Although I have become accustomed to disappointment with my final year at university, graduation arrangements have proved the final straw. Traditionally held in Swansea’s Brangwyn Hall, the graduation is supposed to be the highlight of our university lives. My parents both graduated from Swansea University (or University College, Swansea as it was back then) in [...]
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MEng Computing with Upper Second Class Hons.
29 June 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
After 4 years of lectures, coursework, projects, dissertations and exams, its finally time for me to enter the real world. My time at Swansea University has come to an end. Just over a week ago I was given the result of all this hard work – a Master of Engineering in Computing with Upper Second [...]
Drench Brains Advert
28 May 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Following Cadbury’s Gorilla, Drench have gone for Brains from Thunderbirds dancing to Rhythm is a Dancer. Great advert – if only more of them were like this! The making of & other bits and pieces here.
Government plans database for all emails
20 May 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
What is the government thinking? The BBC and The Times are reporting that the Home Office are planning to put together a national database of all phone and email communications. It is another of the schemes proposed to combat terrorism and improve national security – but like all the others, it is just a disaster [...]
The tweets have been silenced…
19 May 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
… well, almost. I’ve removed the daily digest of twitter entries from the homepage, archive pages and RSS feed. I decided they were cluttering things up a bit too much. You can still follow my twitter messages though at twitter.com/dafyddbach or keep up with the daily digest in the ‘tweets‘ category.
Local Election Websites: Review
9 May 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the final part of a series of entries looking at websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Over the last few entries, I’ve looked at some of the websites used by county councils to provide details of the 2008 local elections. Some of these websites (mainly Monmouthshire County Council) were [...]
Local Election Websites: Cardiff Council
7 May 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
This is the third part of a series of entries covering websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Previous I evaluated websites operated by Monmouthshire County Council and the City and County of Swansea. In this entry, I will look at the site run by Cardiff Council. Cardiff Council’s local election website [...]
Local Election Websites: Swansea City Council
5 May 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the second part in a series of entries looking at local election websites run by various county councils across Wales. Previously I examined the county of Monmouthshire. In this entry, I take a look at the website run by Swansea City Council. Swansea City Council has taken a very different approach to that [...]
Local Election Websites: Monmouthshire County Council
3 May 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is part of a series of blog entries looking at local election websites run by various county council’s across Wales. In this entry I look at the live election site run by Monmouthshire County Council. MCC made use of a piece of software by Associated Knowledge Systems Ltd to show the results from each [...]