I’ll get to the title in a bit…
Ok first i’d like to say one of our fish was killed today in one of the most horrible ways to die… in the pump. Well my grentz was cleaning out the filter and they see all this white “plastic” as they called it well they cleared all that out turned the pump on and no water was coming out, they called down to have a look at it.

Well i took it the pump to bits to find a rather mangled fish and loads bones in the pump which was stopping the water coming out of it, not a very nice job at all inside the pump it looks like a waste disposal so the fish suffered a rather horrible death…

Moving on… I have to do learning support at college because im thick… ok not thick but I can’t do maths at all well I can but I don’t have any confidence and the way I work out my maths is a unique way that they have never seen… basically say I had to add 9 and 7 I cant do it unless i even them out to 8 and 8 sure this method works but it doesnt with bigger numbers so there gonna help me with that…

I could also be mildly dislexic too..something to do with my homophones (wiki page here) and I think they can do soething about that too right now I got all that over, whats the title about? well you know them that are the voice for the students i’m one of them guys and I think we already have some ideas that want putting forward some of these are:

1. Using a card at the canteen (highly unlikely)
2. Healthier food at canteen, This one was brought up by staff
3. IT Common room, yeah that was brought up last year in First Dip IT by students and staff
4. Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements (cheaper) would be nice…
5. GIMP updated to 2.2
6. Firefox or Opera… Firefox is better!
7. Replace the tiny 14 inch monitlors in 150 because there max resolution is 800×600 nobody can work properly with that resolution!

Thats all for now… i’ll keep adding to the list as more people suggest more things to me if I could get a online poll system up and running that would show what the students would like to prioritize most.

Leanne was supposed to be coming round today but again isn’t coming round so im sulking about that.. Me and Shelly are talking on msn but not face to face….yet. I guess thats it really… Mum and dads phone line is down tried to ring that for 4 days now no answer rang mobile and had a 5 min talk she gonna ring tonight too hopefully so we can have a decent convo!

Made loads of new mates at college theres Jamie, Brad, Jake, Glen and Katie there the main ones don’t be offended if I have forgotten you, I have a sh*t memory lol. Thats all really, congratz to Pete sis getting married today too!

Oh yeh New competition every week i’ll be looking at the drawings and picking out the best once a week So get drawing! Webcam is down while I sort it out to run on Mac and Windows because i’m multibooting for college! (Damn c++)

- Tom Parker

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College is a place for learning but also a place for having fun… while learning, everyday we have a bloody good laugh either green discharge jokes or just generally cracking jokes and making everyone laugh. I feel that having a good laugh just relaxes things and helps us get on with our work in one way.

So yeah college is good and we having been buliding our first C++ application (command prompt basic kinda thing) which is our assignment, I will be once again putting it on the net for user testing and hope I get about 20 or so users from different levels testing it out… I HOPE.

My love life errrm is well complicated exspecially with leanne i don’t think we will ever get together now, I keep getting asked out by other people but… mmm i dunno I just don’t feel like having a gf anymore just get hurt all the time so why even bother?

See sheena today got a hug off her too gotta luv her really so yeh we was in the park rich and the other was playing footy i was in my usual lazy mood and decided to get some food yum chips and cheese (one of the most unhealthy things ever)

thats all really errrm if your search for “Tom Parker” on google.com i am now frontpage result not the top yet.. and google.co.uk is on the second page second result… (need to improve that) but if your ever searching for my blog stick in “Tom Parker blog” or something along them lines you should find me easier that way.

Thats it really, Well I really wanna talk to shelly but “something” is stopping me god knows that it is because its just really wierd and does my head in cuz i like walk off when she appears to the scene its like so anti-socialableand I dont like doing it.

