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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Yeah as promised a new post. Today tomwrote.info is exactly 1 year old and its been a busy and popular site and it just get better and better. So heres to tomwrote.info, for many years to come, hopefully! Well I thought i'd dig up some of the past on this blog A post from April 3rd 2005 not a very interesting post really but either way its interesting how this blog has succeeded since 2005.

I have not really done much since the last update… Thursday I see shelly and spent half a day with her we went to the park and talked loads, suprising we got to know a little bit more of each other which was great! Friday… nothing much happened finally got my folders handed in for marking *urgh* hopefully they will be ok

Saturday I had a driving lesson, bay parking and parallel parking (or something I dunno lol) Sunday was good we went out for a meal in boston at a place called the morrs arms or something but it wasn't as good as the red lion to be honest.. infact my beef was coldish so I wasn;t too pleased.

Nana still isn't eating much infact aunty bet is copying nana cuz she aint eating much either… Joe had another go at nana cuz she is making his life a missery awww poor joe lol! Ohhhh friday night I was kinda annoyed my 5 month old Sony E, K700i died on me so i've sent it back for repair and bought a Nokia 6600, when the phone comes back i'll sell it on eBay… Nana moaned, I ignored.

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Tomwrote recieved in total 85450 hits for march I was pretty impressed with it! i've been updating some parts of the site so bare with me if you find a error on the image gallery parts as they have been upgraded and need porting over to Midnight: 06! Theres some other odd tweaks i've added another one is the minimize and maximize of the archives, more of a space saving feature really.

Speaking of space, the sidebar is still being redone as the last one wasnt working out and takes up too much room I am trying to work out a solution to it but so far the only idea I come up with is 2 sidebars.. That could be deployed on Midnight: 06.5 but its depends how hard that is to code… another is AJAX… Something I have not really messed about with.. Dodgy.
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Oh mum and dad have sold the house in spain and are currently on the look out for a new place this is what they have currently got there eyes on and its looking great!

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well theres another update!

Thanks for reading!

- Tom Parker

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I seems ages ago when I got into First Diploma IT (Level 2) infact it was 3rd September 05 I was accepted at boston college (see blog post here. But now its that time again and on wednesday I have my first interview for Nation Diploma IT (Level 3), and because I kept my slate clean I should get in with no problems what so ever, Perfect.

Monday was really good, it was shellys day off and mine so we spent the day together Tuesday we did some work IVA but we was allowed to go when ever we wanted which was cool! Wednesay (as described above) but I also went to the gym.. I really don' think I should have cuz I could have seen shelly for ages and she was allowed to work in the lib for quite a few lessons. Damn.

Thursday urgh when you think everything is going fine then all of a sudden it collaspses.. ok not that bad… shelly was ok in the morning but in the afternoon geeeez she jus got all mardy, What was I supposed to do she wouldnt even talk to me I hugged her and loved her that didnt help anyways I went home… worrying about her.

Friday (today) Come to college semi-mardy shelly lol she went to lesson when shelly come back after lesson she was happy as anything o.O oooook well I really don't understand girls sometimes :P. Tomorrow I am booking my driving test! for as quick as possible.

Battery problems on car fixed. Yes silly me I hate batteries in car now First attempt wired it all up left it on.. or did I? no forget to turn it on.. so it drained the battery. Second attempt, bought and new charger wired it up SWITCHED IT ON left it on day and night come back to see a blown fuse the charger and no power in the battery. Third attempt, took charger back bought the ultra Xteme editon of the charger, took battery out of car and left it on charge within one night of charging it was on full! wow stuck it in the car turned the key.. IT STARTS! drove it about abit then parked it in the garage.

I'm now bored lol nothing to do! so because james asked me when I was gonna blog well here it is a new post! enjoy it while it lasts. PS start new timetable and we got webdev! OH YES BRING IT ON! 0wn4ag3.

- Tom Parker

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Yep i'm now 18! My birthday was Yesterday (2nd March) and I really enjoyed it! I didnt get any presents just loads of money to invest into the bank w00t So i'll guess i'll get started on the rest of my trip to spain Wednesday night we went to the chinese had a really nice meal there with mum, dad and there friends (also her boss) Rentz saved me looooads of tokens to get free stuff so I got this dagger and a globe which I have given to joe

Cant remember Thursday but Friday we had a meal at Pacos, bacially thats your local spanish fish and chip plaice (haha get it?) but with a spanish twist. There was this massive 30+ people party in there absolutly choca! so many that they had ran out of FISH! OMG! so we had a choice of chicken or steak.. steak for me.. we waited for ages for it then it come wooooo….*Pause*…ohhh it wasnt very big oh well it tasted really good.

Another interesting twist to friday night was an ex-client who I sorted the computer out (ages ago when I lived out there) was there.. what I mean by ex is that she was a total B!TCH! I had to upgrade there PC to Windows Xp.. fair do's HOWEVER! Everything was going fine and danny, I asked the lady if she had all her usernames and passwords and stuff and she said yes.. perfect. Wrong! I got it all installed asked her for them… wait no I dont have them OH MY GOD! so I told her to contact her ISP for them.. yeah all sorted im happy shes happy.. ok no she aint happy I got home phone call.. great its her one stupid mistake was… turning my phone off god I had alot of trouble with her!

Saturday was leaving day time to go home to freezing cold England! NOOOOO!! Wait.. I'll see shelly YAY! Come home and I was faced with a very worried joe (brother) "Tom my computer wont boot and neither will nana and granddads" GREAT! thats my sunday gone. I started work on his PC that night cleared it all out everything took CPU off relaid it down on new themal grease poped it back together then noticed one of the pins on the hard drive had snapped.. god joe why!! So i solidered it back one.. possibly one of the best solider jobs i've ever done! Fixed and it now boots!

Grentz on the other hand is totally bust.. he needs to buy the a new one What else happened sunday… ermm oh yeah went to fit heater switch in car tried to start it up and it wouldnt start.. :S *MASS PANIC* the battery had gone near enough flat so its had to be charged up and now it works. The switch has been fitted now though theres sunday. Monday ohhh really good day monday I asked grentz if I could have shelly stop round and they said yes! so I had her round introduced them to each other they really like her too! I got to know shelly alot more I loved every bit of it!

Tuesday spent alot of time with shelly and cant remember wat else I did! oh when home with sisson risked my life again! (jk) Wednesday -2 degs! had to go see kirsty but decided not to as it was too cold. I biked to spar then turned round and went back home lol! grentz then went up sutton had to goto natwest and barclays 'nuff said. Holbech went to buy some shoes for work experience then went up kings lynn to open ISA account and buy some black trousers for work experience!

THURSDAY! *Drum roll* …….*continues* …… HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME YAY! its been a really good day I have to admit. College was ok spent some time with shelly but not alot cuz thursdays have alot of lessons! [RANDOM; HEY SHEENA, nICE HAIR! ]… sORRY ABOUT THAT! oops caps went out for a birthday meal too at the bull (ball??) house in boston very nice I had Lamb Shank and 2 pints of Calsberg had a sweet too. I' now sat infront of my PC typing this and i'm now upto date on everything

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Feb was the most busiest months on my blog since its birthday over 9 months ago! In total it hit a wopping 138316 hits! using 10.91Gb of bandwith! with an average of 4k hits a day! Man! that good! Tomwrote will soon be hittin 1 year old in april so I have got some suprises in store!
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And theres everything for now, nice long read your you alll Until nest time BYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I LOVE YOU SHELLY

- Tom Parker

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