Michael’s Blog

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

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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.

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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!!

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One month without an update… whoops!

I -will- get around to writing a large update, Soon™

Lots of news to share however!

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