DISQUS

OK, another comment on your Twitter stream (no, I don't want Twitter, I don't want it!!): posters? This is surely the way to go...

W.r.t. your Twitter feed (because I don't have Twitter and I don't want it) - I <3 Dynamical Systems!

Also, look positive, you can't do worse than I will...

Yeah, sorry Dickie. Possibly the not eloquent or intelligent way of expressing my feelings towards self-serving political ideologies. But sometimes vents have to be had.

Damned right - especially to the point that Fairtrade is not a complete solution. But yes, it will always be a start. I've come to a conclusion that right-wing-ness is for thick people, but then I would say that, I guess.

Oh, yes, and "plug for an event my friends are organising" makes me feel like a very bad girlfriend in the analogous Durham situation....!

Yes. Yes.

Indeed.

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(Good God, is this what doing science does to one's grammar?)

...and at least Birmingham HAS buses that go anywhere vaguely useful. Seriously, you don't know how good you've got it in London! And bloody hell, the rail network.

As another non-economist, I can only nod and agree wholeheartedly, both with Andy and, erm, Dickie. Unfortunately short-sightedness and greed seems to be part of human nature, and that is no less present in most governments than it is in the big financiers of the free market so an exhaustive solution to the problem simply does not exist. That is where I would hesitate to term Communism and Socialism as one at the same - to my mind, Socialism at least acknowledges the need for pragmatism.

I will conclude my comment by echoing Dickie's sentiments on "physics applied to finance but not like a sell out" - love it!

Ah, iTunes. WMP may not solve all your particular woes, but I stand by my comments on the previous entry. You should programme your own version then go make lots of money in your niche market!

Also, new design!! And I LOVE your final tag!

iTunes. Yuk. I could spell out what's wrong with it, but you seem to have done a pretty good job, only missing out the whole exclusive file format thing which is a right pain if you have an mp3 player. That and the C:\ drive organisational nightmare have very nearly tipped me into deleting it a large number of times - I've always kept it, but still get annoyed when large numbers of people insist that it's inherently superior...

Windows Media Player for me. Version 7, I believe it is. Damn straight.

Physicists. And Americans. And the real world.

Pfff!

"Pi is exactly 3"?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! !!!!

I am disappointed to say the least!

And so that it shows up on the 'recent comments' list. Having to scroll down so far is a bit annoying, tbh.

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Line breaks? HTM<s>L</s>?

Hyperlinks?

First exam on the 28th? That's... ages away...! Mine are finished by then!

Revision is horrible. I'm fine at revising hard stuff, but I'm awful at revising pointless stuff, like, I dunno, long proofs which you'd look up in any other context. Or A-Level Stats, if I had to :-P

Nice.

That is where I think that Maths for the sake of Maths falls down - our AMV course centres around most of the stuff in that Wikipedia article, but most of us will never get to see where it's applied. Looking back over past years' papers, they've taken more and more context out of the module each time it's been taught. This doesn't bother me enough to want to take Physics, but I can understand the satisfaction of seeing some seemingly complex theoretical mathematical relation in 'the real world' fall out so perfectly - Fourier series took on a new light when I looked up about how they relate to different sound tones in Music!

On a not unrelated note, Green's functions. Urgh...

Didn't see either Doctor Who and have barely heard of Skins (are you surprised?). But I did see a load of Facebook statuses referring to Caecilius, Metella et al, which was a good trip down memory lane! And Dickie, I think you're right...

That's pretty bad. However I can't get too worked up about it, I'll be honest - Durham's union is pretty much ignored as things go, so the national one has even less of an impact and if it does, we don't notice it/ know about it.

It would be hell if we did disaffiliate, though, because our union cards are the same thing as our campus cards (which we need for ID, getting in to the library, IT service support etc.). They'd have to redo 14000-odd cards at a time...

re. Virgin Trains: They may not be bad at turning up when they're meant to, but they smell and make me feel sick and lack leg room (even the swishy new ones that I see they put on for Londoners!). Though admittedly they are also the long-distance trains that I have to use the most often, so am therefore more likely to complain about.

re. apocolypses: Global climate change, probably, so my family and I could say "Told you so!". Or death by asteroid 'cos at least we'd all go at once.

re. bad, bad, bad jokes: Oh dear. Oh dear!

Wooo for Virgin Trains and cheap tickets! Says the girl who loathes Virgin Trains with a passion... Unfortunate, given the circumstances.

I care! I comment! When you're not rabbiting on about Dr Who, that is, or operating systems which I don't understand...

Y'know, I always think that I should make a log of searches from which people have reached my site. Alas, I never do, and some of the sheer genius has been lost forever to obscurity.

I get reached by people searching for Shakespeare and for Bob Marley. I have been getting reached a lot recently by variations on 'london midland late trains', which I might find amusing if I didn't have a horrible creeping feeling that it's an indication of the state of the local train-line back home. 38 minutes ago precisely, I was reached through the search term 'randall munroe address', which is frankly scary...

I saw about that Robert Winston talk on Facebook - it came up on my newsfeed that you or possibly Chris was attending. I have one word, and one word only: JEALOUS!

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