Yes, it’s true, I have shamelessly stolen Alex Trafford’s design for a search box. But I’ve also played around with the comment form to give it a bit more sparkle, although IE users are left out here I’m afraid. It’s all part of my slow refresh of little bits of the site that need improving now that the newsness of the summer design has worn off. As ever – comments, questions, suggestions welcome!
David Tennant
Somehow I neglected to mention that this is a Four Day Weekend for me, as we’re having a double whammy of INSETs. Which is great, cause it means you can curl up in bed to avoid the cold cold weather!
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Jon Stewart
The way I found out about it was rather exciting too – a guy named David Johnson found my site, and sent me an email with the details. Cheers! 
And yes, don’t worry, my suspicious mind found out their phone number independently and phoned up to ask rather than buying online on the advise of a surprise email, just in case. But the tickets are now ordered, so yay!
And if anybody else feels like coming along, buy tickets now 
Right… tonight it’s Certificate Presentation Evening so we’ll be dressing up to collect our ‘proper’ GCSE certificates. I’ve also won the Myers award for Humanities (just be assured of its l33tness and move on) and also, ur, 100% attendance last year. Hey, I don’t get ill, OK? I was even helping out with Hiten’s speech-writing the other day… 
You’ll have heard by now of the Sony Rootkit which effectively fucked up everyone’s computers and should get them sued till they cry.
Well, the good news is that Microsoft will remove it from your machine in Windows AntiSpyware \ Windows Defender as well as the Malicious Software Removal Tool on the next update. This is important because people with Automatic Updates turned on will be helped, even if they don’t know about Sony’s Rootkit of all evil.
So, I think a few brownie points are in order? Cheers Microsoft! Now, go break Sony’ back.
Wow – the PTFA Quiz Night was a lot more fun than I was expecting. Rishal, Clare, Joshua and I were on scoring duty so we got our own table on the stage complete with free drink and free fish and chips. (So thanks for that, taxpayer!) Interestingly the three winning teams were all teachers… which could make for some combative parent-teacher evenings in the future! Scariest moment of the night – my Physics teacher marching up to us at the end after the scores were announced – and they didn’t win – to complain. We hid under the table.
I also saved a potentially explosive situation by phoning home and making sure the capital of Turkey was Ankara.
Nice to see teachers more relaxed than at school… and with the boot rather on the other foot as we were the ones marking and they were the ones disputing scores! Congratulations to Mr. Munchmoore as well – a fitting winner for someone who retired after many years of service.
Surprisingly no hangover as well. Yayness!
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
