New shiny technology

This website (the sidebars, at least) is now being brought to you through the astounding technology that is SSI, Server Side Include. I just learned how to enable it this afternoon, and I'm feeling very pleased with myself, although it's really simple. The only techie bit is the .htaccess file which I had to create, but I got all the content of the file from my webhost's support pages, so it was just a copy&paste job really.

Look at that; I successfully managed to deflate my sense of pride in the space of half a sentence. Didn't know you could do that before.

I think this is the part where I say: "Anyway..."

Well, whaddy'a know, I managed to procrastinate enough this weekend to write the About page after all. And yes, it did turn out to be long - a little over 2000 words. I think I may have digressed from the subject a little in places...

Despite that, I did manage to finish my Physics coursework, having settled down in earnest to do it at 8.30 last night. Dribs and drabs of effort during the day, but it never really felt that urgent until after dinner. On which note, I'm kind of annoyed that I did manage to complete it, since I always fall into this trap - put it off, put it off, put it off, then a huge drive at the end and it's done. Well good, except that this is the reason why I only got four hours' sleep last night and also have had a vague guilty feeling at the back of my mind for the last two weeks. I mean, I really should have done it (or at least started it) during half-term, or even last week through the mocks, but nooo. My semi-valid excuse is that this is how I work most efficiently - long bouts of concentrated effort, even when I'm revising for exams. Contrary to all those revision guidelines that advise you to take a break every half an hour, I find it difficult to break off what I'm doing and so I revise for three or four hour stretches at a time. Except when I'm using my 'cramming for exam an hour before it starts' technique, which I employed last week. We'll see if it worked when I get my results back this week! Seems to have done the trick so far though - two physics papers, 28/40 (high B) and 54/60 (high A). Just another seven papers to get back now :)

Anyway, this is why I didn't apply to Oxbridge for uni - no self-discipline. I kept waiting for the guilt to kick in for leaving it all to the last minute, but it never did; the very last minute eventually being 2am, when I went to bed.

Oh, and I found out this morning that the final deadline had apparently been changed to next Monday. Gah.

It seems that with season 7 of Buffy being the last one, it'll have all finished by the time I catch up - I've got just less than two series of Angel and two series of Buffy left before I even start watching S7. Oh well, there's always Angel (and Ripper, and the possible Faith spin-off...)

And I leave you with news that, according to one of the biologists who discovered the structure of DNA, stupidity is a curable disease. Yay to that.