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First post in a while

2007-11-02T22:40:00.000+01:00

I changed the blog back to this layout because the other one was screwing with it. Its still a bit screwed up though. I'm gonna sort it out some time and possibly start hosting it on another site (with all past posts being there still).

Nothing much happened over the holidays so i didn't post anything then. We went on a little caravan holiday but came home a day early cause there was nothing else to do really.

I got the results of that english test back and not many people passed it but i was one of the few who did. I also passed this science one (about half the class did) and i've also done my oral presentation on a beautiful mind for english. I think the rehearsal was better than the real thing cause i done a few things wrong like forgot to advance slide then forgot the name of a character and forgot the name of another film and said the wrong name for the director and forgot what movies he directed and OH MY GOD I'M A FAILURE!! Lol, just joking. But yeah, I *THINK* it came out alright.

I started a new youtube channel so check it out! http://www.youtube.com/gottabeandrew

Eventful Day at college

2007-10-17T22:54:00.000+01:00

Ok, I arrived at college to find out that today was the day for the literacy test which we were gonna do on the computers and some people were doing it in the morning but a lot of us had to stay behind after the end of college to do it then and this included me.

So we did and it was supposed to take an hour max but we had technical problems (they'd given everyone the same password which didn't work by accident) and so we had to wait for ages for it to begin (30-45 minutes i'd say) and then we done the test and they let us go when we had completed our tests so i left at 4.45 (usual ending time is 3.30).

So anyway, i got on the bus which arrived 10 minutes after I did and got home at about 5.50 (usual time is 4.30) and during this entire time, i forgot to phone home to tell them i'd be late home so they were all wondering where i was and my mam was worried at work and didn't know what could've happened lol. I had my phone but i had it on vibrate and didn't feel it but then turned it off without really paying attention to the screen. So yeah, that was that.

In Psychology, we had another fire drill and 2 funny things happened:

1. I was first back in and just as the lift was reaching the ground floor, this guy said "Stand back to let people out of the lift." He was completely serious. We had been evacuated for 5-10 minutes and had been banned from using the lift on the way down (Temple, who was on crutches still, was made to walk on his crutches down 9 flights of stairs so absolutely nobody was allowed the lift i don't think).

2. When we got back, my Psychology teacher said "You know, i have to escort you all out if theres a fire drill and then wait and make sure that everyones left the room and then i leave the room myself and lock the door behind me. But don't expect that in a real fire. If theres a real fire, watch this fat lass run!" LOL, was just so funny.

Side-note: Why do they make them lock the door behing them? Theres only 1 hallway per floor and lots of classrooms meaning that the chances are, the fire will be in a classroom. So if theres a real fire, how are the fire brigade gonna put the fire out in a room when some idiot has just locked the god-damned door? Hmm, does this make sense to anyone?

Quick round-up of events

2007-10-15T20:32:00.000+01:00

On Saturday I went to the theatre for the first time in years because my mam and her friend were gonna go but her friends husband had a stroke so i got to fill her place.

The play was good and had no talking at all in it. They done it well though. It was basically about this hunky guy going into a town in the 1700's or 1800's or something and causing quite a disruption by getting it on with the men and women and then having them all fall in love with him and then he murdered someone and then someone murdered him. So yeah, worth the trip!

Today i was on the bus and he was taking somebodys ticket when the lights went out and the engine stopped so he started it again. Then he was going along and all the lights went off then he pulled the bus over to the side and got off, phoned somebody, checked the engine bit then got on the bus and went "right, ladies and gentlemen." (the oldest person there must have been 17 at the most) "the bus has broken down so you will all have to get off and wait for the next one."

The next bus was due in 1 hours time and my i usually arrived dot on time for my lessons so i got a refund, got my dad who had the day off to come and pick me up and take me to college.

In english, i presented an oral presentation i had made on the film a beautiful mind. The slides i made for it looked really good and if you recognise the theme they have, tell me through email or msn or something because i would love to know if anybody did. Anyway, this is one of the slides, isn't it great:

In other news, my dad was gonna give me his ipod for the trip to and from college because he has another one and i said it was too chunky (its an original one) so my brother gets that one and i'm getting my brothers which is an iPod nano which apparently contains less songs but its definately worth it since theres only about 10 i listen to anyway. So yay, free iPod nano. I think this is only a temporary arrangement though lol.

A very different blog post

2007-10-01T16:38:00.001+01:00

This blog post is gonna cover 3 things:

1. The new blog look.
2. Things that happened in the last year that i didn't post about but will now.
3. A conversation between me and the bus driver today.

We'll go in that order so first up is the new blog look.

I hope you all like it. This is the 4th makeover its had but first time its not a default style (or a default one with a custom background, like the last one). I think its a nice improvement and i chose 3 and then done a vote with 11 people for which one to choose and this one got 8 votes so this is the one that got put on.

Ok, now onto things which've happened in the past year. Both of these happened at school.

The first one i didn't tell you about because i didn't want my mam to see at the time (you never know! she could probably find the blog if she wanted to) but if she reads it now its ok since i've left school and this was a while back.

In the middle of year 11, i went on the middle school (we have a 3 tier system: first school, middle school and high school) website during ict and found that it was really crap so I wrote an email to the middle school saying something like "why is this so rubbish?". I forgot about it but then the next day i was taken out of geography and talked to by 2 teachers about it and they said that there'd be no point apologising to them since i hadn't done anything to them and so i would have to go to the middle school to apologise. So i got in one of their cars with both of them and we went over a mile down the road to the middle school and i seen all my old teachers and said hi and then gave my apologies and then seen more teachers and said hi and really it was quite a fun experience.

The second story i didn't post because i was at school when it happened and if the school found the blog somehow, i didn't want to be questioned about it cause i didn't want a fuss made.

Last year, i had a cover teacher for a lesson and broke her pen (if you look back through the blog, i think i told you about this). So then the head of that department who i didn't even know (Mr Lanel - there you go. Named and shamed. ;-) ) dragged me into his office at lunchtime and put his face about 10-15cm from mine and shouted in my face things like "YOURE NOBODY!" and "YOU WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING!". I wonder if they're allowed to say that.

So anyway, back to today and a conversation i had with the busdriver. For the 90% of my blog viewers who aren't geordies, i've put the translation of what he said in brackets beside what he actually said. This happened on the way home from college once everyone else had got off.

Driver: Where do you wanna gerrof at? (where do you want to get off at?)
Me: Half way up castlefiends.
Driver: Reet, well am just ganna have a tab then. (right, well i'm just going to smoke a cigarette then.)
Me: Ok then.
Driver *lights up cigarrete*: Do yer smoke? (do you smoke?)
Me: No.
Driver: Divvint start. (don't start smoking).
Me *politely laughs*: I won't.
Driver: Yer knaa, divint tell anyone aboot this like. (dont tell anyone about this by the way).
Me: Oh, i won't. (and yes, i do realise the irony that by posting this i am telling lots of people)

I don't think i'll continue boring everyone to death with countless busdriver and train conductor stories from now on, i just thought it was interesting. It is illegal, isn't it? Somebody refresh my memory on this please. Thanks!

But anyway, the guy let me off at the bottom of my street and he put his cigarrete out the window when he wasn't smoking it so no smoke came near me.

The past week and a half

2007-09-28T16:52:00.000+01:00

Woo, lots to update on.

I have started getting the bus to college following the train incident so now no more trains and their evil conductors. No more will i associate the phrase "Morning!" (short for "good morning") with 30-50 year old men in suits at 8am on a train.

