Phill Sacre

Category: Random other stuff

  • Nearly There…

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    You wait ages for a blog post to come along, and then two come along at once! Sorry about that – things have been a bit busy recently, as I’m sure you can appreciate. Term is very nearly over, we have just over a week left (eek!) and then a week of exams (eeeeeeeek!!!). *ahem*…

  • Is Twitter making us dumb and angry?

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    Every few years, it seems to be an unwritten rule that the newspapers have to have a scare about dumbing down, e.g. GCSE results now don’t mean as much as they used to back in the good old days. Now, whether they have a point or not I can’t say, but it does seem to…

  • Some adverts are controversial. Get over it.

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    Once again, it falls to me to leap into the quagmire of misinformation and correct it with my iron sword of reason and moderation. (Everyone should have a sword of reason and moderation. They’re all rage these days.) In case you hadn’t heard, a bus advert has been banned: a group called Core Issues Trust,…

  • Need… Caffeine…

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    We’re a few weeks into lent, and I’m … just over a week into my caffeine fast. Well, tea and coffee drinking fast. Well, tea and coffee with caffeine in drinking fast. But it doesn’t really sound as good if you say that. I did this once before, a few years ago (although strangely enough,…

  • Gay Marriage and other lighthearted topics

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    Honestly. It feels like the news has gone a bit crazy recently, what with the ASA ruling that God cannot heal people, then the whole fracas about ‘militant secularism’, and now this: people going a bit crazy over whether the definition of marriage should be changed to include same-sex marriages. It seemed to kick off…

  • Someone please show the Daily Mail a map

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    This is brilliant. I missed the original Twitter storm, but apparently some pictures starting circulating last week apparently showing members of the Ku Klux Klan walking through East Barnet. (East Barnet is where we live, about a 20 minute walk away from college). Anyway, it turns out that they weren’t Ku Klux Klan members, they…

  • The Two Hundred Dollar Cheesecake

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    This week at college it’s “Namugongo Week”. Oak Hill has a partner college in Uganda called Uganda Martyr’s Seminary, and this week is designed to raise funds to support students there. The plan is to raise £10,000 – that’s enough money to support 25 students for a year. So, as part of the week Oak…

  • Coding and Lyric Display

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    Well, it’s that time of year again. I’ve started a little coding project, this time to do with Lyric Display. In Java. *sigh* Why do I do this to myself?! To be fair, I started it last year – I’ve just picked it up again and refactored it a fair bit. I checked my Google…

  • Protesting Supermarkets

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    I’ve read a couple of articles recently which have got me thinking. The first one was about people who protest supermarkets such as Sainsbury’s, Tesco etc – unfortunately I can’t remember where I found it so I can’t link to it! (May have even been… hushed tones… on paper!) The other article was called Good…