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 …
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 there’s …
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 …
Wow, Yesterday I attended Star Wars Celebration Europe, and it was most excellent. After waking at 6am and making my way to London Waterloo station (a record in punctuality for South West trains at only 5 minutes late) I met with Lasse and Peter and travelled to the ExCel center using all manner of different …
Yesterday marked the end of the final act in the final part of my compulsory schooling, my education within the many walls of Truro School and my GCSEs. One of the most stressful times of my life so far has ended and the next is about to begin. As I move away from Cornwall, yesterday …
Yesterday, after spending the prior three days walking on the great expanse of barbed wire and knee-to-waist-depth mud and the not so delightful wet marsh land, and I have to say that I found it immensely challenging and rewarding when my team walked into the Jamaica Inn- I was however completely exhausted. In other completely …
The move has gone pretty well and it should only be a few days of working things out before all my computers get onto the internet and back up and running; by which time my guitar should have arrived (Yamaha RGX-A2). But meanwhile I’ve got to complete the Duke of Edinburgh silver expedition, which should …
I’m moving home tomorrow and will most probably be offline until early july. I’ve currently got very limited access to the internet as I’m about to box this computer up for the move. I’ll probably not be able to check my email etc. for a few days, and I’ll be leaving very shortly after my …
Here’s a preview of what’s soon going to be the new look of themak.org: All critisism welcome for the new design. The new theme is also going to mark a whole new version of themak.org, the move from the brilliant PALGN free hosting to an ASO shared hosting plan where I will also move this …
I was tagged by Takumi a week or so ago: Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts. Players should tag eight other people and notify them that they have been tagged. And my facts: I don’t watch Big Brother, nor any …