Anyway, the bus is fine and i have a lot less far to walk. To catch the bus in the morning, i now only have to walk half as far as i did for thet rain. On the way home, it drops me off at the bottom of the street. When i get to college, it drops me off on the road right outside the college. So yeah, thats a lot better.

Last thursday (8 days ago) we went to mcdonalds in newcastle at lunch time and then I left my bag there so i spent most of physics going there, getting my bag and coming back.

On monday I came home ill after 1 lesson cause i had stomach ache. Also, 1 of my friends (Hi Paul!) fell down the stairs at college last week cause there was something wrong with his knee and every 3 weeks or so it had apparently been giving way (dunno why i didn't mention this) and he had been to the hospital and stuff. So on monday, some random person who he didn't even know kicked his leg when he was on his crutches and so he was in pain and went home and has been back and forwards to the hospital since then.

On Thursday i missed the bus but wasn't much of a problem cause i caught the next one.

Our physics teacher is crap. She really is. She really has no clue what shes talking about or anything, she just confuses everyone and doesn't speak sense. Heres a little quote..

After going through this question on the board, she realised she was doing it wrong and changed it, then realised she was doing it wrong so changed it again, then again and then a 4th time. So one of those times, this happened:

Rohini (our teachers name - sounds like a stage name, doesn't it?): So you have 10 rows and 10 columns..
Toby (another friend - Hi Toby!): 11 columns.
Rohini: No no, there are 10 columns.
Toby: No, theres 11.
Rohini: 10 columns.
Toby: But i just counted them though and tehres 11.
Rohini: 1..2..3..4..5..6..7..8..9..10..11. Ok, so there are 11 columns.
Me: Owned.

And finally, one more little story - Sean (Hi Sean!) is teaching me how to solve a rubix cube over msn.

So yeah, thats a brief overview of my week (missing out minor things such as being home alone, tv shows and yahoo answers).

The Andrew Pass

2007-09-18T20:59:00.000+01:00

The other day there was this old conductor on the train (so keep in mind the possibility of this being ageism although i'm not completely saying it was) and he refused to let me have the £3.80 ticket which i should have had and instead was trying to charge me with a £4.50 one. I knew i was right so argued back (why should i pay 70p extra? it may just be 70p but if this happened for 10 days that would add up to £7 and then 100 days would be £70 so its a lot of money, really).

It took him about 10 minutes, in which time some people had got on at 1 stop and got off at the next without paying so they lost quite a bit of money from this foolish man. Finally, he wouldn't back down so the man opposite me (i was sitting at a table seat) offered to pay the extra 70p but i didn't think this would be fair on him really so i just paid the man the money.

Today on the train, however, the man was asking for tickets and i had worked out that on a packed train, the way they knew who had got on was body language and mostly relied on people reaching for money or something when they looked at them or when they came close. So, i decided to do a little psycological experiment of my own - i completely blanked the conductor to see what would happen.

And it worked! He walked straight past and i got on the train for free. This is now whats known as the Andrew pass. :-)

Me and Toby (one of my new friends) went venturing into newcastle and to KFC today during lunch. We were standing in the line waiting to be served and i heard this guy behind me telling his friend how he was in a holiday villa near the one madeline got kidnapped from (either that or he lived near her, couldn't quite make it out) and he said he'd been questioned by the police. Oooh, interesting.

So we had English and ICT, both which weren't particularly interesting, and then we had Psycology. In Psycology, we got homework to write 500 words on what we expect to do in the next 5 years so i thought i might share it with you here (apparently the teachers sometimes search for a line out of stuff you hand in on google to make sure you havn't just copied and pasted it from somewhere so if you do it and you find this blog then HI MISS!! Give me an A please..:

How I plan to spend the next 5 years

In my GCSEs I got a C in maths and Business Studies, the rest were all D’s apart from 1 E which was in English Literature.

My schools 6th form said I couldn’t do A-levels and they wouldn’t let me do re-sits there. They would only let me do a 1 year B-tech course in Retail which would have been the equivalent of 4 Cs and then I could go into 6th form the following year and do my A-levels. I wasn’t in the slightest bit interested in the Retail course though and since it leaded to no real qualifications and I knew that a B-tech in retail might not go as far as 5 GCSEs in English language, English literature, Psychology, ICT and Physics, I made the decision not to go to 6th form and to go to college instead.

After spending a year re-sitting my GCSE’s, I will decide whether to spend the following year either at my schools 6th form or college, depending on how I feel about college at the end of the year and if I would want to go back. Either way, at the end of this year, I will go on to do my A-levels.

Since I don’t know which courses will overlap with each other in terms of time and which I will be then qualified to do, I don’t know exactly which courses I will take but they will probably be made up of a selection of these options:

• Business Studies
• Psychology
• Film Studies
• ICT
• Some other media course

Doing those for 2 years will end 3 years into the future from now on. After I have finished that i have to make another decision – do I want to go to university or not? While the answer will probably be yes, I’m not completely sure. I don’t know anything about the available courses that you can do in university so I don’t know what I would be doing there but I would imagine it to be similar to the course list for A-level.

If I don’t end up going to university at the end of my A-levels, I will open a business. That is my main plan for life. I don’t know what type of business or what it would do at the minute but there’s at least 3 years until I would have to decide so I have plenty of time. I am interested in business and the aspects involved with running a business and take an interest in it. I also take an interest in learning about the lives of famous businessmen such as Steve Jobs who owns Pixar and Apple (who make iPods and Macs).

If I decide not to go down the business route then I will do some sort of behind the scenes work on movies and TV.

I pwn noobs

2007-09-16T18:56:00.000+01:00

College has went fine so far (apart from a few train problems which are probably too boring to go in to).

On Thursday, i wore my "I pwn n00bs" tshirt. 2 people mentioned it at college, a few people kinda stared at it so i think they understood and then i was getting off the train on the way home and theres a guy in his 20's.

guy in his 20's: Nice tshirt.
me: thanks
guy in his 20's: I have an uber micro one, myself.
me: oh, so you're a pure pwnage fan then.
guy: yeah, whats the latest episode like? i havn't had a chance to see it yet.
me: good.

So then we got off the train and went our seperate ways. :D

I dunno if i mentioned it before but i dont have college on a friday so yay!

Psycology is good aswell and is my favorite lesson so far. All lessons are also ok so far.

Today we went to North East to see the QE2 which is apparently a really really big ship. We waited out in the cold for 1 and a half hours until deciding to leave when we heard that it was too windy to bring it up the river and they're gonna try again in half an hour.

First day of lessons at college.. well, not quite

2007-09-10T17:46:00.000+01:00

7:00AM - I wakeup and get ready for college.
7:40AM - Start walking down to the train station.
7:55AM - Arrive at the train station when the lights are flashing and the train is about to arrive. I get on the train. After the first stop (wylam i think) these 2 guys get on. They're in their 40's or something and 1 of them looks a bit like Richard Madely (off Richard and Judy). They do various odd things such as:

1. Whilst both are looking forward facing the same way (1 is sitting on the left side, the other on the right side) they both get up at exactly the same time and 1 get some paper with random notes on it and the other gets out money.
2. Sit there asking eachother questions in an interview style way.
3. Bore everyone to death by talking about politics for a good 10 minutes.

