Posts from 2001 (page 7/8)
Tue Mar 20 2001

Well, another year older and wiser. Good Grand Prix, good Enigma this week (wrote a computer program; took me hours to debug it!!). New word; diaphanous \dye-AF-uh-nuhss\: characterized by extreme delicacy of form : ethereal, insubstantial, vague. MIR’s splashdown has also been delayed until Friday, and apparantly there’s going to be blizzards this evening! I […]

Wed Mar 14 2001

Don’t forget – Malaysian Grand Prix this weekend (06.45 – 09.05 Sunday morning on ITV) Also just found a most cool site – Star Wars in asciimation

Tue Mar 13 2001

Mir’s return to Earth has been delayed until March 20th. So that’ll be 3 days after my birthday then (hint hint <g>)

Fri Mar 09 2001

A letter/digit Enigma this week – nice one too (although doing it on the train caused me to miss my stop!!!). Probably 45-50 mins.

Mon Mar 05 2001

New word – thrasonical: Bragging or boastful. Also added a new link to Ananova – the virtual newscaster.

Mon Mar 05 2001

Another new word – eupeptic: cheerful, optimistic.

Fri Mar 02 2001

Interesting enigma – did it by brute force in probably 45-50 minutes, but think there’s probably a trick I missed!

Fri Mar 02 2001

Don’t forget – Australian Grand Prix this weekend!!

Thu Feb 22 2001

Very easy enigma – 15 mins on the train.

Thu Feb 15 2001

Nice enigma this week. Took me an hour, but I wrote a computer program to do it’cos my mental arithmatic isn’t working properly (too much marking!!)