Ok well now I said that at least someone will read that and tell her… oh god damnit… grrr but still… grrr! Who thinks I should talk to her? I wouldn’t know what to say well I guess the first thing would be to say sorry for the whole mess I got into end of college… even I didn’t know I could get into that state…

And thats about it really errrm had to install windows on mac because i needed C++ I am currently hax0ring up my webcam so it works on both OS (operating systems)… im so smart ;p adding more features (mostly admin and monitoring) to the site to make things easier and exploring new ways of blogging

Draw pad is still up and going strong keep on sticking your drawings up there fun to look at (wont work on college computers though) and I think finally thats it… thanks for reading and sorry for the slow update lol

- Tom Parker

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Well Tuesday I went for my mock driving test which when great perfect really happy then Wednesday was the big day MY DRIVING TEST! Something I and most family and friends was looking forward to and saying good luck to me, so there I was waiting in the room for the examiner to come… eventually he showed up and guess what? "Oh i'm sorry we are going to have to cancel your test". Apparently the girl before me had ran away from her car, and the examiners are NOT aloud to drive the car back (stupid DSA ruling) so the poor bloke had to walk back!

So that really pissed me off after spending £90 for no real purpose but I do get a new test… wait a minute.. 29th June you gotta be kidding me! I really am not happy about that! Car goes in for MOT tuesday so that will be good hopefully it passes (one reason why I aint hardly spending any money lol). Me and shelly are getting along fine well saying that there are people out there trying to break us up (shellys ex's mate or something) Sad really init?

Interesting news on the net!

Well theres been a law passed so bloggers do no have to reveal there sources like normal journalists one more step to free speech. Read more here

Blog updates

Yes theres alot of updates to my blog lately the newest feature is the webcam is up and running for anyone to view. Theres now social bookmarklets on every post and page with some of the most popular bookmarking sites. Contact information added and you can send messages to me over msn too.

And thats all really nothing else happened lol – I love you shellyand hello to everyone on my msn and the readers please feel free to add comments!

- Tom Parker

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Its only Thursday and I am so bored, i've just been working on projects like im8s.com and Digg Spy Google IG Module, so far my mate rich has it on his google ig page and I have it on mine it looks pretty good i'm well impressed. Nothing much has happened really rain and wind that about it I think it was monday I wanted to go out and drive about in my car and the battery was flat grrr!

So after getting it charged up *shock horror* it started so I drove it about then parked it outside and it pissed down I thought "hey its getting a wash!" how wrong I was it just made it even worst! So i'll have to go wash that when its a nice day! God i'm missing shelly well bad We went out saturday night to go watch a film Yours, Mine, and Ours or something, it was quite funny!

I wish I had something to do! Oh I got a new keyboard to replace my old one which was about f****d its exactly the same as the one I got now jus a different colour and its been updatd (firmware or something) Finally sorted out the grentz pc *Jump for Joy* [/Sarc]

Updated some images and things on the site (Videos and Pictures) which I think look better I guess I could start work on Midnight: 06.5 or maybe not.. Urgh can anyone suggest what I can do I still got just over a week before I can go back to college I CAN'T WAIT!

- Tom Parker

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Yes! after testing out leaks of pre-beta bulids and other stuff today I got my email from the good old MSN devs

Dear MSN Butterfly,
Okay, we're ready for you.

You can now download and start testing the new beta version of MSN® Messenger, which will now be called Windows LiveTM Messenger.

I have to thank Vazz for the invite code thanks alot mate, and I hope to get some bugs reported, when I find them thats the least I can do i guess your alll dying to see pictures of it?… *tumble weed rolls past*… damn well i'll post some anyways

Here we have the convo window theres a few noticable new features like file sharing I am very disapointed with the current style of WLM 8 even though I know its currently BETA and the style could totally change. Like all the other MSN 7 / 7.5 BETA's the design has hardly changed when it has been released to the public.

The GUI looks terrible. Thats my honest opinion, if only they made it look like Windows Live Mail then that would be sweet!

And heres the contact list ouch thats bad :S "The Future of MSN Messenger" Sucks. Oh well this next screenshot is disgusting 109Mb of RAM is needed to run WLM 8 thats HIGHIER then photoshop

Why on earth does it needs that much I have no idea!

For more infomation on Windows Live Messenger see this post HERE

on another note:
frankie_uk@msn.com
dr.sieber@hotmail.com
asimmanzur@hotmail.com

In your language:
HAY! non of u wil eva git a invite off meh so stop spamin me blog asking 4 it.
kthxbai

Stupid n00bs.

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