8:20 - Arrive at Newcastle and walk up to college.
8:30 - Find my class which i'm in first (at 9) so i wont go wandering for ages amongst loads of people in a rush later. Then i go back down to the ground floor to get my timetable sorted out.
8:40 - When i arrive, a bunch of us are told that since they're dead busy with sorting out A level students, all the resit people get to go home. *cue sigh from me* I walk back down to the train station.
8:50 - Arrive at the train station and wait for the train till 9:20.
9:20 - I get on the train home. Except Newcastle station got their information which they put on the screens wrong and the train wasn't stopping at Prudhoe (my town) so i was informed by the conductor that i'd have to get off at the metrocentre. I know it wasn't my stupid mistake cause there were quite a few people who were told this aswell after me (old people aswell and as everyone knows, old people seem to live on trains).
9:30 - I arrive at the metrocentre and walk around (even though the shops only open at 10:00 apart from WHSmith which i can't go in cause i'm holding a bottle of pop without a bag) and I wait for my train at 9:55.
9:48 - I don't wish for anything else to go wrong so i arrive back 7 minutes early to make sure i don't miss the train. Sure enough, there it is at the station. As soon as i see it, i run towards it and just as i reach it, it pulls away. The next train is at 10:08 and so i wait right there, not daring to move incase i miss the next one aswell.
10:08 - Train arrives and i get on it
10:20 - Train arrives at Prudhoe, i get off and walk home.
10:40 - I arrive home to an empty house since my mam is out walking the dogs.
11:00 - My mam comes in not realising i'm there so i go pounding down the stairs going "AAHHHHH!!!" and give her the fright of her life. The dogs are happy to see me.

My first and second days at college

2007-09-07T17:31:00.000+01:00

On Thursday, my first day, I found my way to the classroom i was supposed to be in easy enough and then met the form class and teacher.

The form teacher didn't tell us his surname and asked us just to call him Dan. We went on a tour of the entire place which was pretty easy in general (we didn't go inside the buildings, just toured round them). I've only met my form class so far and next week lessons start meaning i can meet everyone in my proper classes.

I have a timetable aswell now. I am only in half the day on Tuesday and i'm not in on Friday (3 day weekend! do you love it?).

So anyway, back to my first day. After the tour we done a test in maths and english on the computers where it just gave us a level. I dunno what i got but i'll assume that it was good since i don't think i got many questions wrong.

So today, (friday - i'm in this friday but never again on fridays) we just done some games using the interactive computerized whiteboard and wrote a little 1 page story about ourselves.

I finished at the early time of 11.35 today and then, just like yesterday, got the train home.

Oh yeah, this is what my form tutor looks like:

Thats not actually him, thats a guy from the movie A Beautiful Mind but it looks exactly like him lol.

Loads of news!

2007-09-05T20:42:00.000+01:00

Woo, lots to get through.. I'll go in chronological order.

So, i went into school on Monday to sign up for 6th form but then couldn't get in cause i didn't have my 4 C's so my options were go to college and resit for a year or go and do a b-tech at 6th form for a year and get the equivelant of 4 C's in a year. Then with either of these, i could go and do A levels next year in 6th form.

So, after spending the whole day going back and forwards on my decision i finally decided on Tuedsay - I'm going to college.

I was supposed to get a laptop if i got my 4 C's in my exams but because i made the right choice and didn't stay at school just cause i wanted to stay there and then done something i really wasn't at all interested in for a year, my parents let me get a laptop anyway.

On tuesday, i bought some new clothes and stuff and then today i got a new laptop. The first shop we went in, the sales assistant reminded me of someone from school (if you went to my school, you can guess who it is if you want). He just rattled on with all this technical jargon for ages, telling us how great he was, bullshitting (he tripped up a few times with this), stalking us round the shop and not leaving us alone. Heres 3 quotes i particularly liked:

1. I've built well over 500 computers by hand!

2. I could build a computer blindfolded.

3. (when the one i was keen on seemed to have a dedicated graphics card)I play all my games with a dedicated graphics card on my computer.
*15 minutes later*
(its discovered it doesn't really have a dedicated graphics card but a shared one, like all the others in that shop) I play all my games with a shared graphics card on my computer.

So anyway, we ran from him as fast as possible and went to a few other shops and finally needed to decide between 2 which we had chosen.

	Number 1	Number 2
RAM	2048MB	1024
Drive space	160GB	100 GB
Version of windows	Vista home premium	Vista Ultimate
Battery life	2 hours	3 hours
Graphics card type	Shared	Dedicated

So, after going back and forwards, i finally decided what had more importance, what was required and therefore which one was the best so i got number 2. It has a 15.4" widescreen monitor, a nice keyboard and mousepad and looks nice aswell. I thought running vista ultimate was important and also, so was the dedicated graphics card.

So college starts tomorrow and I'm not particularly looking forward to it. I'll update you on that soon!

Going to college

2007-09-02T00:32:00.000+01:00

On Thursday i went to an open day at Newcastle college as a backup option in case I don't get into 6th form. If i go there i'll have to redo my gcses for a year before i get to do any A levels and the money they get given to have me covers the cost of 5 courses so i'd have to do 5 GCSE's aswell. If i do go there, i've chosen both English's, Physics, Psycology (never done this before but sounds alright and better than the rest) and ICT. So after a long day, i got that all sorted out.

On Monday i'm going to argue my case to get into 6th form (as i've probably already said twice now, just reminding you though).

Last night Brian won Big Brother. Although i'm a little bit unsure of whether he was fake or not, he had a good winning reaction and stuff. I wanted the twins to win though but i'm glad they got as far as they did.

YouPorn

2007-08-28T21:11:00.000+01:00

If you thought the letter about the neighbors splitting up was good gossip, wait till you hear this!

You know how when you go on google and click on the search bar it tells you about your previous searches? Well, (assuming you said yes) my brother (who is 12) had 2 of his friends in and clicked it when they were on the computer and it showed a search for YouPorn, obviously a porn version of youtube.

So then, probably embarrased, he came through to my room and done an act of "Have you been searching for YouPorn on my computer?" when his friends were there and trying to blame it on me (pathetic, since i have my own computer, I'm sure you'll agree). I found this quite amusing, however, and sent him on his way.

So then 10 minutes later my mam calls me over and then i went and she asked me about it. I think him asking me if it was me when his friends were there to try and get the embarrasement away was quite funny but then go and telling my mam about it saying it might be me is another thing. She is looking through history and finds the history tells when you went on the sites up until 3 weeks ago and then it just lists the sites you've been on before that without a date so this site came up as one which didn't have a date on it.

So then later during tea, my mam suggested calling her friend who comes around once every 2 months with her kids (1 is 11 and 1 is 13) and asking her to ask her kids if they done it.

OMG i so can't believe she actually believes him that it wasn't him that much that shes planning to call people up and doing a big enquiry in to it lol.

So anyway, back to tea time and my dad also said "I could check the cookies cause you can delete history but when you delete that and the cookies, it doesn't really delete the deeper down ones and you can find out when you went on the sites from those... You have to dig deep though." I dunno whether he was talking shit or not but my brothers face was classic. After a few seconds he said "You're not gonna do that though, are you?". OMG i love it!

So he tried to blame it on me just to try and make the point to his friends that it wasn't him (when it obviously was) and now hes ended up dropping himself in it big time.

Ah, this'll be good. Also, I've not become dis-interested in the college/6th form/gcse thing, theres just no updates on that at the moment.

Whitley Bay

2007-08-26T20:22:00.000+01:00

I'm still not sure about why I didn't get a C in science and can't wait to find out in 8 days time whether it was the test mark or them being thick and telling me the wrong coursework mark of a B. It may need re-marking i think, still.

So this morning i woke up and was asked if i wanted to go to Whitley Bay so i said yes and we spent a few hours there and got fish and chips for lunch and stuff.

