The longest, most expensive, most contentious, and down right ugliest campaign in U.S. history has just ended and Illinois Senator Barack Obama has become the first African-American candidate to win the presidency. History has been made!
Now what does he do?
Sitting in Gloucestershire this week watching the elections returns via the Internet, blogs, and the BBC, [...]
It has never tasted so good, especially at 18p a can. The last time I ate rice pudding I must have been eight and now ten years later I have started again. There is something warm and delightful about starting habits which reminisce back to childhood days. I can already hear one of my psychologist [...]
From A to B, How Many Hours Wasted ? by Liam Hamilton
Most people today use e-mail. Some people like it some hate it. What are the other effects of e-mail though? How long do we become distracted by e-mails? Apparently it’s something like 64 seconds on average. Sixty-four seconds is the amount of time it [...]
The Credit Crunch….But what does it all mean? By Samuel Cranmer
This time last year ‘The Credit Crunch’ was a literally non-existent term; 12 months later and it’s seen sprawled over every newspaper and is the topic of debate on every daytime chat show. Not only is it dominating the news but I’m sure the majority [...]
A Student’s Matter Clay Pots By Michael White
What do you consider as art? I got into a discussion over this very question with a friend last weekend. He considered art to be something which served no purpose other than that to be beautiful. I can understand this view but at the same time we could say [...]
If you’re after a new Laptop or PC for that matter there can often be a few things you might want to consider. RAM stands for Random Access Memory. RAM is used every time you open applications to store files you need to access often to run the programs you have open.
When you run [...]
It gives me the moistest of excitable feelings in introducing you to the first in a series of columns designed to add that icing to your university life.
I can’t explain why it is that columnist have the liberty to spread their opinion over the masses. After all, what have I achieved to leak my feelings [...]
Last month it was announced by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that the first ID cards were to be issued in November to people from outside the European economic area wishing to renew their stay in the UK as students or on the basis of marriage.
The issue of whether the UK needs ID cards has [...]
By the end of the current US presidential election, George W Bush will thankfully no longer be the most powerful man in the world, with that title most likely going to either John McCain or Barack Obama. Never before has a presidential election generated so much interest in the British press, which is not surprising [...]
Something all of us should do during our lifetimes is have our DNA mapped. Not only does it tell our personal genetic life story but it reveals our close kinship with every life form on the planet. However the last time I looked at the cost for this insightful service it cost £300. What I [...]
