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Apr. 23rd, 2007 10:04 pmListened to all of Capital Gold's St George's Day English Top 100. Kicking off the countdown at #100 was my beloved Sit Down by James. Given that we were later told that just 29,000 people in all voted, over 2000 songs got at least one vote, and one song in the top ten was said to have only polled 800-odd votes, it's not impossible that my vote was the margin that just nudged Sit Down onto the chart. I admit it's unlikely that the vote was that close, but it's most gratifying to know that enough of my brothers and sisters voted for Sit Down to get it into the top 100.
Throughout the day they offered DAB radios as prizes for people who rang in and told them which song had occupied a number a few spaces back on the countdown. After the first couple had gone, I started writing down all the song titles and phoned in every time, but all I got was permanent engaged tone.
Back to college. Switched on a few minutes before class started to see if I still had that wretched problem with non-appearing slide numbers. I did. Joan at first told me I must have put the slide number icon too close to the margin, but moving it in a bit made no difference. I told Joan so, and she testily said I'd have to wait a while as she was busy 'getting herself sorted'. I spoke to Niki, she came over to my PC and we looked at it together. We tried a few things, then when we hit the 'View' drop-down menu we spotted the 'Header and Footer' option. Hey presto - in the Header and Footer box, 'Slide Number' wasn't ticked. Elementary, my dear Niki.
With that little wrinkle ironed out, we were ready for the mock exam that Joan had offered us at the start of the period (or so I thought). I told Joan I was ready to start, and she, still a bit irritably I thought, said she wasn't ready yet. When she'd done with 'getting herself sorted', she turned her attention to Niki and me. It soon became clear she was offering us the real exam tonight (and that Niki already knew). When I said I'd thought it was going to be the mock, she offered me the chance of a mock instead, but I felt ready to plough on with the real McCoy.
There were one or two things that made me think for a moment, but I sailed through the exam. I got finished, and checked over it three times, within half an hour. I sat there pretending to check it over and over again, until five minutes after I'd got done to my satisfaction, I became aware of Niki handing hers in to Joan. So I went to the front, said I was happy with mine and handed it in too, and Joan sent us both off for coffee while she prepared to introduce us to our last unit, Desktop Publishing.
Joan did show us a little Desktop Publishing, but was hampered by her own forgetting of how to do a couple of things in Publisher (she ended up showing us in Word instead) and by having to constantly leave us to help Jackie with a faulty exam disk and help other students with various issues. During her absences Niki, Liz and I all chatted about their family and home and all our jobs and holiday plans. Eventually, with the end of class imminent, she gave us exercises for homework.
Throughout the day they offered DAB radios as prizes for people who rang in and told them which song had occupied a number a few spaces back on the countdown. After the first couple had gone, I started writing down all the song titles and phoned in every time, but all I got was permanent engaged tone.
Back to college. Switched on a few minutes before class started to see if I still had that wretched problem with non-appearing slide numbers. I did. Joan at first told me I must have put the slide number icon too close to the margin, but moving it in a bit made no difference. I told Joan so, and she testily said I'd have to wait a while as she was busy 'getting herself sorted'. I spoke to Niki, she came over to my PC and we looked at it together. We tried a few things, then when we hit the 'View' drop-down menu we spotted the 'Header and Footer' option. Hey presto - in the Header and Footer box, 'Slide Number' wasn't ticked. Elementary, my dear Niki.
With that little wrinkle ironed out, we were ready for the mock exam that Joan had offered us at the start of the period (or so I thought). I told Joan I was ready to start, and she, still a bit irritably I thought, said she wasn't ready yet. When she'd done with 'getting herself sorted', she turned her attention to Niki and me. It soon became clear she was offering us the real exam tonight (and that Niki already knew). When I said I'd thought it was going to be the mock, she offered me the chance of a mock instead, but I felt ready to plough on with the real McCoy.
There were one or two things that made me think for a moment, but I sailed through the exam. I got finished, and checked over it three times, within half an hour. I sat there pretending to check it over and over again, until five minutes after I'd got done to my satisfaction, I became aware of Niki handing hers in to Joan. So I went to the front, said I was happy with mine and handed it in too, and Joan sent us both off for coffee while she prepared to introduce us to our last unit, Desktop Publishing.
Joan did show us a little Desktop Publishing, but was hampered by her own forgetting of how to do a couple of things in Publisher (she ended up showing us in Word instead) and by having to constantly leave us to help Jackie with a faulty exam disk and help other students with various issues. During her absences Niki, Liz and I all chatted about their family and home and all our jobs and holiday plans. Eventually, with the end of class imminent, she gave us exercises for homework.