We just had sunday dinner for tea as well.

I've discovered the great secret to getting rich on Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Since your guests don't go home at the end of each day, people tend to charge them for using the rides instead of for entering (or charging for both things but having a low price on both). So i thought outside the box of how i could make paying on entry only work if i wanted to put new rides down and expand the park without these people getting on them for free and i came up with this idea:

At the start of September, I close all rides, shops etc. and the park and make everybody go home. So then i build 3 or so brand new rides and put the entry price up a few pounds and open the park again in March and, without any advertising, they come streaming in. I repeat this process each year and at the moment I'm on year 5 of this and i make about £30,000 on the opening month and then it quickly drops each month but by the time i'm not making enough money from the entrance fee to cover my costs for that month, the visitors get hungry and buy food from the shops which brings in even more. So that time, i ended up with about £40,000 in profit for that year (which increases with each year) - about 10x the amount you could expect to make through doing it the usual way.

GCSE Results

2007-08-23T16:13:00.000+01:00

Wow, today has been eventful so far!!

This is a blog about my life. Its been going for over a year now and those of you who read it will now understand that it is here to tell the truth about my life and what happens in it and is not designed to make it look like the sun shines up my arse.

This post will be mostly about my GCSE results but i'll go in chronological order talking about other things also.

So i woke up this morning to hear we had a letter:

Dear those concerned,

You may be interested to know that Mr. [guys name] (at number 6) is having an affair and cheating on his wife.

Ooooh, street gossip, i like.

So anyway, about an hour later i went up to school to get my results. I got them, came straight out and went home in the car (on the way my mam stopped to call one of her friends who used to be a neighbor telling her about this affair).

I didn't open my results until i got home and when i did, i wasn't really pleased.

Before i tell you them, you should know that i'm really not that good with school for whatever reason but it would just be impossible for me to do something which some smart kid can do easily. I can play the electric organ, i can make movies, i can make a cracking house on the sims 2 but whats really important at the minute i'm not good at so if you think these are (and excuse my french here) shit then i suppose it depends if you're at the same skill level as me or not. Why they can't just get everyone to take an IQ test i don't know, i would do well there.. But anyway, my results!

Business Studies - C. As expected
Maths - C. I got a B in 2 tests i've done in Maths but this one, put together with coursework, had obviously ended up with a C. Thats ok, at least I passed.
Drama - D. It was either that or a C and i thought it was always closer to a D. Apparently it is.
Electronics, English, Geography, ICT - D. These were better than my predictions. Still not wonderful C's though but better than i though (i thought i was gonna get a U in electronics!!)
English Literature - E. My lowest mark. I expected this mark for it.
Science - D. I was predicted a C, in every science test i've ever taken which i can remember, i got a C. In my coursework, I took it up to a B. So how i managed a D i do not know and this was the only one where i went "i think that'll definitely be a C." Obviously i was wrong. I'll talk about this a little more later.
I also got 2 B's from doing a key skills thing.

If i had of got the C in Science, i would have got 4 GCSE's (Science counts for 2) and would have been through to 6th form, where i want to go. But i didn't.

So, we decided to see the connections people so we went up to the school and found out that the school didn't accept the 2 B's for key skills. Not Monday coming but the one after though, the school are holding a thing where we can go up and find out more about our GCSE marks and find out more about 6th form and stuff so I'm gonna go and try and get into 6th form still, possibly re-sitting some subjects to do it.

I'm also gonna go up to newcastle college some time next week and we're gonna see what courses (OOOOH, i HATE the word courses.) which are similar to the ones the school does i could do there.

Then, if i don't get into 6th form, i'll go to Newcastle college as a second option. From what the connections guy said, it sounds alright actually (not what i thought when the idea came up in the first place). So i have 2 options, both of which are fine.

So since then, we've got home and my dad made the worst of it that he possibly could, telling me to sit down in his room and going over everything i've been over a million times already today but with a negative look on the whole thing. Theres no point of making it seem bad or questioning me about it. Making it seem worse and going on about it when there is a plan and we just have to wait really just doesn't help. And then anyway, he started treating me like an interviewee and like he was the interviewer (like at work). He must act like a right asshole at work. He seemed to be in an imaginary world where he was doing an interview with me. He thinks hes someone.

Anywho, not to leave it on a bad (aka bitter and twisted) note, there are still options available for me to do which are good and as always, I'll post updates here.

Cadburys world

2007-08-16T16:39:00.000+01:00

A few years ago we went somewhere for a motorbike show (an obsession my dad had at the time) and we stayed at the place for 2 days and Cadburys world was there and i really wanted to go and wasn't allowed so finally give up asking.

Tomorrow my nana is going and taking family members and i asked to go but wasn't allowed. I have found out now that my brother is going cause my mam asked about it but i'm not going because she "never thought" of asking her if i could go.

No Cadburys world for me then..

Not much has happened since getting back off holiday. I got The Truman Show off ebay and it should arrive tomorrow.

At the side of the blog is a new bit where you can talk to me on msn and stuff. But its getting a bit crowded over there so i decided that since everyone knows about this msn campaign thing and i don't think many people use the search tool, i'm removing them.

My Holiday Blog - Part 3 of 3

2007-08-09T17:51:00.000+01:00

Today its Monday and raining a lot today. One thing I forgot to mention in my last post was that we usually go to the nearest site (in this case Switzerland) first and then to the furthest one second (in this case Italy) but this time we done things the other way around for a change. When we were in Italy there was loads of rain here (in Switzerland) and huge hailstones which made there be huge dents all over car roofs and bonnets, smashed some windows, destroyed crops and made huge dents in caravans. Seeing the places selling cars here, you just feel a bit sorry for them cause now all of their cars have these dints in and are probably worth shit all. So I think it woulda been cool and exiting to be here when that happened (we would have been inside the caravan so we would have been safe) but my parents are glad that we weren’t here cause of the caravan and car damage.

Another thing I failed to mention last time was that I finished Harry Potter. I’ll not put any spoilers here but I absolutely hated the chapter called “Kings Cross”.

So since arriving, we’ve had mam’s birthday when we got a cable car up from a place called Grindelwald to a place called first and then had to walk several miles to a lake (which I’ve been to already!!), we went on a boat across a lake and we went to the waterfall where Sherlock homes died in the books.

Its now Thursday. On Tuesday we went to place called Mannlichen (pronounced man licking (we also passed the man licking regina hotel along with a place called wankdoff – pronounced wanked off)). On Wednesday there was some celebration on but I am still unaware what it was. But that morning we left Switzerland and are now on a campsite in France.

The campsite we’re at now we’ve been to before. That time provided me with the worst meal I’ve ever had (in second place for worst meal ever, see this blog post CREATE A LINK HERE TO THE POST!!!!). It was a few years ago and we had green solidified soup to start, chips and something else for main but most of it was covered with what was supposed to be decoration but was just a branch which little flaky bits kept coming off of and dropping onto the food and then chewy icecream for desert.

Speaking of icecreams, I’ve had loads of them this holiday and they’re really nice abroad (I knew this already though). I have discovered that my new favorite combination is straciatella and lemon.

The dogs are going to the vets tonight to make sure they have no diseases or whatever and then we have to take them back into England between 24 and 48 hours after them going to the vets so we’re going back on Saturday morning and should arrive home on Saturday night.

Its now Sunday and last night I arrived back home. In the last few days, I went to the swimming pool for the first time on the holiday, I went to the vets (the vet called my molly fat) and we had the long drive home. So that’s the story of my holiday, I hope you enjoyed it if you read it all the way through.

