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Before I got ill I used to be a promising student. I started an undergraduate degree in applied Physics when I was 17, learned Dutch, English, Spanish, French, German, Latin and Greek in high school and more.
And now? Studying is hard. The pain affects my brain and actually changes it's structure. It's physically becoming more difficult to study,
As a result, I only take 2 subjects at a time, in stead of 3. I am taking longer, but I am not giving up. I won't. I will finish my graduate study like I've finished my undergraduate study.
A block of the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, photographed from Bushy Park.
The NPL is the UK’s national measurement standards laboratory. It’s the largest applied physics organisation in the UK, and among its many and varied duties is to produce, and maintain the accuracy of, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) – which is derived from three NPL atomic clocks based in Anthorn, Cumbria.
Today, NPL scientists are working on the next generation of time-keeping: they’re developing an optical clock potentially a thousand times more accurate than atomic clocks. And it’s here, in Teddington, that the UK’s definitive kilogram is housed. Only 50 “pure” kilogram standard weights exist in the world – including Britain’s number 18, housed in a bomb-proof safe at the NPL in Teddington.
In a discussion in the Utata group mattie_shoes had put together a list of tags that the top interestingness pictures had in common:
1. nature 2. flower 3. macro 4. canon 5. sky 6. blue 7. nikon 8. sunset 9. water 10. hdr 11. clouds 12. landscape 13. red 14. winter 15. flowers 16. yellow 17. white 18. green 19. light 20. bw 21. 2008
I decided to see if those tags could get extra views on a photo that would obviously not fit most of it's criteria and is something that would likely not normally generate a lot of views.
The verdict?
After 24 hours only 2 of 16 views were generated by tag searches, the rest all were direct traffic likely from the discussion thread or through my contacts.
What significance does this have? None that I can really think of.
I have however grown to really love and appreciate this photo in the process and have decided to keep it online.
(added in the wee hours of 9.11.08)
LOL, I just noticed in Flickrscout that this picture actually did make it to explore on the day that I posted it and added all those silly tags. It hit #383 on March 6th 2008...Hahahaha, my first and only picture in Explore. Odd thing is I am sure that I checked several times back when I posted the picture and Scout never picked it up.