Now that’s it all properly installed on my mac-mini I feel that it’s time for a blog post.
Friday: Leopard Launch Day
I arrived at the Southampton Apple store at about 3pm and joined the queue as soon as it was set up. And I have to say that the queue was a really great social atmosphere […]
Climate change is a massive problem.
The chances are that whatever methods that can be employed against it are going to basically require on thing:
Humanity to willingly leave it’s comfort zone.
There’s just no real way to do justice to that.
In something both fairly awesome and scary at the same time: I now have a car.
I’m gradually getting to grips with the intricacies of a gearbox and should be at least moderately competent at changing between the gears by the time I have my first driving lesson, which I would have been having […]
Well, today’s the day. I’m 17 and themak.org is no more and instead; I welcome you all to madebyalex.org enjoy your stay- have a coffee- leave a comment. And sit back and enjoy.
Also, my iBook can’t be repaired due to a myriad of incompetence’s. Bugger. Those thinkpads are looking like a mighty fine […]
I’ve been unable to make any new posts for the last few weeks on account of everything being exceptionally busy. But do not fear this blog will be returning to usual service in exactly two weeks time! For on the 24th many exciting things happen:
I become 17 and thus able to start learning to drive […]
Is coming straight from the Apple Store in Regent Street.
Wow.
That is all.
Recently, after finding myself with rather more booktokens than I would usually know what to do with, I’ve been reading quite a few books recently- and thought that I’d post my latest reading list here:
Battle royale by Koushun Takami. While graphically violent, it definitely served the plot very well and proved to be a […]
Today was the infamous results day for GCSE students across the counry. I don’t quite know what to say:
ICT: A*
History: A*
RE (short course): A*
German: A
Geography: A
Maths: A*
Biology: A
Chemistry:A*
Physics: A*
English: A*
English Literature: A
Statistics: A
Congratulations to all the other candidates who just received their grades, and I hope that they all acheived what they wanted. In other […]
I recently returned from the NAGTY 2007 Summer School at Leeds University where I spent the past two weeks studying the Japanese and Thai languages interspersed with many fun activities. I met tonnes of awesome people there and had a completely awesome time. Anyhow, for you guys at Leeds the photos are here, and […]
Just a quick post today as I’ve finally got to a computer with internet access. The NAGTY summer school is awesome fun and everyone is great. I’ve finished the Japanese part of the course- which has been awesome fun and am looking forward to the Thai part next week. Meanwhile it’s obsenely hot outside and […]
The BBC appear to still be convinced that only windows XP users deserve the ability to watch television over the internet. This is in part due to their settling on Windows Media Video with DRM as the apt way for them to deliver this; it seems all the stranger that they’ve chosen this as the […]
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