Yes this week i’ve been impressed I love out new time table because most of its in the labs or 148 woo , Today i laid in bed because I wasnt gonna set off for college until 9 this way its alot better because I should be able to skip some of the rush hour traffic and that I aint got a hour to kill soon as i get to college Downside is that I aint really got to see my gf shelly much this week but we do make use of the time together when we get it so that pretty cool! I went round shellys on sunday to spend some time together it was nice being together and I tried to sort out her PC while I was there but she had some many viruses (180) and so much adware and spware (993) that removing the effected files removed explorer.exe – oops.

I’ve done some minor upgrades to my system this week with a new 160gb SATA (3gb/s) hard drive and putting the old 120gb into my grentz PC and selling the 40gb out of my grentz PC to someone at college. I’m also buliding another system which i will sell in the end I think because i can’t find a decent use for it, I had serveral ideas at first these were:

• Linux webserver – Could use it for developing projects like SysTom or Paid jobs
• Media Center – Required buying decent graphics card and tv card…
• Spare Machine – Would only collect dust…
• Dedicated fileserver – WAP (grentz PC) is now one…
• BETA Tester machine – Not really in many BETA products anymore.

So yeah there some good ideas there but they will either require more money which i don’t like spending or would get bored of using in the end.

Work is going alright this week too whih is good, Ooooh yeah Saturday was interesting because on Wednesday grandad bought a new pump for the front pond so Saturday was my day getting it to fit the orginal system, at first this proved to be abit of a pain because the pipe was too small to fit the pump, but with some inprovisation i managed to get some bits of piping together and make it join to the pipe I added a tap too.

With all that in place it was ready to go put it all together and what happened? the filter floods so it was a good job I added the tap to turn down the pressure few tweaks later its back on without flooding… go me. So yeah thats all really i got a video as normal this one is a little bit wierd

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg1qd570gq4[/youtube]

Catchy tune!

- Tom Parker

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Last week was pretty boring we didnt do alot just some college work and we started out City & Guilds work too, I plowed ahead to try get some work done, but i’ve still got Sad 2 to finish and to tell the truth im kinda stuck on it now… Web dev aint a problem thats straight forward and i think thats what i’ll get done hopefully by friday!

Pete is now back at college he is very loud we aint been used to such noises in weeks lol! Didnt see alot of shelly this week but we did see each other as much as possible She is on placement this week so I may or may not get to see her depending on how our breaks fallin with each others so i hope we do get to see each other abit more, im going round hers on sunday

We did get another pic of each other this week too here it is:

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Bless her

Its been a interesting week at work too! The power station is off for a month and work started this week I was up in control  room and well theres not a great deal of work to do really not as bad as i thought it would be. The system is currently being upgraded this i found very interesting because its actaully seeing what i’ve learn in college like SAD the current system would of been analysized then plans drawn up what whats require and now there implementing it and bug reporting as its bespoke software.

I have a funny idea its  either VB or C++ too I really wanna learn more buI aint the most talkitive person at work like I am at college… all in good time Also I have been experimenting with php and mysql and made a user login system then expanded it to a posting system too if you feel a  need to try it out heres the link its pretty basic though!

http://www.tomwrote.info/phpjunk/New%20Folder/

Thats all really nothing else and I have the perfect video lined up too!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcUvgRi4Y7A[/youtube]

Thanks for reading

- Tom Parker

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Hey everyone sorry to the subscribers that received that random email, I’m trying out Windows Live Writer for posting on my blog so far it seems pretty good with a good range of plugins. So yes I have been working 6 to 8.30 and so far its been pretty good because well there’s not many people about at night time and the people that are there seem pretty nice!

The weather has calmed down from the gale force winds to snow… I’ve never drove in snow hopefully it wont snow another its seem to have melted now well most of it! College is going ok we got some assignments to be in soon i guess i better get them finished but its keeping track of them which is tricky.

The cars subwoofer is fitted and sounds pretty good its 10 inch and its Vibe its got quite a kick to it too so i’m pretty impressed, I’m thinking of covering it in gray car carpet to make it blend in here’s a picture of it before it was fitted.

Car tax is coming up soon so i am am trying to not spend any money i wont get pay this week either I have to wait till next week… and i doubt I’ll have EMA I lost mine but found it today so I need to get all my lessons signed for Monday and Tuesday… well I was there so…

Thanks it for now sorry subscribers for th screw up, I blame Windows live Writer

- Tom Parker

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I HAVE A JOB! Yes its true its working in a power station cleaning offices pays not too bad £5.75 a hour for 2hrs every night the people are really nice so far so i feel I will enjoy it I start monday, cant wait really it be nice to get out lol.
If you live in the UK you will know it was VERY VERY windy like gale force wind and rain, and who drove to college init? Me yes silly me i really should of got the bus that day but well a bus is more prone to blow over so I went out in it. Cars, vans, and loads of lorries scattered about in trees, lamp posts and dykes.

