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Nov

18November: Tis the season for muddy Hampstead Heath walks

Dec

17Christmas Cheer and 2012 Resolutions Update

292012: My Year In Books

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31Dominic's Big Review of 2012

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2011

Jan

02SexFest On Tour: Sleepover Edition

03The One Where Dominic Phones Psychic TV

“ Enjoy...”
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08The Room

3 comments

18Meet Cleggy

23Set course for wonder - it's a commentary!

28Book Review

Feb

01On goodbyes and Nazis

“Have spent the past couple of days saying farewell to little groups here and there: ...”

01Operation Waterfight

“So, today Tash K and I went on a fact-finding mission to a local homoeopathy ...”
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06Leaving on a jetplane

Mar

1010 American Photos

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14No hiccups

1 comments

20Partyin', partyin' (yeah)

21dominicself.co.uk Readership Census

“In honour of the census, I have prepared an important survey of my own. Do ...”
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23Census Results!

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26Let them eat cake

30Eat, Pray, Loathe

“Since Grace and I have a relationship vaguely based on a shared hatred for a ...”
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Apr

09Hot town, summer in the city

“Today was not April 2011, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Rather some indeterminable ...”

23Click the link, see the kitten

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24Easter interlude: Katie's new bedroom

May

09In memory of Mr. Buchanan

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19There is a mystery to you deep beneath the flesh! (Rock on, Moldova.)

“I feel slightly disorganised at the minute, like I'm being tugged in multiple directions. There ...”

29Pub atheism redux

“Disappointingly, there was no Rapture last Saturday, which not only robbed us all of an ...”
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Jun

03My blog is not a Tumblr

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03These Are The Days Of Our Lives

“All things considered, last week was a perfectly normal week until Friday came along. Abbi ...”
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12Smartphone babbling

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13Moving on (but not from loving a good day at the seaside)

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26In which I don't bother to elaborate on the awesomeness of Hungry Hungry Hippos (but whereby said awesomeness should nonetheless be inferred from context)

Jul

10Sunday homily: a gentle suggestion for better living

“So my boss admitted the other day that he hadn't blogged since starting his job: ...”
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30Snapshots from recent weeks

Aug

20A few things I have learned after two months in a proper office

“• The moment you really feel like you're a fully-fledged member of the team comes ...”
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28Summery catchup

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Sep

13Abbi and Paul's Wedding

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Oct

02A "fairly strenuous" walk

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29Snippets and things

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Nov

02Retro Comprehensive Evangelism Day

“I'm sure my relative quietness on education and schools recently has been a blessed relief ...”

27Zippyboats

Dec

31Dominic's Big Review of 2011

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2010

Graduation

Jan

06Fun in the Snow

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12Official: reading is good

“Ladies and gentlemen, from a chilly Cambridge attic bedroom, I wish you a good evening. ...”
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21Didhngijrndnvjdnfvvcdkgvwajhnjmfghbv. d.

“I know, I know, I've been really lax in blogging, and have clearly been overtaken ...”
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28(How amusing if Laura, Lucy and Gavin met up?)

“When even someone like Matt - who, in a former life, rather mocked this blog! ...”

Feb

08A priori is a bit rubbish, really. This post is resolutely a posteriori.

3 comments

17The multifarious goodness of chatting

“One of life's oddities: this evening, I got to interview Ken Livingstone. OK, backtrack. So there ...”

19Oh, come on...

2 comments

25Some loose ends and short takes

26Humans are just strange, mmk?

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Mar

06What I owe my mitochondria #5203*

“There was a little stress to begin with, last night, as a crowd of historians ...”
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15Authority on Caprica

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21Tasty cuisine, HD screen, shaving cream!

30Edinburgh

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Apr

02Authority on Video

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07It's hard to say cause he's stubborn and a pig and fights with me...

“I'm not dead. Not nearly. But having now committed myself to the insane asylum (in ...”
1 comments

19Everybody wants to be a cat

“Dom returned to 'da Bridge today for his FINAL TERM! I WONDER WHAT HE'S GOING ...”

27Now We Are Six

7 comments

30Voting

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May

07Election Night: Ups and Downs

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11Smile

“Well, as of this evening we now have a Conservative Prime Minister. And yet, I'm ...”
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17"Four Lions?" "YES"

“I interrupt this desert of blogging mostly to wax lyrical about Four Lions. Yes, Chris ...”
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27Displacement activity

“Since I'm currently bouncing around aimlessly - siphoning off unfinished cake from the fridge and ...”

Jun

04All good things...

“So. I've been seriously toying with whether I should blog anything at all about Lucy ...”
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08Free Dom

“I'm done! Free! Finished! Yay! As I said, my last exam - the India paper - ...”
1 comments

15Highlights from Trinity May Ball

“OK, I don't have time to trawl through photographs at the moment - or even ...”
2 comments

21That Was The Week That Was

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26I, Graduate

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29Return of the shout-out!

Jul

07Best birthday present ever?

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11In which debates are held, dinner is served, tweeters dance and gender role reversals are finally undone

“A thoroughly pleasant weekend! Yesterday was QPCS's Summer Fair, and as usual they held some ...”

13Right To Reply

“From: Dominic Self To: macer.hall@express.co.uk Sent: Tue 13/07/2010 16:55 Subject: Request for comment Dear Mr. Hall, I am writing ...”
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20Nothing Comic Anymore

“"I... I... I thought we had something. I believed in you! I loved you, dammit, ...”
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24"Oh, another level..." "Yeah. It's like Themes and bloody Sources all over again."

26PuntCon, yay!

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Aug

01Show me some sole

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13Croatia Strikes Back

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21And on a moonlit night he plays a magic flute in the sky...

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31Goodbye, gospel music

Sep

01How to recover files from corrupt Norton 360 backup disks

08"There must be some way out of here..."

“I know I've mentioned Battlestar Galactica a fair bit over the past year or so, ...”
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14At least I'm not on YouTube

“Years ago I got an e-mail from a blog reader, who I didn't know, saying ...”
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18Caption Contest: Churchill's Bunker Edition

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19Why I Protested The Pope

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20Cameo Role

1 comments

Oct

02On employment (kinda, sorta)

3 comments

07Avenue Q

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10On parties, people and pubs

“In the old days, things were simple. You worked at school from Monday to Friday, ...”

17Paris!

27This is what happens if you give me £100 to spend on books

30Katie's pumpkin is too cool not to share

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Nov

13People

“Over the past two weeks*, I have partaken of food or drink with the following: The ...”

1760 Second Séance (and other adventures)

23Back to Cambridge! (Briefly.)

“Big thanks to Simon for putting me up in Cambridge for the weekend - I ...”

30Putting the party into dinner party

Dec

14Blogging stuff for many nights... like a blizzard

“Things I haven't blogged about: Heathers, Deathly Hallows, cousin Jamie visiting, The Infamous Sofa Incident ...”

23Secret Vegetarian Festive Dinner 3: The Treequel

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31Dominic's Big Review of 2010

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2009

Jan

02kindisches Geschwätz

2 comments

06If voting changed anything...

10Light? Tunnel?

13Quick and dirty (and, actually, a bit nasty)

3 comments

16On Plato

“*sighs* This is the term in which I study the history of political thought (to 1700), ...”
2 comments

21Watch him now, here he comes

“Rather in the spirit of a certain Northern Scientist, I'd like to begin with a ...”
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24April

3 comments

27Slightly fewer than fifteen Tweets

“So I've finally joined Twitter, and at about the same time as Lucy and Abbi. ...”
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29Breakup

“I just wanted to say, simply and openly to avoid silly gossip, that Lucy and ...”

31I need to blog

“I can't let the question of 'how?' put me off for too long, else I'll ...”
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Feb

03Articulus blogus

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0425 Factoids

“I'm in the computer room, not bothering to go home before I come right back ...”
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05I'm just going to be judgemental here

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09Just a nice, satisfying day

“Today (well, yesterday) was just one of those happy, fun days you have without particularly ...”
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10With apologies to all my readers

“"Good afternoon! You're listening to Drivetime LIVE on SpoutRadio with me, Angry McNab, on the ...”

11Slumdog Millionaire

“Don't worry Tash, I did love it! Yup, I'm just back from finally seeing Slumdog ...”
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18A trayne of imaginations

“Somebody reassure me, please, that I'm not the only one to have to-do lists with ...”
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22International Jet Set

“This post is very late; but very late is better than never, right? And I'm ...”
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26Thankfulness

“"...it is not unusual in theology to debate questions whose answer is certain (de re ...”
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Mar

03Aftermath of Clock Ruination

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08Sunday night, stealing title formats

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10Making Ryanair's budget look big...

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13University sans work!

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18Eins Zwei Drei... Weltpolizei!

“OK OK, I will blog, otherwise you might start thinking that I never actually made ...”
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20Betterment

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26Watching the watches

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28Gon Out, Backson

“Book Club sometimes has a habit of losing its literary aspirations, particularly when none of ...”
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Apr

06Yorkshire Part 1: Horsies and Sheepies

06Intermission: Building Partnerships

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06Yorkshire Part 2: Not Grim Up North

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07Robert's Dinner Party

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15Peggle 'n' Pizza ('n' Scrabble 'n' Milkshake)

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17Poking the Past

“I thought I'd write a post based around thoughts rather than events for once, which ...”
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18On the many useful and assistive features of noses

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25Revision makes life a series of exam questions

“Yes, I am alive! A little worried about the short-term viability of this blog though, ...”
2 comments

27Give me five!

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May

01Ambitious much?

1 comments

03In The Loop

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06Waffle

“Roll up, ladies and gentlemen, roll up! I've two scintillating sequences of events for presentation ...”
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11Forget about your sin - give the audience a grin

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15I dreamed a dream (to further the plot)

“I've been thinking about dreams in fiction. And, more specifically, why we accept them without ...”
1 comments

19Ignorant talk of foolish men

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25Entropy isn't working

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2710 Cultures

“Just back from Bill Thompson's talk on the '10 cultures problem': a restatement of CP ...”
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29Quick note to the Lib Dems

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30Execution by Stormtrooper

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Jun

03Die Harmonie voll tiefer Friedlichkeit (mit allem was wir sind)

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08Yet more virtual ink spilt for the BNP

“So here we are - it's the night before my last exam. It's the History ...”

14I so clearly deserve this

“The very good thing about having done exams is that I now feel entirely guiltless ...”
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15Quick Quiz

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18I wouldn't normally post pictures of my underwear, but...

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2210100

“I need to own up to the fact that I'm now twenty. I've updated my ...”
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24Pub atheism

“I want to post a little bit more on my afternoon with Joshua and Niamh ...”

