Merry Christmas Everyone!
December 25th, 2009
Happy Birthday to Me!
August 12th, 2009
Last Saturday it was my 20th birthday, which means I am no longer classed as a teenager… hurrah!
I spent a full day at a lake so I didn’t have time to come and blog about how awesome not being a teenager is, so here I am now!
Edit:
As Andy so nicely reminded me, it also marked the 1 month milestone of us being in Germany! More to come soon…
Guten Tag!
July 28th, 2009
Here we are, at last, in Germany. The last two months without an update has been an odd time really. In its duration I mainly spent time with family and friends and played a large amount of Computer Games, as during this next year I’m going to be mostly without them.
I had a small blunder half way through my two month vacation, in that my Steam account got hacked and some cheeky bugger out there ran off with a large amount of games (mostly new releases), luckily Valve, being the awesome company they are, fixed it right up and I havnt lost a thing… yay!
Today marks the start of my fourth week here in Germany and so far everything is going brilliantly, with the exception of the Internet connection, but then that’s a story for another day. Ive been working at Eurocopter now for 2 weeks, alongside the previous Staffordshire students whom have now headed home. Its a really enjoyable job in a very nice atmosphere and enviroment. Myself and 2 other Students are sharing an office (Adam and Ken), which is great as it means there is always a familiar face around. As an addition, on the way to work we can see the alps as a backdrop, which really is something different!
We have quite a nice little flat over here, not very large but quite cozy. Im still living with Andy and Dave, and everything is great on that side of things.
Munich itself is a wonderful place. I’ve had a few problems with the language barrier, but they are mostly easily resolved. Unfortunately I have had neither the time nor the money to do many ‘touristy’ things as of yet, however I am really looking forward to when I can. The city itself is quite small when compared to London or Washington DC, but it is still such a vibrant place with a lot of stuff happening everywhere you look.
The weather over here is very erratic and can quickly go from hot 30 degree heat to torrential rain, all due to the proximity to the alps. Luckily the bad weather seems to be few and far between and is far outweighed by the glorious sunshine. Myself and Andy spent all Saturday by a huge lake, in the sun all day with beers and friends… das ist gud!
Speaking of which, my German is awful, we are currently looking into sorting out lessons, however so far I’m failing quite bad at learning, despite peoples constant attempts to try and teach me. Hopefully over the course of a year I should pick at least the key bits up!
Anyhow, im going to wrap this up for now, as I have to leave some stuff to write about in the future… when i get around to writing more!
Auf Wiedersehen!
Valve’s Latest Updates
May 20th, 2009
As a-lot of people are aware the ‘Meet-the-Spy’ video was leaked the other day, a few days before Valve had planned to release it. The reasoning for this had been announced in a spin-off achievement, after the spy’s had been shown. A screen cap of valves humor, and the full meet the spy video can be found after the jump.
At some point I will wright a larger update!
Home Sweet Home
May 11th, 2009
Exams are over, Assignments are finished and I am currently sat in my bedroom at home!
Our second year of University is now completely finished, no more exams for a good 18 months 
. In 2 months we move off to Germany to begin our work placement and get the ball rolling with FYP ideas. I know the next year will be hectic. Trying to find time to both travel, relax, and work on University stuff will be a real hassle and one that will hopefully be overcome. But even so, I cannot wait!
This last weekend has been non-stop work. Saturday was spent packing everything and cleaning my room, with Sunday being spent unpacking, sorting and re-boxing. Then I shoved a-lot of my stuff into the loft, helped Dad sort out a few boxes up there, and went straight to wiring up my PC.
It was then I encountered a terrifying error! One involving my PC, Windows Vista and the inability to get a simple wireless network adapter functioning. Now I’m hardly a tech-guru, but I know what I am doing and for 3 blasted hours I kept getting random Windows errors and faults in connecting to our network. Had to fix it in the end using a router as a bridge to let me wire up through Ethernet, which is more of a pain as I was supposed to be lending this fancy modded router to Andy back in Stafford, which wont be happening now…
Oh well, its all working now! Time to relax…
Edit: On another note, Andy is no-longer living below me which means I can finally make use of my Subwoofer again! Hurrah!!
Its Almost Finished
May 5th, 2009
As I write this I am getting ready to start the second-to-last revision session for our exams. We have a Math’s exam tomorrow, which shouldn’t be to bad and after that finishes the AI revision begins for its exam on the 7th!
On the bright side it does mean that there is only a small amount of time between now, and a 2 month vacation before the move to Germany.
Currently everything is going swimmingly; I remembered I already have European Heath Insurance (after reminding my mom we got it when we went to Tenerife, not Florida ) and to top things off, the Student Loan arrived the other week which was very nice to wake up to!
I am looking forward to moving home, and spending some actual time with family, over Easter I was working on assignments for most of it. I will however miss Stafford, more because of the people than the place. I have done quite a bit this year, while at the same time, not done much.
I have, however, moved forward so much in not only my knowledge of programming and computing. but also in my understand of life, and the world in general. Living with the friends I live with and in the environment we create has taught me a-lot and for this I owe so much to Dave, Emma and of-course Andy. We have our ups and our downs, but we all look out for each other and as housemates, I don’t think we have done half bad 
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On another note, the Album section at the top is fully functional, only its full of stock photos currently!