Gone a While

Hey Guys,

So I haven't been blogging in the last few weeks. But a lot has happened.

Firstly seeing as it is so important. I should let you all know I got a new hat (again). But this one is reversible and softer than the cheap one.

So yea here is the new hat, I prefer the black side to be honest (its less bright).

Paintball.
So me and Amberlamps did actually go to train the Southampton University paintball team and this is what we found.

So it was your typical starting team setting up. Although it was chucking it down with rain.
We went through a couple of different things with them.

We chatted about what we were going to do.

Then we chatted some more.

Then we played some games and gave them some feedback. 

Then we showed them a few things. Its always fun to tell people what to do haha!

And then out of nowhere one of the foreign students showed some real promise.

After chatting to him for a while he was invited to play for another team but unfortunately due to him having to travel back to Cyprus every other month he could not dedicate himself to play.

Oh yea!

one more thing, 

Peaks are not only oldschool but also BadAss.

So on to other things I have been doing!

Driving.
Yes that's right I have been learning to drive. I have booked my theory test and hopefully that will go by without too much trouble. Then it is on to the practical and forward to the open road!

My Phone.
The battery has been replaced and I now cant live without either my phone or Facebook. No idea why this has happened but I find myself regularly checking just to see if I have any notifications.
Along with my Facebook addiction I now have a list of sites I have to open up on turning on my computer.

• Facebook
• Youtube
• PaintballPimp
• NSPL Forums
• PC Gamer
• My hotmail account
• my blogger dashboard

I know I haven't been posting recently but I have tried to keep up to date and read the blogs that are made by other people.

Well that's all for now guys.

hopefully this will be a jump back into the blog for me :)

Next time ... We eat a hornets nest.

Also next time.
Bikes and Houses

The quick update

So here is a little update about what's going on in my life at the moment.

I tried yoga for the first time ever last Sunday and I have to say it was pretty damn good if I'm honest. We just did 5 things; the dead man pose which is where you lie on your back and rotate your legs, the wind release (no points for guessing the outcome :p), Sun salutations which were a group of 10 movements that stretch and tone your muscles ready for the day, the warrior pose and a relaxation bit after where the whole class fell asleep :D.

I still have the same boring black peaked cap as I cannot find a decent replacement, but at least it will be useful on Sunday when I will be PLAYING PAINTBALL!!!!!!!

Paintball.
As most of you will know this took up a massive amount of my life the past two years and I miss it dearly! So this weekend I will be off with the paintball club of Southampton University to hopefully teach them a few things and encourage them into wanting to perform well at the events they have chosen to play this year. click here to find out more.

My Phone.
I am still waiting on a new battery as the one that came in the box turned out to not carry any charge :(. Hopefully that will arrive tomorrow and I will be able to resume my normal life haha!

Well that's it for now
Laters

The Working Week

So this weekend I have been doing doubles at work (day and night). Safe to say that right about now I'm pretty tired. But this does mean that I will have some spare cash at the end of it all. Winner :)

BEST NEWS EVER!
My friggin phone is BACK! this made me so happy I wet myself a little. Now I can live the life of geek heaven. Here is a taster of how I intend to do that.

yea that's right twin 23" monitors with one that hooks up to the X-box. I feel like a pro.
I had always been into computers but never would have bothered getting this much tech unless I was doing the course that I am with the people I study with.

even though my main pc is pretty decent (its a home built games machine) my favourite piece of kit is my samsung netbook.
This thing is SO GOOD at being a small laptop.

Many assignments have been finished on this thing on the train. It has a great battery life and I upgraded it with a 2 gig memory chip so that it had more room to work. This really increases performance on Facebook games and multitasking.

The next best thing would be my daemon phone of tablet goodness

And that's pretty much my personal set-up.

hope you guys liked my insight into myself and my life, I need to go to bed now so I can go back to work.

The rat race awaits.

PEACE!

Peanut butter and mayonnaise

Hey everyone.

So its been like a week or something since I last updated.

I had a whole week off work, it was AMAZING. I went over to Fareham to see my friend jack from uni and then managed to go to town on Thursday with a bunch of friends from back here at home :) then on Friday Jack came over here to Bournemouth where him me and BringAmberLamps playing some laggy games of League of Legends.

Coming Of Age new season!!!
personally I really enjoyed the first two seasons of this so I am pretty exited about the new one.

We went to go see the green hornet on Sunday and that was pretty dam good. Seth Rogan is always funny and he is in a film with some Jackie Chan looking guy who does marshal arts.

check it out!

