Hey everyone how are you all? hope your all doing fine this isnt a very long post but its a fairly important post! My IVA program for college is complete, so now its time to find about 15 or more people to test out the program and fill in the survey. Its not hard its very simple and it only takes a couple of minutes

I'll show you how to download it in a sec after i've given some background information on what this program does. The following program is very simple it calculates 4 different shaped lawns/fields and outputs the area, grams of seed needed and the amount of bags of seed needed, pretty simple eh? after you have tried a few or all the lawns fill in the survey and email it back to tom[AT]gapras.co.uk ( [AT] means @ ) thats all i need, no name or anothing like that.

So there you have it thats all I need and i'd be grateful for you to do that for me i'll post this round in a few other places to try get some more testers! Thanks alot

Download Here
(IVA.zip 1.23Mb)

I'll post a proper blog entry in a couple of days

- Tom Parker

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it seems near enough every day I have the urge to say something on my blog. This week so far has been interesting Monday at college we started our new timetable and our IVA, our IVA is the most important assignment for the whole course I have to work hard and get a distinction for this because I think I want to go into nat dip IT next year

We was creating Gantt charts for our IVA and for NCFE we went into 148 for the first time (The server room…. oooooooooooo SERVERS!!!) we had stuart teaching us but we did the most boring thing EVER wait for it… Unplugging the computer and plugging it back in then booting it… WOW How bl00dy exciting! We also went to play some pool at this snooker club thing too.

Tuesday.. we did more IVA and errrrm we had more fun in NCFE where we had to take a computer in 148 to bits, now that I think about it I should have let the others have a go taking the computer to bits, instead of me because I mean I did bulid my PC some people may have not ever seen whats in a PC until yesterday, although I did let them put some of it together again hmmm i’ll let the others have a go next time because I already know.

Going back to monday I got a random email from Microsoft!

You’re Invited

We want you, one of our Hotmail VIPs, to experience the next generation of Web-based e-mail - Windows Live Mail Beta. We’ve been testing the service, and we feel like it’s now ready for some of our best Hotmail customers like you, to try it out and tell us what you think.

So now I am testing the next version of hotmail.. go me i’ll add some screenshots soon once I get my Word Press software fixed ASAP, because it isn’t posting images *sig* more PHP and MySQL work. I think its a problem with the database because I reported the bug to WP Trac and they couldnt find the bug in the latest bulid speaking of which I need to upgrade!

Tuesday night was parents evening god we had to kill so much time (we as in me, richard and arron) so we went and played some pool with lee then we split and headed back to college my grand parents turned up and I showed them the way (no need really there was arrows, not even a idiot could have got lost ) We waited a short while until Tim called us in, I went in and sat while Tim spoke to my grand parents.

I’m very proud of what I have achieved in such a small amout of time, I have beat my personal aim which I set for myself which was:

• Make a decent group of friends and continue to do that through out college, from other courses
• Try do my best in all my work
• Get the highest grades avalible (Perfect to-date)

Tim handed over this sheet of what I am like to this day after some decoding of tims hand writing I think i’ve typed this out correctly.

Tom has done really well. His grades really speak for themselves. He puts a lot of effort, determination into his work, and his grades reflect this.

From what I have seen of Tom, it is blatant to see he is intelligent, funny and shows a lot of dedication and determination. I know he will breeze the course. My only hope is that he stays and does a national and even progress to do a BSC (HONS???), as I know he is capable of it.

Well to end this post all i can say is, i am going to try my hardest to get the highest grades avalible, and just keep trying it’s my life, I chose to be in college, so the least I can do is try my hardest!

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- Tom Parker

Edit: Heres a screenshot of Windows Live Mail

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Hey everyone how are you all? hope your lives are going well etc. Sunday we went out for a meal.. very good

This week college has been possibly the most boring time at college since i've started. Monday.. The bus was 30 minutes late so we got the college late all we did monday was learn about the history of a mouse, keyboard stuff I really don't care about.. but it has to be learnt!

Tuesday.. Yeah same thing again I really can't remember much of Tuesday I was really stressed with John, Jason and anyone else who pissed me off grrrr, nothing too bad though, not bullying or anything thats all in the past. User IT sucks at college and *removed* really isn't giving a flying fuck about it, we was being taught how to use excel *yawn* then again I thought i'd take this time to catch up on the whole thing so i did.

Wednesday was alot better hurray whole day off college oh and a driving lesson …. In the dark though.. damn so I drove to wisbech had a ride round town then went down this little road did some turns in the road then went home lol. Come home had tea, sat on PC talked to people (You know who you are!) then watched LOST and LOST on E4… went to bed, only got 2 hours of sleep… damn that tuna sandwich before bed.. <_ <

Thursday (Today) wow what a day.. Had a User IT theory lesson, I was dreading it a praying that Sam wasn't there.. Walked in who did I see? Tim! yay we did a quiz on some business stuff, learnt some stuff then we had keyskills… sonia wasn't in though so we just played on computers because my IVA work is at home and today was one of them days where… I really couldn't be assed to do anything!

