DD303 – Week 4

This week’s study has been a bit of a refresher on methods, statistics and getting to grips with SPSS again. I don’t think I’ve covered anything I didn’t already know (or should have known from DSE212/DXR222), but it was good to revisit the material after the mostly stats-free ED209 last year.

I really do need to get to grips with writing up TMA01 though. I still haven’t done this, although it should be fairly straightforward. However, I do need to find some time to figure out how I can work the material in Naish’s paper ‘The locus of the Stroop . . . → Read More: DD303 – Week 4

Is Amazon losing its way?

One of the things I used to really like about Amazon was that the marketing emails it occasionally sent you and the recommendations it made on its site were usually pretty good. Spookily accurate in some instances. However, I have noticed over the last year that these predictions are becoming far less good and, dare I say it, pretty bad on occasions too. For example, I bought my wife a digital camera from Amazon for her birthday in June and I’ve now twice had emails suggesting that as I bought this camera, perhaps I’d like to buy the same camera . . . → Read More: Is Amazon losing its way?

Reflections on The Damned United

I went to see the Damned United yesterday lunchtime, in a cinema in Derby. There were less than 20 of us in the auditorium (perhaps the later showings are better attended), but nonetheless, we were treated to a glorious trip down memory lane – albeit quite a few of the memories are obviously fictional (Clough begging Taylor to forgive him at the end of the film – I don’t think so!)

The interviews Clough gave to Austin Mitchell on Yorkshire Television bracket the film(*), and as the originals  are still available in the archives, they provide an anchor in reality . . . → Read More: Reflections on The Damned United

The Damned United

I’ve just come across the trailer for the film of David Peace’s book “The Damned United”, which was the most memorable book I read last summer. While the portrayal of Brian Clough in the book (and presumably in the film too) has provoked criticism in Derby, I’m certainly looking forward to seeing it, because if nothing else the book was a well written piece of fiction. Or fact. Or faction perhaps?

Can we win it? Yes we can!

Good to see the Mayor of Derby backing the Rams tonight for a shock victory against Manchester United. Even more pleasing to see that Barack Obama appears to have taken time out of his busy schedule today to wish Nigel Clough’s men well in the comments section!

10.30pm … oh well, it was fun while it lasted … perhaps on Friday against Forest.

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