{"id":350,"date":"2003-10-04T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2003-10-04T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2013-01-04T20:16:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T20:16:13","slug":"04-10-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2003\/10\/04\/04-10-03\/","title":{"rendered":"04-10-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Wez and I have resorted to posting messages to each other in binary on the Bourne Forum after Rex Needle wrote in the Bourne Diary &#8220;If you wish to find out about youth activities or participate in discussions intended solely for them, then you must go elsewhere.&#8221; The plotting continues&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>School open day was quite fun although a lot of work for a two hour event! I got to show off my Linux lab to people and try and convert them to free software. The main attractions were the giant tux penguins, the magic CD-ROM drive and networked battleships. In other parts of IT there was mystic meg (a projected face on the wall from a web cam that could answer all of your questions), a Lego Robolab, Computer disassembly, history of computers, VB games and the usual curriculum stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Yesterday on the way home from school I noticed two girls (Britney and Jenny) were picking up the litter in and around the drained St. Peter&#8217;s Pool in the Well Head that I have been complaining about for ages, so I went home, got changed and returned with a black bin liner to help them. We may be back next Friday!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">At lunchtime on Friday one of the dinner ladies, sorry, Lunchtime Supervisors told me off for walking up the &#8220;wrong set of stairs&#8221; and not ASKING if I could go up to the IT room&#8230; ?!! For some reason it really got to me. I go up there every lunchtime, so why was Friday any different? And what difference does it make to ANYONE which set of stairs I walk up?! If I could spell it, I&#8217;d use the term petty beurocracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">This morning I went to the Post Office to send &#8220;The Cathedral and The Bazaar&#8221; back to the ALUG library and to post 24 letters for mum who is searching for her grandad. Then I went to the Library where they told me I would have to pay two pounds to renew &#8220;A Tour of the Calculus&#8221; from the British Library for the second time. Grr, not my fault I&#8217;m a slow reader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">This afternoon was mainly taken up taking up floor boards and wall panels, poking holes through ceilings and going in the attic to lay a network cable to connect Ashdaman&#8217;s computer to the Internet. Another two lights are now lit up on my hub and there are 5 computers on the network, mostly very low spec machines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Mr C attempted to teach our computing class how to convert a floating point binary number into a denary one on Friday. He NEARLY managed it \ud83d\ude1b Oh and I found out the connection between the 12 days of Christmas and Binomial Expansion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">I have an inhuman amount of work to do this weekend so it&#8217;s about time I got started.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wez and I have resorted to posting messages to each other in binary on the Bourne Forum after Rex Needle wrote in the Bourne Diary &#8220;If you wish to find out about youth activities or participate in discussions intended solely for them, then you must go elsewhere.&#8221; The plotting continues&#8230; School open day was quite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2003\/10\/04\/04-10-03\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">04-10-03<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}