Well, unfortunately the Student General Meeting that I talked about in my last blog entry was cancelled at the last minute which means my website accessibility motion didn’t get heard. However, it will be making an appearance at the next SGM which will be happening in the first week of term – giving me more [...]
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Bad day for Virgin
February 24th, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Yesterday seemed to be an extremely bad day for Virgin. Virgin Media Virgin’s new company – Virgin Media has been involved in a major disagreement with rival supplier Sky over the amount Virgin pays to be able to provide channels such as SkyOne, SkyTwo, SkyThree and SkyNews to its customers. Essentially Sky has insisted that [...]
Google News and Swansea Letter Bomb
February 7th, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
As part of the major upgrades we put into place on the Waterfront website two weeks ago (link), we submitted the website for inclusion on the Google News index. For those that don’t know, Google News scans news websites from across the world and aggregates them into one system. This is a fantastic resource for [...]
Gone Quiet
February 7th, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Well, as always, when things get very busy, I become a bad blogger. It has been over 38 days since I last made a post. So, what have I been doing and why have I been so busy? The last few weeks have literally been non-stop work. The beginning of January was taken up with [...]
Blwydden Newydd Dda
December 31st, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Just thought i’d pop upstairs to post the last blog entry of 2006. Hope everyone has a good new year and with any luck 2007 will be a much better year for everyone i know. Blwydden Newydd Dda x
The chaos begins
November 7th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
The chaos that is the US Mid-term elections have begun today with millions of voters going to the polls to decide whether the Republicans – lead by President George Bush – retain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the next two years. For those that don’t know much about the US [...]
So much for regular updates!
October 27th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
A few weeks ago I made a post about how busy my first week and a half of term was. Well, 3 weeks later and it hasn’t really slowed down, in fact, it’s gotten even busier. Work wise, we’ve had a few pieces of coursework that have had to be handed in already, including a [...]
First week of term
October 10th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Well, what a long week it has been. I meant to make a post over the weekend, but was really busy at home working on the waterfront website and my brother’s new computer. I am supposed to be writing my initial document for my dissertation right now, but as usual I have decided that writing [...]
Crappy Customer Service from Arriva
September 7th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Well yesterday evening had to have been the worse experience of customer service from Arriva Trains Wales I have ever seen – it almost beats the fun I had with Orange last year when getting my contract renewed. The evening started off very well with a meal and few drinks with the guys from work. [...]
Birthday
September 1st, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Yup, yesterday was my 20th birthday (very scary). I can no longer blame things on being a moody teenager. Damn!! Unfortunately I was in work yesterday so most of the day was spent like any other, but when I got home; I found out that my sister Megan was cooking me an absolutely gorgeous 3 [...]