Our form tutor has some very finely honed skills in the field of emotional blackmail. Apparently, we all have to be nice all of sudden, and fetch registers \ file SMILE cards etc. I’m so sick of those damned cards after five years of this now, I think there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that whole-class teaching in Maths might be a better idea, especially for the later years.
Still, we get the regular ‘Progress Review Day’ on Tuesday. Whoever invented this, I salute you, Sir. Going into school for a mere 10 minutes should win some kind of award. On the downside, you do have to think of these bizarre targets to set yourself.
– Joshua lent me the fantastic Animals DVD, Ricky Gervais’ first stand up show. It’s better than Politics, especially the section on Genesis.
– I started my final bit of ICT Coursework, Website Design! What made me splutter, though, was the requirements for a Standard and Extension project. Let me explain…
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This afternoon, rather unhelpfully, my wireless connection suddenly died. No amount of rebooting, either of the router or PC, was making any difference. The poor little access point was simply not picking any network up.
Finally I hit on the answer. By changing the frequency from the default channel 11 to 5, everything suddenly boomed into life again. I suppose something must have happened to cause interference, but it’s very weird. I can’t detect any other wireless networks operating nearby. There was a heated political argument going on earlier, does politics operate from 2449.5 MHz to 2474.5 MHz by any chance? 
Well, welcome to 2005. It’s going to be a pretty important year for me (yeah, GCSEs) the country – General Elections! Even the world will experience big things in 2005, but then that’s really true each year, isn’t it?
The holiday has obviously been muted by the terrible disaster in Asia. However, the response from everyone around the world has been incredible. It has shown that a globally connected community is a good thing. The problem now is not lack of cash, or raising awareness, but the difficulties of physically getting aid to the region.
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