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| 2013-05-24 22:11:00 |
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pics from my birthday
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Grafitti at Napier
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| 2013-05-24 22:04:00 |
Students are so intelligent!
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from one immigrant to some others…
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| 2013-05-24 20:48:00 |
Add your own examples if you like
Revelation in a train toilet
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| 2013-05-22 12:37:00 | amused | A billion balconies facing the sun – Manic Street Preachers |
On the 10:51 from Edinburgh to Birmingham, I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror and realised why the world’s best spinning club name is Lifescycle, not Lifecycle. The former has 10 letters, so 5 letters either side of the maillot’s zip and hence easily readable.
Genius!
Lifescycle folk
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| 2013-05-17 18:35:00 | calm | News Quiz |
Some of us met up to give Stewart a good send-off. His project in Edinburgh has finished, so he’s moving to a project in Manchester. Here’s some snaps.
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| Bruce, Derek, Hugh | Bruce, Derek, Jo, Johnnie W, Stewart, Adam |
Marked!
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| 2013-05-15 19:00:00 | pleased | none |
The marks for the second coursework for the Management of Software Projects module have just been released.
Dear Bruce
This email gives you your marks and some individual feedback on your submitted Coursework. Thank you for the effort you put into this piece of work.
Further detailed comments and feedback on your submission can be found on TurnItIn’s Grademark. (This is an experiment – your feedback would be useful). You are of course also welcome to contact me for further individual feedback.
Kind regards
<Lecturer-name>
Name: Ryan, Bruce
Matric Number 40070877
INF11103 Management of Software Projects – Coursework 2 marks and feedback
| Marking grid | Weighting | Overall | Comments |
| As usual, a huge amount of work has clearly gone into this, but there is still some work to do in communicating it in fluent English. | |||
| Abstract, Introduction and contextual discussion | 10 | P5 | Sets out context and content of the paper well. Be clearer about what the paper is aiming to achieve though. |
| Research activity, range of materials used and topic coverage. | 10 | D2 | Excellent range of sources, though I would avoid using multiple papers from the same author if they are all saying much the same thing |
| Synthesis and analysis of the main issue under discussion | 20 | D1 | Excellent – You cover a lot of ground. However sometimes there is a sense of getting lost in the details. |
| Discussion of topic and conclusions drawn within the wider ERP context | 20 | D1 | Excellent insights |
| Presentation and readability, structure, referencing | 10 | P5 | Good presentation though I would suggest fewer subheadings would help improve the flow of argument |
| Overall total | D1 – Excellent | ||
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| Meets the specification given | Ex | Explanation Ex – Excellent Gd – Good OK – OK / Satisfactory Pr – Poor Un – Missing / unattempted |
| Treats topics in depth | Ex | |
| Is evaluative/analytical rather than descriptive | Ex | |
| Justifies/illustrates its arguments well | Ex | |
| Uses an impersonal/academic writing style | Ex | |
| Is fluent, succinct and grammatical | OK | |
| Has few spelling / typing errors | Ex | |
| Is well set out in an appropriate format | Ex | |
| Organises the material appropriately | OK | |
| Uses a good range of appropriate sources | Ex | |
| Consistently applies an approved referencing system | Ex | |
I’m well aware how turgid my English can be, even for academic writing. I think this will be with me until they nail the lid down. Unfortunately I can’t yet download the annotated piece from Moodle (Napier’s virtual learning environment), so I may well end up copying and pasting annotations into a local copy. The unannotated version is here.
So it appears I’ve passed this module. If so, I now have enough taught-module credits for the MSc. (I took an extra module this in the second term of 2011-12.) I won’t update the infographic until the module mark is released.
I want one
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| 2013-05-14 17:35:00 | amused | none |
In the land of tech support where the PEBCAKS lie,
One t-shirt to rule them all, one t-shirt to find them,
One t-shirt to bring them all and in the darkness despise them
Spinning the world away
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| 2013-05-12 23:58:00 | bouncy | Radio 4 |
First exercise high in several weeks at the Sunday Sundowner tonight. Unexpected because I was feeling quite frowsty before we started. Inspiration came from Jo to my left, Hugh to my far left, Elly to my right, all the other lifescyclers and Martino’s unique footwear.
(And let’s not forget that final track!)
Thank you all!
Showing my age
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| 2013-05-09 21:42:00 | happy | The Doors – Hyacinth House |
The Doors’ LA Woman is fantastic to cycle to! Even better if the mojo rising section starts just as you pull away from a stop.
Not that you should be cycling to music, of course.
By the way, just had my first ever personal training session – interesting and fun. This follows last night’s spinning session which was packed and very, very hot. I wanted my bike to start moving so I could leave my acrid sweat-pong behind. Uurrgghh!
A farewell to teaching
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| 2013-05-08 16:22:00 | thoughtful | none! |
So I handed in my final classwork on Monday. (It’s some thoughts on risk management in software projects and is here.)
So having taken yesterday and today to do some postponed personal stuff, tomorrow I launch into my MSc dissertation. I’ll work on that 3 days a week (I’m a part-time student), leaving 2 days for freelance work, self-guided study (PHP, other web-programming stuff and further explorations of Java, probably), teaching cycling skills, …
I won’t be bored!
Digital evidence that Bruce might have a life 