it is great and since it is set in good old Brum I was even happier, especially since I recognised where they where from the start! GREAT! The last thing I have to say from this film is: "bees
make honey and Ants make sugar... in fact all insects produce some kind
of sweet substance" (or words to that effect - brilliant!) |
This is the latest image (taken on the 8th February) of the expanding light halo around the distant star V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon). The illumination of the interstellar dust comes form the red supergiant star in the centre which gave off a pulse of light two years ago. This object is at the outer edge of the galaxy some 20,000 light years away from the Earth.
Credits: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team
(AURA/STScI) and ESA |
A bill has just been passed in the USA that awards amateur astronomers who find Earth crossing asteroids $3,000 (- just like the Kings used to do!). This will mean that amateurs who are spending their time protecting the planet will get something back (and not just life / satisfaction but hard cash!) The bill directs the NASA Administrator to make awards, of $3,000 each, based on the recommendations of the Smithsonian Minor Planet Center. For more information see the House Committee on Science News Release. With all the amateurs on the case then maybe below will not happen!
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After Friday nights fun at Snobs, when I got a little drunk and so did Eleanor and Katherine, I decided to take it a little slower today.
It was a good day though, I played Rugby with a mate (just a knock about) then watched the Rugby, England lost so was not happy, followed by going to the cinema to watch Sex Lives of the Potato Men again as she had not seen it. It was as good the second time as the first we then walked around the reckin on the way home. It was good, a very enjoyable day. |
I was going to post this earlier but have been busy (well at a pub quiz!). Last night I decided to stay up for the start of the Formula 1 season. Since the race was from Australia this meant a 3:00 a.m. start here, well that was not too bad I generally go to bed at 2ish at the weekend so I was already for it. I was drifting before the start of the show but was ok. I watched the start, my flat mate went to bed - so I moved on to the couch. Next thing I know I am awake and watching the podium celebrations! Damn it, this meant it spoilt it for me later - as I would have watched it again at lunch time - argh! Well as the F1 goes - the same as ever?
Courtesy BBC Sport Hopefully both Williams and McLaren will get their fingers out for the next one. I was however very impressed with Renault - looks that minus launch control they are still as good from the start - great!
Courtesy BBC Sport For more info on the race see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/3539193.stm
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I have been quite impressed with their website on many occasions such as their feature which shows all bus routes but today I was taken back by a feature I have not seen before. The feature I talk about is their Journey Planner (http://www.travelinemidlands.co.uk/cityplan/). This is brilliant, you can type in any address (from what I have found it does) and it gives you options if it doesn't recognize it. Once you are all sorted it displays your route for you with estimated durations extra. Wonderful!
Travel West Midlands must be commended on this feature
and with a decent bus service like we have (most of the time) they are
producing a great service. |
Well apart from the Cat party in my garden!
What a strange sight I thought as I stared out of my kitchen window, well I thought it was photo worthy! To see 3 cats so close together I thought was strange and I could see something but was not sure if it was a fourth cat so I went to investigate, I was correct there where four cats there! Strange I thought but after a bit of noise off them at my presence they decided that they should leave. Apart from the Cat incident my day has been like a normal one - at best unproductive and challenging, things are going ok though. Think I may actually get my part of my group studies report done at some point.
At least I can escape reality by posting and starring at a computer screen, strangely though - all I do is stare at space stuff - can't get away from it! Argh! So here is some space stuff! 
Credit: X-ray: NASA/U. Hamburg/J.Ness et al; Optical: NASA/STScI
A new view of Saturn - in X-rays.The first clear detection of X-rays from the giant, gaseous planet Saturn has been made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This is a surprising result as the X-ray emission was expected to occur at the poles - like Jupiter, but since it does not it means the existing theories are wrong! For more info see: [Chandra Site]
The British detainees in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba will be returning back to the UK after 2 years of illegal captivation. Hopefully Human Rights will prevail and the USA government will be forced to try these people or let them go.
