Quadrant IV

Well, the semester has unofficially started again, and once more I am up to my eyeballs in extra work.  This year I am much more organised than I was last year (starting a new job in the same week as study commenced was not terribly helpful) so I’m hoping that I can use my newfound organisational ability to keep me focussed and on track with study.

One thing I have already done is input not only my assignments into my to-do list, but the modules that have to be completed as well.  That way, instead of it being something that needs to be remembered every week, I have a constant reminder that my module is sitting waiting for me.  I think this might keep it all a little more fresh in my mind, and stop me wandering off doing other things.

For a while now, Technorati and I haven’t been seeing eye to eye. I’ll post something, ping Technorati from both the inbuilt WordPress ping system as well as a manual ping via Technorati’s page, and Technorati will completely ignore me. Sometimes the post shows up hours later, and sometimes it takes days. This also used to happen to a wordpress.com blog I had.

Oh Technorati, why hath thou forsaken me?

/random gripe

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I’m a bit of a science geek. I wanted to be a biologist for a long while growing up and I still tend to get a little shuddery over sciency things. So when I read that the Royal Society had digitised their catalogue and were opening it up for two months to the gen. pop., I proceeded to tell just about every other science geek I know. And I actually know more than I thought.

So, for two months only, get your fill of science-geek goodness from the last three and a half centuries. Read about Franklin’s electricity, Pavlov’s dogs and oodles of other fascinating experiments from the very people that lived them.

Did I mention I was excited?