First of all me and Leanne didnt get on aswell as we thought it went, it wasn’t my option to edit last weeks post either, nuff said. So instead of spending loads of money on her I bought a iPod nano 2 to cheer myself up…

So the week has been up and down really the one thing I put my trust and love into f**ked me over. I spent 2 months doing so much for her always being there when she’s needed me protecting her alsorts I finally get her and it just f**ks up well badly and I just feel sh*t. Lost all trust in girls right now.

Tuesday was just your normal day of college having a laugh and doing our C++, Wednesday well… I wasn’t very well at all didnt really do much just mooch arround college which at the same time spread to Rich… oops.. Thursday I didn’t go in at all I stayed in bed till 12 then magically got better about 2pm.. Friday that was a good day and Leanne stopped the night and well lets just leave it there.

Leanne stopped the night and went home in the afternoon, that day was just tears for me. Today we went up Peterboro and had a walk around Queens Gate and I see the new iPod nano 2 and I thought to myself…gotta have that! so here I present my first ever piece of Apple Hardware:

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As you can see its very slim and small and holding it it feels very strong and ridgid its come with some fairly good quality headphones but I like my £4 earplugs better… It works really nicely with iTunes 7.01 and I love how I can sync things really fast lol.

If your looking for somewhere to eat in Peterboro, don’t goto Paul Pry the menu there has got really bad there was only 6 main meals and they removed my favorite dish.. Lamb Shank.. Tom not impressed.. They got Joes soup wrong but they did take it off the bill and well his steak was cr@p. When we ordered we was faced with a £27 bill because the previous people didnt pay… wonder why!

So thats all really back to college Tuesday

- Tom Parker

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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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Warning this first half is about computers and stuff but its a big chunk of my life.

For 8yrs solid i’ve been a die-hard Microsoft fanboy starting off as a total newb in 1998, I know near enough every windows operating system like the back of my hand and I still and probably always will. I’ve always been against other operating systems such as linux and Mac OS X, but recently that has changed. After messing about trying to troubleshoots problems and crashing losing work that takes hours to do i’d had enough.

Some of my MSN contact knew how stressed I was from losing my work and I decided to install a linux Distro I tried the popular ubuntu distro and I really liked it but… I couldn’t and wouldn’t use the GIMP I needed my photoshop I tried using WINE alsorts trying to get it to work MSN was another one theres pretty of great clients out the but theres only a handful which has webcam viewing/sending and this was vital.

I kept coming and goingback to Ubuntu but them 2 things was stopping me from converting. I went back to windows then I got this crazy idea what about a intel mac mini? Only problem I can’t afford it so I had to sell something… I sold my pride and joy this might seem abit sad but my PC was my baby I built it about a year or two ago and now it had come to the time to sell it.

I put it and some other bits on ebay and my PC on a forum too and I manged to sell it they came round to pick it up yesterday the same night I went on ebay to find a PC that will support Mac OS X being installed on it (ok Ben and Semaja2 didn’t agree but they will get over it :P) hmmm well the system specs seemed pretty good:

Celeron D325 2.53GHZ
768MB 533MHZ DDR 2 Ram
Intel D915GUX Motherboard
- Intel 915 chipset
- Intel® Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 Duo Ready
- Dual-Core CPU Support
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900
- DDR2 667/533/400
- 64-bit CPU support
-120GB IDE Hard Drive
–Pioneer DVR111 DVD Burner DVD RW Drive

all that for £230 inc p&p and it would run Mac OS X perfectly.

The Mac Intel Mini I wanted was:

1.5GHz Intel Core Solo processor
512MB memory (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM)
60GB Serial ATA hard drive
Combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
Built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0
Apple Remote

I think personally all your paying with apples hardware is for the logo, thats my honest opinion i’m getting such a better spec for alot less so i did that… hey if it dont work out I can soon sell it and buy a proper mac! I so have myself a new machine it comes preinstalled with Tiger too.

So whats it really… Yesterday I went to Peterboro when shopping for college clothes and stuff very stressful thing really all I had to keep me sane was txting Leanne… hmmm Leanne I can’t say too much about that matter really she’s going on holiday I really wanna say more tell the world but I can’t and i’ve probably f**ked that up but as the caring person I am i keep on going caring and loving how ever much I could get hurt I still do it.

Thats it not a very interesting post I guess but its an update :/ can’t wait to go back to college to see my mates again my interview date is on 31st august I hope everything goes well

- Tom Parker

PS: More new features coming soon and I hate to say it but YET another design is in the works just a total new revamp from scratch new colours, layout, design, style and everything, i’ll release a mock/concept/live design in the next post hopefully!

oh and a video

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Spain wasn't that good I can't remember much else but it sucked. I was gonna stop but my dad got all sh*tty over it he was sh*tty all the time. So theres Spain out of the way, England flight was delayed by 1 hour that wasnt too good. Theres been alot on my mind which I really must get out.

The first thing is my dad really has changed for the worst, I won't go into details but it hurt me in a way that i've been been hurt so much to see him in a state like that. Really is hard hitting like me and my bro have both agreed on that we both feel sorry for mum.

Thats one thing out of that way without saying too much the second really did make me angry. Someone I have respected for years has lost my respect… My Aunty Jayne, she isn't my real aunty i've just been brought up that way to call her that. She is infact a close family friend.

So what did she do to upset me? Well she didn't just upset me she also upset my brother and my mum. Well I guess I better say what was said well basically she went to spain with my brother went to my rents house and said to my mum "oh your a bad mother" and also offended my brother my dad of course didn't stand up for my mum.

They was only in spain for 2 weeks and she come back and started feeding me all this bullsh*t too but I wasn't having it. So after that my mum rang me up crying and I couldnt do nothing about it until I got to spain well I got to spain and got mums side of the story and my original plan was to use Jayne for my free driving lessons and then after i've passed etc throw everything at her… (this is why its a bad idea to be on my wrong side).

But no I came back and I asked for my car back (no i stil had not got my car back) so she came round with my car and log book EXCELLENT!  I thought tomyself well she holds nothing against me now so I gotmmybrother down and we had a bloody good arguement for what she said to my mum and what she said to my brother.

I left with "Oh thanks for my car" and walked up stairs.

Thats about it really had to fix a roof the other day that involved abit of hard work taking th old one off then i went to job centre nobody wanted me though lol thats all

- Tom Parker 

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