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3545033.stm The right to a trial and not to be detained without just reason is a fundamental right of democracy, heck just plain human rights. If Americans (by American I mean USA citizens) where held in this situation in North Korea then the marines would be sent in to rescue them. Thinking about it probably not since the United States of America are scared of North Korea - they would rather pick on defenseless countries with oil e.g. Iraq! It does seem that all the evidence that the USA government had to hold them there was that they are "bad people" as George W Bush called them. On this issue take a look at: http://www.interwebnet.org/
Hopefully everyone will now get the fair trial
they deserve! |
Yes they have done it, they have gone further back in time. No I am not talking about some strange time machine involving a car going at 85mph harnessing the power of the flux capacitor but of the realistic Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), the million-second-long exposure reveals the oldest galaxies ever seen and there are some 10,000 galaxies in it, wow! It is actually two separate images put together. On closer inspection some of the beauty can be seen better!
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team For more info see: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/hubble_UDF.html |
At last I have gotten my group studies report written. It was only small but was starting to annoy me. It is done and now I can concentrate on tomorrow nights Astrosoc Annual Dinner! :-( , argh! At least I was able to get a nice new dress shirt and cufflinks. I am looking forward to it, little nervous though, should go fine I am sure. |
Great news - proves the USA had no evidence to detain them - I wonder how many of the other prisoners they do not have any evidence for! |
Argh! I'm busy - well not that busy - decided to take a break to write on here! It is the Astrosoc Annual Dinner tonight - I have everything prepared, my shirt is ironed, my speech is done (sort of!) and all I have to do now is get changed. Getting changed is quite hard - how the heck do you do this bow tie - I'm sure I will figure this out in the next five minutes though. This is a joyful occasion however I moment should be spent thinking about all the families who lost loved ones today after the bombings in Madrid. Somber thoughts but sometimes necessary to remind us that the world we live in is not safe and so we should be ever vigilant and never underestimate the power of a lunatic or a group of lunatics.
For more info see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3502218.stm Moving on though you should also not dwell on the point otherwise you will become a paranoid person and walk around with Aluminium foil on your head! |
What a night! It went really well - I think. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves which is great. I gave a substandard speech but everyone seemed to find it humorous and not boring. The far better speech (well talk) was given by Dr Somak Raychaudhury, our guest speaker. As always he gave us a fantastic speech talking about his first experiences in Astronomy which eventually led him on to talking about the IGNOBLE prizes which are like the nobel prizes but for the worst research!
Alas I did not manage to get a photo of myself - well it would be hard it I did. I know other people have so I will have to grab them off them later (so I can shut my mom up who wants a picture of me in my dinner jacket etc!) For now here is a group photo, in which yet again I am at the back and you can hardly see me, argh!
I love it when it snows, it was great coming back from the Annual Dinner last night to find it snowing. I was walking into campus for a meeting with my group studies supervisor and wow the campus was beautiful, looking I went prepared with Alex's camera! Here is one of the beautiful clock tower:
By the way, the massive clock tower is based on that at Sienna, Italy and is a memorial to Joseph Chamberlain. I also took a picture of a tree which I thought looked quite lovely, I love snow on trees - I could get lost looking a them but am quickly brought back to reality by a piece of snow falling off a branch down my back! :-)
I was asked by my mom to get a picture of me looking "smart" at the Annual Dinner. Well here is one for all of you to look at.
The picture was taken by my good friend Thomas Grimmett so I have him to thank for this cracking photo! (I'm in the centre if you wanted to know!) I will be putting more pictures from the Astrosoc Annual Dinner on the Astrosoc Website tomorrow.
Look at this wonderful picture which is the BAA's website picture of the week, wow! I love looking at the Orion Nebula and this picture just shows the raw beauty of this nebula.
M42 in Mapped Colour By Russell Croman For more info about the picture see: http://www.rc-astro.com/nebulae/m42_2004-01-27.htm |
Here is a picture of me and the FAS Council, well it is not the best picture it is far from the worse but in comparison to the Orion nebula we are nothing - no offence guys!
The image was taken at the first committee meeting I was present at, at the Planetarium in London - so that is my excuse for looking in disarray, the long journey made me tired!
