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!
Because I’m nice, I’m helping to mark the PTFA (Parents, Teachers, Friends… you get the idea… of QPCS) Quiz Night tomorrow night. And you can be rest assured of fairness, cause I’ve sourced the other markers from my AS Level Maths class 
Here’s some other fairly random bullets about school you may or may not be interested in:
- I had a Physics test on Wednesday which went OK, I think. Not amazingly but not a flop either – or so it appears from my preliminary look at the marking
- I think I got the most book vouchers ever in one go – a whole £18! For, ur, turning up to school each day last year. And yes – I plan to spend them on something frivolous like a Doctor Who script book or Spam Kings
- Talking of Doctor Who – have you seen the new Cybermen? Now you have! All great apart from the shoes…
- Since I’ve drifted off school anyway… I want to cheer my new Nucleus Disciple status. Woo, yay, houpla!
Final quote of the post must go to Mr. Moore (English teacher, and a bloody good one too):
Me: Phew, I’ve just finished a Physics exam
Him: Well Dominic, it is your fault for choosing Physics…
(Note – the emphasis on the last word with the tones of bitter arts\science rivalry. Can’t we all just get along?)
P.S. Physics still rocks though. What other subject asks you to measure the distance between the feet of two ice-skaters?
So, it turns out democracy isn’t so bad after all. 
Parliament did their job, and instead opted for the much more sensible 28 days. Why the government pushed for three months might never be known – they were close to compromise, after all, but backed away at the last minute.
90 days was wrong. Imagine if you were held for 90 days without charge? Not to mention that terrorism is usually about intelligence failure, the point being that you don’t know who will be committing it anyway! This plan wouldn’t have helped stop terrorism, merely make a police state more likely.
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