25Simply Associating

Jul

06Newquay in Collage

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13Children of Willesden

21Exceptional fast food and exceptional dance moves

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26Stolen filler content

“I'm stealing this from Saoirse, who in turn stole it from someone or other. 1. For ...”
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28Ground Control

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Aug

02Quick post, pre-Liverpool

“I stand rightfully accused of leaving far too long between posts, and then trying to ...”

06Liverpool and Dhododendrons

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09I'm going into publishing...

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11Amazing unpredictability

“Here's a very quick example of one gigantic leap in logic: It is amazingly unpredictable how ...”

14Blogging: the gap inbetween travelling

“Or so it feels at the moment - I'm off to Devon tomorrow with the ...”
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23Adventures in Devon

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27Rebirth

4 comments

31Save the kittens!

31An open letter to James Murdoch

“Dear James Murdoch, I'm really, really sorry. Really, I am. I've let you down so really ...”
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Sep

05Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing

“(OK, I was lying - this blog may indeed be continuing in its free incarnation ...”

09Brenglish

“People are proud to belong to all sorts of places: their country, their city, their ...”
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13Heart in a world just brimming with it

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20New Posts For The People (Theme)

“It's a quiet, reflective day today. Almost (almost ) a touch melancholic, although the truth ...”
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30You're Turning Into Ken Wayne

“I haven't blogged in an abysmally long time, and since I know for a fact ...”
2 comments

Oct

03I cain't resist an Othello

“Argh! I had such a lovely day today, and I refuse to let it be ...”
2 comments

04And so it begins

“Just a quick dispatch this morning \ afternoon! It's coming direct from the computer room ...”
3 comments

06Green Street, Rooms 3/3

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12Darwinism fails!

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19Worms: Apple Of My Eye

“I feel like I should apologise for not blogging more often. However, I have just ...”
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19Pickled Dalek

“(For the purposes of historical record, and since clever tweeters have just figured it out, ...”
3 comments

257th Heaven

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26Mapping the Territory

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Nov

02They got the mustard out!

4 comments

09What is the current position of the forward command post?

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11Dominic versus Evil Beep of Doom

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15Event, Metaphor, Ruffs: A microstudy of Tom's party, c. 2009

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21(Almost) every episode of Merlin...

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27Much silliness

28Alternative reality Dominic

Dec

07The Incident

“OK... so this has been a bit of a long day, and I don't want ...”
3 comments

14Things! Which! Happened! To! Me!

1 comments

22Oflucy

5 comments

28Dominic's Big Review of 2009

3 comments

2008

Jan

03Happy New Year!

“A slightly belated welcome to 2008 SexFest 08 was a great success, packed with people ...”
1 comments

04Group blog

“For the first and only time in my life, I have been ordered to blog ...”
2 comments

09The Kite Runner

1 comments

13Returning to Cambridge (and SexFest banners!)

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15Always good to see Joe in high spirits 😛

9 comments

19Grandad

5 comments

23Back in class!

“We had our first Themes and Sources class today, mine on Utopian Writing. And do ...”
2 comments

24Sophie's Supermarket Sweep

“Don't stress, she is actually hungry for online fame (Afterwards, we made up and recorded ...”
10 comments

27Rewriting the Mail

“Sometimes, just sometimes, the Daily Mail (or the Mail on Sunday, which pompous Hitchens should ...”
8 comments

Feb

01Christian Vice

“Stephen Green is a very hard man to character assassinate: merely opening his mouth is ...”
2 comments

05Yesterday, today and tomorrow (and ever onward)

“This post, with the aid of the simple functional device of moving from the past ...”
5 comments

07I do beat myself up sometimes...

19 comments

09Rowan Williams

“I don't think Rowan Williams should resign as Archbishop of Canterbury. He is certainly a ...”
3 comments

11Waxing lyrical

“In the interests of a nice random post to celebrate the completion of another weekly ...”
5 comments

16This week, in comic form

5 comments

24Ur... hands up, baby, hands up?

“Greetings, reader or three! Apologies for my absence, but this week I've been fighting on ...”
8 comments

Mar

04Blogage Backlogage

“The title of this post was developed in conjunction with Sophie Rodger, who's hip to ...”
9 comments

10(All property is theft, anyway)

8 comments

15Like what you've done with the place, London

4 comments

18London calling!

“Sorry Abbi, but I'm going to have to pre-empt your feature on the London Mayoral ...”
5 comments

20Talented

3 comments

23Straight Facts About Sex And Birth Control

7 comments

Apr

01"Lucky Bounce"

2 comments

05Optimism

“Facebook recently threw open the floodgates for the 'political views' listing, which had hitherto been ...”
5 comments

08Abbi's Dinner Party

6 comments

10Geek Days Out

“I think my mother and I have a proud history when it comes to geek ...”

18This is dominicself.co.uk. Haha!

“No no, I haven't abandoned my blog! In fact, here's a major marketing push... Now that ...”
5 comments

19[popular search engine] Quiz

“This post was nicked from Lucy and her swish new blog , and has been ...”
3 comments

19Dalek cookies, slightly charred

5 comments

21Peterhouse Politics Blog: Shared Spaces

“ There was a certain irony in the fact that the Archbishop of Canterbury’s poorly thought ...”

21Voting!

“First things first: I thought my mock exam this morning was as amusing poor as ...”
2 comments

23Punting (photo gallery)

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27Fourplay

“'Energetic' and 'imaginative' best describe the 4-year-old. Often impatient and silly, they discover humour and ...”
3 comments

May

01Time's up

“As this post publishes the polls in the London mayoral elections will have just closed, ...”
8 comments

03Gutting

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11Summer Workin'

“Aha, the sun is gloriously wonderful isn't it? I mean, I know I go on ...”
4 comments

15A complaint!

“Right, this needs to be blogged: Sainsbury's have a serious attitude problem when it comes ...”
10 comments

20A night of decadence

3 comments

22Five bad things of today

“(...and what the silver linings are.) 1. My essay was poorly written which never really got ...”
2 comments

23Peterhouse Politics Blog: Standards, Not Structures

“ When New Labour came to power in 1997, they had a handy slogan for their ...”

30I wonder - how important are blog titles for readership rates?

“I hold, in my hands, an exam paper. My exam paper. OK, so it isn't ...”
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Jun

08A blog post which finally ends up retelling a trivial event in great detail

“At this exact moment in time I feel slightly off: not, you may argue, the ...”
1 comments

14Garden Parrrrtay!

5 comments

19Wow. Seriously, wow. May Ball!

9 comments

20Overwhelmed

1 comments

27Soaking up the serotonin

“My Grand Tour of British Rail 'National Rail' stations has seemingly been resumed for the ...”
4 comments

30Summer in the city (and the very-clearly-not-city)

1 comments

Jul

07These are a few of my favourite things...

“This wasn't intentional, but I don't think I've blogged since my dad added me to ...”
2 comments

11Live travel news

3 comments

15The Forbidden Kingdom: A Commentary

“Lucy's been over for the past few days, so we've been around London playing our ...”
2 comments

16Sad things

3 comments

22"Cause it seems to me \ some kind of harmony \ is on the rise..."

26A series of unfortunate events

“So I woke up today at 9.18, exactly. Well, if we're being truthful this was ...”
3 comments

31Dovidenja!

“Right, I'm off! As of tomorrow morning I'll be on holiday for two weeks in ...”
9 comments

Aug

07A holiday snippet

“So, we sit. The Self family sit on the hotel balcony overlooking the sea. Each ...”
1 comments

16Croatian Diaries

1 comments

17It's all macaroni

1 comments

23I've got a tattoo!

“I'm annoyed with the Tories. It's coming in waves at the moment: some days I ...”
7 comments

31Pub crawl?

“I'm not sure that last night really qualifies as a pub crawl seeing as there ...”
1 comments

Sep

03On my mind

“Things I've watched: Mamma Mia, again, although this time with sing-a-long subtitles that almost no-one ...”
1 comments

04Boris by numbers

4 comments

10Dinner party!

2 comments

12On some more dinner party photos (and the Holocaust)

4 comments

20Accomplishments

“"Ah - this isn't a good feeling. I have a week before I go back ...”
2 comments

22Geek moment of the day

“"The argument was whether you are a body or have a body..." "And you said you ...”
2 comments

23My god of science!

3 comments

25Die Welle

2 comments

Oct

04A dispatch from the front

“Greetings! I am composing this blog entry late on Friday night (in sexy Notepad no less) ...”

10My room(s)

5 comments

13Ah, oh dear. A post that ended up rather longer than it should have done.

“Ooh, I love lectures at the moment. Many historians aren't so fond of attending, and ...”
9 comments

18A wordle!

2 comments

19OK, just one more wordle

1 comments

21On the saeculum

11 comments

26Ready Brek!

“Mmm, the oaty taste of childhood... I've been ill you see - ill from the deadly ...”
1 comments

27And this is why Book Club can't do toasts

4 comments

31The hunt for Eudaimonia!

4 comments

Nov

02Interconnectedness

05OBAMA

“Woohoo! What follows is a quick-and-nasty compilation of our election night. Ah, so very happy... ”
2 comments

07The Blog Writer's Tale

6 comments

11I'm gonna dance like nobody's watching

8 comments

17The Discovery

4 comments

21Reindeer Post!

5 comments

29We are all made of stars

7 comments

30Visual Cultures

2 comments

Dec

01Belonging

“Spookily, the BBC have done a big feature on 'community' a day or so after ...”
7 comments

07Questions, answers, fetishes

5 comments

12Your analysis of my character was inescapably flawed

“Flashback Prompt: Abbi's post, obviously. Characters: John Smith and Adeline Worsley Timeline: 1870 Author's comments: When you have lots ...”
2 comments

16Blogging in quickstep

3 comments

22Three days, three plays and one giant party

3 comments

30Dominic's Big Review of 2008

4 comments

2007

University

Jan

02Hiya 2007

3 comments

03Media management sucks

“Seriously, I don't know how Nic does it. It's really hard! However, since this blog ...”
12 comments

05Fun Spam

“Recently there's been a noticeable increase in the number of spam e-mails received, not just ...”
10 comments

14On phones, Ohio, Waseley, swimming and skiing

1 comments

19Also reflective

“There's nothing like reading a friend's blog post entitled Reflections to put you into a ...”
3 comments

22Kill the creeps... and 'condoms!'