My Holiday Blog - Part 2 of 3

2007-08-07T12:25:00.000+01:00

Today is Thursday, 1 week since we left home. Yesterday we went in a cable car up some high mountain and that was something good to do for the day.

Last night, however, as my mam and dad were getting ready to take oscar and molly (the dogs) for their walk, I heard barking so I looked out the window. A man and a woman had walked past them and for some reason oscar had barked so molly decided to join in. Mam was holding Oscar and my Dad was holding molly. The wires got tangled up and my mams finger got caught up in the wire and got a burn off it on her finger when molly pulled really hard. At the same time the wire on mollys lead somehow snapped in 2 and molly ran off. My mam got a shock off her finger hurting and let go of Oscars lead. They quickly got hold of Molly but as soon as Oscar had realized he was free, he ran off and the guy ran so he chased after the guy until the woman he was with quickly picked up the lead and stopped him.

In a totally unrelated incident this morning, one of the neighbors car has now got a big dint in the door and we’re not sure how it happened or who done it but my mam thinks the guy may have hit the car running away from oscar (the dint was the size of the door and quite deep, can’t have been done by that and I seen the guy running along on the other side of the road, he was nowhere near the door) and my dad thinks it was people leaving yesterday who accidentally hit it.

Drama.

Its Monday and its 20 minutes to 3pm. On Saturday we went to get Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from the shop. I spent 2 hours trying to get my dad to move to drive me to get it. Once we got there, it turned out the shop had closed 30 minutes earlier meaning we would have to wait 2 and a half hours for it to open again. So in that time we had to do food shopping, eating and we also bought my mam a birthday card.

Anyway, we got the book when it re-opened that afternoon and since then I’ve spent most of my time reading the book (whilst doing holiday things aswell). I’ve read over half the book so far and from the amount of people dying per page, I thought that they would run out of people who were alive once we got half way through. That calmed down though and we still have plenty people left (even if they are missing essential body parts (e.g. an ear)).

We went to some neighboring lake to the one we’re on yesterday and the dogs swam for a little while there beside the beach.

Its Wednesday and today we’ve moved to our second main site of the holiday in Switzerland. We’ve been here twice before. We wanted the plot which we got the first time we came here which we reserved back in January but there’s been some sort of cock up and we havn’t got an advanced booking.

Anyway, we have a plot and we’re here for 7 days. I’m currently annoyed by the fact that I know there’s wasps near me cause I seen them fly past (I’m in the caravan) but I dunno where abouts they are and this is the only cool place (with a fan) so I have to stay here. Its practically room 101 at the minute.

My Holiday Blog - Part 1 of 3

2007-08-05T16:34:00.000+01:00

Its Friday of the first week of the holiday. We left home at 1 o’clock this morning. Its quarter to 3 in the afternoon and we’re at Dover. We traveled by car and arrived here at about 2ish.

If I have 10 hours sleep a night, that means that I already had 10 hours sleep saved up for the journey here from staying up all night on Wednesday night. I was awake for about an hour through the whole 12 hour journey (20 mins at the start, 20 minutes whilst I had breakfast and another 20 minutes at times I woke up throughout the journey. I’ve worked out that because of the early wakeup tomorrow, this means 15 hours of sleep in the car tomorrow. That’ll be good, better than being awake.

Tomorrow morning we’re leaving at 4am for the Ferry. Nothing else to say at the moment really.

Today is Saturday. We got up this morning and got the ferry from Dover to Dunkirk (oh yes, £20 cheaper than Calais and just 10 miles away. You could buy a new game with that you know!) and then had the plan of going down through France on our way to Italy. Its half 9 and we arrived at this campsite about an hour ago having traveled here all day.

I’m not sure what it is about the people here but they really like to stare which I noticed immediately. Usually its just people looking to see who the new people are but its everyone from around the site (big site aswell) who are staring. I went to the campsite toilet whilst our caravans toilet was being set up and on the way there and back, everyone just stared at me. It wasn’t just staring in my direction cause I was infront of them, people were actually turning around and whist walking forward, stared at me behind them and I just looked out the window before writing this and I noticed some girl just staring through the window at me. Freaky neighbors.

Something I found funny was we have the dogs tied to these poles sticking out of the ground outside the caravan. Oscar barked at a man who went past and instead of saying “oscar, no!” like usual, she said “ohh no no no no nooo” but instead of saying it normally, she said it in a French accent!

Its 8.30pm and its Monday. We arrived yesterday afternoon at our new campsite and heres a few points about it:

Stare-a-thon-is-gone: Well at our last site which we were at for a day, I remember people stared at me a lot and at this campsite (like most others) nobody really does. Thank god for that, I was starting to thik somebody had written some rude French word on my head (such as merde-tête?) or something.

Cramped: First thing my brother said on seeing it for the first time was “its cramped.” And that was just about the entrance but it seems that this is about everything on the site – it’s a little cramped. But not to worry, it’s not too cramped (like past experiences) and it’s fine.

Super Mario: I have noticed that one of the site staff bears a strong resemblance to super Mario. Not only has he got the right moustache, face shape (round) and chubbiness, he is also Italian.

No pool: Considering I’ve been to the Switzerland site we’re going to next week before and I know for a fact that their pool is rubbish, I’m not very happy about the lack of pool at this site. The site goes right out onto a (stone-filled) beach and lake though which other people seem fine with but I don’t like water like that and never go in it anymore.

Yesterday about 2 hours after arriving, I tried the laptop and found that we had an internet signal from the campsite next door. It told me that the signal was only 35% strong so I took the laptop outside the caravan. My mam shoved me back in with it and came in and then I was going to say “I was just seeing if there was a signal.” But I only said “I was just see..” before she shoved the laptop down, knocking it out of my hands. Luckily, there was a sofa there but there was something on the sofa and the laptop just missed hitting it but the usb internet thing was sticking out the back and as the laptop went down, that was forced up and it was bent upwards and then it fell to bits. So after days of waiting to see if I could get an internet signal, she breaks it after a minute.

It turns out she done it cause she thought that I was going to say “I was just saying …” when I could see that she was talking to my dad before and she thought it would have been rude to interrupt their conversation. She asked me to bring my webcam in from the car before, maybe she’s running out of stuff to break.

Summer Holiday

2007-07-12T04:25:00.000+01:00

Tonight I'll be leaving for my summer holiday for 3 weeks. We're going to Italy and Switzerland and as usual we're staying in our caravan and traveling by car which means staying a night in Germany and possibly France but we're definitely traveling through France. Still, its nothing great out a car window after hours and hours of it.

I'm posting this at 4:30 in the morning and thats because I'm trying to miss out tonights sleep so i can sleep through the car journey to Italy as much as possible.

We're spending the first 2 weeks in Italy and then the third week at a campsite in Switzerland which we've been to before.

I wont be able to get an internet connection during the last week in Switzerland but may be able to get one in Italy so I'm taking my laptop and its wireless internet thing just in case - on one campsite we've been to, i didn't take it and you could connect your laptop to their wireless thing so i'm taking it this time or I'll regret it.

I'm going with the presumption that i wont be able to get on the internet though so this is kinda a farewell message. If theres not another blog post in the next week, theres no internet.

Anyway, I've changed the black background colour to a picture my dad took in Switzerland last time we were there which was 2 years ago. Its nice, isn't it. Thanks to Craig for helping me to get that working. So yeah, this is just a reminder that I'm on my holidays and to give it a bit more of a summmer and hot theme (despite the snow in the pic).

So, for (I'll assume) the last time in 3 weeks, goodbye!

