Matt

I lived with two maths people last year- one of them is still on the lookout for a graduate job, the other works for Barclays Capital in Tokyo. You have to look at it from the employers point of view. If they're looking for a first-class degree only, either they require a high level of proficiency or want someone who will be a workaholic. The bulk of grad jobs require only a 2:1. If you come out with any good degree then you can do pretty much anything you like, and if you can wheel off various experiences and skills gained outside of your uni curriculum (job related skills, not necking a pint in 4 seconds) then you will be an attractive prospect. I did the very generally-named 'Management' BBA at Lancaster (got a 2:1) and have somehow found myself as a trainee accountant and the little celebration I had for my 'last exam ever' back in June has proven premature in the extreme. I'll never mock Gemill again. I now realise it's not his fault.

Where was the co-ordination and organisation? It's against teams like Everton where our 'just buy good players and put them out on the pitch' philosophy falls to pieces. All they had to do today was stay tight and pressurise us, we would do the rest for them. They didn't even have to play particularly well.

Work permitting I'll be there at some stage.

Great pic from the BBC

I'm up early tomorrow revising for shit exams. On the plus side, I bought a car today. On the down side again, if I fail these exams I will be sacked from my job and will have to sell my car or body parts to the value of the aforementioned vehicle.

ONut, any chance you could make sense of the stories on Marca.es? They seem to be a bit more in-depth than the Skysports one.

The lack of quotes speaks volumes.

I'm a little baffled as to exactly where the money would come from unless we've decided to finance several years' worth of spending in one season, which I would consider to be stupid in the extreme.

Is there a new series or is it the first one repeated? You get some real numpts on there. Girl with very stupid idea: "My forecast is for £40k profit within 3 years" One of the bastards: "Is that gross or net profit" Girl: "Erm....gross. No, net. Erm......I'm not sure" Bannatyne: "You don't know the difference? Jesus, you are wasting your time".

We did better than we thought, talked to about 10 or so people, they were all interested, not just randomly inquisitive. They were going to go without free stuff until I said you NEED free stuff to entice the student types.

I've never had my phone, or anything else nicked. Unless you count the charva that swiped a load of my Merlin 95 stickers. The bastard.

Here's an idea. Try not buying phones from shady blokes in pubs with no idea where it came from. That way there won't be so much demand for them and perhaps some poor bastard won't have to put up with being jumped and having his phone nicked. That could be a mate, family or you. I'm delighted that it doesn't work.

Now are you quite sure of the gender this time?

Never any bother buying, but I have had to issue a refund due to an item not turning up- the value of the item meant it wasnt worth sending recorded so I just issued the refund and wrote off the loss.

I have a friend who is looking to move up to Newcastle next year as she knows a few people up here and fancies a change of scenery. She's looking for actuarial work- I'm going directly off her description here as I'm not 100% what they do- but it would be working with mortgages, pensions or investments, preferably the latter. It would be an environment suited to gaining the relevant actuarial qualifications in a supportive environment. She's got a bit of experience having worked at a local Building Society in Cheshire in a basic actuarial role, and a relevant background in maths. There must be a couple of you who work in the operations at the various places up here, so if you know of somewhere that would be a good shout for this kind of work I'll pass the details on. Cheers for helping out!

http://www.rdc.co.uk - Try their online shop also http://www.europc.co.uk

Good to meet you.

We can but hope.....

I've already heard the phrase 'the sign of a good team is when you can play badly and still win'- my view on this has always been that good teams realise when they've done well to get 3 points out of a match and work on how to improve their game for next week. We've got a lot to work on. If we go out and play like that against Chelsea, we'll get hammered.

Post match- meet up outside the old club shop.

Fuck it? Read up- there's me, Peasepud, Cath (before), Alreetlike, Bridget, Lou, Alex and PL. Even factoring in a few cryoffs that's not bad. The venue is simple seeing as its a normal kickoff. The Union Rooms, back room 1pm. There'll be a game on the screen- Villa-Liverpool I think.

Walker?

The thing with Iran is that it is such a mix of traditional conservatives and modernisers. The cruical difference between them is whether religion should dictate the political system. Long article, but a great insight- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../iran/casey.xml

You're looking for IP proxies. Never used em myself, but stick it into google and you should find something. Why the need to hide anyway- are you out of material?

Routers are the way forward, even for just a single connection. They seem to be generally more reliable than USB modems. As for the modem issue- you cant simply transfer files as the setup process on the CD will very like put various entries in the Windows registry which you can't transfer manually without some very careful tinkering. You will have to go through the setup procedures again and will probably have to stick in your account details unless its one of these modems which remembers your details (which it probably isn't).