4 comments

25Quick question on arguments

“I'll try and blog properly later but for now I just wanted to throw ...”
7 comments

Feb

06Long overdue

5 comments

11Diary of a hard-working student

“My Physics lesson seems to be experiencing a bit of a boom time at the ...”
6 comments

14Communist Cake!

1 comments

20Ventriloquism, Bandstands and Congestion Charging

11 comments

26"My Half Term", by Dominic, aged 17

“Agh where has it all gone?! Half term is over and I really need ...”
8 comments

Mar

07Website testing

“A really interesting part of my day today was helping to test a new website ...”
8 comments

08Exam results! Brownies! Exam results! Tea!

“Today I got exam results: a C - 56/90 - in Physics and an A ...”
4 comments

08Right wing macho geek?

“This evening I attended a Socialist Worker's Party public meeting. Future employers, upholders of the ...”
4 comments

15We apologise for the delay in service

6 comments

18Morphing: my beloved new toy

5 comments

25One more week

“And then it's the Easter holidays which I'm really looking forward to. Firstly as ...”
4 comments

29Quick post, quick post...

“I've practically lost my voice Buttt... I've just printed final copies of my English and ...”
3 comments

Apr

01I'm in a rather wonderful mood 😀

“And have been since Saturday. It's just the feeling of waking up on Saturday and ...”
2 comments

06"I do watch my sugar intake; I watch it as I'm eating it"

“Henceforth, this shall be my new motto! Yes, one of the many delights of having ...”
5 comments

09Illustrative addendum

5 comments

11Glimpses from a surreal day

4 comments

16World Exclusive: Dominic's relationship with lie-in 'to come to an end'

“"Over the past week I've meet up with all four of my Holy Quadrinity (look, ...”
3 comments

21I wasn't going to post this...

“... I swear, cross my heart and hope to die. But then I did it ...”
4 comments

22Yo peeps

“I hope you're as excited as I am to introduce this blog's new name - ...”
2 comments

24There you go, all back to normal

9 comments

30I am three!

“Well, this blog was three on Friday. And because I believe strongly in doing research ...”
3 comments

May

01Ten Years of Blair (and some Telegraph poking)

4 comments

06Just in time!

“Just showing off now and blogging from a train which I literally sprinted down the ...”
3 comments

08Rather unoriginal

“I thought I'd sum up my thought process over the last hour, as I've sat ...”
3 comments

12It'd be a dull world if we thought before we spoke

“It's Eurovision tonight, and on the BBC News website readers were debating the tricky problem ...”
3 comments

16Grammar schools

“The Tories are finally abandoning their symbolic commitment to grammar schools, of which there are ...”
2 comments

17The News Quiz

“After Emily's dad accidentally booked too many tickets, and then Emily passed the spare tickets ...”
3 comments

20Teetering at the precipice of goodbye

“ Tomorrow, I have my Physics Practical Exam. Readers with long memories may recall an occasional ...”
2 comments

20Desktop Background

3 comments

21Danger! High Voltage!

“The soundtrack for this post is provided by Electric Six I am beginning to form a ...”
8 comments

24Stop Scientology becoming a religion

“Via Digg onward to the online petition to stop the 'Church' of Scientology becoming an ...”

28A most unexpected Bullring blogging

“Yo peeps! I'm in the middle of coming back from Blackpool (more about that later, of ...”
1 comments

30Blackpoolorama!

3 comments

31I just met the Demon Headmaster

13 comments

Jun

05Parallel Universe

7 comments

07My last day

“Tomorrow, Friday 8th June, is my last day at school. Sure, I've got exams from 11st ...”
4 comments

08Leaving photos - now up!

“Please do check out my beautiful album of leaving photos - available online now! And don't ...”
3 comments

08Breaktime Gang: the leaving video

“As promised: (Don't forget to check out the leaving photos and leave any comments here!)”
5 comments

11I don't promise to do this every time...

1 comments

12Categorising blogs

“Accepted Joshua's invitation to go and see The Marcus Brigstocke Interview It's Later Than You ...”
1 comments

13Happy Birthday Robert

1 comments

14You know you want it, you know you crave it...

3 comments

17Accidents

“This week brought one of those moments which makes you stop and think for a ...”

18Submit yourself to your one true master...

19To be, or not to be?

20Big Birthday Blog

14 comments

21Free at last?

2 comments

24Literary High Tea

1 comments

27Ooh, it's a new era!

“C'mon, I have to blog about this. We have a new Prime Minister! I was ...”
7 comments

Jul

05Odds and ends

“I had a dream last night. In my dream, Bart Simpson was trying to find ...”
1 comments

07Hacking Dell MediaDirect

5 comments

13Quick! Post!

“A quick post - it's been too long - to announce some things. In a ...”
4 comments

16Chesham is...

2 comments

20Bit of a disengagement coming

“First of all, a big welcome to the summer holidays to everyone ending term today! ...”
1 comments

27UCL Summer School and Harry Potter

2 comments

30The Simpsons Movie

3 comments

Aug

03I never thought London was hot...

“...I mean, it's not, is it? Travelling to Birmingham has taught me that, actually, London ...”

05Dispatches from the Welsh beach

3 comments

08Promotional feature

13I <3 Wales

2 comments

14Revamp? Nah, refresh. Now with added orange!

“Originally, I had planned to fully redo this site over the summer. Start from scratch, ...”

15Waiting

“If you want real pressure, of course, fast-forward two years time. I'd like to do ...”
3 comments

16Edexcel exam results

“OK, so I couldn't resist getting up at 6 for when the website opened ...”

16Breaking News: I'm in!

“Went to school. No results yet. Went to the park to enjoy the sun. Got ...”
22 comments

20On results, Brighton and (other people's) making of brownies

1 comments

27Cambridge Goodies

4 comments

31Tricks of the Mind

“Finally got round to reading Derren Brown's Tricks of the Mind. Despite his recent TV ...”
3 comments

Sep

07My first gig

2 comments

17Back from Russia!

“It's high time to blog about my holiday in Russia, I think! Most of you ...”

18Freshers' Party

“Just back from a Cambridge party for London-based freshers (St. Mark's Church, Old Marylebone Road) ...”
1 comments

23Camden, Friends and Mango Beer

26Cleaning out

“In preparation for moving out, I'm going through the stacks and stacks of paper which ...”

29My last night at home

“For a while, at least Yes dear long-suffering blog attendees, tomorrow morning I'm off to ...”

Oct

02So Stephen Hawking came to dinner tonight...

3 comments

04Quick update

3 comments

07The other side of student life

6 comments

08'A mildly centripetal agglutination of bewilderingly heterogeneous elements'

6 comments

11Cutting it fine

“Wow... is it a measure of incredible incompetence that I managed to wake up 8.53 for ...”
4 comments

15Ah, Monday afternoons

“The one breathing space in the week - between handing in my weekly essay and ...”

15BBC News seems to have a quota

“Requiring the publication of a certain number of highly amusing quotes in one day: The ...”

20Matriculation Dinner!

4 comments

24I do rather like the slogan of the Computer Office

1 comments

27Cameron's shallow target talk

“I just wanted to give a quick demonstration of the utterly facile nature of the ...”
1 comments

29Avoiding a Conservative England

“I was very struck by Nick Robinson's post on the 'English votes for English matters' ...”

Nov

03This week...

“ Lucy came to see me for a few hours in a surprise visit! ...”
4 comments

08On Lord Levy and salt

3 comments

09Enterprise Skillz

10 comments

15On Martin Bell, schools and people

“The 'anti-sleaze' man - a fitting follow-up to Lord Levy, perhaps? In my continuing mission ...”

18Dreaming of God and fire

“Well well, if that dramatic title doesn't draw you in I really am at a ...”
11 comments

20'Fraud, suicide, bankruptcy and transportation for life'

26The end of the beginning!

“Almost done! Just need to print out my 8th and final weekly essay and hand ...”

26That Oxford Union debate

“I have to say I think I felt justifiably proud of being at the Cambridge ...”
5 comments

29See, I have learnt something!

1 comments

30Comprehensive Debate

“I wasn't go to go to the debate tonight - 'This House Believes that the ...”

Dec

02Priorities

“Oh, Sudan! What kind of society places so much importance on the name of a teddy ...”
2 comments

12Where I've Been (and stuff)

2 comments

15All of the beautiful colours are very, very meaningful

6 comments

16Feed Mix

“I'm trialling out a new feature for this blog's sidebar: the Feed Mix. The idea ...”
1 comments

20A Voight-Kampf test: read this post, show emotion

“The universe was pleasingly joined-up this week. OK, as an opening line to a blog ...”
3 comments

28Happy Holidays

“Just a quick post to say Merry Christmas for that which has just been, and ...”
2 comments

29Dominic's Big Review of 2007

6 comments

2006

Jan

01Welcome to 2006

“Happy New Year, and welcome to 2006. On the recently relaunched RV:Blog (which I insist ...”
4 comments

01Thanks Nathan

3 comments

02I got Windows Live Mail

“And I'm not even a regular Hotmail user (People who know me on MSN ...”
9 comments

03Getting back into the groove

“It turned out to be a bit of a blessing in disguise, having an English ...”
8 comments

05Is Politics dead?

“My Maths teacher wondered that today. David Cameron is working fast to ditch decades of ...”
4 comments

07Locked in the park

“Well this was interesting. My dad and I were walking through Roundwood Park - as ...”
6 comments

11Holy Smokes

“So there will be a free vote on the issue of a smoking ban. And ...”
2 comments

14ICT Exam

“On Friday I was probably the most relaxed I will ever be for an examination ...”
2 comments

16Unexpected delivery!

1 comments

17One down...

“Did English exam this morning. As usual, I'm pretty bad about judging how an exam ...”
4 comments

17...Ooh fuck

“Just to complete today's exam story - Physics went badly! I'm confident I'll have to ...”
8 comments

20Quick and easy day

“Due to various teachers being ill or skiing (or possibly a combination of both) I ...”
2 comments

21Futurama returns!

6 comments

23The Claws of Ms Axon

“I'm obviously delighted and very relieved that Sue Axon today lost her case to force ...”
3 comments

27Too arty?

“For the record, the current homepage was inspired by the Daily Show's Blurry Photos of ...”
7 comments

28Cambridge Shadowing Scheme

“Woot! I just got a place on the scheme which means I'll get to ...”
2 comments

Feb

01IE 7 Beta 2 Preview

“Grabbed the latest IE 7 Beta from Microsoft today to try out the long-awaited version ...”
8 comments

03New York! Hurrah!