Work Experience

2007-07-10T20:00:00.000+01:00

I started this blog 359 days ago and whilst i started it, i was on my work experience but at that point i had no idea what this blog would end up like so i decided not to write about it. Now, however, i shall.

So i got a work experience placement at my mams friends business (she works there but its really her husbands). Basically, theres the owner, his wife (my mams friend) and then 4 employees. Its a company that makes adverts for the radio for other companies.
It was a pretty non-formal atmosphere and dress code. All of the staff were nice aswell. So during the time i was there, i done lots of different things and i shall now list a few:

Wrote an advert - it was for a fish and chips shop and i wrote an advert for it based around the idea of fish and chips being a popular british thing. The advert was written and then sent off to a radio station to record (the company i was at would have happily recorded it but the fish and chip shop decided they wanted the radio station it was being played on to record it instead, maybe it was cheaper or something). So, just for the script for that 30 second advert, the company i was at got £140 or thereabouts.

Edited together an advert - with strong assistance from Mark (the techy) i put together an advert for Metlife. Not much to say about this apart from the program was great and had all sorts of effects. Would take about a weeks training to be able to manage my way around it by myself though cause it was very complicated.

Poisoned the staff - Ok, well through the whole time i was there i never had to go through to the special kitchen they had (which had a shower in for some reason..) and make a cup of tea but at one point i decided i wanted one so i went and asked anyone else if they would like one. 1 person did. So i went through to the kitchen and made the tea. Everything was going fine and then it came to putting the milk in. I opened a new milk bottle and there were bits around the top of it and i wasn't sure what was wrong with it but thought i would leave it instead of chucking their milk out when it could be ok later. So i left it and just used the other one instead. I delivered the tea and thought nothing of it. Then about 2 hours later someone asked if people wanted tea and 3 people (me not included) did. So he went and made it. Then he came back and handed the tea out. About 5 minutes later somebody said "does this milk taste a bit strange to anyone?" and then they realised the problem.. the milk had went off.

Starred in a radio advert - Well i couldn't say i exactly starred in it, i had a part in it. They recorded all the staff (plus me) saying some words and then they put them together and used them in the advert.

Talked to someone live in london - Well i didn't do most of the talking, Mark did. But he had a voiceover in london who had a proffesional mic and recording room set-up. But putting this and the very high quality speakers together made it sound like she was standing next to you in the room. Plus she had one of those voices which not many people have where you hear it and you think "what a great voice" and it was a bit radio-sounding and official. Its an odd thing to say but thats the only thing i could describe it as.

So that, plus lots of smaller things, made up my work experience, and it was good.

I'm going on holiday on Thursday night for 3 weeks. I have a little surprise for the blog readers for when i'm on holiday. I'll post a blog post on Thursday and then if i have internet access on my holiday, i'll post stuff then.

The prom

2007-07-05T15:15:00.000+01:00

I finally got my tuxedo and new shoes on Sunday and on Wednesday (yesterday) i went for a haircut which i think is a vast improvement on my hair.

So then I had my prom last night and I thought i would not write much about this and just show you a picture and a video instead:

So yeah, good prom!

Still no tux

2007-06-30T13:34:00.000+01:00

Ok, so apparently i had my information mixed up. We didn't get the tuxedo for my prom yesterday cause my parents were working longer cause of the postman strike (they're managers at royal mail). So it arrived at the shop yesterday but apparently we can pick it up whenever. Prom is on wednesday so i think i want to go tomorrow and get a haircut aswell.

We cant go today cause we have people. These are the same people that featured in my post from last year where we had them round and my parents made everything i hated. This time everything is stuff i like which hasn't happened for ages (usually theres 1 or 2 things but this time i like everything!). So yeah, thats good.

Molly is coming out of season so i FINALLY don't have to walk them with my mam every morning anymore (molly's kept on a lead whilst in season to stop her "making babies" and since we walk oscar at the same time, it'd be hard to handle if they both went shooting off in different directions).

Lots to get through

2007-06-27T02:53:00.000+01:00

Well, not that much but i have some news!

On Sunday we went to the metrocentre (it was HEAVING with people) and we went to a shop called "Suits You" and we put my name down for me to come back the next day to get measured for my tuxedo for my prom.

So then we went to Buffet King which is a new restaurant there. Its (obviously) a buffet but, not only that, its a chinese buffet AND not only that, its really nice! Mmm.. i liked the lemon chicken.

Anyway, so we went home and then came back the next day.

Monday. Went into the metrocentre and got measured for my prom suit and tried the jacket on. We're going back (for a third time) to collect it on Friday. The prom is next Wednesday and we take it back on next Thursday.

But also, on top of that i've been getting excersize by walking the dogs most mornings. Infact every single day since last monday i've been outside doing something.

My parents paid the new york trip deposit (well, they handed me the money, i paid it in myself). so that ball seems to be rolling now!

Aswell as that, i'm doing half life 1 and i'm also on the sims 2 a lot at the minute. My sim who i've been playing on and off for about a year now has finally turned into an elder but thats probably really boring so i'll leave it there.

Oddities

2007-06-21T18:35:00.000+01:00

In my last post i promised i would tell you about the wacky people in school over the years which includes (and mainly focusses on) teachers aswell as pupils.

So, lets start in middle school with Mr Pratt. This was a PE/Geography teacher who basically didn't like anyone who wasn't good at PE so he just picked on you in Geography for things. I remember once he hit me on the head with a book. The last i heard of him he got sacked for chucking something at a year 8.

Over to a pupil now and we had Jamie in year 7. Jamie is one of the weirdest people i ever knew. On her first day, she announced to everyone that she was a witch. Everyone thought she was just having a (weird) laugh but then we realised she was actually serious when she started sitting in the corner of the classroom drawing pictures and saying "I am casting spells on you!". After a few weeks of unpopularity (she was just advertising herself as a freak) she left the school and upon her exit she said "I have cast spells on ALL of you!!"

So those were the only oddities in the middle school so now onto the high school.

Mrs Waite - She was the french teacher and seemed to have a nervous breakdown every lesson. At one point she instantly decided she didn't like someone called Jacob for whatever reason (he wasn't a trouble maker or anything) and then she kept sending him out for no reason every lesson and then i remember him getting sent out one time and Mrs Waite got one of the other teachers and went "I don't know whats wrong with him, hes just went off the rails lately!". One time in her class it was red nose day so before we went in we told eachother to pretend we were doing a sponsored silence and we got this girl to be the only one talking. So we went through the lesson not talking and she tried to come up with activities we could do in french which didn't involve talking. As the lesson went on, people kept forgetting and talking by accident and then she said "Ok, i'll ask again, who is not doing the sponsored silence." and everyone put their hand up. Her face was a PICTURE! So then after a few months of her being there, we were in a Spanish lesson 2 classrooms down the hall and we could all hear her shouting at her class and going bezerk. This was the talk of the school for a week and apparently she called somebody a slut and then sent the entire class out and screamed and shouted at them about practically nothing. She was supposed to leave at the end of that year anyway but she quit early.

Andrew - This other person called Andrew in our year just boasted about having lots of stuff which he didn't have and told unnessacery lies about everything. Basically, if you had climbed everest, he had done it quicker (although he couldn't cause he was fat). He also made friends with people and then went to other people and made fun of them infront of them and then done the same to that person. He ended up with no friends and having his nickname being "Donut".

