I have finally finished all of my assignments for semester A leaving me with only 4 more assignments left till I finish my degree. I was awake till half 4 last night tapping away as the keys but at that time of night the material I was producing was just dribble. I decided to get a few hours sleep and set my alarm for 8am. In the morning I finished off the last few words I had left on my 3rd assignment and set the printer going. My final projects prototyping and preparation documentation weighted in at around 100 pages. To show you what 100 pages looks like I took the liberty to take a photo:
Does anyone have a stapler?
The wonderful device that saved my life was the new Canon MP180
Not bad for £30. Also the iPhone doesn't take too bad a photo
So I finally have a little bit of time on my hands apart form having a full e-commerce store to write, a dissertation to research and write also to top that off a few other web jobs. Oh wait theres more University doesn't think a dissertation and showcase project is enough for your 3rd year they get you do do another 4 pointless units. Luckily I'm a pretty fast worker when it comes to web development and will be able to keep on top of everything with a bit of dedication.
You may have started to notice a few small changes within the site recently. I have started adding more content, blogging more. Also over the past few days I have setup a dynamic site map for google now that I have permanent urls for my blog. I might as well help boost my search ranking everyone else is trying to do it. The bonus of having this dynamic site map also means I can now parse it into a usable sitemap for the website. The links can be found in the footer of every page.
I plan to get the portfolio up to date within the next few weeks and also change the format it displays my portfolio work giving each item it's own page with more detail and the possibility of more images. I'm off to York tomorrow for a weekend of beer fueled relaxation before I am back to university and a working routine.
It is currently 3.12am and I am still awake... baerly. You may be thinking I have been on a drunken night out and have just got in. It's what students do. But you couldn't be further from the truth!
I have 3 assignments due in tomorrow morning and as per usual me and pretty much everyone on my course is in the same boat again. No matter how prepared you are and how much work you do in the months leading to the deadlines you always end up in a zombie like state at 3am in the morning trying to finish off work that should have been finished weeks ago.
My excuse is Christmas and New Year it shouldn't be so action packed. I was hardly ever in and when I was I was tired from the night before. University should understand students have busy social lives and Christmas/NY is the peak of it. Employers understand this they give workers time off to get drunk and then recover without effecting the running of the business. The main reason it doesn't effect business is because everyone else is doing the same thing.
You may be wondering why I have decided to write a blog rather than trying to finish my work. There is a reason and that is my mind has gone blank everything I am typing now is just dribble from the part of my brain thats next the the part that is telling me to go to sleep (I like that part). I am completely out of ideas after typing in the region of 15,000 words in the past few days. Even my iPhone is failing to interest me at the given moment in time. All I want is the comfy pillow and poor excuse of a bed these student housing companies put in. My back is going to take years to recover from the battering this bed is giving it.
Today I have made 2 essential purchases:
a) A printer, scanner (Cannon MP180) that only cost me £30 from Argos. I hate 3 in 1 printers but it will print my assignments off and it means I can scan things until it breaks in a few days/weeks time.
b) An electric heater for my room as my housing agent has still failed to sort my radiator out. My room is not the warmest in the house and the electricity bill is rising. Luckily my bills are included with my rent.
So my room is warm, one of the 3 assignments is printed off and is literally the thickness of a book. It's no Harry Potter tho. I am going to finish off the second and get the 3rd into a finished state tomorrow morning.
I have been wanting to post the photos of my new iPhone for the past few weeks but due to various reasons I have been unable to get round to it. The main reasons being:
a) I am lazy and until this week didn't have a web interface to add new blogs
b) My laptop decided it wanted to eat my cameras XD card that is now completely unusable.
The iPhone was one of my greatest purchases of 2007 along with my iMac (I recommend this to anyone). The iPhone has undergone huge amount of criticism before and since it's release mainly off people that don't have one. I am yet to speak to an iPhone owner who is unhappy with the phone. My point is they may be some technically better phones on the market in the sense that they have a bigger hardrive, 3G and video calling but when it comes down to it the iPhone does what it does better than all the other phones out there. Who actually uses video calling... I use iChat or MSN for that. The N95 is apparently Nokias answer to the iPhone... Great! It's a git to use, the battery lasts about 3 seconds and lets face it... it just isn't an iPhone
If any of you have been surfing the web about the iPhone you may have stumbled across the aleged leak of 1.1.3 firmware to GearLive that adds a host of new features to the iPhone. Some of them features include:
+ Multiple contact messaging
+ Drag and drop home icons and dock
+ Multiple home screens
+ Google maps pins, hybrid view, locate me
+ Bookmarks can be added to the home screen
Unfortunately there is no sign of MMS support but it isn't a service I used much, but I would like to be able to accept them without having to login to the O2 website.
So here are the photos of my new purchase as promised:
