North of the Stupid Line

Archive for October, 2004

31 Oct, 2004

Christmas List

Posted by: Rob

Do you want to know what I want for Christmas? Here’s my wish list, feel free to send me something! )
DVDs
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, DVD Collection (Seasons 1-7)
Star Trek Voyager, DVD Collection (Seasons 1-7)
Mystic River
Shrek
Shrek 2
Spiderman 2
Books
Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower [...]

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22 Oct, 2004

Danish Fame

Posted by: Rob

My fame knows no boundaries; I’ve now been featured in a Danish magazine called Kommunikationsforum – Artikler – Videoblog ??? fremtidens weblog?!
The relevant bit says:
Desuden giver videobloggen nye muligheder for handicappede. Rob Wilks, som er d?v, publicerer for eksempel p? sin videoblog North of the Stupid Line indl?g, hvor han kommunikerer p? tegnsprog.
which roughly translates [...]

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06 Oct, 2004

New Look

Posted by: Rob

I was getting bored with the old look, plus I’ve started to use Mozilla Firefox on a regular basis, and the old look looked terrible. So here we are, I hope what you will perceive to be a more professional-looking website and blog.
I have also created a HTML version of my CV for prospective [...]

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05 Oct, 2004

Lipspeakers/terps

Posted by: Rob

After securing a lipspeaker for a training contract (tc) interview (iv) tomorrow at such short notice, I was just thinking how difficult it can be for Deafies to book communication support at such short notice. How many Deafies have had to cancel or lose out on opportunities for this reason? What would have [...]

04 Oct, 2004

Snowdon

Posted by: Rob

I got some wonderful news today. You all know that I have now started my LLM in Law & Employment Relations with the University of Leicester. Well, what most of you didn’t know is that it costs ?2,950 per year.
The Snowdon Award Scheme have been absolutely fantastic and awarded me ?2,500 per year. [...]



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Why North of the Stupid Line? It's quite simple: to signify an individual of subnormal intelligence and general social ignorance. This blog belongs to Rob Wilks (never!) who can be summed up thus: Deaf, married, daddy, happy chappy, smiley, solicitor, Welshman, Cymru.