I don't object to people having loud music in there cars, fine I am sure I would as well. It does get annoying when people end up parking out side of your house listening to loud music louder than the music I am listening to! I mention this because a few houses down the road there are some idiots with their car stereo on so loud that both me and Katherine individually thought that we must have left something playing when we went for dinner (in my case Winamp in her case the radio). Does seem as if someone further down the road has shouted out their window to tell them to shut up beating me to it and surprisingly they have - wonder how long that will last! |
I decided today after looking at the work I did on venustransit.co.uk that I could and needed to spruce up the look of Krioma.net. This was partly pushed on me as I decided to get a PHP script that would open up the most recent blog entries on my homepage so that my homepage does not look static. The PHP script is just an RDF parser, it reads in my blog XML feed and puts this into my index.php file. Yes my site has now got its first .php page (apart from those on the forum). I decided to keep the site the same colours with the same background as I think that is brilliant. I recently was very pleased with my logo on the Forum:
so decided that I had to do some thing similar for the new design. I only did this after I decided to put the blue boxes around everything and the old banner just did not fit in. This is the new banner:
Yes the site has a new face, I hope you all like this one as much as the old one. I know I do. |
Well if it was al-Qaeda they have gotten to Spain. Firstly I do not think we should have invaded Iraq but that is now an old point, it happened our leaders may be war criminals but not much we can actually do I guess. However saying this we should now stay and help rebuild the country we helped to destroy. I do hope Spain do not succumb to terrorism. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3512144.stm Again a thought should go to the families of those who lost people in the terrorist attacks of last week - makes me think. What if that happened to New Street Station? I would be devastated. But life goes on as can be seen by the good turnout for the Spanish elections. |
A new planet has been 'discovered', is this actually a new planet or just a Kuiper belt object (like Pluto in my opinion)? Well the NASA funded scientists believe they have found one - named Sedna.
Artists concept Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image Credit: NASA/Caltech It is estimated Sedna is approximately three-fourths the size of Pluto. Sedna is likely the largest object found in the solar system since Pluto was discovered in 1930. For more info see: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0403/15sedna/ See the following about the orbit of Sedna: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05569 See the following for a size comparison: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05567 |
Yes at long last it has been a sunny day and moderately warm. It was nice. It inspired me to get out in the Garden - all I did was take pictures. I did need the break though have been working hard on group studies today - almost sorted though.
Here is a nice picture I took looking at houses in my garden:
I also took what I think is a nice picture of a plant in my garden.
>Well enough of this better get back to the group studies.
This time it is the PPS (Poynting Physics Society) ball at the Crowne Plaza, Birmingham. Hopefully this will end probably the busiest week of my life. This week I have been very busy with the group studies, now this is almost over (just the conclusion to do) I can relax. Last night was great - at Astrosoc we had had a talk off Mike Frost titled "Jeremiah Horrocks and the Transit of Venus", it was great - one of the best talks we have had recently. Now time to get the tux out again and get ready for what will probably turn out to be a good piss up! And now time for something interesting.. Water at Martian south pole! ESA’s Mars Express has detected vast fields of perennial water ice, stretching out from the south pole of the Red Planet! Yey!
See: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMYKEX5WRD_2.html
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Ok then after an hour of looking at my questions for this course I am still as lost as I was at the start - I think it is time to go argh and play FIFA for a bit to ignore the fact that I can not do it. I will eventually be able to do it I am sure.
On another subject, Schumacher wins again - argh! At least this time it was a little closer and I did not stay up to watch it!
Courtesy BBC Sport
The main problem I have at the moment whilst watching Formula 1 is that ITV are using an incredibly small font and so is hard to read the captions! It was good though to see Jenson Button getting on the podium.
Courtesy BBC Sport
I would have posted this sooner but have been having problems with my site, think they are fixed now.Well here we go the aftermath of the ball! It was good and incident filled but well thats what I was expecting. We managed to come away though mostly happy and with a few memorable pictures to remind us of each other - if we can ever manage to forget each other that is!
