Marylebone Station

By tim, on June 25th, 2009 at 10:58 am

Now I don’t want people to think I’m becoming a bit of a train spotter (or a train station spotter to be strictly accurate), but I had reason to go through Marylebone station yesterday evening and this morning. It’s lovely. There are places to sit, it looks cared for, there are a nice range of shops inside it, its clean and inviting, the taxi rank works properly. Everything you’d want in a station, including trains! The next time I play monopoly I’m definitely going to buy it if I get the chance, just on principle.

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TMA05 – first thoughts

By tim, on June 22nd, 2009 at 7:12 pm

I’m now sat on my train back from Cardiff looking at the options for TMA05 and the course book, feeling nervous!

I think option 2 is going to be more interesting for me as it avoids having to deal with too much biology and it re-introduces me to Chomsky, which is about all I can remember from the option I took on neural networks in my computer science degree 25 years ago!

This means I’ll probably skip chapter 3 of book three next week and do chapter 4 instead. That way I should stand a fighting chance of getting the . . . → Read More: TMA05 – first thoughts

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Cardiff Central Station

By tim, on June 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Cardiff Central station must have been designed by C programmers – it has a platform 0!

It also has the loudest and most incomprehensible tannoy system (even when English is being spoken), further proof of the influence of Kernighan and Ritchie methinks.

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