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:
Today has been yet another one staring into a 24" iMac display tapping away into iWork Pages to try to get my assignments complete. The process seems to be never ending but there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel. It could be a train but I won't know until it hits me.
I said I would post up some pictures of the new iPhone in my last blog but unfortunately my Toshiba laptop decided to eat my cameras XD card rendering it completely useless. I would use the flash card but the usb lead is 80+ miles away. On the plus side I did manage to take a few pictures of my current setup that I am currently very proud of.
The only thing that tarnishes it's looks is the god awful Toshiba Tecra A4 that is eventually going to be replaced by a Macbook Pro. You can just about make out the iPhone sitting in front of the bthomehub (never get one their terrible) and my Spyder3Elite (highly recommended if you are willing to spend £160ish on your display quality).
On another note I was bored and started playing about with Google and found that if you type in search engine ASK has paid for sponsored ads with Google. You know you have a bad business model if your advertising via your competitors.
What drove me to this was an advert ASK had trying to undermine Google
Click here for the ASK advert
Google apparently did a response advert to this saying something along the lines "do you want to be able to actually find what your looking for"