For one of my courses I have to write an essay on a topic related to computer forensics that hasn't been taught in class. I have chosen to write mine on criminology of computer crime, and it's so interesting! If you want a really good overview of criminology then read the following two PDFs - Criminological … Continue reading The Criminology of Computer Crime
Number One, Edinburgh
I had a great birthday weekend, go-karting on Saturday followed by an amazing evening meal at Number One on Sunday, a Michelin star restaurant in Edinburgh. Steven and I had been to Number One before as part of a 'young people' food week they took part in last year. To encourage young people to eat out in … Continue reading Number One, Edinburgh
30 Seconds to Mars @ SECC, Glasgow
Wow. Never have I been to a gig where the band where so into interacting with the crowd. Maybe it's because the lead singer, Jared Leto is also a Hollywood actor and knows how to work people, but it was just incredible. A lot of bands don't seem bothered to go past "Hello <insert city>!" and maybe … Continue reading 30 Seconds to Mars @ SECC, Glasgow
Dick Vet Spring Lectures: Not a Happy Bunny?
Yesterday evening I went to a public lecture held by the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies on preventative healthcare for rabbits, with Brigitte Reusch as the speaker. There are a couple more lectures in the series over the next few weeks on dogs, cats and horses if anyone is in Edinburgh and interested. Brigitte Reusch made the BBC … Continue reading Dick Vet Spring Lectures: Not a Happy Bunny?
Using Microsoft Word 2007 Part 3
In my final part of this tutorial on using some of Word’s nifty features, I explain how to number pages correctly in a thesis or long essay. My previous entries explain using styles and referencing. In a long essay, you generally do not have numbers on the title page, abstract and contents page. Number 1 usually starts a … Continue reading Using Microsoft Word 2007 Part 3
Using Microsoft Word 2007 Part 2
In my previous post, I mentioned how to use Styles properly. Here I will explain referencing and making an automatic bibliography. When you add an image, graph or table you usually want to put a caption underneath it. This is easily done by right-clicking the figure, and pressing “Insert Caption”. Type some text after Figure x and press … Continue reading Using Microsoft Word 2007 Part 2
Using Microsoft Word 2007
I keep being asked to show people all the cool features in Microsoft Word that not many people realise exist or how to take advantage of. Many people struggle with auto generating contents pages, bibliographies and proper page numbering when Word 2007 makes it so easy. I will do a three part series explaining how … Continue reading Using Microsoft Word 2007
Mixing up qualitative and quantitative data
It upsets me when papers make the effort to do proper usability studies and then misuse the results because they get confused by qualitative and quantitative data. As nicely explained in my HCI notes, quantitative data has a "structure of integers or real numbers, e.g.number of errors (discrete) or time to complete task (continuous)", whilst qualitative data is essentially everything … Continue reading Mixing up qualitative and quantitative data
Reference Management Software
In preparation for writing a master thesis we have to write a 3000 word dissertation plan, with at least 8 relevant papers for the literature review. My 4th your honours project didn't really involve much of a literature review, so the prospect of organising papers and knowing which bits are important is a bit of a … Continue reading Reference Management Software
Creative Gifts – Part 2
Following on from part 1, here are some more creative ideas for presents. These however require very little artistic skills! Personalised mugs and calendars Websites such as snapfish provide personalised gifts such as mugs, calenders, mouse mats, jigaws and stationary which you can put your photos on. The prices are quite reasonable too - a mug with your … Continue reading Creative Gifts – Part 2
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