I was supposed to give a double lecture at lunchtime today (on the Semantic Web, natch) as part of the final year compsci course on Knowledge Based Systems.
Today is the hand-in day for final year compsci projects. How many students did I get to the lecture? One, making the total audience a grand two, if I include the course organiser. The lecture has now been rescheduled for next week, when there will hopefully be a few more bodies in the audience.
As revenge, I’ve just finished writing my new first slide, which consists of a page of upside-down As, backwards Es and various logical snippets. “Carrying on from where we left off last week…”