3 lorries blown over just along the A16 then theres the rain… and lots of it some roads in boston was just flooded water upto 5 inchs deep… in some parts then there was part of the college’s roof tiles flying off, amazing to watch but also very dangerous. Thats all really aout the weather now the snow is gonna come apparently!

Anyways I have a new life rule… NEVER drink and go on eBay… you end up buying things which… to be perfectly honest you won’t want when your sober… for example a 400w Vibe subwoofer… I aint got the car fully wired up yet to test what it sounds like… my guess it what its gonna sound sh*t!

Tomorrow will be fun because i’ll be fitting the power cable to the battery then into the car and into the boot… loads of fun! And just now I got this really random email which was really interesting to read! Aparently theres a guy at my college who come accross my website and have a browse arround, he has a 306 and has a dint in the same place as me… wierd aye?

This guy has lived in a different country called france… where as i lived in spain… i’ve never been to france maybe one day! Hope you recieved my email back mate the postmaster said know to your main email addy

Anyways i’ll post in the week when i’m in the right mood to blog… I started writing this at 6pm and its now 11.57… oops! Oh and I just noticed i been blog for… 4yrs thats just…. shocking!

- Tom

oooo a video…. errrm 2 videos of people parking cars… Or… rather not parking them.. enjoy!

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Well since I have got my new headunit I guess its time to get some bass everyone knows i’m picky on what I get for my car and i’m always out looking for hours for the very best deal. I joined some forums and tried to find out some more information.. I guess i’m getting there and the clear message is… your not gonna get anything for £100.. thats if its custom bulit – great!

So i’ve been on ebay and loads of online shops i found quite a few deals for under £100 with the sub, amp and wiring kit but then another thing thats been sitting in my mind came up… will my car handle it on the forums they said anything under 800w will be fine, another thing is what size sub… 10″ 12″ or 15″ lol forget the 15″ too expensive but how do I decide on a 12″ or 10″ ?

Its seems the views are split, one forum likes 10’s and the other likes 12’s I was originally looking for a 12″ because I thought the 10″ looked too small… lol but if its the right wattage it gives out alot of “punch” and does lower frequencies. But then the other forum are supporting 12″ and saying they give out more bass are will do low freqencies too…

Looking arround on ebay its true… the 10″ are more expensive and i’m guessing this is because there better so I started putting in some bids. I’ve bidded on a FLI Trap 10 twin thats 1600w together and I could power them with a cheap 500w amp and that wouldn’t cause any trouble either but that would mean buying wiring kit etc.

Then theres loads of 12″ kits your can get passive (powered with external amp) or active (powered by bulit in amp) passive is what I want. Active would work but they done have very good amps eg 1000w sub with bulit in amp 300w… its abit… yeah. these are the kits i’ve been looking into:

12″ deals

• http://www.motor-world.co.uk/kroozin/show_prod.php?prod_id=12477 (600w sub with 300w amp)
• http://www.motor-world.co.uk/kroozin/show_prod.php?prod_id=12430 (600w sub with 600w amp (prob the best so far))
• http://www.caraudiocentre.co.uk/product.asp?product=21403 (750w sub 500w amp needs wiring kit and p&p is over £10)
• http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/product/products_id/3821.html (600w sub with 500w amp p&p over £10)

10″ deals

• http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/product/products_id/4903.html (600w sub with 500w amp p&p over £10)
• Random 10″ but with over £10 in p&p in mind – http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/……/single-10-sub-amp-deal.html

so yeah not sure what to do right now I guess i’ll just wait and see with my bids on ebay if I win anything then i’ll go from there if not i’ll go with one of these… if anyone knows of any other good deals then post and comment or contact me I guess thats it really college is going good had a new learning support person yesterday he seems pretty cool and i can talk to him etc so i’m happy with that.

If anyone likes trance (better then that clubland 10 sh*t – complete toss) I found this site with does a 3hr podcast of free trance non-stop on every tuesday aka Trance-Tuesday – http://tranceportal.org

That plus this one too http://www.djaddison.com your sorted for 5hrs a week I just stick them on my ipod and listen to them in the car… easier to listen to with a good beat

I guess thats all really nothing else has happened, well it has but i’d like to keep that quite for now

- Tom

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