November 2005 Archives
Tom, Jo, Barney and Rosa came round for the day, spending a couple of hours this morning at a silhouette animation workshop at the Barbican, tied into the London Children's Film Festival (and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), before a lunch of soup/bean on toast and then out again. Leaving Jo to explore the delights of Spitalfields Sunday market, I took TBR on a winding walk through the City's backstreets to get to The Monument and Pudding Lane, where the Great Fire of London started in 1666 and which Rosa is studying at school at the moment.
I know, sounds like it's a rare event, which in many ways it is. Phil and I are great at walking into central London to get to classes at the City Lit, and to the cinema, and for the occasional mutually successful stroll along TCR for gadgets and flat furniture/stuff, but we rarely head into town for anything else, apart from the occasional group drinks, which are becoming increasingly rare as folk settle down and start sprogging.....
However, having been talking with Cait for a while about a night out at the theatre after our joint trip to see Stuart Lee at the Soho Theatre, we ended up arranging to meet her and Mackay in Leicester Square to watch Richard Herring do stand up in Ruby Blue, after which we headed round the corner into China Town for a leisurely meal - there was even a veggie set meal option! We all had a lovely time, and a late night!
.... in Emily Bell's piece on the new search they've implemented on The Guardian's websites, Forget the baroque syntax - searching is now easier than ever:
We have ditched what Stephen Dunn, our chief technical officer, described as the "baroque syntax" of our old search, which delivered poor results, and replaced it with something that enables you, we hope, to find what you are looking for, but also offers added information about our journalism.
One for Silhilians only I suspect, but it still makes me go "How cool is that?!".
I've just had a go at doing the homework our tutor, Alex, set us at the end of last Saturday's session - the first of three classes on Learn to write JavaScript at The City Lit. Doing a Saturday class is a bit of a killer, especially one that runs from 10am to 5pm.
This week's homework came in two parts:
1. Write half a page of A4 on why you're studying JavaScript;
2. Write some JavaScript to do a calculation similar to the make_triple one Alex talked us through at the end of session 1, demonstrating variable scope.
Here it is: Download file
And here is another example Phil talked me through: Download file