Today I decided, in a mad fit of boredom that probably indicates some form of obsessive behaviour, to validate my site with the English language along with XHTML(!) So I’ve gone over everything with a fine toothed comb (well, really a spell-checker) trying to hunt down every last mistake. Including all my old blog posts. I’ve probably missed loads, but it’s a start at least.
How was I supposed to know it’s spelt Dormouse anyway!?!
P.S. I can guess exactly what will happen now – people will gleefully point out all the mistakes remaining.
P.P.S. I ran for 12mins 45 seconds around the school in PE today. Been doing the route for ages, but this is the first time I’ve timed myself. Check back next week to see if I’ve improved or not!
P.P.P.S. Nucleus needs an inbuilt spell-checker. I’ve gone paranoid and have copied and pasted this post into Word about 15 times now.
I am, apparently (UK Maths Challenge). But only so I can beat Hiten (oooh – first names on this blog!) which is stupid because I’ve got no chance of doing it. It was incredibly hard as always. I’m not competitive really. Promise started it. On the other hand, it’d make Eton more fun. Jason wasn’t involved at all, but he just wanted to be mentioned here. Jason Jason Jason.
The point of that very silly paragraph was two-fold.
a) To demonstrate why I try not to go into the gory details of school on this blog. Because it’s boring to read and makes no sense to anyone. I said try, because sometimes it’s unavoidable.
b) To sneak in the fact I’ve changed my mind about going to Eton without anyone noticing. I still hate, no no, loathe the place but I might as well go and get the T-Shirt.
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I don’t want to sound spiteful, because they’ve tried hard. Real hard. The boring sets, dull costumes, and even sticking (pretty much) to the UK plots. But somehow, from the promo at least, they just don’t ‘get it’.
A big problem is the incredibly stupid music that’s overlaid on top. Again, it’s just a promo thing, so I’ll reserve judgement. But the whole thing doesn’t look like a cheap documentary, it looks like a sitcom. Their David Brent is just – well – he’s too happy. Brent was never really a happy person, just desperate to entertain others. He would speak slowly in the talking heads section, trying to be a great philosopher rather trying to crack a joke.
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Great article in The Observer today about plans to mix state and private schools in strange ‘super schools’. The idea sounds cool but wacky and I doubt anything will come of it – but what caught my eye was a nice quote from a certain Barbara Harrison, chair of the private Girls’ Day School Trust.
‘The parents of children at private schools are paying a lot specifically to ensure their youngsters escape certain things – things they would almost certainly be caught up in if this idea comes to fruition.’
So there you have it. The lie that parents are somehow forced to send their kids to private schools because they only want “the best for my child” or some other bullshit has been exposed. Private schools are about ‘escaping certain things’ – any guesses as to what these could be? The wrong kind of people, perhaps?
Some people would think I was being frightfully rude to construct a sentence containing the words elitist, snobs and enemies of society, so I won’t.
My web host (Me2uWeb) is on a bit of a roll recently. They’ve just upgraded the standard webmail programs available through Cpanel with a new version of Horde and the addition of Squirrelmail which hasn’t been offered in the past.
Having a good webmail option is important to me – although I use Outlook 2003 at home (or Outlook Express on some older machines) I need to be able to get my email anywhere, which is the main appeal of IMAP folders after all. (Until recently, I even needed webmail for school, but now I’ve got that hooked up to Outlook as well!) So I’ve spent a while examining the 3 systems of Neomail, Horde and Squirrelmail.
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