Questionnaire System For The Win!
Monday, May 19th, 2008My magical questionnaire system has just earned me another first! Huzzah!
Posts Tagged ‘Lincoln’
IKEA Without Walls
Monday, May 12th, 2008As you may of may not know, next year I’m living in a place called The Junxion with a few friends. We’ve decided to go a bit above and beyond the usual student flat with printed photographs Blu-Tacked to the wall by heading to everyone’s favourite Swedish store, IKEA.
The trouble is all the cool stuff we really want to get, like better lighting, shelves, artwork, hanging rods for kitchenware and so on rely on us drilling holes into the wall, which will probably upset accommodation.
We’ll just try make the flat look so good they don’t care.
Library Security Sucks
Friday, May 9th, 2008No, I am not going to tell you how to do this.
I have recently discovered that the library security at Lincoln can be easily defeated using nothing more than a simple, freely available online tool. This allows you to enter the library simply by knowing a valid Student ID number (All undergraduate student email addresses begin with these), and check books back in which aren’t actually there.
This is not good.
How Many Bikes?
Friday, March 21st, 2008Apparently the wonderful University of Lincoln have acquired some bicycle storage huts, allowing students with everybody’s favourite two-wheeled transit method to lock them up securely. Students have to provide their own padlock, but this is only to be expected and is no more unusual than any other bicycle storage method. However, I spotted a slight problem in the message telling us about this.
There are three huts by the GCW Library and a further six by the Sports Centre on the Brayford campus.
So by my maths that’s a grand total of nine secure bicycle huts. For a student and staff body of somewhere in the region of 30,000. (more…)
Lincoln’s Security Policies Are Empty!
Sunday, March 16th, 2008I’d like to start with a genuine quote from the University of Lincoln’s Public Security Policy, available on the university’s internal Portal system under the first entry for a search on “security policy”:
The University has an obligation to balance these 2 requirements. Occassionally these requirements will conflict…..academic freedom…. blah
To which my only reply can be “dude”. It appears that the only publicly accessible version of the Public Security Policy is a draft.
iPhone: Lincoln Edition
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
I present Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom and logo of the University of Lincoln, on the home page of my iPhone.
A bit more inventive than the usual screenshot of a page, and looking far more stylish on my iPhone’s home screen than the Blackboard login. The icon - for the curious - takes me to my university’s digital learning environment. Big kudos to All in the <head> for the original bookmarklet which made this possible.
Anyone else in Lincoln who is sad like me and has an iPhone/iPod Touch and links to Blackboard, the icon is at http://tn-uk.net/bbicon.png - you’ll need the above bookmarklet to use it.
Train Joy
Friday, December 7th, 2007Getting from Lincoln to Leeds on a Friday is fun, including a change at Newark. On the plus side, I have a reserved seat from Newark to Leeds, so I can do some work!
Freight Trains
Friday, November 30th, 2007You’ve usually got around 2,000 horsepower. Put your fucking foot down!
Addendum: following this freight train, we remained stood at the level crossing for 13 minutes before the barriers raised. No other train went by.