I’m experimenting with Technorati. Recently I’ve been using it quite a bit to search for breaking ‘news’ from the blogosphere and I thought “hey, why not give tags a go?” (I was also trying to avoid completing my online CV – but at least I’ve made a start now!)
Today I also:
- Paid in cheques. Always a fuzzy feeling.
- Applied for an Abbey e-savings account. Always a daunting feeling.
- Listened to Loney – Akon… in Dutch. Courtesy of Pingu. Much better than the English version, precisely because you can’t understand the stupid lyrics.
- Had one of those wonderful phone conversations with Holly Parkhouse where she manages to sound remarkably upbeat even with a swollen eye (ouch)
- Made Alex Trafford laugh with my suggestions to improve Aspire magazine – this rather dull thing that’s send to all the members of the ‘National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth’. He suggested I blog them, so here I am.
Things I’d like to be included in Aspire*:
- Geek page 3 girls
- Dilbert
- Geek TV Guide
- Advice columns done by geeks for stupid people written in a patronising and mocking tone
- Free gifts!
*(Not entirely serious – don’t write angry letters)
Pope Ratty has been busy. Take this simple quiz to see how progressive and forward-thinking the church has become…
What did the Pope warn against on his trip to Germany?
(a) Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions
(b) International terrorism
(c) ‘DIY’ religion
How did he describe the paedophile priest scandal?
(a) “awful and cruel”
(b) “abhorrent and savage”
(c) “wrinkles and shadows”
European multiculturalism is…
(a) “A brave and noble project”
(b) “Both a challenge and an honour”
(c) “Fleeing from what is one’s own”
How is he planning to reform church policy?
(a) Say that condoms aren’t such a bad idea after all
(b) Allow women to become priests
(c) Prevent gay men from becoming priests
If you picked C all the way through – congratulations!
Yes, Ratty’s latest initiative is to try and block gay priests. Why? Because it’s ‘unfair’ and may cause ‘temptation’. Presumably bisexual priests will be breathing a sigh of relief.
For this to work the Church gaydar had better work better than the Church paedophile detector…
Well I was very pleased with that 
as I was expecting a B in Spanish at the most. My coursework (with healthy doses of political satire) probably pushed that up for me. Anyway, I’m now signed up for Sixth Form, which is the most important thing.
Special congratulations must go to Hiten as well – who got an amazing 10 A*s! Woo! We joined two others in photos for high-achievers before I got some pizza with family.
In case I can’t convey this via text – I’m smiling a lot right now!
A in Spanish, A* in everything else. More later…
GCSE results will be available from 11am tomorrow morning from Queens Park. If things go to plan, I’ll be enrolling for Sixth Form AS Level choices as well: Maths, Physics, History and English. For some reason we need passport sized photos so I’ll be up early tomorrow morning to get those done. And I don’t have to rush home to blog because I can blog from my phone! Woo hoo!
I probably won’t be able to get much sleep tonight. Waiting for results is much, much more nerve-racking than the exams themselves. Seriously – at the time they were pretty relaxing in an odd sort of way.
If you want real pressure, of course, fast-forward two years time. I’d like to do a shout out to my 18 year-old self in 2007. Hi! What’s it like waiting for results to an exam that will literally determine the future of your life? Either you got what you needed for university, or you didn’t. GCSEs aren’t really like that, but it’s not very reassuring right now.
Today, August 24th, is also the 10th birthday of Windows 95. Seriously. The Start Button is ten years old today. Happy Birthday Windows, and may the future be bright. (But not too bright – that would indicate a bad monitor driver or something.)
Night night
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
