Trends....

According to google trends, Bristol is the most suicidal city in England, closely followed by Liverpool (but they're from the north, so they don't count!). Slightly worryingly, I'm surrounded by suicidal cities too... Brighton being 4th most suicidal, and Portsmouth being 5th. But that's not the worst - I'm living near a bunch of psychos... Portsmouth has the 4th highest result for "Murder". Yikes.

Interestingly enough, Portsmouth, Brighton are top searchers for the term scum. Bristol, who are further down the list, also seem to be worried about scum. Could there be a link between the amount of unpleasant common scum in a city and suicide rates?

Of course, stats can prove anything...

The road becomes more dangerous...

I've just got my provisional licence through the post, and will soon be learning to ride a two-wheeled life expectancy shrinker... :-)

Be a while before I can afford one - I think I'll have to sell a few possessions... Like my beloved PS2, for example. :-(

Lacking Chemistry

The University of Sussex appears to have made a rather foolish decision - to abolish the traditional Chemistry degree, despite applications increasing by around 40%, choosing to focus on other English, history, media, and maths.
This could prove to be rather irritating, as I was considering Sussex as a possibility - their science department's pretty good, but seeing as they've decided to dumb down the Chemistry degrees - or Chemical Biology as they've now called it - I don't think they're going to be worth it.

1 second...

Tonight, at 2 minutes and 3 seconds past one, the time will be 01:02:03 04/05/06...

Pretty cool, huh?