Welcome to OU Who!

Bringing the Open University into Disrepute Since 2001

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12/03/08 - Thanks very much to Dave Elsdon for providing this site with a sunny retirement home by the sea where it can spend its twilight years reminiscing about the good old days

14/06/07 - Olivia's two now and I am far, far too old and tired to be bothered maintaining a personal website so this is the first time I've updated it in a year or so and I think this will be the last time I update it ever and it can just slide even further into redundancy from now on. Surely you have something better to do than be here too. Go on, be off with you. and get your hair cut.

<snip> a load of stuff I can't be bothered with any more.

Self-Involved Trivia:

I've been checking the site logs to see what are the most common search terms used by people to find this site. Apart from the obvious ones like "Open University", "TMA", "Cyborg" and the various course codes, there were some more outlandish ones. Bizarrely, the most-used search-string for people finding OUWho via a search engine was "Ch* Guev*ra" (I'm using asterisks to avoid drawing even more search hits). My mind reels!
My other faves were:

Michael Jackson's Face
Kitten Love
Facts about penguins
Everything is Awful
Irony
Clippy
Holidays for bored teenagers
Bush goat pics
Mescalin
Firstclass hack
Check hotness of PSU
Ancient computers
Does firstclass server do dns on its own
Open-University shit
Stand at the gate and knock
I want a kitten
Fluffer
Class Punishment
Amazingly Hung
Total disaster
Big Sigh
Whack the bloody penguin
Sign language to stop in the name of love (No, I can't believe that one either...)
oo approach is crap
:ou said you read me like a book, but the pages are all torn and frayed"

Irony

Bizarrely, one of my off-site pages (a sort of private joke based on one of the Open University's C&Q pages, doctored to describe a course called "Understanding Irony") landed me in trouble when it got linked by a couple of other sites and word spread to the point at which my hit count here was way up in the tens of thousands for a few days. I was blissfully unaware of this for a while until (actually, a few days after the page vanished anyway) a regional director of the OU wrote to me and threatened me with hellfire, brimstone and eternal banishment to the International Affairs Conference unless I took it down. Consequently, I've changed the logo to make it completely UNLIKE the OU logo and to make it absolutely clear that this is not an OU site. This should help the various morons who (this may be hard to credit) phoned the OU to enquire about the course! I mean... I mean... Should people that thick truly be allowed to roam the streets? The government should step in and take some decisive action such as forming an enquiry board to find ways to blame it on the BBC. I am seriously considering going through every page on the site and changing "Open University" to read "Op*n Un*versity" to avoid infringing that copyright too but I think I'll take my chances there. Sigh.

Thanks!

Finally, I'd just like to say thanks for all the friendly emails I've had since starting this site. Very few poison pen letters so far, but we'll see how certain aspects of this version go down. Thanks to everyone who's added this site to their links page and special props to NTK, Overclockers, Bifurcated Rivets and all the other sites, BBs and chain emailers who linked to the I100 page. I love you all!

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