Comments on: Physics at A Level

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:43:37 +0000

Would I make money from ads on my blog? Well, I have actually got this choice, because I could migrate my blog to my own host and have as many ads as I like.

But I don’t.

WordPress decided to put ads on my most popular post (a Lucy Gao entry) and I immediately sent in an outraged Dear Support People I Am Coming For You email. The ads are now gone. I chose WordPress in part because it didn’t have ads. Some of my friends have said I could make a living off ads there, particularly as I don’t live large, but it just doesn’t sit right. I guess I’ve swallowed whole the “Chinese Wall” model of writing/publishing.

And so I remain poor but proud. Although I note the rich ones don’t fall short in the pride department either…hmmmmmmm.

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By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:08:56 +0000

All right. I’ve been to pepperpot’s site (because she linked to me and I’m a sucker for googlejuice) and I agree she wasn’t spamming. But you’ve got to keep it to ONE thread, not two or more. Three identical links in two threads is two too many for comfort.

So I apologize to pepperpot, but not to the overenthusiastic pepperpotters who have been peppering the site with her links.

Such as myself.

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:39:58 +0000

Why do we need A levels at all?

I personally study 2 sciences (physics and chemistry), 2 humanities (English and History), and the Classics (real classics – Latin and Greek – not the watered down “CLass Civ”).

I don’t want to be forced to choose any subjects at all – however crunchy they may be.

Why can’t we operate a more loose education system, where pupils have the option to attend a smaller number of lessons in a much wider range of subjects, in such a way as to allow each to work to his own level.

Universities could easily set entrance exams, which would (free from the clutches of our ridiculous government Education department) genuinely challenge pupils without wasting huge amoutns of time being “taught for exams”.

This would aid the idea of social mobility through education: people would be driven by their personal ambitions and motivations, rather than the desire of their school to move up the league tables.

Ok – perhaps this is wishful thinking!

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By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:43:00 +0000

Mr Spammer is actually a Ms Spammer and you’ll get nothing but sarcasm and abuse from her M.

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By: M

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:25:39 +0000

Oi, Rainwhatsit… my friend didn’t know I was advertising their insight into this subject. So hold your horses, Mr. Spammer and personally I think you owe Pepperpot an appology.

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By: jaq

jaq — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:38:17 +0000

Steven, Ultimately it is the contracters choice. I simply wondered what that was.

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By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:57:31 +0000

Jaq,

You contract an ad agency and they worry about all that stuff.

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By: jaq

jaq — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:50:45 +0000

Steven – “Does your psychometric test book say anything about the people who answer that question with ‘follower’, ‘suit’, or ‘water’?” – no it didn’t.

Flo – thank God for the “critical thinking, Protestant Non Conformists, the nascent Bourgeoisie” ’cause I know who does the laundry in my house and it aint a bloke!

There’s only one thing better than appliances folks, and believe me I just lurve my dishwasher, mwa!, but I’ve just experienced the only thing that’s better – staff!!

raincoaster – actually Steven’s got a point there, you could make money but would you descriminate with advertising or just sell to anyone? Would you host a Boris for PM advert? A porn site ad? A gambling site ad? A BNP ad?

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By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:34:40 +0000

Just think, if you’d have invested a bit of time learning HTML and a bit of cash in your own site you could sell adverts and afford a passport!

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By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:57:03 +0000

Raincoaster is delusional; she is a delusional anarchal communist who is trying to take over the internet.

Steven is, finally, right about something. All except the delusional part; the delusion would be to think I can’t do it. (#2 blog on WordPress, out of 331,000)

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