Category: Personal
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New things
Like most people, when new things come out I am immediately attracted to them, in the IT community you can often push this a little further and grab at things before they are ‘new’. I first started using gmail and windows 7 when they were both early on in their beta and was impressed with…
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iDM
For quite some time now I’ve been working on an IRC gamebot called iDM. Just thought I’d detail some of the project info for archival purposes. The concept: Quite often on IRC you will find large swathes of channels with very little actually going on. iDM’s purpose is to add a simple ‘verses’ game to…
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The danger is in real life.
Today while reading articles hidden deep in Google reader when I should have been polishing my CV or doing something more productive, I came across the girl who cried webmaster. The difference with this story is ‘the danger came from real life and salvation came from the online world‘. I stumbled upon the link within…
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Living conditions
If you’ve been paying attention in #kh (on swiftirc) or other channels you might share with me, you’re probably aware that for the most part of the year I live in student accommodation. While I’m living at university all of my belongings in the family home get put inside a cupboard in what was my…
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Sitting here.
At this minute I’m sitting in front of Firefox, writing this post in a Firefox add-on called ‘performancing‘ it’s a little extension which makes a bar pop up at the bottom of the window to allow you to write something on your blog without stopping what your doing normally, although I suppose its better than…
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Exam results
Well the results are back, I got a B in ICT (it appears I did quite crap in the general exams), a B in Maths (quite proud of that), a C in Physics (I flunked a paper and will probably retake it to bump this to a B) and finally I got a C in…
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Holiday
Finished school, waiting for my exam results. That pretty much sums up the academic front most things. My parents went on holiday for the last week of term and are due back on tomorrow. It for the most part has been a fairly uneventful couple of weeks, Nat stayed over in the second week for…