Mr Mcpherson - He basically just let the chavs in our business studies class get away with everything and since i was a person who wasn't perfect all the time and i wasn't really bad and could be handled easily, he took it all out on me. If i complained or spoke when he was speaking or swore (i dont swear badly in lessons, just the occasional "shit" maybe). However, the chavs in the class set fire to deodorant cans, played music loudly on their phones, listened to ipods, brought their phones rechargers to school so they could plug them in in his lesson and recharge them, swore quite a lot, refused to follow orders etc. He didn't do a thing about it. I remember 1 incident where Evan tore up a sheet about something and then he blamed it on me even though other people told him it was evan (evan sat next to me and put it on the floor underneath me). So then he kept me in detention and sent a letter home about it. I got banned from doing what i wanted for a week. Worst thing of all - it was on my birthday.

Then theres the typical people such as the overly camp guy, the overly smily guy, the overly swotty guy/girl and the overly chavvy girl (most likely expelled by now) which every school has.

So, back to today. The gardener came (how the hell can they afford a gardnener) and left the gate open so the dogs escaped for about 2-4 minutse before neighbors brought them back when they were running riot round their garden. The thing is though they have a male dog which still has his (to be quite blunt) balls and Molly (one of our dogs) is in-season. Dum dum duuuuumm!!

In other news, Liam won £100,000 on Big Brother yesterday and he was my favorite (and still is) so I'm pleased with that. Also, i completed Half Life 2 the other day on hard mode. I completed it on easy mode about a year and a half ago.

The series finale

2007-06-14T23:35:00.000+01:00

Remember ages ago i said school is like a tv show the way everything just wraps up at the end of terms and then new plots start in the new series and theres usually some kind of cliff hanger? Well tomorrow is the series finale - my last day.

I have decided that some time soon i'm gonna write a blog post saying about all the wacky, mad, odd, random teachers and students i've come across in the past 11 years of school. From the physco witch to the violent PE teacher and from the 2 faced lying idiot to the teacher who almost had a nervous breakdown every lesson. COMING SOON.. :-)

So, the prom is in 2 weeks and i got my ticket today. Should be good!

Only Physics tomorrow then thats all of my exams over. The exams have went well in general with the hardest being biology and the easiest being ict (i think..). Physics is a good one to end on. We also get to go home at 10.30am.

I'm going back on entropia tomorrow since its my last day of exams - that should be fun.

Exams

2007-06-11T20:28:00.000+01:00

I have less than a week left till we break up because i have my last exam on friday and then there's no more school or anything until september!

Last week was filled with exams and there was a few exams before half term but I've done most of them and have 4 exams left with none tomorrow.

Someones phone went off in the exam a few days ago and it was confiscated. Apparently AQA are gonna send the school a letter telling them if they're gonna withdraw all of his results and ban him from exams for a few years or not. I will never understand people who take phones into exams.

Earlier today it started spitting so i was told to go and get the washing in off the line and as i was doing it, it just suddenly started gushing down with rain. Made me hopelessly wet in seconds.

One more thing i want to tell you about is... our new tv. This one is widescreen, flatscreen and silverscreen and thats all i know about it really. I don't really pay much attention to the model and the size and what not. I don't know how I'm gonna get used to the remotes. Not all the buttons work on each remote for some reason (not a problem with the remotes since the Sky remote does it aswell) so yesterday all i wanted to do was to turn it on, put it on the right channel and turn it up. I ended up using 3 remotes just to do that! Anyway, yeah.. good tv apart from that.

Big Brothers started and its a house full of women (is that why they put the oven in the bedroom?). I don't like this twist really cause its a little annoying with nomination twists and lack of tasks and people coming and people going etc. It could get better in the next few weeks though and Gerry seems like a good housemate. I also thought Lesley was great - shame she left really.

The Geography Trip

2007-05-29T21:59:00.000+01:00

The year 10's went on their Geography trip last week (well, all the ones who were doing Geography anyway) so i thought i'd write about the Geography trip we went on a year ago.

The youth hostel we stayed in was based half way up a mountain in the Lake District and we stayed there for 2 nights and 3 days. On all 3 of the days, we had to walk miles down the mountain and into Keswick (took us about 2 hours to do this) and then do some research or something and then we went back up (2 and a half hours) to the Youth Hostel. I don't wanna bore you to death with what happened during the time we were in Keswick so i'll only say 1 thing about that bit:

During this time, it was the first week of Big Brother 7. The golden ticket competition had started for 1 person to win a golden ticket and enter the Big Brother house. I was gonna buy a Kitkat when i found a shop selling them with it advertising the competition outside. I realised i had no money so did not buy one. I then found out later that 1 golden ticket had been found there and I still think that maybe if i bought that kitkat, i might have won it. Even though because of the rules, i wouldn't have been able to go in, i could still try and sell it (or exchange with producer for a trip around the camera run :-p - nah, they would never have agreed to that lol).

Lots of stuff happened back at the hostel. Relating to Big Brother, i noticed that the 2 nights when we were there we watched it and although people said "oh, i'll just watch it this once since i'm bored", it was the same people both times. Hmm..

Lots of funny things happened such as putting pillows into my bed to convince a teacher that i was in bed and also pulling a drawer out of a cupboard and watching Mr Graham try pulling the door of it to open it later and then it coming off and him almost falling over backwards.

And, going back to Big Brother for 1 last time... - 1 day till BB8 ;-)

English and ICT

2007-05-23T00:03:00.001+01:00

I had my very first GCSE exams today - English and ICT. The exams continue in 2 weeks!

The English one had 2 sections - 1 on poetry and 1 on the book "Of Mice and Men". We had studied every single thing in that entire book just for this 1 question on it and for the question, they extracted text from page 2 and got me to answer a question about that.

So, back to the poems and we just had to compare how poems had used sadness in them.

The ICT exam was quite easy and seemed to just be kinda general stuff which I probably already knew without taking the lesson apart from 1 question on the set-up of LANs.

I didn't have a great sleep last night, i had 2 exams today, I got up early and its now 0:15 so i'm gonna leave it there and go to bed now.

Goodnight.

I pwn noobs

2007-05-18T18:04:00.000+01:00

A few of you reading this may know that i am a fan of Pure Pwnage which is an online mockumentary about a gamer. I finally decided to support the show and bought a bandana and t-shirt from them and i uploaded a photo of them to myspace and would like to show to you, my dedicated readers :-) :

Btw, theres no mis-spelling. It really is called "pwn" and is promounced "own". I pwn n00bs is basically a gamer term which means you're good.

Moving right along, school officially ended until 6th form on Wednesday but me and some other people have to stay in school and do work there up until our very last exam (science, 15th June). We spend 2.5 hours a day on the library computers and 2.5 hours in the reading area. It has been quite good and social actually and, aswell as revising, we've talked about all sorts of things from what a variable resistor looks like to Michael's ever-appearing semis and from how to make half a billion on Mansion: Impossible to what we get at Mcdonalds.

Big Brother starts soon aswell so i'm looking forward to that. 12 days to go.

Last PE lesson

2007-05-12T19:32:00.000+01:00

Yesterday i had my last ever lesson of PE. But what have i learnt over the past 11 years of it?

1. I don't like it - well, most of it anyway. Recently there has been good things such as basketball, tennis, trampolining and table tennis. Ok, so table tennis isn't really a sporty activity but apparently its still a sport. But anyway, my point is that i dont like most of it. This is the things like Cross Country, Football, Rugby etc.

2. Headers - what is the point in this? Yeah, its probably a nice trick for someone to do in a football game but when you have to have an entire lesson each time you do football which is based around headers, its just like "wtf is the point?". Basically, I'm standing there having a ball being chucked at my head being told that my technique is wrong ("I'm sorry, I'll swing my head towards it next time because thats the sensible thing to do..") and all i can think of is "Do you mind? My brains in there, you know!".

