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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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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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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Well I wasn't gonna post till like wednesday when something special happens but I just couldn't resist… Well friday I really did get a shock I walked in and rich say "Emma wants a word with you" I'm like me… why me.. seemed shelly still has feelings for me and wanted to talk… my face litery looked like this:

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Ok well not that bad but still I was shocked. So the day carried on as normal then I got a email from shelly which hardcore replied with "I love you" true but im not a person to blurt that out Well I emailed back we got talking, then we met up talked some more sorted out some bits and more talking. We hugged each other it felt so right then her bf walked in well shelly was gonna end it with him anyway so I had nothing to worry about.

Alot of people won't agree with what I have done, but its my life I am only young, I am gonna give her one more chance but I believe that me and her are ment for each other. We still had feelings for each other whats the point in hidding them?

Well thats about all thats happened oh I got my tire sorted of course my nan had to get involved and make things worst "oh you need to put some air in all the tire" and she kept windging so I though "hey I can't see what the harm will be in that". So i got the pump out got it all going had my radio on etc, pump started to stutter and then died.

Wierd when to start car up.. dead. Battery had gone flat from the pump and radio typical! oh dear it starts to rain and I have a window open… electric windows… cant shut them… NOOOOO! So I had to go find something to cover the window with "wheres all the polythene? Ok i'll just use cardboard" it did the job…

Battery on charge for about a hour give it enough juice to start and close window so I cheered up after that but that cars all muddy now from the pissing rain. I'll have to clean it and try out this new t cut stuff I got :D. Oh and my car has a name now she is called Alicia lmao.

ok expect next update wednesday thats the big day would spoil the suprise though Some of you already know though

Thanks for reading oh and theres some more suprises in store and a new feature on the way!

- Tom Parker

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I’ll keep it short, Me and shelly are over and she had even made her mind up before i’d even talked to her i spend a hour crying and talking to her in the park and she really couldnt give a flying f**k could she. She didn;t talk I did all the talking and it was all a waste of time.. she is a waste of time. I would do anything for that girl and cared about her alot more then anything else. and this is how it end “oh everything is wrong with you” Define “everything” No she couldn’t do that could she so f**k it!

Tim was right I shouldn’t have gone back with her in the first place.. Yeah i’ll remember that in the future! Everyone was right to be exact 11 people warned me of her… I guess they was right! Fine be it like that see if I care but what really f**ks me off is coming in my path constantly! Huggging other lads in front of me not a f**king care. To me i’m just another ex to cross off on her list.

I hating saying this word but.. B!TCH! I’m not a generally angry person but this takes the p**s sure i’ve lashed out on a few inocent objects bothered? No. I am so glad I never got them tickets for spain foir her yeah how stupid am I i was atually gonna pay for her.. God i’m stupid! I don;t care if this “hurts” her feelings this is how I feel wait no this is 10% of how I feel right now!

Shes only gotta do one more thing which i’m waiting for to confirm what everyone has been saying about her. Why am I so blind? I could tell something was up when the xs on the txts started to drop from 6 to 1 why couldnt she say something to me? Oh she bottles it all up don;t she. Everyone who cares about her and she wont say fuck all she even does it with emma so she told me.

I aint having her back, ignoring everything i said was one thing exspesh when i kept asking are u listening and she didnt say nothing, there was no emoticion in her face, not the normal happy shelly.. wait no that face only comes out when she is ith anyone else apart from me.

I did my best for that girl, obviously she expected me to do more… like what see her every night? she lives f**king 1.30hrs away! I said my bit to her… I hope she listened to the important bits! like the following:

• When another one of your many ex’s comes along and bugs you, I won;t be there to keep you safe.
• When your feeling down, I aint gonna be there to cheer you up.
• You will never find another boy like me.
• I aint gonna come running back for you I aint gonna stalk you like your crazy ex’s
• I’m just another boy to you, another boy to cross off your rather large list I guess all these names that kept coming out amazing really we never did get to end did we.

Thats very nasty but its how I feel no doubt i’ll become “Stuart 2″ a “threat” to you and you will turn everyone against me thats what you did with him, next thing i’ll get beat up for saying all this and for being your ex wow thats a gd deal, Hey if you go out with this “fit” girl and she breaks up with you, everyone is gonna hate you and then you will get beat up.. great perfect i’ll have one now.

Well least i have MY mates exspesh rich who has been there for me and made sure i’m ok thanks rich, i’d do the same for you. And all my other mates have supported me through my down times! Thanks guys!

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This week has sucked.

- Tom Parker

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