I told my dad I could be in Northampton, or more accurately, somewhere near-ish to Northampton at 11 in the morning on Saturday. I agreed to this when I was in a slight merry mood on Friday night. When I got up at 8 on Saturday feeling a little delicate, I discovered that none of [...]
Archive > August 2008
Holiday romance…
I’m sure Rachel will be mightily disappointed to be missing out on this most gossipy of emails, but she is right this minute having her own very romantic holiday with her much immortalised man. So, with lots of people in the office coming and going from holidays, we got ourselves thinking about r o m [...]
Maths problem
After being assured that I was more likely to get struck by lightening, I won the lottery on Saturday. Well, I won £10, at least.
It got me thinking about the likelihood of things.
In probability theory the birthday problem, or birthday paradox
Quintessentially…
This weekend I went away to Nicole’s 40th birthday, she’s a lovely workmate, here at the charity. Also there was Jill, another work pal, who’s just moved here from the USA. I couldn’t think of a more quintessentially British experience for her than coming to a party in an Arts and Crafts style village hall [...]
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