Me and Matt relaxing:
The blokes (including me) and Sadie with a well thought out (maybe not) pose:
...getting a little risque
Today was for quite a lot of my friends their last lecture! It is rather strange to think that I will be one of the few continuing on the 4th year of the course (so we can get a MSci instead of BSc). It was actually a day of ending, today was also the last meeting we are having for group studies, all that is left now is for the conclusion to be written and then the editing to be completed. This is not the end for me but at last I can see the end of the tunnel! Also today I was quite perturbed to find out that it might be possible for the flagship of the Russian fleet to blow up at any point!
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3560249.stm I also came across the Russian Navy's homepage: http://www.navy.ru/main-e.htm (in English), this is not the best of sites but has some useful and interesting information on it. |
Well that's Thursday we had our group study seminar, this was our chance to put over our findings in a sort of professional (it was assessed) manner to the rest of our group study. It was fun and meant that I got to put on a suit (was the only one but hey it was fun!) hence the title of this entry.
Geordie, Me and Colin working (well some of us) on the final touches to the seminars:
A little later on, am I still as relaxed - think not!
Oh yes here you go:
Yes one of those dodgy group photos, but where would we be with out them! This one is going on the front cover of our professional report! Guess we need to include the humour somewhere. I must thank Michelle (the short lass on the right of the picture; no offence meant! :-)) for letting me use this picture which was taken by Dr Stevens using her digicam.
Here is yet another picture taken at the eventfull PPS Ball, it is off me dancing! Yes you maybe thinking why would anyone want to take a picture of me doing this apart from maybe blackmail! Well Eleanor took it and now she can not blackmail me as I am not a shamed off it and here it is for the whole world to see!
I was not the only one with suspect dancing on the night, but well they did not get caught on a camera, well some (e.g. my mate Geordie) did but in most of them they look like they are standing there a little out of breathe. Just dancing for 15 minutes can make me feel tired - time to do some exercise me thinks!
(note: so me mother doesn't complain, Dancing Samuel just didn't have the right ring to it as Dancing Sam :-))
At last, after a whole terms work, the group studies project is over! I have handed in the final report and now I can relax (for a few days before the exam revision starts!). We, me and my friend (and group studies editor) Ria, decided to get the report heat sealed in a hard back cover - thus producing a book. It looked so cool! I decided that I wanted to keep a note of this and so took a picture:
and yes I did take a picture that showed my section, a little sad I agree but I am well pleased :-)
Today is going as well as could be expected now I think it is time to relax for a while before I go out to Snobs this evening, promising to be a great night.
Ok this is a few weeks ago, but I just had to post it the spirit of dodgy group photos! Here we are at Astrosoc:
In the picture you will see Eleanor's nice Newtonian reflector in the foreground with me standing next to it, not sure what I am doing. You may also notice that we have the electronic eyepiece connected. This picture was taken by a Mark Rowan. Is it me or does the bloke in the back, my good friend Matt, look like a Fundamentalist! Not only does he have the beard (which has now cut off - by accident I believe) but the pose with the chin forward :-) .
| Yes I had a hangover this morning - I did not drink much but well I think it must have been the combination of beer and spirits. I am actually not feeling too bad now but earlier well I just did not want to get out of bed. It was a good night, the end of term piss-up. I am going out tonight but well after that I will not be going out for a while - lots of revision to do. I did notice something quite funny at Snobs though last night - signs saying NO MOSHING, as if that is going to happen. That's one of the reasons people go to Snobs! |
Well not really around Selly Oak to the University playing fields, the shop and back home. The reason for this was for me to take a few pictures. One in particular came to mind the entrance to the University from Selly Oak. Now you would have thought of a nice grand entrance but no it is like a bomb site. This is probably the worst part of the whole campus - well it is actually outside but gives a bad impression. However because of this it can make it photogenic and over time I have taken quite a few pictures of this.
