I heard a story earlier today about how a Wal-Mart employee died by a stampede caused by a mass of cash-happy bargain hunters. But what happened? Right, for everyone who doesn’t know (including myself), today is Black Friday. It’s the Friday after Thanksgiving in America, which marks the start of the Christmas holiday season. Lots [...]
Archive > November 2008
5 Other Things I Didn’t Know Last Week
1. Redesigns take forever to implement. 2. Dell seem cabable of replacing a broken laptop with another with a different problem. 3. Steve Kay has never heard of 2 girls 1 cup. 4. Bournemouth University want me. 5. Jetpacks exist.
Portfolio.
Okay, so a while back, I said about me actually finally applying to university. Of course, my choices changed from when I handed in my tracker form to now, but these things happen. But now it’s gotten to the stage where offers come in. Unfortunately for me, it’s not as straight forward as I’d hoped. [...]
5 Other Things I Didn’t Know Last Week
1. Neil’s girlfriend didn’t have herpes after all. 2. The Bournemouth course stuff is amazing. 3. Dell are nice people when you annoy them enough. 4. Uni offers generally aren’t as straight forward as what you would expect. 5. Even astronauts have those "Oh… shit." moments.
Boy’s Brigade Game Night
It’s now officially been a year since I started helping out at the Boy’s Brigade. I remember blogging about it last year and, like this year, the game night was crazy and hectic. There were about 13 or 14 teams of four kids playing a variety of games. That’s two too many, considering we only [...]