16 comments

12Awesome

14 comments

13Posting from the Apple Store

“Well, it seems to be a Babble tradition that has carried on into RV:Blog so ...”
3 comments

13Daylight Atheism

“A little while ago I stumbled across Ebon Musings. It's a very well argued Atheist ...”

16Busy having fun and doing things

“Well it's true. On Valentine's Day I went to see Munich, which is hardly the ...”
8 comments

19I went to Cambridge you know

“OK wow, yes, I think I want to go to Cambridge now The shadowing scheme ...”
3 comments

19Yay for ego

“Somehow, I managed to forget what was clearly the most important item of the day ...”
2 comments

19Black and White Sextet

“For anyone studying a Shakespeare play, I always recommend you go and see a stage ...”

22Punting Photo

8 comments

2478% like short shorts

“That's according to my break time survey today. I have been doing proper work otherwise, ...”
3 comments

24Come Back Ken

“Ken Livingstone suspended for four weeks. Oi! Give us back our mayor! I'm really quite angry about ...”
2 comments

27Good Night, And Good Luck

“Saw this George Clooney film at the Tricycle Cinema on Saturday night. It's about the ...”
6 comments

Mar

01RIP Linda Smith

3 comments

03Tom Cat

“ When I was about one year old, Tom Cat came into our garden. He was ...”
11 comments

04Daily Mail embarrass themselves

5 comments

10Bad Week

“I'm not a big fan of misery and despair so will try to keep this ...”
3 comments

10YES!

“Woo yay houpla - got an A in English. 90/90. Full marks. Which means I'll ...”
10 comments

13I'm alive! And also, NHS independence again...

“Yes I am alive, but aside from that all I wanted to point out was ...”
3 comments

17Happy St. Patrick's Day all

2 comments

18London Adventure

11 comments

20Much Hilarity

“Today was a rather amusing day on several counts aside from being March 20th ...”
4 comments

22All your Rummikub are belong to us

16 comments

26Oxford, buffets, work, Easter, IE, Mother's Day...

“Yesterday (back when we were sensibly using GMT instead of this BST nonsense - have ...”
13 comments

29Oh, the symbolism

“Today (well, yesterday) was our wonderful Physics lectures trip to prepare for upcoming exams. An ...”
2 comments

Apr

01Holidays

“Well Easter holidays start today, April 1st, for me at least. (And no - nothing ...”
7 comments

01Quote of the Day launches

“Welcome to Quote of the Day, your daily morsel of the world. Each morning at 9am ...”
1 comments

03Failure to grasp what rationing actually means

“A letter from 900 NHS doctors to the Prime Minister today makes the case for ...”
2 comments

05Dammit George

1 comments

06Have I Got News For Two

“I'm going to see Have I Got News For You! Twice! After Joshua and I mounted ...”
6 comments

10Eurovision

2 comments

13Backup, Backup, Backup

“I'm pleased to say that we finally have a comprehensive backup system for our home ...”
9 comments

15Agh Busy!

4 comments

17Just the way I work

“Last night I went to bed at around 2am, which is pretty much usual for ...”
2 comments

19Blogging about blogging (and promotional guff)

“News just in: they teach blogging in schools now! Wow Well apparently they do ...”
7 comments

20The People's Petition

“The People's Petition This is something I feel strongly about. Medical research is at the cornerstone ...”
7 comments

22Hmpf - most offensive spam ever

“Would you like our UK based graphic designers to make your website look more professional ...”
3 comments

25A week with the end in sight

“Thanks to various INSET \ Bank Holiday fun, there's a four day weekend coming up. ...”
5 comments

27Happy birthday blog!

8 comments

28Pipette News*

9 comments

May

01Who is Dominic?

7 comments

02Dying

“Physics Practical. You take a little bit of Physics, stamp on it with studded boots ...”
6 comments

05Dominic versus 'plant sperm'

“As Fabio would call my hay fever, which has returned with a vengeance after seemingly ...”
2 comments

07Geeks

“Special Update: Good luck with SATs, Year Sixers! One of the most interesting piece of feedback ...”
4 comments

09Command Line

4 comments

12Right to Die, Part II

“The (unelected) House of Lords today blocked a bill to allow terminally ill patients the ...”
4 comments

15Tunnel Visioned

“Tunnel visioned, that's me. I have Physics Practical tomorrow morning. As you can tell I'm ...”
2 comments

16Phew! (Measured in relief/second^2)

“Sorry to build up into a disappointing climax, but Physics Practical went really quite well ...”
2 comments

21Bits and Pieces

“Lovelydarlings! That's a LucyPhrase (TM) for Lucy who complains at a paucity of shout-outs. I ...”
1 comments

22Maths, about the same running time as a LOTR film

“There's not much to report about my Maths exam this morning. It went reasonably well, ...”
1 comments

26AQA, you make me sigh

“English Literature exam today, on Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance and Carol Ann ...”
4 comments

28The Da Vinci Code

6 comments

30Well, I have a 14 year old sister now

5 comments

Jun

03Paris Paparazzi Pics

17 comments

06Maths AS... check

“Just finished a Mechanics exam which (barring any retakes) wraps up Maths AS. I have ...”
1 comments

07His Story

09Ach, it's over now

“The good news: AS exams are now over and I have a week off The ...”
4 comments

13I have just admitted defeat

“For many months, I have taken particular issue with people using the phrase 'over exaggerate'. ...”
11 comments

15Bring it on?

“54% of the top 100 newspaper editors, columnists, broadcasters and executives were educated privately, despite ...”
10 comments

16I Love Lucy

“No not the 1950s TV show... just thought I should fill my loyal blog readers ...”
4 comments

17More on homophobia

“The Church of England wants all faith schools exempted from a planned ban on discrimination ...”
3 comments

19Yay, Seventeen

“Happy Birthday Me I'm still tired after RaVe on Saturday at Nic's house - a ...”
12 comments

22| Blog Post |

“As I just finished my first A2 Maths homework about the modulus function, I felt ...”
6 comments

24E-mail verification really is a good idea

5 comments

27Tony Benn

6 comments

29SATs Congrats

“Very well done to my sisters Katie and Natasha for their fantastic SATs results so ...”
4 comments

30Updated pages? There must be a Nic about...

“As usual when nicparkes.com begins to roar into life again, I get the sudden urge ...”
7 comments

Jul

06Ooh tired

1 comments

06I want this CD

7 comments

10Kid Power

“I picked up an inflatable hammer from the school's summer fair on Saturday (lucky dip) ...”
3 comments

12Dominic, you're getting old

“I had walked most of the way home today when I stopped. Babble CDs playing ...”
6 comments

13Schools muddled about technology? Never!

“We've had months of headlines about the dangers of MySpace, Bebo and the other social ...”
4 comments

18Happy Birthday KaTwee*!

“*(That's Katie, for those not in the know) Yes, it's past midnight and I shouldn't be ...”
7 comments

20Borrowed Formatting

“I have so totally decided to steal someone else's style of formatting text because it's ...”
3 comments

21No no no!

4 comments

26Where have I been?

“Working, that's where, at the Queens Park \ UCL Summer School for Year 6s and ...”
6 comments

31Sunday Sunday

“Given that Lucy claimed to be disorganised and dislike surprises, it was only right for ...”
12 comments

Aug

01Recognising RV (and that Galloway tale)

“Just a heads-up that journalism.co.uk is running a feature on Rubery Village and Nic certainly ...”
2 comments

02New phone

“Just playing about with my new phone gifted from my aunt. Love the e-mail features ...”
3 comments

06All macho, all the time

4 comments

11Bit quiet around here isn't it?

“Sorry for not saying much recently, I'm just relaxing in holiday mode so it's the ...”
4 comments

16Dear blog,

“ On Saturday I travelled up to Birmingham - walked quickly through an anti-war demo keeping ...”
1 comments

17Results - live!

“4 As. Um... How the hell did that happen? love you all Posted via ...”
9 comments

18A little more on results

“For fans of over-wrought analysis, here are my full results. A bit of explanation: the ...”
2 comments

21The girls are back in town!

4 comments

21Blogging from the Bullring

“Because it's the Apple store and a long-standing tradition. Observation of the Day: It really is ...”
7 comments

25GCSE results - was it really a whole year ago?

“Wow, so it was. Mega congratulations to everyone who triumphed in their exams this summer ...”
3 comments

31A burst of blogging energy

“Strange. I blog more in the busy term time than during the long summer holiday. ...”
6 comments

Sep

05The 39 Steps

06London Overground

4 comments

10The Dom is back

“I put 'The Dom is back' in my screenname the other day and too many ...”
12 comments

1310 Statements

“Let's shamelessly copy Josie, Lucy and Andy and play this game: "Write 10 statements about people ...”
2 comments

1717th September, that date I didn't forget

“I'm taking a quick break from my unfairly gigantic Maths homework (it's not difficult, just ...”
2 comments

21Those who can, teach

“You like grief, I like grief, and no one does grief like... Mr. Godleman? Possibly. Anyway, ...”
3 comments

23Consultant's fee please!

“For the record, I just want to document my ongoing and repeated insistence that we'd ...”
3 comments

26Ricky's cry for help

24 comments

29Woo yay houpla!

4 comments

Oct

05Democracy, the way to go

“To those who doubt the awesome power of democracy to fully express the will of ...”
2 comments

10Wow. University! Wow.

“I've just finished my application (well, almost, have to hand in a £10 cheque tomorrow ...”
10 comments

15Lots to do, lots to do, let's blog about it

“Ooh it's one of those days where we've got PC5 blue-screening on one side, the ...”
2 comments

16Confused

“Appearing in my inbox today: Young Dominic u maybe wise amongst your years but i doubt ...”
3 comments

18An (incomplete!) list of Dominic... things

“I have decided, on an unusually light homework night, to compose a thoroughly incomplete list ...”
4 comments

21There is a cinema near me.

6 comments

24IE7, Half Term, Stealth, Chairs, Unis, Hot Chocolate...

3 comments

Nov

02An update on the Great Uni Race 06

“Where we left off, Manchester had come in first with an early conditional offer of ...”
1 comments

09Blogs weren't made to be neglected

1 comments

12My my my...

“Certainly a whirlwind few days... starting with Friday, my 'fake Cambridge interview' day. Robert, Promise ...”
1 comments

19Ooh, suit you! (Dorset)

6 comments

23Education for education's sake

“If you nosed around my school asking people why exactly they had turned up that ...”
6 comments

27Starlight Express and Casino Royale

“On Saturday the final stage of the grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary rolled out (yes OK, ...”
6 comments

Dec

01A selection of items from my room

10 comments

08Tornado!

5 comments

12I'm sure there was something I was meant to blog about...