Also went to see Tron legacy the week before with some mates from uni I thought it had a pretty good story line and the characters looked frikin awesome!

Peace!

100!

100 views!

wow why am I so exited about that??
I guess its because in our own ways we all just want to feel important. But hey I got 100 views!

THE TRUTH!
I learned what a blog was for! It turns out it stands for weB - Log which is cool because that's what I use it for, logging stuff that I find cool or even mildly interesting.
To read more about the knowledgeable northerner that told me this follow this link.

And so something that I thought was cool is.......
I fixed a 360!
Apparently one of the reasons it can red ring to 3 is that the graphics chip has come unsoldered. So you have to make it overheat to solder itself back. That is a little bit worrying to do but seeing as it was already broke I thought its only going to not work after. Turns out it worked and I got myself a cheap 360 :)

now to get some games?
Also it only has a 20 gig HDD so I might look at replacing that.

oh and btw. my gamertag is ant290.

Work was good this weekend, I cleaned out the dry stores which was fun and I ended up covered in flour from all the half opened / half full stock.

I guess this is going to be a short one as I don't have any ideas for links or pictures / videos to show you guys so sorry about that (maybe next time).

TOTORO!!

Victory!

So I finally made xampp work. Which is awesome because now I can start working on proper php development from home instead of having to be at uni to test it. The website I am creating out of uni is beginning to look more user friendly and soon will have some proper functionality.
When i get round to it I will be creating a flip book in HTML5 to be added to one of the pages. It will hold a set of images so that users can check out the B&B facilities in a good looking environment.

Back to uni!
So far it is going OK. tonight is the latest I have stayed up but oh well. I am kind of trying to test a friends website, creating an account was easy and hassle free. I have a few opinions on the site which
I will discuss with them.
I have 4 hand ins next week which is making me a little worried but I have finished one of them and am well on my way to getting the Web development one done.

Quality content!
So loads of my friends just cant get why I spend so much of my time on Youtube. Well the answer is so i can watch things like this.

YEA! score one to Youtube.

So I lost my old hat... which made me sad. No more peaked animal hat :(
But I did go out and buy a new one, it looks like this.

Its pretty plain but still has a peak. I think its just going to be a hat to wear whilst I look for a better one.

I am also REALLY into pyjama bottoms at the moment. So I have cookie monster, ghost busters and toy story ones.. maybe more in the near future.

The List

I decided to start a list. On the list is anything I think of as kind of interesting.

so lets go through the list now.

1. Damson Jam.

Basically we had a pot of jam in the cupboard and I decided to have it on my crumpets for brinner (all I ate all day). It turns out that Damson really just means plum so it wasn't that exotic, but I discovered that I really like plum jam so that's a little bit of a win right there.

2. My Sleep Pattern.

I have accidentally got myself into a pattern of not going to sleep until at least half past 4 every morning. This is bad because I start uni again next week and need to make sure I get up on time for the train.

3. The Book.

The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller.
Its about a fisherman's son who leaves for the city to make his riches... little does he know about the prophecy and his fate.

4. The Work.

Tonight for new years I decided I would give working a try as I had never worked on new years eve. It went well for the most part. Except for the bit where I covered the chef's face with scalding water from the coffee machine (really sorry about that).
We set off these paper lanterns at midnight which was fun and I had never done before. mine was purple which is always a good thing :)

5. The Website.

I have been working on a website for my parents, it's only a small site for a bed and breakfast which they want to have, but its given me something to work on which I can really develop and get thoughts on almost instantly (result!).
Another good thing is that I can develop it for myself as well, which means I can incorporate CSS3 and HTML5 items to keep it really up to date and fresh.

The layout is still a bit of a concept for now but as you can see there is highlighting on hovered over links and its not shown but the forms become more opaque when in use. all of the text and effects are created in CSS3 so there is no JavaScript or flash animations, that makes it really fast to download the pages and also it takes up less space on the client computer.

The problem is I cant manage to get xampp to work so that means no database development for the time being :(

So that was the list. I don't think I will make another entry like today's because I think it was kind of boring.

I got stuck writing this so went and made some scrambled egg on toast half way through. I think it beat the plum jam.

Tomorrow will be the last day I see my girlfriend for over a week as she is going to N.Y to buy me lots of cool things ^.^ so I will probably miss her a bit (just a little bit).

As some of my closer friends know I broke my phone a few weeks ago. so hopefully the insurance for that will come through soon and I will be able to get another one "Oh proper phone how I have missed you!"

Well that's it for today. Sorry this was a boring one. I will try and make my life more interesting.