Because CSYS is over.. damn I didn't say bye to barry we had from 12 to 4.30 to kill… wow cool so we went up town I thought hey Im gonna treat myself to this fuck off massive roll cheese and sausage lol with tommy sause.. WICKED! ate that YUM! then walked arround boston, walked back to college got a free pool pass and when to swimming pools got changed ect got in the pool oooooooooooh it was so warm lovely

We stayed in the pool for about 2 hours, so I looked like a old man when I come out lol, no cramps this time so I must be getting fitter! came out of then pool see rich and Mr Lee walked with them to the libary see amy (bitch) and linzee also see zoe phone rang, grandparents coming to boston now going to pick me up… wow this day couldn't have got better so we walked up town see few other mates and that waited for grentz (grandparents) to come pick me up.. picked me up went home had tea… now typing on blog.. fun… long read

— Blog Updates —

Added some more stuff to my blog now.. Chav Jokes 3 few other visual things added too. getting alot of content on here now which is good… very impressed! Added a link at the top… for people that dont know what a blog is! and added the subscribe to my blog link again… now its been fixed. Blog is running Wordpress BETA 2.0 w00t. Started adding some christmas stuff to the site design.. but still keeping it simple

— Video Blog —

Uploaded my first video blog today here its only 750Kb and lasts for about what 2 minutes? I will try improve it ALOT but it is my first so give me credit

Wow… long read enjoy posting some more stuff in a couple of days… later!

- Tom

PS: Hey Tim!

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Yes! Finally a decent BETA where they will take my bug reports seriously!

A snip of the email!

Hello , Thank you for completing our nomination survey sometime within the past several weeks, and letting us know about your interest in participating in the Microsoft® Office "12" Technical Beta program. We are pleased to announce that your request for participation in the Office "12" Technical Beta has been approved. You will be provided with access to the Office "12" Beta software, documentation, and support within the next 2-3 weeks. But we wanted to let you know now that you have been accepted, so that you can make any preparations that you need (Technical Beta system requirements are found below).

Our goal for the Technical Beta is to have a well targeted group of testers who are willing to actively participate and provide useful feedback to our development team. Regular and consistent participation throughout the program is expected. As an approved Technical Beta tester, we ask that you do the following: * Download Office "12" software and related information * Participate in private beta newsgroups * Submit bug reports online * Complete periodic surveys to share your input on various technical issues * Observe the non-disclosure terms of participation

Oh thats so cool! One step closer to Windows Vista, It has'nt apeared in MS Connect site yet though so i'll just wait, jus getting my machine setup ready for the BETA, Gotta get a nice clean install of XP install and a decent test scenerio.

My machine is upto spec also

*** SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ***

Below are the system requirements for the Microsoft® Office "12" Beta-1 software. NOTE: We have provided these minimum hardware recommendations here as guidance for deploying Beta-1, but as with any Technical Beta, they do not necessarily represent final Office "12" hardware requirements.

CLIENT

• Operating System: Windows XP SP1 or Windows 2003 (RTM or higher) required
• Processor: Pentium 512 MHz or higher * RAM: 256 MB minimum
• HD: Varies depending on installation choices
• Resolution: 800 x 600 or higher

SERVER

• Operating System: Windows Server 2003 SP1

Single box installation:

• Processor: 2.5 GHz
• RAM: 2 GB recommended, 1 GB minimum
• HD: Scenario dependent

Farm Deployment:

• Web server - Processor: 2.5 GHz; RAM - 2 GB
• App server - Processor: Dual proc - 2.5 GHz; RAM - 2 GB
• SQL - Processor: Dual proc - 2.5 GHz; RAM - 2 GB

Not too sure if I could test it on my server enviroment but we will see

Updates to coming when avalible

- Tom

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Hey how you all doing finally got my bluetooth dongle for my pc and getting used to using it for my phone i've made my own theme for it now plus the screensaver (you can tell I really dont have a life) i've only been up for 30mins too so im not really with it.

College has been going pretty well, handed in my 42 page assignment and i neeed to get the other 2 done (just messed about in class monday and tuesday ) we have had a good laugh took some videos but because jay got hurt and pissed off there not to be posted on my blog.

However I have got some pics i've taken with my phone and added to the photo gallery which are pretty cool Here For Phone Pics and Here For College Mates wow i'm amazed at the quality aswell because the college mates bit was off my old nokia 3200 and for the size ect thats not bad.

Driving lesson asnormal yay oh and i've start chucking on some more videos on Tom Parker Shows: and if you really don't like chavs (the not very nice ones) i've posted 2 pages of chav jokes more to come soon! they are here and here or just look to your right top'ish and you'll see them.

Thankyou for them who tested my game (Who wants to be a millionaire) They have been printed of and they are ready to me put inot my assignment but I need 3 more so if you wish to test out my game go over to BetaXP Forums and read through that first post.

Anything else to say……. Oh yeah joes home, some have been asking who is Joe well he is my younger brother who is constantly moody and randomly hits me and annoys me, then has the cheek to say im annoying him by being normal URGH! but he is 15 so he's at that age lol.

Dad is over, but aint seen him yet they had a problem at the airport or something where he forgot his papers for hiring out a car >_< but I think he has got some car sorted out or something not sure on that side of things but i aint heard from him.

That will do foranother couple of days talk to you later

- Tom

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