“Hmm... let's see - oh yus, Cambridge interviews The answer to 'so how did they ...”
7 comments

17Ooh suddenly in a Christmassy mood!

“Merry Christmas, faithful blog readers and casual observers alike! Although we annoyingly have one and ...”
6 comments

20The Twelve Days of Christmas

“On the first day of Christmas, my life presented to me A broadband upgrade offer from ...”
5 comments

24Triumph!

5 comments

29Dominic's Big Review of 2006

9 comments

2005

Jan

01Happy New Year

“Well, welcome to 2005. It's going to be a pretty important year for me (yeah, ...”
2 comments

02Wireless Network Weirdness

“This afternoon, rather unhelpfully, my wireless connection suddenly died. No amount of rebooting, either of ...”

06Stuff that happened, like, today

“- Joshua lent me the fantastic Animals DVD, Ricky Gervais' first stand up show. It's ...”

07Emotional Blackmail

“ Our form tutor has some very finely honed skills in the field of emotional blackmail. ...”

10Jerry Springer : The Opera

“No, I didn't watch it. I was too busy working on Spotlight Cinema. But I ...”

10Invisible Word Counts

“I was told today that I write as I speak. Not sure if it ...”

11I wore this over my uniform today

7 comments

13Harry the Nazi

“Oh, how could I not post about this! The thing that gets me, and I ...”
4 comments

15Media Bullet closes

1 comments

15If Dell Sold Religion

“*New page alert!* Check out my new little work of art, If Dell Sold Religion. I ...”
6 comments

15At last!

“ Creationists lose round in textbook sticker fight the school board has been ordered to remove ...”
1 comments

17Tired, stressed and with a headache

“That's how I went to school today. I've realised that it's the only way to ...”
1 comments

19Toy Story 3

“Disney are pathetic. Making Toy Story 3 on their own proves they have ZERO creative ...”
6 comments

22Desperate Housewives

“Over the past few days I've seen the first 3 episodes.... backwards. And - it's ...”
4 comments

24I can breathe!

“Today was supposed to be the most depressing day of the year, and it certainly ...”

26Oh Glorious INSET

“Where I did precisely - no work. To be followed tomorrow by 'Enterprise Day' and ...”
2 comments

29Neomail, Horde or Squirrelmail?

“My web host (Me2uWeb) is on a bit of a roll recently. They've just upgraded ...”
5 comments

30The truth about private schools

“Great article in The Observer today about plans to mix state and private schools in ...”
10 comments

31US version of 'The Office'

“ NBC released a preview video today of the US remake of 'The Office'. You ...”

Feb

03Who's up for a voluntary Maths test?

“I am, apparently (UK Maths Challenge). But only so I can beat Hiten (oooh - ...”

04Spelling

“Today I decided, in a mad fit of boredom that probably indicates some form of ...”
5 comments

05Tory Posters

“Nic has discovered a wonderful thing about these new Conservative posters - they're incredibly easy ...”
8 comments

09Storm clouds gathering

“ The threat of climate change is serious, and there's no going back. Tony Blair has declared ...”

09Stat-bloody-istics

“Is now finished. Again. I've chosen an appropriate slogan for it as well: Unitam logica ...”
3 comments

10Yeeeeeeeeeeeeees! 2MB here we come!

“BT Broadband to increase to 2MB at no extra cost. This is exactly the kind of ...”
2 comments

11Road Run Update

“I did it in 11 minutes 3 seconds today. On my own as well, though ...”

11Jamster - Guess who owns them?

“Jamster, the incredibly annoying company that advertises that stupid 'Crazy Frog' every 2 minutes on ...”
55 comments

14My geography is crap

“It really is. My mental map consists of 'Me' and everywhere else as 'Other Places'. ...”
7 comments

15It's official - Internet Explorer 7

“IE7 is coming. This is fantastic news. If Microsoft deliver, and that's a big if, I ...”
12 comments

16Reforming Royalty

“ Strangely, I couldn't care less about Prince Charles' marriage. If we insist on keeping the ...”
4 comments

17IE7 Laundry List

“At time of writing, there are 644 comments on the announcement of IE7. It was ...”
9 comments

18I passed!

“YES! Passed my 70-270 exam today to become an MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional. My score ...”
12 comments

18An independent NHS

“OK, so how's this for an idea. Why don't we break the entire NHS off ...”
10 comments

21Back to School

“And it's a bit frustrating, because there's loads of stuff I'd like to blog about ...”
2 comments

22Snow...

“...is not actually that exciting if you think about it. Sure, it's better than rain, ...”
9 comments

23Ken's right...

“ His comments may have been stupid and insensitive, but Ken Livingstone is right about the ...”
5 comments

25Yay! Minimum Wage!

“It may be a cynical electioneering ploy to distract us all from Iraq and the ...”
10 comments

26Security for Everyone? Plus - Jason!

21 comments

28House Arrest

“From BBC News: The government says it will allow judges, not politicians, to decide on ...”
6 comments

Mar

02Executing Children

“I should have mentioned this yesterday, but in a welcome piece of good news from ...”
1 comments

02Terrorist Threat

“ Just how big is the threat to our country, and does it justify the erosion ...”
3 comments

04Quick round up of the week

“- No maths teacher (he's been off skiing) means no work has been done, instead ...”
2 comments

06Woohoooooo!

“I'm in a really great mood, and so I thought I'd completely rip off Nathan's ...”
6 comments

08Busy busy busy

“You know that feeling when suddenly you've got piles of work to do? I swear, ...”
4 comments

10Stick to the policies

“ Using individual cases in election campaigns is cowardly - let's have a proper debate on ...”

13Brainwashing in action

“Going through a two-hour mental endurance test, I went to the Hillsong Church in London ...”
55 comments

15How often do you hear this?

“"It astonishes and worries me that so many people believe these lies. The book is ...”
2 comments

16Oh look, a letter about a letter

9 comments

18Doctor Who

“I'm running out of ways to get more excited about Rose (26th March - 7pm ...”
1 comments

20Neat trick for QuickTime

“Just discovered this method today for getting rid of the stupid QuickTime nag screen where ...”
3 comments

21MuVo is dead, long live MuVo!

“My beloved Creative MuVo MP3 player has finally packed it in. As always it did ...”
5 comments

23Right to Die

“ Note: It is incorrect to state that George Bush did not veto a single execution ...”
7 comments

24Secrets of management success #735 - Don't bite your staff

6 comments

25Dirty Limerick

“There once was a Tory named Flight Who let slip the cuts in sight Howard got mad But ...”
5 comments

25Emoticons are here

“Emoticons \ smilies \ whatever you call them are now available to be used in ...”
7 comments

26Wow!

“That was utterly fantastic... they've completely nailed Doctor Who for 2005. Yes, the plot was ...”
7 comments

27Looks like we weren't the only family watching...!

10 comments

28Windows XP Home Edition... N

“That's the final name for Microsoft's EU-enforced Media Player-less operating system that no one will ...”
6 comments

30Is TV dead?

“ What is the role of television today and in the years to come? The future ...”
5 comments

30Gravatars!

“Now here's a feature for this blog that I'm not pinching off Babbleblog - Gravatars! Read ...”
11 comments

31Don't Panic!

“It's typical of fans that Outpost Gallifrey stays online when Doctor Who was announced as ...”
9 comments

Apr

02Blogging while tired equals...

“Went to Suffolk. Had lasagne and chips for lunch. Visited grandparents. Took lots of photos ...”
4 comments

04Pope John Paul II - A tribute

“The world has lost a religious leader who was revered across people of all faiths ...”
7 comments

06Vote 2005

“ This election campaign is officially underway at last, and it promises to be the most ...”
2 comments

07Another blog - this time with fights!

“I've joined Election 2005 - from the people that brought you Babbleblog - and will ...”
15 comments

10Back to School (but not for long)

“There isn't much to say really, and I wouldn't want to turn this into yet ...”
2 comments

13Really NOT funny

“So a fox dies and starts rotting underneath the school. Everyone gets the rest of ...”
14 comments

15David Tennant IS Doctor Who (plus school stuff - sorry readers)

“Woo yay! Who's David Tennant? Ah well, Doctor #10 at least. School has been weird the ...”
3 comments

17London Marathon

5 comments

19Surprise!

12 comments

23Sniffer dogs in schools

“ Local education authorities are now being encouraged to use sniffer drugs in the fight against ...”
20 comments

25Dearth of blogging recently

19 comments

28Geeky Nightmare

“I had a really vivid dream last night - just before I woke up. I ...”
16 comments

30Kumars

7 comments

30Breaking news... 2Mb broadband

“Just noticed BT have (finally) upgraded us to delicious 2Mb broadband from 512k. Nice one! (Wow ...”
16 comments

30Wow

“The Daleks are back! Like, on TV! Finally, people will stop asking me about my ...”
29 comments

May

04Nucleus fiddling

“As Nic will know (because I've moaned about it to him many times) my biggest ...”
17 comments

06Election Reaction

“ Today is a day to celebrate. We have a third-term Labour government, something which has ...”
12 comments

08Redecorating

“My room's been completely cleared out by now, including the PC, which is why I'm ...”
9 comments

10WOW!

“Just got back from my second Hat Trick recording - Room 101. Was expecting it ...”
10 comments

13Yay! Jon Stewart to be shown on More4

“I've been watching clips of the brilliant Daily Show for ages now, but today MediaGuardian ...”
5 comments

14All hail Pingu

“Lord Pingu (long may he be blessed with igloos and things) has fixed the comment ...”
5 comments

16No more uniform!

“I just had my last day of school uniform (yay) although I suppose now I ...”
26 comments

17Last Day of School

“Well, technically. There's still the small matter of revision sessions, Spanish speaking tests (on Thursday!), ...”
8 comments

19And we're off...

“Welcome to Part 1 of my uninteresting outpouring of thoughts after a GCSE exam. Today ...”
12 comments

20Well since everyone's doing linky posts

“Here's my bundle of Internet goodies for you all: Anyone up for a game of Blogpoly? ...”
13 comments

23No man ever listened himself out of a job

“(Calvin Coolidge if you were wondering) You know you're a die-hard blogger when people at school ...”
2 comments

24There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out

“(Good old Richard Dawkins) Well, if you've ever wondered 'What is the Qur'an?' or 'Church going ...”
10 comments

25Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read

18 comments

26Woot!

“Well, that was much better than I expected. Spanish reading (the thing I really flopped ...”
5 comments

27Global warming - in theory and in practice!

