I’ve got to be honest, I haven’t been involved in the CyberCenturion IV competition as much as I was with the 3rd one. After watching the teams compete during the first competition round, during the second round the school closed early due to snow (I was involved with sending out all of the messages, and […]
CyberCenturion IV – Round 1
Well, it’s time again for CyberCenturion. After getting two out of three teams into the CyberCenturion III final, we had high hopes of getting our teams into the 4th CyberCenturion competition, out of the 500-or-so teams taking part this year. While there had been some shuffling of the team members since the last competition, most […]
CyberCenturion III – The Final
Well, after all of the hard work to get through the competition rounds, it was time for the national final! Out of the three teams that our school had entered, we’d managed to get two into it. Up against them were eight other teams from schools around the country. This was going to be a […]
Flippin’ Fantastic
I’ve been doing a lot of cooking recently (if you hadn’t noticed) and as today is quite famous for pancakes, I thought it was time to give it a go. The recipe was fairly straight forward, and most of the time this took was used to let the batter settle. To create the batter, some […]
CyberCenturion III – Round 3
After the last few posts of things completely unrelated to computers, it’s back to business with round 3 of CyberCenturion. And what a tough round it was! The American teams seemed to say that it was difficult, so our teams were able to brace themselves, but there were so many things needed to be completed. […]
Orange You Glad I Picked Blue?
Don’t worry, that title will make sense soon. I promise! Anyway, you can probably guess this is another baking focussed post, as the feature image probably gave the game away. However, I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to see if I made fairy cakes or cupcakes (because I certainly don’t know!). But, […]
Cherry Nice to Meet You
After having made a number of cakes full of sugar, this time I’ve gone for the healthy route. Well, it contains cherries, and they’re a fruit, so it’s healthy. Right? I shall again be using a recipe from the book that I received at Christmas, along with the ingredients that it said were needed. I […]
Feeding the Devil
It’s quite interesting to see that over the last few months I’ve started to get into cooking. While I did the few microwavable items, I didn’t really do much “proper” cooking. And while you could argue that baking cakes and desserts doesn’t really count as cooking, I argue that I get to eat them and […]
A Year at the (Meerkat) Movies
For quite a while, if you were an Orange customer you were able to partake in “Orange Wednesdays”, which allowed 2-4-1 access to see any film you wanted. Unfortunately, this ended a while ago, and there wasn’t anything to replace it for a little bit of time. Luckily, the famous meerkat comparison website came along […]
CyberCenturion III – Round 2
Well, this round was certainly harder than the last one. Everyone agreed with that. This time around there were three images: Windows Server 2008, Windows 8 and Ubuntu 14.04. While the students had been able to practice with these operating systems outside of the competition rounds and get used to them, it’s more difficult under […]