The Indian Summer ended today when high winds and torrential rain arrived. Within minutes, there was minor flooding on my path home across Singleton Park to Brynmill. It was also nearly dark at 5.00 pm so winter’s almost with us. [](http://picasa.google.com/blogger/)
Since I discovered them a month or so ago, I have been tuning in to the webcasts of Brian Harvey’s course “61A Introduction to Computer Science” from the University of California Berkeley. A couple of things struck me. First, the breadth of this introductory *course which seems to take in the whole of computer science from functional programming through to logic programming and seemingly all types of programming in between. Second, the length of the semester in the US: from August 27 through to December 10 (about 5 weeks longer than the *Michaelmas term in Swansea)....
There are all kinds of interesting nooks and crannies on campus. Here’s a mock gothic window in Singleton Abbey. I like the heads had the bas of the arches. [](http://picasa.google.com/blogger/)
Today I introduced blogging to my students in EG-259.
As noted in a previous post, I am working on a 365 photos project and that means that I al ways have a camera with me and need to find a suitable subject every day. This one didn’t make it into today’s selection but I still quite like it. Your mission, should you choose to accept, it is to identify the spot in the University where this historic entrance to the Arts faculty is located....