“It's hot at the moment, so excuse the lack of anything remotely insightful in this ...”
8 comments

29Eeek

“Being stuck on a bus isn't fun - especially when these two really annoying girls ...”
4 comments

30I now have a teenage sister...

“Happy Birthday Tash! (Click read more to read my 'flow of conciousness' rant at iTunes - ...”
12 comments

30An iPod on the road to Damascus

“OK - this morning I was a bit grumpy and was rather unfair to Apple. ...”
18 comments

31Question and Answer

9 comments

Jun

01A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

“I'm not a big Star Wars fan (Doctor Who is enough already!) but obviously I ...”
7 comments

05RV:05

“At 9am this morning ruberyvillage.co.uk went live with a huge redesign. As Nic wrote, it ...”
8 comments

06DomSez: Road charging

“ Hi there, and welcome to the new DomSez presented with plenty of new RV orange. ...”

06Once more into the breach

“It was back today with Double Science Paper 1, co-incidentally the same one which was ...”
4 comments

07Double bill

“Today was the first (and only) day with two subjects on the same day, and ...”
8 comments

08Do you speak Micra?

2 comments

08This won't make sense to anyone outside Babble...

“...and probably not even to them either. But hey, I was bored. Enjoy.”
9 comments

09Comment Spam

“Overnight, I got 130 pieces of comment spam. Luckily, the first few started trickling in ...”
4 comments

09Hardest one yet

“The History exam was really a two-pronged attack. Firstly, the content itself is not easy ...”
4 comments

09Biggest laugh I've had all day...

“...and it came from Slashdot! In response to this Daily News story, Nerds make better ...”
17 comments

10An exam that's actually fun!?

16 comments

11FANTASTIC!

“ I'm having trouble thinking about anything other than Doctor Who tonight... how on earth am ...”
5 comments

12Captchas!

“My wonderful hosts enabled FreeType support this morning, and as a result a Captcha has ...”
12 comments

13DomSez: This page is intentionally blank

“ It shouldn't come as a surprise that I'm writing a column on exams, given that ...”

15Math

7 comments

15Doctor Who - Season 3!

“CONFIRMED! - Third season of Doctor Who commissioned. - Including another Christmas Special. - Billie Piper to feature ...”
1 comments

16All Bar One

“Is a pub chain, apparently. Anyway, I've only got one GCSE left now - History ...”
9 comments

18It's true what they say

“You may live in one of the world's famous cities, but you only really visit ...”
6 comments

19Sixteen!

“It's my second birthday on this blog, and I'll only make it slightly longer than ...”
18 comments

21DomSez: Rebate Debate

“ As my Editor will tell you, I've been trying to avoid writing about the EU ...”

21Exams Over!

“In the middle of a heatwave, my final GCSE exam, and my first GCSE exam ...”
21 comments

24I am having the greatest week

“Seriously - sleeping late, then enjoying the summer sun and paddling pool in the garden ...”
12 comments

28Progress Files

“You may have noticed I've had a few days off blogging. This is due to ...”
3 comments

29Off to Prom!

“Going to Prom. In a limo. In formal dress. With a digital camera. If you're ...”
6 comments

30As promised, Prom photos

“A bit late, because I was busy today seeing the orthodontist (no more braces at ...”
17 comments

Jul

02Round up

“It's been a bit quiet over the past few days - partly due to El ...”
9 comments

04DomSez: Summer School

“ It's a personal column this week, as I prepare for a week long summer school ...”

06Blogging from Eton

“Well, actually, no. This message has been pre-recorded in case I don't get my hands ...”
8 comments

09London Bombings

“Hi everyone - I'm back from Eton! Which I will blog about a lot later ...”
8 comments

10Eton Diary (Part 1)

4 comments

12Eton Diary (Part 2)

2 comments

12Be on your guard

“The aftermath of a tragedy always carries sick profiteers. Today comes London's vultures in the ...”
3 comments

13Flood!

8 comments

14Eton Diary (Part 3)

1 comments

14What I've been up to

11 comments

16Started reading Harry Potter

3 comments

17RIP Edward Heath

“Edward Heath was clearly someone who had to content with a lot as Prime Minister ...”
2 comments

17General ramblings

“Katie had her party in the park thing yesterday, and then had loads and loads ...”
2 comments

18DomSez: Moving On

“ It's odd - I went away for a week after complaining that "nothing much was ...”

18Finished

“Just for the record - just finished Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince. Still no ...”
9 comments

18Batman Began

“Let's get this straight. Batman Begins is a formulaic film with no shades ...”
1 comments

19Eton Diary (Part 4)

2 comments

20How to get Gravatars back

“Thanks to Elliott Back for this temporary solution while the Gravatar site has domain problems ...”
10 comments

22Windows Vista

“As babbleblog correctly reports, the next version of Windows (codenamed Longhorn) will be called Windows ...”
15 comments

24Eton Diary (Part 5)

8 comments

24Router Upgrades

“Aren't they just terrifying? You know that, if it fucks up, every PC in the ...”
2 comments

25Conservatives and Moral Values....

“ Moral values call to Tory leader Conservative traditionalists have entered the fledgling Tory leadership contest ...”
6 comments

26Faith Schools

“More politics (stop reading now Bagman) as the issue of 'faith schools' came up again. ...”
8 comments

27IE 7 Beta 1 Details

“I suggest browsing fans read this document pretty carefully. "But I love Firefox! Why do I ...”
5 comments

29Five things about the next version of dominicself.co.uk

“1. They'll be a beta test involving regular users with special logons and fancy passwords. 2. ...”
18 comments

30IE 7 - CSS - Yay yay yay!

“Everyone who builds websites... 1. STOP 2. READ THIS 3. SMILE The Internet Explorer team explain on their weblog ...”
14 comments

Aug

01The redesign has landed!

“Hello and welcome to the brand new redesign! Now, it's still in beta and there ...”
39 comments

02Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“Getting away from all the technical posts - I saw this film the other day ...”
2 comments

02Eton Diary (Part 6)

2 comments

02Geeky reading for summer

1 comments

03Edited highlights from 'God Loves You'

2 comments

04Off to Zakynthos

“By the this item is posted, I'll be off to Zakynthos until 18th August. As ...”
8 comments

08At the airport

“Hi all! I'm going to blog on holiday (how l33t) and tell you about what ...”
6 comments

15Last few days

“OK - so since I last blogged we've been turtle watching, hired a pedalo and ...”
2 comments

19Some Holiday Photos

5 comments

19To the tune of Spiderman...

“Burqa Man, Burqa Man, Does what you expect he can Working in Afghanistan An agent of ...”
3 comments

19Russell T Davies comes out of the closet

“"I'm deeply atheist. If they haven't reached that point by the Year Five Billion, then ...”
2 comments

19On the nature of patience

21Daily Telegraph article on Brent-Eton Summer School

“Telegraph article Apart from referring to "Primrose Campbell" (she won't be happy about that!) it's very ...”
2 comments

22Just upgraded Nucleus to v3.22

“Which was a bit tricky as I had to keep the hacks intact for a ...”
2 comments

22DomSez: Out-sauced

“ Excuse the pun, because the continuing dispute over Gate Gourmet's sacking of 670 staff throws ...”

22Blogging from my mobile

“If this works, it has disturbing implictions for how quickly I could post exam results!”
2 comments

22Hooray for Nucleus!

“The hack to Nucleus to get separate URL \ e-mail fields in the comment section, ...”
3 comments

23Animal rights terrorism

“BBC News: Targeted guinea pig farm closes For the sake of scientific research in this ...”
10 comments

24Trying out Google Talk

1 comments

24Tasha's blogging

“Excellent... The Life of Tasha. Check it out! 2 down, 3 to go.. ”
2 comments

24Tomorrow

“GCSE results will be available from 11am tomorrow morning from Queens Park. If things go ...”
1 comments

25Breaking news: GCSE Results

“A in Spanish, A* in everything else. More later...”
10 comments

25Results Day

“Well I was very pleased with that as I was expecting a B in ...”
9 comments

28Wind in the Worship

“Pope Ratty has been busy. Take this simple quiz to see how progressive and forward-thinking ...”
8 comments

30Technorati Testing

“I'm experimenting with Technorati. Recently I've been using it quite a bit to search for ...”
6 comments

Sep

01Cool new commenting feature

“OK - here's the deal. School starts on Wednesday 7th September. That's when I'll stop ...”
8 comments

03The first computer game I ever played...

12 comments

05DomSez: Cost of the neo-cons

“ Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster of devastating proportions - but it was made so ...”

06Sixth Form

“And so tomorrow it starts, officially. For the first time in ages I'll be going ...”
5 comments

08Sixth Form... rocks!

“OK, I don't know why I bothered with the whole 'Year 7 - 11' thing ...”
6 comments

11A moment of MSN zen from the archives

6 comments

11Queen's Park Day

“As Katie mentioned it was Queen's Park Day today - which is my annual excuse ...”
3 comments

11Quick Time 7.0.2 for Windows

“Does this bug affect everyone? Try installing said pathetic excuse for a media player, and ...”
4 comments

13Petrol

“When writing this week's (late!) DomSez, I considered doing something about petrol. The fact is, ...”
5 comments

14DomSez: And now, the next Prime Minister?

“ Is Gordon Brown a mirage in the desert? The more I hear of him the ...”

16Gordon Brown (no, not him again)

“I forgot to mention earlier, cause with all the Sixth Form stuff and homework swirling ...”
1 comments

17Just for the novelty value...

“I'm currently in the middle of a corn field on a night trek. We're slightly ...”
6 comments

18Back from Gordon Brown

“Well, that was an eventful weekend. Hopefully it will pass into legend among the rest ...”
2 comments

19Return... to the Moon!

5 comments

21Open Evening = Exhausting!

“Today was INSET - giving me the chance to (finally!) catch up on some missing ...”
9 comments

25Quiet Weekend

“First off - kudos to Pingu for his brilliant megamix tonight. Wonderful mixing and choice ...”
7 comments

26DomSez: A new model for tackling drug abuse

“ For Kate Moss at least, the penalty for allegedly snorting cocaine appears to be losing ...”

26Christopher Robin's grades went down with ALIS

“Yeah, we had an ALIS test today. (Thanks a lot, University of Durham. Don't you ...”
1 comments

27Capital City Academy

“Katie was going to Capital City Academy's Open Evening tonight and I tagged along - ...”

27Tabbed MSN

4 comments

28Kayak Capsize

“At the end of this week's Enrichement session this afternoon Rishal and I volunteered to ...”
1 comments

28Blogbot!

