Upcoming Exams

Again, yet more exams have crept up on me; ready to surprise me in new and possibly unpleasant ways.

1. Maths C2, C3, C4, M1, S1


2. Physics modules 2 and 3


3. Chemistry Module 2

Good luck to everyone else taking exams this season.

-Alex

Module 1: result.

Well today was the day, the first of many many A level mark days; and I think it's safe to say that I came out of it fairly well.

1. AQA Physics Unit 1: A 90


2. Chemistry: A 77


3. Maths MEI C1:A 80


4. Maths MEI C2:B 77

I'm fairly sure that I'm going to resit Maths C2, because I …

Reports are in...

Reports are in, confirming something that I have known for a long time.

Hats are awesome.

Also, the Asia concert was beyond awesome; and if they're playing near you; then you should certainly go and see them- Steve Howe is the most masterful guitarist that I have ever seen.

Some horrifically overdue updates

It's been several months now since I last said anything noteworthy (bar expressing my disgust at the science funding crisis) and it's probably time that I wrote something. Thanks to AppleCare my ageing iBook miraculously changed into a macbook before Christmas by virtue …

A massive blow to Science in the UK

The STFC have recently massively slashed the budget for Physics in the UK by

Happy New Year!

Happy (belated) new years everybody, it's been a fairly hectic 2007 for me; and things are starting to look up for 2008. However, I am currently snowed in with AS level stuff; so am going to be unable to blog as often as I would like to- and I've got some exams around …

My little Christmas present from Apple

Recently, my iBook's bluetooth module and Sleep LED assembly decided that actually functioning was not worth the endeavour- so I took it along to the Apple store in Southampton. Unfortunately, the problems with my iBook were irreparable and as it was under Apple care; …

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all.

-Alex.

Sony Ericsson k800i updates- a whole pile of fun

The k800i is, all-in-all a very nice phone. One of it's main fairly innovate features is that it can run firmware updates from the menu and download them over the air. This would be fairly useful as a first diagnostic against a software problem with the phone as the …

The Importance of Backups

Ugh.

On updating iTunes and Quicktime my mac froze and upon rebooting I discovered that something went wrong.

Very wrong in fact, with the "Welcome to Leopard" wizard appearing on logon and refusing to let me log in.

One full time machine restore later and my mac is …

Joss Whedon- back on the telly

It seems that Joss Whedon has been granted a new series to write with Tim Minear. From what's been said it looks like it should be brilliant- but it's being made by Americas FOX network. Hopefully it should only be a matter of time before a British channel expresses …

Mac OSX Leopard

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 …

The Environment

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.

Driving

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 …

Relaunch: Welcome to madebyalex.org

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 …

Brief Hiatus

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:

1. I become 17 and thus …

This Post

Is coming straight from the Apple Store in Regent Street.

Wow.

That is all.

Some (Admittedly Late) Summer Reading (etc.)

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:

1. www.amazon.co.uk%2FBattle-Royale-Gollancz-Koushun-Takami%2Fdp%2F0575080493%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1188482038%26sr%3D8-2&tag=themakorg-21&linkCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=6738">Battle royale by Koushun Takami. While graphically violent, it …

GCSEs the waiting ends- results day

Today was the infamous results day for GCSE students across the counry. I don't quite know what to say:

1. ICT: A*


2. History: A*


3. RE (short course): A*


4. German: A


5. Geography: A


6. Maths: A*


7. Biology: A


8. Chemistry:A*


9. Physics: A*


10. English: A*


11. English Literature: A


12. Statistics: …

Return from the NAGTY Leeds Summer School

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, …