Post: Ooh ‘eck!
As you’ve no doubt noticed, I haven’t posted on this blog in over two weeks: in this age of e-mail, instant messaging and text messages, this would probably mean I’d died – or worse, lost my internet connection. I have, however, reached the milestone of my 21st birthday (on February 19th) with much partying, a fair amount of drinking and the odd thought of “But I haven’t even invented a massively popular blogging system used by millions”.
Due to this abnormally long period of silence, I feel some kind of explanation is probably due. Why have I remained silent for quite so long? In a word, work. You see, Cambridge isn’t the most easy-going of universities at the best of times, and I have recently discovered that in the penultimate term of the final year, with a project to finish and revision to worry about on top of the usual complement of lectures and supervisions, not a huge amount of time is left over for other pursuits.
The good news is that my term finishes in less than a fortnight, so I should be able to get back to a slightly more regular blogging schedule. In the meantime, I leave you with the news that the slides for one of my lecture courses (a series of five lectures on the architectures of various peer-to-peer systems) are written entirely in Comic Sans. I fully plan on staging some form of protest.
I’d be more worried about the constant uses of “etc etc etc” on the slides and the random smiley faces sprinkled throughout!
shamelessly stolen from somewhere…
Comic sans walks into a bar and asks for a pint. Barman says, sorry sir we don’t serve your type in here…