Up the aristocracy!

2.         Opening of the Robert Hooke Building

Dear Colleagues,

The plan is to divide the event into three parts. Because of concerns over the weather, the formal unveiling of a plaque will take place in a marquis erected outside the Robert Hooke building.

You do the science

1. “OU Research shows that as worms munch through our kitchen scraps on the way to making compost for us, they give off nitrous oxide.”

2. “The fatal explosion in the Mojave desert that hit the Virgin space programme was caused by nitrous oxide.”

I don't know about you but I am not going to walk behind any worms for a while.

Ever wondered..?

.. what they do in the Regions? All was revealed when the OU announced that the Corps had won the tender for campus security.

"The Corps is one of the top security companies in the UK and an SIA Approved Contractor. We specialise in providing corporate security and have over 3,000 licensed security staff which operate from our 13 regional offices throughout the UK."

Logo Jam

The OU used to have problems in the early day over clashes with the Philips logo





Today I was surprised to see this Cubist version from Hotpoint.

Whereas we in the UK...

.. are very attentive. We even protect our roadworks from the rain.

Give me voice-activated software - now!

"But what is more staggering is that there are almost 67 times as many germs in a keyboard than on a toilet seat, a sobering thought given many of us spend a large chunk of our lives hammering away at the keys."

http://www.micromart.co.uk/features/article/default.aspx?id=22858

Waterwheels

This was taken in NZ but seems topical

A sign in Barcelona

What about the women?

Serious incident on campus

Police are investigating how a man wearing boxing gloves came to be run over by a yellow line marking machine.

If you have any information that you think may be relevant, you are seriously deluded.