“Yay this is really cool... I've been using a Messenger Plus! plugin to check RSS ...”
7 comments

Oct

01Zoom Infinity

“Recently I've been doing some paid work on a website for a client - Zoom ...”
3 comments

03DomSez: Worst Episode Ever?

“ It's very late, and I have to write this article. I've searched my brains for ...”

05No kayaking this week...

“... as I had to attend an English lecture on Othello instead, and while kayaking\canoeing ...”
2 comments

06Could it be true?

“Touch wood, a force-refresh seems to be successful at bringing back Gravatars at the moment. ...”
8 comments

08Rather irrelevant

“I'm a bit of a loss as to what to say. Nearly 2000 people have ...”
3 comments

09A Clockwork Orange

8 comments

11Hey kids - here's how you're going to die!

“I have a confession to make. I don't like being horribly mutilated in a car ...”
3 comments

14DomSez: Be kind... or else

“ Unselfish deeds are all very noble, but kindness has a rather more practical quality - ...”

16Happy Birthday

2 comments

17How very exciting! Torchwood!

2 comments

21Half Term already?

“Wow, that went fast. And we've only got one more half time till the first ...”
4 comments

22Chocolate Fountain!

“I'm at a post-Bar Mitzvah party right now where there is a real, literal chocolate ...”
5 comments

24You learn something new every day

“I did not know this: Selling alcohol to someone who is drunk carries a fine of ...”
4 comments

25Ofcom: "He's right, y'know, he's right"

7 comments

26Culture Rush

1 comments

27Finally made it to the Doctor Who Exhibition

10 comments

31DomSez: Swings and roundabouts

“ History has a knack of repeating itself, and the government looks like it's locked into ...”

Nov

01Busy but happy

“That pretty sums up me at the moment. Today I gave a presentation on A ...”

02No more MSN Messenger

“Since it'll be Windows Live Messenger. Great, so instead of saying "Oh, MSN me tonight" we'll ...”
11 comments

05Stupidest quote of the day award

“From BBC News, on Coca Cola's decision to ditch certain flavours: "We are exploring ways to ...”
2 comments

07Vote Drummond!

7 comments

09No to 90 days without charge!

“So, it turns out democracy isn't so bad after all. Parliament did their job, ...”
8 comments

10Quiz Night

“Because I'm nice, I'm helping to mark the PTFA (Parents, Teachers, Friends... you get the ...”
1 comments

12Chars, taxpayer

“Wow - the PTFA Quiz Night was a lot more fun than I was expecting. ...”
2 comments

13Some brownie points to Microsoft

“You'll have heard by now of the Sony Rootkit which effectively fucked up everyone's computers ...”

16Jon Stewart Live!

1 comments

19Children in Need

7 comments

19Site Updates

“Yes, it's true, I have shamelessly stolen Alex Trafford's design for a search box. But ...”
7 comments

20The Search Engine Experiment

“Which of these search engines are the best - Google, Yahoo... or MSN? Don't answer ...”
5 comments

22Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I rounded off my extended weekend by seeing this film, and wow, Tasha actually had ...”
7 comments

26Telephonophobia

“I always wondered if I had a mild fear of telephones. Not the actual phone ...”
5 comments

27Finally got myself an Oyster Card

7 comments

Dec

02Hectic

10 comments

06Who's David?

“Awww bless! Congratulations to David Cameron, who proved that even Tories understand that after three ...”
1 comments

10Google Earth Reloaded

“Oooh - dust off your copies of Google Earth and train it on the UK ...”
9 comments

11How incredibly l33t

“Well I saw Jon Stewart live tonight at the Prince Edward Theatre. Wowness! Evening started ...”
2 comments

1417th January 2006

“We got our candidate statements of entry for the AS exams in January today, and ...”
3 comments

17Christmas!

3 comments

19Just one more (half) day to go

“I still think it was a bit stupid to have to come into school Monday ...”
6 comments

21Bad week for fundamentalists

“On Monday, the first gay weddings (OK, 'civil partnerships' - but that's not going to ...”
1 comments

23I finally won - Captain Suave!

6 comments

27Merry Christmas!

8 comments

31The History Boys

“I saw Alan Bennett's play The History Boys at the National last night. Twas exceptional ...”

2004

Started blogging

Apr

27First Post

“Well, I've finally decided to let loose my little insignificant thoughts on the world, complete ...”

28Second Post

“Well today's batch of exams were interesting... We started with a 2 hour ICT exam, and ...”

28Third Post

“Woo hoo! Just got my domain name registration letter from Nominet and printed off my ...”

29I'm Free! (Until Tuesday at least)

“Yah! Exams are over and I don't have to go back to school until Tuesday. I'd ...”

30Tonight at midnight

“The EU expands from 15 to 25 members. While some continue to insist we are ...”

30WHSmith and Royal Mail - Spot the Connection!

“Apologies if my last blog seemed rushed - that was because it was. I had ...”

30Friday Night TV

“Right, for those of you still reading (guess we're down into single figures here - ...”

May

02Things we would never know if it wasn't for television

“The following comes from a Newsnight email (not my own work!) but is very, very ...”

02Do you want the good news, or the bad news?

“The good news is that Blogger are now offering beta Gmail accounts to blogger users! The ...”

03What a depressing day

“- The sky is fixed grey - It was pouring with rain - BBC Parliament is re-running ...”

03OK, I take it back...

“It's now sunny! Behind the scenes I've just integrated my menu with this blog so it ...”

04It's an exam world

“SATs have started again, and I can't help feeling sympathetic to the Year 9s, considering ...”

04BBCi on the web gets a new name!

“I wonder how much some marketing person was paid to come up with the amazing ...”

04Guess who's going to Windsor tomorrow?

“That's right... me. Wow. All hail Humanities trips. Dunno why I'm posting this really. Ah well, ...”

05Hey, it wasn't that bad

“Windsor was better than I thought. Luckily the Union Jack on Underpants rubbish seems to ...”

05Rival blog stirs fear and panic

“Nathan has landed.”

06Last Ever Simpsons on BBC2

“Advance warning - you can see it tomorrow at 6pm. After that the only place ...”

07It's the weekend! (yet again)

“Well despite the fact I've only had 3 days of 'school' this week, and despite ...”

07It's over

“Well, the glorious run of advert free Simpsons on BBC 2 is over. 'Behind the ...”

07HIGNFY

“Best-TV-Show-Ever OK, I'll come clean, this blog just got wiped (agh!) so I'm having to retype ...”

08New blog banner

“Well, it's been there for several hours but I've finally found a nice, free program ...”

08Oh - my - god

“I thought I'd seen it all in US broadcasting. But now a 'journalist' (I'd print ...”

09It gets worse

“Following on from yesterday (which Nathan is rightly outraged by) Rush Limbaugh does not apologise. ...”

10Ah - How lovely

“Blogger has a new look. How swanky Exam results (end of year 10) are pouring ...”

11I don't care! WAAA!

“A certain person, let's just call them Mr. X, has decided to pretend they don't ...”

11New page alert!

“In a shameless rip off from Nic I've decided to list my favourite TV shows ...”

12Criminal on school roof!

“OK, today was the best school day for a very long time. At break time outside, ...”

13A rather dull blog, I'm afraid

“Well, I am tired after all that homework. Let's liven things up with a link then ...”

15OK, I've finally figured this out

“It takes a while to update the feed on the home page. That's fine, I ...”

15Revamped home page!

“Well I think it looks a bit busier now... with a very nice feed from ...”

16A rant about schools

“OK - this entry comes with a disclaimer: *** MANY PEOPLE ARE LIKELY TO BE PISSED ...”

17Coursework coursework coursework

“At this very moment I'm trying to do some Spanish coursework, something about winning a ...”

19Purple PM in flour power shocker

“Opps! If that had been a biological terrorist attack the MPs would be responsible for ...”

20Phone Stolen... (shit shit shit)

“Well one of the downsides of living in London is, of course, the knowledge that ...”

20Picture Messaging and GPRS both coming to Virgin Mobile

“Well after ordering a replacement phone (with £25 free airtime - woo hoo!) from Virgin ...”

22The Mobile Saga (part, ur, 3?)

“For those of you desperately staying up till the early morning worrying about my stolen ...”

23And finally...

“Today I met up again with the one and only Bill Thompson of www.andfinally.com, and ...”

25Zone Billie in Java

“That nonsensical title cleverly (well, stupidly really) introduces my three topics today... 1. Billie Piper is ...”

28WOO! My life just got better

“I'm in such a good mood right now I could sing (but you don't want ...”

30The Day After Tomorrow

“Saw the above film today - very entertaining (especially Hollywood being destroyed) even though it ...”

Jun

07Blogging from school - howdy everyone

“Hello! I've just come back from Rome! Which was, of course, fantastic. Strangest moment - when ...”

11PC2 is fixed

“Well, my computer life is slowly getting back to normal, so I should start blogging ...”

14Three words for any mac lover...

“... Windows XP rocks. It's stable, colourful, friendly and oh so brilliant! All the bad stuff ...”

16A big shout out...

“Disturbing news, people. I've just been informed that, apparently, some members of management at school ...”

18QBASIC rocks

“I don't care about your fancy 'interfaces' - QBASIC rocks and always will do. I ...”

19Happy Birthday to Me!

“Um, that's it! That's all I wanted to say!”

20Got me a Pace Twin

“And it's, like, the coolest TV experience ever. The Pace Twin is to Freeview what Sky+ ...”

23School Play! Woo hoo!

“We just finished our second (and last, awww...) night of the school play. And, apparently, ...”

28Gimmie an E, gimmie an X, gimmie a A, gimmie a M

“Science exam - tomorrow. Module tests. 10% of final GCSE. And instead of sleeping, or ...”

30Despite the hell of a tube strike

“I managed to get to my first day of work experience at Guardian Unlimited (politics.guardian.co.uk) ...”

Jul

02Frankly, it's pretty amazing

“To be sitting in the same office as the MediaGuardian crew is bloody brilliant, to ...”

03Picture Messaging and GPRS comes to Virgin Mobile

“Classic case of the title saying everything here. You can get the new settings sent straight ...”

05I got published!

“Read it here.”

08Big conversation or big con?

“My second published article on Guardian Unlimited. Tomorrow is my last day - working is ...”

09My thoughts on Labour's education plans

“OK, I'll start off with the usual disclaimer that they are not as bad as ...”

13Saw Fahrenheit 9/11 last night

“And yes, it is the film everybody must see. Very hard to put into words how ...”

14Summer holidays - just days away

“Of course, no one does any work at this time of year anyway. Enjoy the summer! What ...”

16Summer! Gmail! Yah!

