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Tuesday, 10 March 2020 14:49
claidheamhmor: (Ladyhawke)
My two Unisa courses remaining are PYC3716 Community Psychology and CMY3705 Victimology.

Victimology deals with victims of crime, and does have some focus on specific types of crime, like violence against women and children. The textbook, which I've already read, it about 65 pages long. I've started work on the first assignment, which deals with crimes committed for cultural reasons, like FGM, initiation/male circumcision, and ritual kidnapping. It's pretty interesting, and I have collected a few references already.

Community Psychology doesn't have an exam; I need to do a summative assessment based on my experiences volunteering in the community. Since it makes a lot of sense for me, I'll be documenting my experiences as a volunteer for Parkrun. This is all quite interesting. The assignments aren't hard either.

Luckily for lazy me, all the assignments have been extended a couple of weeks.

Wits Parkrun

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 14:59
claidheamhmor: (Lion Run)
On Saturday I ran the Inaugural Wiuts Parkrun at Wits University. It loops its way around West Campus, and there is an absolute monster of a hill. Bruce Fordyce was there, as usual, and since Wits was his alma mater, he wore his red doctoral robes for the introduction. 

We passed the Science Stadium and the Wargames Society room.
 

There's a waterfall!


A church on the koppies near Wits.




On Sunday it was pouring with rain, so I went to the gym and did 30 minutes on the treadmill. I hated it. There's no ventilation, so the sweat poured off me. Afterwards, the treadmill looked like it had been in the rain!

claidheamhmor: (Aes Sedai)
An interesting little vocabulary test, posted by [Bad username or site: malkhos. @ livejournal.com]

Here's the test.

I got 78%.

My tweets

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claidheamhmor: (Fiday)
Here's a bit of interesting stuff for Friday.

Firstly, here's a scan of the menu from a Wimpy (for non-South Africans - an eat-in burger restaurant) from 1983. I don't know what exchange rates were like then - probably around R2 to the US$, but currently the rate is about R7.40 to the US$.

Cut for large image )

Secondly, here's one of the Grade 12 final mathematics papers for 2009. Apparently something like 60% or so of the students writing this exam failed it. I thought it was relatively easy, especially considering the students had a formula sheet in the exam.

Mathematics P1 November 2009 (warning: the PDF is 4MB in size)

What do you think? Too easy?
claidheamhmor: (AthlonX2)
I installed Windows 7 (the release version) on my work PC, my work laptop, and my home PC a couple of weeks ago. So far, I've been impressed; it's working as I expected, and seems to have fixed the awful Office 2007 bug I had experienced on my work PC. Driver support is excellent; the only thing I've had an issue with is my Canon LiDE scanner, of all things; I did get it working, but it's a workaround.

For my assignments, I've been doing quite a bit of work in Word 2007, but also in Visio and Powerpoint 2007. Frankly, I'm not impressed. Word is more than capable for handling day to day documents, but its style support is still flaky and unpredictable, bullets and numbering is still broken (those issues have existed in every version of Word for Windows), and document layout is still quite crude and somewhat unpredictable (for example, I could lay a document out, with page breaks, images, etc., and not be 100% sure that when I reopened the document that everything would be where it was supposed to).

As for Visio and Powerpoint: both are easy enough to use, but I found myself using a mixture of both because neither on its own had the features to do everything I needed. Back in the early 1990s I used to support the Micrografx products, including the Micrografx presentation package, Charisma, and the flowcharter, ABC Flowcharter (at the time, the market leader). I fail to understand why products from 15 years ago were more full-featured in many ways, and easier too, than Microsoft's latest. Has "office" software really reached a features dead-end? Microsoft's stellar office packages are Excel and Outlook; the rest are really not best of breed.

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