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Published My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-6).
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Daily Digest for September 7th
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The Mission – Wasteland
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Published The Mission – Wasteland.
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Published Currently watching: Leaving the 20th Century.
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Published Shelfari: Neil Gaiman’s Bookshelves.
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Incubus – Teardrop
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Jack Peñate – Torn On The Platform
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Shared via www.meyersound.com.
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Published Jack Peñate – Torn On The Platform.
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Published Incubus Live – Teardrop (Live).
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Hi there!
So ultimately, this will be some kind of tv commentry blog. Hopefully. I just have to get around to it.
Whistleblower warning on degrees
The academic, at a world-famous UK university, says postgraduate degrees are awarded to students lacking in the most basic language skills.
There are concerns that financial pressures to recruit overseas students for cash rather than quality could threaten the credibility of degrees.
I can’t say that I’m surprised. I ended up working with a nice guy from China in one of my group projects who didn’t really understand English that well or, for that matter, programming. I suspect the two things were related – the rest of the group would assign him a relatively easy part of the software to work on, but he would never quite understand that he had to write that module in the context of the rest of the software.
On the other hand, while his programming wasn’t good and his spoken English wasn’t great, he could write essays and stuff fairly well. No idea if he got help there – but the benefit of being able to sit down with a dictionary and then get another person to proof-read afterwards probably helped loads there.
Obama claims Democratic victory
Barack Obama has declared himself “the Democratic nominee for president of the United States”.
He was speaking to a cheering crowd on the last day of the primary season, after receiving the support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
I…don’t entirely understand the US system of voting – all I know for sure is that it seems to take a heck of a long time for them to just pick a candidate to run in the election. I don’t think I could get excited about something that too so long to get done with – even if I was a US citizen!
As someone who lives in a totally different country (although it could be argued that at times, the UK is the 51st state), I…care even less now, even if whoever is eventually (like, in a billion years time) elected as the next president will have a fairly large impact on world affairs. Perhaps it’s election fatigue.
And how much does the nominated candidate actually represent the views of the population? It feels like individuals vote for some guy who votes for someone else who votes for someone else who votes for someone else who will pick who THEY want to be presidential candidate for them. Is that really how it works? Can anyone shed any light on how it works?
And then there’s the question of who’s going to be the vice-presidential candidate?
I guess it’s just a case of wait and see.
Feist vs. NIN
Peace One Day
Insurer names Nottingham as worst for burglary
I lay the blame entirely on Robin Hood. Totally.
Filipinos warned on crucifixions
Crucifixion bad for your health? I WOULD NEVER HAVE GUESSED.
Celebrity BB viewers drop by half
Nearly two million people switched off when the show ended on Channel 4 and continued on digital station E4.
Celebrity Hijack sees stars act as Big Brother to a house of “unknowns”.
…and somehow people are surprised that there are fewer viewers?
Having to change channel to watch the rest of a programme is probably enough to do it. Then there’s the relatively little publicity it’s gained – the prospect of celebrities just “dropping in” rather than staying and slowly going crazy isn’t quite as attractive.
Add to that, that it’s all getting a bit old and tired?
It’s inevitable.