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!
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!!
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!
Well, it does! 
I’m currently writing a draft of this whist sat waiting to demo my last assignment for the year, and once this is through with I have 3 exams between myself and a 2 month holiday. This last week I have caught a bug that’s been going around, which is an absolute pain; Que Sera Sera, hey…
Today the dates for my placement in Eurocopter have been confirmed, which is nice as I can now start to plan things such as travel and how to get my stuff over there. The more I think about this placement, the more I cannot wait until July. Its true that friends and family will be missed dearly (who, if your reading this, are more than welcome to visit!), but the experience will be quite something.
On a gaming front, the new Left4Dead Survival DLC is out. It really is such good fun, if you have the game I recommend you go and play it now, don’t worry, I will wait…
…fun? I told you it would be! For all those without L4D, rather than fighting to find a safe house, your goal now is to last for as long as you can, before the zombie armada becomes just to much. The best time myself and 3 friends managed was 11 minutes and 43 seconds, which considering that by ~15mins your getting a tank every 15 seconds, is quite something I think.
TV series are now coming to a close; one more episode of Heroes, five of 24 and not many more Scrubs left. Its all getting very good however, especially 24! “How will Jack get out of this one?” is a question asked a lot in our house, and it is so very true.
I will be adding a pictures section to the links at the top, don’t expect it to be fill up any time soon, I just want to have a play with some plug-ins
I am currently testing/playing with new themes so this site will be changing slightly for the next few days.
Edit:
I am back to the old theme, a little bit more edited however.
This last month has been quite a roller-coaster. I have had two exams, two assignments, three placement interviews, FIVE GOOOLD RINGS and a placement offered and accepted in Munich (Ok, I am still working on sorting out the rings, but its in the works).
I have, about two weeks ago, been accepted onto a 12-month placement with Eurocopter in Germany which I really cannot wait for. Adding the cherry on the cake, Andy has also been accepted to Eurocopter! Come July I will be jet-setting away to work for a year. I am really, really looking forward to this!!
Because of this new placement, when I am over there this website is going to under-go some changes. It will become much less about games and more about myself and my time in Munich. This will be mainly to keep friends and family updated, as it will be quite the adventure and I want somewhere to share it!
So now, I am sat on my couch at home typing this, having just last week finished my last lecture for the next 16 months and between myself and a 1 month holiday sits one assignment and three exams.
This last year has been an interesting one; friendships have been made, changed and tightened and I feel that as a programmer I have shot forward by a ton. I understand most, if not all, of the OpenGL concepts we have been taught and have learnt 2 new languages and at least one more framework. Sample of this years work can be found at the ‘My Applications’ link at the top.
This is the first post in another effort to keep this website more up-to-date and it will be successful this time!!