“Just got home to start the glorious summer holidays and yes, there's a Gmail invite ...”
2 comments

17Buzz Buzz

“Bloody flies. Or maybe I should say 'flying ants.' Whatever they are, they've completely invaded ...”

26Website Redevelopment

“My website is now under redevelopment, and lots of pages will be making a permanent ...”

26Downloaded Firefox today

“I've really been trying to improve my site, not just for Internet Explorer but for ...”

26Comments are here!

“Timed to go with the site refresh, you can now post comments to my blog. ...”

27Revamped blog too!

“Well, I couldn't revamp one and neglect the other, could I? The blog is ...”
2 comments

28A highly technical problem with Office Update

“I just ran Office Update to download SP1 to my copy of Office 2003, which ...”

28BBCi upstaged by fire

“I had just been tipped off about BBCi's new look on Freeview, a much nicer, ...”
4 comments

31Back from Bournemouth

“And very nice it was too - especially since there was a full moon party ...”

Aug

02Simpsons Season 4 DVD

“Got it today (yes, day of release!) from HMV. Now that's what I call top ...”
1 comments

04RETURN OF THE DALEKS!

“Woo hoo! The Daleks will be back in the new series of Doctor Who, due to ...”

04Marc Salem at the Tricycle

“Just saw another great show at the Tricycle theatre (do they ever disappoint??) featuring Marc ...”
1 comments

07Fallout

“The final episode of 60s cult classic 'The Prisoner' was on BBC FOUR last night ...”

07MSN Messenger on the Web - Update

“I've updated my 'Surfing at School' page with new information: Update! Well, guess who decided to ...”
1 comments

10Installed XP SP2 Final

“And I love it! Finally Internet Explorer has integrated pop up blocking, and Active X ...”
1 comments

12Look who's back...

“http://cinsekrap.co.uk - my arch blogging rival - has re-branded in a futile attempt to ...”
1 comments

15New TV aerial fitted yesterday

“Which is great, although I suspect we're a lot more vulnerable to being hit by ...”

16Maths Games

“I've just uploaded, for a limited time only, my first and only venture into programming. OK, ...”

18Huge clean

“You know the big feeling of satisfaction when you've filled 3 black bin bags, thrown ...”

29Back from holiday in Scotland

“Normal updates will resume shortly ”

Sep

01The blogger has returned!

“OK, so now I'm really back, and with a tiny improvement to this very blog ...”

02Windows Media Player 10

“Just installed the final version of MP10 and nothing major to report really. The only ...”
1 comments

05Counting down the hours...

“Well finally, it's back to school tomorrow. Which is not quite such a bad a ...”

066 Gmail invites up for grabs

“Once again I've found myself with 6 invites for Gmail. If you want one, ask. (First ...”
3 comments

08Blogging by email - and IE Team Blog

“Now this is good - I'll certainly be seeing the Blogger web interface less often! Speaking ...”

11John Lewis distribution centre

13El Barto website

“A good MSN friend of mine is in the middle of re-making his website (for about ...”

16Phew!

“I've just completed and uploaded my mammoth, 44 page Spreadsheet coursework for ICT that's worth ...”

17Watching the system admin

“Presumably as some kind of reward for doing that ICT coursework I blogged about yesterday, ...”

18My Favourite Freeware

“I've just launched a new page where I intend to showcase my pick of the ...”

20Have a chat with A.L.I.C.E

“If you've seen this before, I apologise. But the ALICE chatbot has won the prize ...”
2 comments

21My one gripe with Firefox

“Perfectly illustrated here, on the 'Spread Firefox' web site: Look at the text overflow Now in IE, ...”

22Open Evening

“You'd be surprised how much energy it takes just to hang around in the IT ...”

24Pointless domain name mucking about

“Well, I tried and failed to purchase the domain 'dominic.me.uk' - and so decided to ...”

27SHOUT OUT - The randomism crew!

“This blog is officially dedicated to Kareem, Joshua, Jason and everyone else at QPCS who ...”

30Interviewing Sarah Teather

“I had the opportunity, along with Tara Stroud, of interviewing Sarah Teather today, Liberal Democrat ...”

Oct

01Mr. Cooper caught on camera

03Validating

“This morning I've completed my effort to validate this site in HTML 4.01 Transitional and ...”

05OFSTED are here

“That's right, the Dementors have descended. They've killed any atmosphere, all the teachers are stressed ...”

06Awww - well they aren't that bad

“OK U-turn time, I met some *nice* OFSTED people today which was great. They sat ...”

104 days without a blog! Well, I never!

“For those waiting for Part 3 of the great OfSTED story, they said we were ...”

13We won the Architecture Project!

“If I remind you of the last entry... "I've also been roped in to present a ...”

19Doctor Who's new logo

20Scary - Political Jingles!

“The really scary thing is that I don't think it's a spoof. Have a listen ...”

24It's Half Term (again!)

“And has been since Friday afternoon, I've just been too busy to blog. I have found ...”

25Nooooooooooooooo

“I just wrote a really long post which Blogger has just lost. Back in 5...”

25TAILED OFF? [Original Post]

“Dominic's - http://www.dominicself.co.uk/blog/ Dom was the person I thought took the best to blogging, but he ...”

25TAILED OFF?

“Right, here we go again... "Dom was the person I thought took the best to ...”
1 comments

25A note about Messenger Plus and spyware

“As you can see from my site, Patchou's Messenger Plus is one of my favourite ...”

27Free 'Photo Story 3' software from Microsoft

“Released today, Photo Story 3 is a little goodie from Microsoft free to XP users, ...”

285 more days

“It tells you something about Bush that his website is now blocking non-US visitors. ...”

29Taste goes out of the window for Halloween

“You can't really fail to realise the Halloween skin this website is (reluctantly)wearing. The truth ...”

31'The Corporation'

“I saw this film yesterday - it's too long and not organised as well as ...”

Nov

01ITV3's low key launch

“It really was 'blink and you'll miss it' - hiya, welcome to ITV3, here's our ...”

03A bleak day

“As I write, Kerry is about to admit defeat in the US Presidential Election. Bush ...”

04Why Firefox is good for everyone

“Blogger is finally back online so now I can try and shove Bush out of ...”

05Fireworks night

“Good things: Bonfires, burning George W Bush on the fire, parties, hot dogs Bad things: Fireworks, ...”

06Here's the deal about XHTML

“My websites now validates to XHTML 1.0 apart from this blog. Honest, it's very close ...”

09My Blog v2

“Greetings! This is my first post using a completely new contact management system - the very ...”

10Worms 3D

“Starting playing this great Team 17 game again today. Copied my old saved scores across ...”

10He's dead, dammit!

“On the 5th of November, Nic wrote: In other news - Arafat is said to be ...”

11"Google's index nearly doubles"

“According to Google, they've increased the number of pages they crawl to over 8 billion. ...”

12Too many DVDs!

“The worst thing about Play.com is that I always end up with a huge set ...”

13The Forbidden Library

“Another great site: The Forbidden Library - Banned and Challenged Books. Find out why some ...”

13New menu style

“When this site first debuted its new style in July, I distinctly remember Nic's comment ...”
4 comments

14Ah, Boris. Dear old Boris..

“He may be a self-centred, egotistical, pompous buffoon but he's still the nation's favourite Tory ...”
2 comments

14Nucleus Upgrade

“No sooner do I install it but they issue an upgrade! The superb open-source Nucleus ...”
2 comments

16Just tell us the marks!

“My History teacher is still refusing to tell us our coursework marks. Hence, we ask ...”
2 comments

16I've got a new chair (wow)

“It's amazing how small things can improve your life. We found a nice, big, comfortable ...”

18Preparing for Opportunities day

“Well, it beats working. Gather up half of the year into a hall for half ...”

20Fox Hunting - It's civil war!

“America may have its national jokes such as Bush and, ur, the States in the ...”

20Bored of checking this blog?

“Now you can get each post delivered straight to your mailbox as soon as it's ...”

21Politcal Book Madness!

“Excuse my late posts, I'm tired from my dad's 50th birthday party yesterday. It was ...”

22Microsoft the crack dealer

“I've finally discovered why my school is so good at upgrading its computer software. We've ...”

25Registry whoops and Spanish speaking test

“So, was making slight, teeny-tiny changes to the registry and school and - through no ...”

27Alternate Stickers

“You may have heard that certain schools in America are putting stickers on science books, ...”

28Messenger Plus! - Get the Facts

“There's a new page on the 'Messenger Plus!' site called Get the Facts. Anyone who ...”

29Spanish Speaking Test

“Tomorrow, at 9. Due to a bit of a mix-up really, because with my surname ...”
2 comments

30Yeah, it went OK

“I got quite stressed out today - but the mock speaking test went OK. I ...”

Dec

02Quantity doesn't equal Quality, BUT...

“I just finished my ICT Database Coursework. It's the third one I've done, and they've ...”

02Doctor Who - Teaser Trailer!

“OMG OMG OMG... well it's not that amazing really, but check out the teaser trailer ...”

03Top ten search terms NOT used to find this site

“(Ripped off from the world of one) 10 free+p0rn 9 ...”

04More Cosmetic Tweaks

“Most obviously the new banner, of course. Have you ever noticed, Nic updates his site ...”

04America (The Book)

“Woo! I finished America (The Book) today. Truly the funniest thing I have read in ...”

05SyncMarks - A great extension for Firefox

“Simple problem - since I'm now regularly using both IE and Firefox - how do ...”

05Truly Incredible

“Saw The Incredibles today, a wonderful achievement from the dependable gang at PIXAR, who always ...”

09Where have I been?

“The answer - Mock GCSEs and setting up TARDIS (more on that, later...) Monday kicked off ...”

10Google Suggest

“Highly respected blogger Joel Spolsky has a link to Google Suggest on his blog today, ...”
1 comments

10TARDIS

“To conclude my mega-post from Thursday, TARDIS is the name of my new baby PC. ...”

12Ooooh... the spam comment bots have found me

“Well that's some measure of success I suppose Sorry guys, but you're not in ...”
1 comments

12War against Comment Spam, Part II

“Comment spam, as I've found today, can be a real problem for blogs. I take ...”
1 comments

14Even the teachers treat RE as a joke

2 comments

15Blunkett is gone!

“Christmas comes but once a year, and this season we're getting some special gifts a ...”

17Have I Got News For You with Ronnie Corbett

21Apologies for the lack of blogging

“Although I'm not really sorry - it is Christmas after all and I've got things ...”

22Update subscriptions

“I've been updating my version of the plugin and, unfortunately, you will now have to ...”
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