Outside Uni, the entrance is to the right of the picture. Also by this is the remains of a failed Guild election campaign:
I have been meaning to take a picture of this for a few weeks but only got around to it today. It seems that during the campaign, I think on the first night, someone decided to remove this from where it was a dump it in the stream. Great! I wonder how long it will stay there - probably a very long time as it is in a really bad position access wise to remove it. Oh by the way this Kobby did not get in, for the best as his stance was not the best.
Well the below picture now explains the Mars resistance group see: [blog page]!
I bet ya if McDonalds could they would as there seems to be one everywhere you go - mildly annoying since they sell crap food (especially since I am a vegetarian).
| Well last night was my mate Jordan's 21st celebrations. As ever we went out into town, this time was different for me as for once I had to look smart. A normal night out for me normal involves going to Snobs where there is no dress code. Last night however was a Broad Street night and so out came the shoes and smart trousers (what I wear to Uni everyday but not when I go out). We started in the Figure of Eight a nice Weatherspoons Pub on Broad Street, nice and cheap and ended up in Lloyds Bar (Soloman Cutler) down the bottom of Broad Street. It was much better than I thought it would be since they had on some cheesy music, thank god it was not just crap rap and dance. It was defiently better than Bar Risa which was the another possiblity and lets just say I have been there once before and did not want to go again.
Another good thing about Llyods Bar was that the drinks were not too much more than Weatherspoons so it allowed me to get nicely pissed. We ended up back at Jordan's and Sarah's house for some eggy bread which I was told I had to try since Sarah's is supposidely great. I have to agree it was delicous. Overall a great night. |
| This is something that I have only seen a few times, it has some foul language and crude content but I found it funny! So if you get chance to have a watch of this I would say you should. The shows main characters are Pimp-suited Bronx Bunny and foul-mouthed Teddy Tourettes. The show is a twisted public access-style adult education show. Quite funny, on one of the episodes I watched the phrase of the show was "skank-ho". Click on the image below to see more pictures of this show.
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| I hope so. Personally I can stand smoky environments but is not the nicest of environments. Why should someone be allowed to impose there bad habits on you? Smoking = lung disease and so does passive smoking. Not only that but for once I would like to come out of pub without stinking of smoke. The new law in Ireland is great, hopefully this will now be adopted here. I am sure some people will argue it is against civil liberties etc, but I would argue the opposite point. It is against my civil liberties that someone is allowed to breathe deadly smoke into my face. If people want to smoke then fine, just not in places where we it effects non-smokers and that is by far the majority of people. A start would be for pubs to introduce smoking areas instead of non-smoking areas, especially since as I just said the majority of the population do not smoke. Another problem that may happen and does at Uni is the 10m smoking radius outside of every public building. I find this quite sickly in the morning to have to walk through this smokers paradise is awful. I think not only should smoking be banned in public buildings but at the least within a few metre radius of entrances to these buildings. For more information on this see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3577001.stm |
| It's that time of year, the time of year when I get up early everyday and guess what today was the first day. If you have not guessed it is the time of year approaching examinations so it is that glorious revision period. Luckily this is my last but one set of exams and for some of my friends their last. I can't wait until I have no more exams! Guess I still have 14 months to wait but hey when that day comes life will be less stressful. Today I am doing Interstellar Medium (ISM) revision and am making good progress which I am pleased about as I didn't even think I would make sense out of the notes but I am! :-) And now for a picture of the beautiful ISM: This picture is of the Rosette nebula |
| I was looking at a friends site and came across a link to a "competitive guide" about Open Office produced by Microsoft. It is basically a comparison between Microsoft Office and Open Office.
See: http://members.microsoft.com/partner/salesmarketing/opensource/discguides/OpenOffice.pdf I find it quite amusing that the worlds leading software company are that scared of open source that they have gone to this level, basically just slagging off open office. Personally I still use Word, but only out of habit. I do have open office installed and use it as often as I remember. There are many features I hate in Word and one of the main problems I find is its inability to deal with very large documents and its annoying little options that you have to turn off. On this document Microsoft keep commenting on how Open Office is not compatible with various features of Microsoft Office and so that is a bad thing. Is it? Surely if you only use Open Office then it would not matter? Even so I know where I am heading with my publishing needs and that is to LaTeX! |
Yes I have been procrastinating again! What did I come up with well I found a cool website which allows you to create your own avatar - might be useful for anyone looking to create one for free not using the pay ones available out there (such as the MSN one - even though you could easily just copy and paste the screen, but I did not say that!) Here is what I came up with - what do you reckon a vampire for the 21st Century?
