This morning was one of them mornings when the snooze button on the alarm (well iPhone) gets used more than it should. For some reason I was pretty tired all day which may have been down to not having my morning sausage and egg cob fix.
Most of the day I have been working on the HTML templates for a few of the clients. Churning out some of my best HTML/CSS code to date. Tomorrow I am going to an early meeting to look into integration of the new Golddigga store website into Golddiggas current stock management system to make the website as functional and dynamic as possible. Hopefully the process won't be too difficult to code...
In the very near future I am going to be looking into parsing XML from youtube user feeds to display on a site. As video is becoming more a more common medium on the internet more and more clients are wanting to integrate video into their sites. youtube is one of many methods also providing a second platform to be found on.
Anyway I have been looking at a screen for the past 9 hours so I am going to call it a day and cut it here.
This week was the first day of the rest of my life. On Tuesday I had my first lecture of my final semester at Lincoln university. Getting back into the University timetable from the personal timetable I had been keeping myself to (wakeup somewhere around dinner) is motivating me to get myself into a working setup.
On Wednesday I went to some mythical place known as a library. It was a strange experience I must say... In this magical place are items that are apparently known as books made out of something called paper. I was intrigued by this substance known as paper and also the devices created by it known as books so I used the computer to find some books that may help me with my dissertation. A while later I was in possession of some of the books i required and on my way home.
These book things are a lot heavier than PDF's on a memory stick.
This week has also bought some positives to light with my degree. Two of the units will allow me and Matt to start out building a web application we have been planning to pin every pub/club/bar in the UK and eventually the world via the wonders of user generated content. The details are currently confidential though.
On the down side this week has shown me how much work I actually have to do over the next few months with the Golddigga store to finish building, a dissertation to write, 2 content management systems to implement into sites for clients and another 2 web builds. Oh and another 2 assignments to do one including the web application I mentioned.
Looks like these next few months are going to put my MP3 collection to it's limits.
I have finally got my 3 Mobile w850i back after nearly a month of waiting (3 days short to be exact) which is extremely poor service considering I am on a £35 a month contract and wasn't allowed a replacement phone for the duration of the repair. The nice men/women at the repair centre also decided they would delete all my messages, photos, contacts, music, videos most of which had been paid for and had no way of making a backup.
Fortunately I have the iPhone to keep me in contact with the world but it does have it's downside. The problem is with it checking my emails every 15 minutes I also feel the urge and need to reply to them even if it's late at night. I am going to have to discipline myself into not answering emails after a certain time otherwise it's going to take hold of me and become another facebook addiction.
I have been at nzime for the past 3 days doing coding work whilst Darren is on jury duty. Also winding Anna up with the remote control helicopters and Airzooka, that surprisingly has a huge range (In excess of 10 metres).
Yesterday I decided to reinstall the BTHomeHub firmware to 6.2.6B and it seems to be running stable at the moment. I will just need to see if it automatically updates to 6.2.6E and doesn't break in the process, as I am in no mood to spend a hour on the phone to BT again.
I phoned my landlord today and had a go at them for leaving my room unlocked and also breaching their contract by not giving us 24 hours notice before showing people round the house. They apologised to me a lot and ensured me my room wouldn't be left unlocked again that they would phone me to arrange any viewings of the property.
All in all today has been a productive day. I am now going to put American Pie Beta House in the laptop and relax with a cup of tea.