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Field and Particle Pictures

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on Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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field and particle 2007 cover

So today was my first exam since Maths, and well it wasn’t easy to say the least. It was quite different from the past exam papers I’ve done, and though most of the content was the same, it was just a question that annoyed me. One part was only one mark, so that’s not going to make much of a difference, but the other one I was close to getting after discussing it with my friends.

electric potential

I though that the bottom was r-squared, so I lost a mark there, but luckily I got the part before! There was also a bit to do with the energy released when two atoms of Palladium were next to each other and a neutron caused fission. This was more complicated, and again it was only 2 marks so I don’t think I lost that many overall.

Reactions from other people were quite mixed, some said it was hard, others said it was okay. I think that most of it was good, it was just some of the formulas that took me a while to remember. The exam is only worth 61% of the module as well, and I aced my research report so that’s worth the other 49%. We’ll have to wait until August for the results anyway.

Chemistry of Materials tomorrow (the resit), and having done quite a bit of revision today, I’m feeling quite confident about it. I’m going in early tomorrow to revise more. Then it’s just SN4 and SN5 Biology on Friday and the synoptics next week. It will all be over soon, thank god.

In other news, I’ve fully transferrred theminiblog.co.uk over to dreamhost, and the domain is now under my sole control too. Took a while but it’s all done. There are still some picture problems with that, but I’ll sort it out later.

Silence in the Library

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on Monday, June 2, 2008
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This weekend was relatively boring, though Saturday’s Doctor Who was one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. The new episode had Alex Kingston (who plays Dr. Corday in ER and is extremely hawt) and had the title of this post. The graph above is nicely doctor who related too, lol (found on the internets). David Tennant is one of the best Doctors, and as you can see Colin Baker sucksss. I was going to go Revolver with everyone else, but I really couldn’t be bothered to go out all the way to Corby. I didn’t feel like it tbh, and we had an ace time last week anyway.

I did get a chance and tried to email circlehosting again, but the email bounced and they said it was inactive. Their support site is not working due to a MySQL error and I tried emailing the guy from last time but I’ve heard nothing. The domain seems to be registered with eNom, so I’ll try and contact them tomorrow and see what they can do. I’m getting quite annoyed now!

I’ve been watching a bit of South Park and Family Guy too. I seemed to have caught up with what they’re showing in the US. I want to start watching something new but I’m not sure what. People seem so addicted to Lost so I might try watching that, though I don’t want to get hooked, hehe.

I went in today for physics revision, and it seems Mr. Tiktin wanted to move it to Tuesday because he thought Biology was supposed to be today, when it’s actually the other way around. So we’re staying at Mondays. Got quite a bit of revision done, which I was quite happy about. It seems I need to focus more on the later modules, especially nuclear reactions and the transformer stuff, we went over those units quite quickly! The first exam is in a week and two days, so by that time I’ll have this learnt like the back of my hand. Chemsitry’s not bad either, just a bit worried about Biology, I hate plants lol! I’ll be revising that tomorrow in school, so I’ll table out all the stuff I’m not too sure about.

I also found out that the school now have an unencrypted Wi-Fi connection (presumably for students) that we can then log in to with our school details. A nice idea, though sadly implemented a bit late for me to get the best use out of. Eh, I’ll live.

In two and a half weeks time it’ll all be over, and I can rest and enjoy not having to go to school anymore. It also better start getting sunnier, I can’t take all this rain. We need to have a barbecue soon too, the last one was canceled because of the rain. :(

Ahhh, Vectors!

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on Monday, May 19, 2008
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vectors

With my C4 exam the day after tomorrow (wow this time has gone fast!), I’ve been revising a bit going over all the topics, especially the comprehension paper. I really hate vectors! I was looking at the January 2008 C4 paper and that had a section B question on vectors, so I hope this means we won’t get a section B question. I can do simple plane, vector equation and scalar product questions, but I really don’t like doing anything too big to do with planes. I’ll be revising vectors nearly all day tomorrow; I think I’m getting the hang of it now.

I haven’t yet started (proper) revision for any of my other subjects. I’ll start it as soon as maths is over and done with. Sadly the first day back next term I have to go in for Biology revision. I was going to rather enjoy exam leave on the first day. Oh well, I’ll probably get more done there than here at home anyway.

I finally finished the 4th season of the West Wing though. I just started the 5th season, it’s rather interesting with Zoey’s kidnapping, I don’t really remember this well (even though I’ve seen it plenty of times.)

I did also get AWstats working on the blog though. Thank god I have shell access, otherwise there’s no way I could have fixed it. There were so many problems with trying to get the configuration working, and now that it’s done I’ve only got one problem. The times reported by AWstats are US Eastern times, and this is because the server is located in the US, and the log times reported are therefore in US time zone. I can’t figure out for the life of me how to adjust it, so I’ll probably email the dreamhost support staff.