23 Jan, 2005
Posted by: Rob
I’m cracking up with laughter as we speak because I am having an MSN conversation with my mum.
Why do the older generations have such difficulty in dealing with the complexities (!) that is MSN? Actually, let’s extend that a bit further: why do the older generations have such difficulties using PCs?!?
Many of them use [...]
23 Jan, 2005
Posted by: Rob
Can someone explain something to me? Why did a train journey that usually lasts 1 hour 45 mins take almost 3 hours today? I left Newport at 17:39 (or thereabouts) and arrived in London Paddington at 20:23. The time on my ticket says I should have arrived at 19:25. So what [...]
16 Jan, 2005
Posted by: Rob
Just got back from my second LLM residential weekend in Leicester. Boy, was it an intensive one! I enjoy these weekends, but I sure find it hard to go back to work the week after having had no break from work/thinking!
Anyway, it was a good weekend. We had lectures by Professor Olga [...]
15 Jan, 2005
Posted by: Rob
This is something that I wanted to comment on a while ago, but didn’t get round to it.
If one looks at this post at Woolamaloo you can see that Joe Gordon has been sacked from Waterstones simply “because he kept an online diary in which he occasionally mentioned bad days at work and satirised his [...]
14 Jan, 2005
Posted by: Rob
You know what? Sometimes I feel like I want to scream. Why? This training contract thing. I’ve been trying for four years, yes you read right, four years, to get a training contract, without success. It wouldn’t be so bad, except, I’ve got plans.
Rachel and I are getting married on [...]