By tim, on January 8th, 2012 at 9:23 am … to everyone who’s sent me a note of support this week, either by leaving a comment on my last post, through twitter, facebook or by sending me an email. It’s been somewhat overwhelming to be honest!
It’s also been my first week back at work after the Christmas and new year holidays and I’ve been very busy, so I haven’t (yet) been able to reply to everyone who’s contacted me and I apologise if you’re one of the people on that list. I will try to get my act together over the course of the next few days.
By tim, on January 4th, 2012 at 9:22 pm tenpencepiece.net is my second attempt at blogging. My first, which was created during the early days of blogger, ran out of steam at some point during the early 2000s. I eventually deleted it and I don’t have a backup, but I know that it wasn’t very good. Fortunately, I’m certain that almost no-one read it.
It wasn’t until late 2008 that I started again. I was between OU modules and was due to start ED209, but I didn’t start this one with any particular intent to blog about my OU experience. However, for most of the last 3 years that’s . . . → Read More: Why this blog went dark over Christmas
By tim, on January 2nd, 2012 at 3:24 pm A look back at the eleven most read posts on this blog from 2011, in 2011.
Open University students in limbo over fees until spring 2012 (1,397 views) From 2nd May, when the OU’s own (now defunct) fourinten campaign was suggesting that OU students would have to wait until the spring of 2012 to find out what autumn 2012 fees would be. I calculated £4,965 as being the likely 120 credit equivalent for students in England – not too far away from the £5,000 eventually announced. A headline no-one wanted to see – OU fees to rise to £5,000 in . . . → Read More: Eleven from eleven in eleven
By tim, on November 8th, 2011 at 2:30 pm Dear Akismet,
I have a small suggestion which will improve your usually amazing comment spam-killing abilities by several orders of magnitude. In the spirit of open source, I won’t be charging you for my advice.
If a comment has the phrase “ugg boots” anywhere at all – including in the person’s name, email address or website fields, it’s spam.
No-one needs to make a manual decision about deleting it.
Yours, etc.
p.s. What are “ugg boots”, anyway?
By tim, on September 26th, 2011 at 1:08 pm A few days ago, I blogged about the pitiful state of the plants outside Derby Station and also complained to East Midlands Trains. This email has arrived today:
Dear Tim
Thank you for your email.
As a follow up to my previous email, I can confirm that works are scheduled to commence on the areas of borders/gardens surrounding the main entrance to Derby station over the next few days.
Kind regards
********* Customer Relations Officer
I’m looking forward to the improvements!
By tim, on September 6th, 2011 at 1:04 pm I came across a brand new student blog called Playwright (in training) the other day. Unfortunately, as she’s not associated with the OU, I can’t justify adding her to my blogroll.
However, I did think that it would be good to try to encourage promising new blogging talent. So do pay her a visit … and tell her that her father sent you there!
By tim, on June 16th, 2011 at 10:37 am Further to my recent post on the subject, another piece of entertaining comment spam has just landed in my blog's filter:
Mythical! This blog looks just like my prehistoric identical! It’s on a completely different subject-matter but it has pretty much the same layout and design. Sterling selection of colors!
You've got to award this one 9/10 for effort …
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