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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! 

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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 :D  . 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!!

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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 :D ) 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 :P .

On another note, the Album section at the top is fully functional, only its full of stock photos currently!

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