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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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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[Sorry about the double email, subscribers]

Its that time again, i've been very busy with college and that, the normal stuff lol. Finally got my VB assignment in today ok even that went wrong. I forgot it.. and 10 minutes later on the bus, I got a phone saying "hey guess what you have forgotten" >_< damnit! However they handed it in to the libary along with pink slip ect

EMA is FINALLY sorted! No you didnt read that wrong, after what 2 and a half months the EMA office has send the last bit of paper to get me £20 a week yay!

Have not really done much today or yesterday or all week really im upto date! the only thing I need to worry apart is starting our IVA urgh what a load of crap that is, however it has (and will) be done!

Finally got my car sorted! my dad has given me his Peugeot 306, so now I am going to try like hell to learn how to drive as much as possible! We was doing emergency stops the other night, so i was thrashing it down a straight then breaking like fuck sexcellente.

Microsoft emailled me today, telling me my first bug in Office 12 I found the other night has been report and will be fixed in a future bulid wanna see some screenshots? well that comes later because im going the post article so keep watching out for it on your right >>>>

Theres a nice Xbox 360 article to the right which I really need to update! Christmas is edging closer and closer it will be the 19th tomorrow! and you can now see the early christmas shoppers round bostons and the traffic is increasing too!

I am working on my own program now its its a quite useful file too, some credit goes to alex for helping me out with some of the features so I guess i better explain what it does! Well its been bugging me for a while but i save all my college work to my USB pendrive without backing it up… just imagine if something went wrong?

Well this program now sorts out that little worry by running in the background and soon as a usb device is plugged in first it checks for the "USB Key file" (Backup.USB) in the root of the drive, if it finds that it does a full backup, else if not its just displays a messagebox saying USB not detected, very smart ;P its even got its own little icon, hell heres a screenshot for you!

News just in i am now a drug dealer, people are randomly calling me up saying hey its have your got any :S ooooooooook wtf lol. ok theres your update… still trying to get videos sorted! lol

Cheers

- Tom

1 Comment » Posted by Tom Parker / Blog and College and Computers and Confusion and Milestones

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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[Note: Some people may have some problems accessing the site please keep retrying the DNS is updating though]

Well yesterday I had just had about enough of my blog and other sites falling to there knees due to a server problem with my webhost, so i hit them up with a email and they have moved me to a newer server, Nu (my old server) was terrible upto 2hrs of downtime, mental if it was'nt HTTP down it was MySQL (Database system which keeps the site running) so we should'nt see anymore problems

Well i've got my phone, soon as I opened it up I fell in love with it, its amazing! the camera, video ect is amazing, battery life is abit dull though, I might upgrade the battery in it though! Im planin o ad oe new sections to my blog when my bluetooth dongle gets here! like a Phone Photo Gallery (Pics i've taken with my phone) and possibly a weekly video hosted on my putfile.com account here www.putfile.com/1tp theres some funny videos and such on there which i've found and collected up.

The first one is one my dad emailed over to me.. Click here to watch 'kate-moss-hoover' This is a funny video taking the mick out of Kate Moss and her… drug adiction oh what can I say go watch it

This one I found was very funny, what do you get if… you stick a firework up your arse and light it find out here Click here to watch 'buttrocket wow that guy is a idiot…

Dad comes over tomorrow oh and joe too lol he is supposed to be getting my car sorted out while he is over i'll keep reminding him I mean hey I should be driving soon (next year - yes thats soon we only have nov and dec to go ) Back to college tomorrow can't wait i love it and I have to hand in my 42 Page assignment, I have started my VB assignment but nowhere close to finishing it, I dnt even o when I have to hand it in!

So what do you think to me posting a weekly video of random things from my phone? Pst your comments and your say on the subject I mean you are the readers right? Why not be a viewer too

Oh that will do for a couple of days laters

- Tom

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