He even comes with his own microphone, best be bluetooth (well maybe redtooth later if he is lucky - bad joke I know) to get the best use though! To do you own avatar using this system see: http://www.dookyweb.com/avatars.swf only problem it uses Flash. However this is one of the times when I think flash is useful. There are not many times when I do though!
| I am gonna have to get used to this, revision is not looking good. Before anyone says anything I have been working for an hour so am now taking a break, don't want to overload the old mind! This morning is more Interstellar Medium revision, I am not having fun with it. Since I am going on about emission I thought I would post a nice picture of an emission nebula so here we go, NGC 6164-5:
Top left is NE. Image width is about 9
arc min Now isn't that another beautiful picture, not only does space fascinate me but it never stops stunning me of its raw beauty. |
I would never say I actually know anything about wine, but I do occasionally come across something that I like. Now the previous sentence was one of those sentences that I try and get out of coming across like a pretentious know it all! I bet it didn't work.
Well anyway's moving on, recently I came across a cheap bottle of wine that I liked - cost about £4 at Aldi. Now you maybe saying Aldi! However some of the stuff they have is very good and they are also very good for Vegetarians, for example all their beers say if they are Veggie or not. They don't on the wine however so I am running the gauntlet, if I did not love the stuff (red wine that is!) I would not drink it. I don't believe that animal products are used in the majority of red wines but you never know.
Anyway's my point was the wine I liked! It is called Laguna Canyon and has a strong taste of cherry, very nice - went down well with the pasta I ate with it :-)
As you can see none left ;-)
Guess what I saw again today? Starsky and Hutch! This is a great film, I'm glad I went again.
Me and my mates Geordie and Matt went. We had dinner beforehand in the Figure of Eight on Broad St. It was great. A nice end to a frustrating morning of revision and then not being able to get the paint off the Grubb.
| I received a wonderful picture in my inbox last night. It was a picture of the Moon taken by my friend Eleanor and her 5" Newtonian Telescope, wow it came out well.
Some of the Lunar seas can be seen well. I am not the best with these but I think they are the following: Mare Serenitatis, Mare Crisium, Mare Tranquillitatis, Mare Nectaris, Mare Fecunditatis in order from top to bottom. I big well done to Eleanor and her steady hands as now T mount was used! :-) |
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I thought this was hilarious (see below) and had to post it but alas the metro website does not maintain any sort of link structure it seems! This can also be found at: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/29/poland.mermaid.remodel.reut/ I was unable to find a picture of the mermaid in question but it does seem to be featured on the towns crest!
See: http://www.ustka.pl/ustka.html From metro.co.uk website: Statue to get bigger breasts A STATUE OF the mermaid which is the patron of a Polish town is to get bigger breasts in a bid to boost tourism. We are now considering altering the mermaid slightly by making her breasts bigger The drastic plastic surgery comes after councillors decided that the mermaid's breasts were too small and her hips too wide. The mermaid's looks became a hot topic during talks in the city hall on a promotion campaign for Ustka, a small port on the Baltic coast, in which the town's mermaid shield was supposed to play a key role. 'There was a discussion about the coat of arms and one female councillor said jokingly that the mermaid's breasts were too small and that she was a bit fat,' a spokesman said. The joke became a serious idea when local and national media got wind of the debate, giving sleepy Ustka plenty of coverage. 'We are now considering altering the mermaid slightly by making her breasts bigger and making her leaner, the spokesman said. 'She will become more attractive and Ustka will gain publicity.' |
| Ok I have now had enough
of ISM (Interstellar Medium) for one week! Will do more tomorrow, but
now I am off to watch the England game and then on to Snobs!
Should be a good night, all I know is I will not be getting up at 7am
to do revision tomorrow :-) |
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