3. Hands in pockets - imagine this. its freezing, you're standing there in the spitting rain, your hands are freezing and you don't have a coat but you do have trouser pockets, what do you do? Exactly what I was thinking. Put your hands in your pockets. But nooooo, you get told off for that. If my memory serves me correctly, the high school PE teacher (Mr Rogers) once told Sean "If you were in a maths lesson and had your hands in your pockets you would get told off and you just wouldn't do it would you? So don't do it in my lesson". If i was in a maths lesson, i wouldn't be freezing my balls off so therefore i wouldn't need to have my hands in my pockets. Secondly, no, the teacher wouldn't tell me off and thirdly, i have probably done it a few times when i'm bored. Forthly (is that a word), i didn't need to use my hands since it was football.

4. Cross Country. At the high school the teachers actually tend to run round the course with you most times but at the middle school, they stand at the start or take the shortcut across the middle of the field to half way and stand with their mug of tea (milk, 2 sugars ;-) ) telling you to hurry up and telling you you're not fast enough. Thing is - I'm not at all bothered about how fast I run.

5. Why? I'm quiet thin and yet the most excersize i get per day is walking home from school. I feel that this is enough to keep me thin and since i eat more than most people, I don't think i ever will get fat. And if they called the lesson "Games" in middle school then give me some god damn games. Scrabble or CS Source any day over PE.

Sarah

2007-04-29T21:30:00.000+01:00

Last year, i interviewed Richard Huckle who worked at one of those companies where they phone you up and ask you to do surveys and stuff over the phone. So now its time to interview somebody else but this time its a very different situation. I offered to do this and wasn't asked to by Sarah at all.

Sarah is 17 and from Doncaster. I have had her on my msn list for over a year and a half after seeing her on a Big Brother forum. Last year Sarah became famous locally after she made an anti-bullying website. She appeared in newspapers, on the radio and on the local news and talked about it. Last year, she also abseiled down a hospital, raising £150 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. She also ran 5km for Cancer Research UK and was sponsored £175.

Sarah's mum died of cancer on Thursday 19th April of this year. Sarah and her dad were told by doctors the previous night that her mum would die and then she died early on Thursday morning. She didn't smoke.

Me: So how old was your mum?

Sarah: 41

Me: And what type of cancer did she have?

Sarah: Ovarian (although it was kidney failure that killed her but the kidney failure was related to the cancer)

Me: When did you find out that she had cancer?

Sarah: about 4 and a half weeks before she died

Me: has anyone else in your family died of cancer?

Sarah: yes, my grandma was one of 9 children, and all but one of them died from cancer

Me: Did you get to say bye to your mum?

Sarah: i went to see her on the Wednesday before she died, and it was that night the doctor told my dad she wasn't going to survive. he didn't tell us that until we got home that night. the last thing i said to my mum was "love you. will see you tomorrow"

Me: So, you've entered yourself for another cancer run. When did you enter yourself for this?

Sarah: the day after she died. this year i was meant to be doing it with my mum and my little sister, but cos my mum was ill we never got round to registering.

So this year, Sarah is running for her Mum and Grandma and has so far got £50 but she needs more. You can donate very easily online by clicking here. When you fill out the form to donate, theres a "gift aid" ticky box. If you pay tax then ticking that box will mean that the tax man has to pay 28% of the money you've donated to the charity at no extra cost to you. Sarah's goal is just £100 but, like both previous times, she can go over that goal so please donate and help her get there.

Thanks.

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

2007-04-25T16:42:00.000+01:00

If you know what the title is from then thats an example for how boring lessons are at the minute.

I just wanted to make a post so you know i'm not dead. Today i'm actually quite tired and its the most tired i've been in a while although last night i went to bed really early (half 12) since every single day for the past few weeks (apart from last night, obviously) i have went to bed past 1 oclock and over half that time it was past 2 O'clock aswell.

I'd just like to emphasise something thats happening to hopefully raise a bit more mopney for charity.

Ok, you may have seen the logo/symbol in peoples IM names and basically, when you start a conversation with that in your name then one of you clicks on the adverts along the bottom (below where it says "______ is typing a message) they share some of their ad revenue with charity. I think they give some of the money from the adverts at the bottom of the contact list to charity aswell if you click on them and have it in your name. So yeah, get involved.

I used Meebo during the room change cause my dad didn't have msn on his computer but now dont use it anymore so i'm getting rid of that widget thingy for it at the side and replacing it with a one informing you a little bit more about the IM campaign.

And thats all, bye!

Last day of the holidays and end of the english plot

2007-04-16T21:33:00.000+01:00

Well if you've been following this blog for a few months then you'd have seen the progressing story of my English coursework. Well in the last update, i got a new piece to do. I didn't have school today but today was the day the exam board wanted the English coursework mailed off so i had to get up just before what would be break time and i got driven up to the school and handed it in. The end of that plot.. for now.

Today is the last day of the holidays and this is the first blog post I've not written sitting in my bedroom. Well, i am in my bedroom but this is a different one cause i swapped with my brother. My parents have screwed me over though and are not getting anything that i asked for in return apart from a cheap mouse they got me at the start to convince me to change as a kinda deposit present. I asked for a wireless laser one and they got me the cheapest one they could find. Now its just randomly decided to break and i am on my laptop for ages yet again. My last mouse broke cause the dog knocked a cup of water on to it.

So yeah, I've swapped my room with my brothers room, which is over 1/3 smaller than mine, and in return I've got a cheap mouse which broke after a few days for no apparent reason.

Private message me without leaving this page!

2007-04-10T19:39:00.000+01:00

I've put a thing at the side of the blog now so if you scroll down a little, you'll see it. It's a private messaging thing where, if i'm online, you can send messages to me and once i recieve them, i'll message you back. :D Great, isn't it?

Well something not so great is that i'm being made to swap rooms with my brother because hes their little darling. They treat him loads better and hes blatantly their favorite. Anyway, his room is about 2/3 the size of mine and i have more stuff than him so its just stupid, they're never gonna be able to fit all my stuff in without going "oh, we'll just keep that in your old room." about at least 1 thing which i also dont want to happen cause i want to keep all my stuff.

I've written up an agreement which they still have to sign which has me moving into the new room and then lots of stuff i'll get in return. I'm kinda leading this yet my dad is constantly shouting at me and acting like they're the ones who are completely in control. To make matters worse, they just coloured my new room baby-fucking-blue so i'm gonna wake up to this god-awful colour in a smaller room with all of my stuff crammed in.

I'll update once its done (maybe even with pictures!). Until then though.. buh bye!

Easter Sunday

2007-04-08T17:13:00.000+01:00

Today is easter Sunday and i got 3 easter eggs. Today is always fun but Easter Sunday + 1 day is hardly ever good cause you have to recover. On top of the chocolate, I'm expected to eat Sunday dinner as well. Its not easy sometimes you know....

Well the family got back on Friday and everything was fine throughout the week. On Tuesday a man was supposed to come between 9am and 3pm with a package and i got up early at 9.30am (i couldn't be bothered to get up at 9am) just so i could get it but he didn't come. So i went through the day as normal, went to sleep and then at 7.30 i was woken up by the phone:

"Hello??" - me.
"Hi, i'm at the door. Got a parcel here at the door for Mr Hart."
"Uhh.. Give me a second to get ready, I'll be done in a second."

I dunno why he phoned instead of knocking, he probs had already knocked on the door to no avail.

So i went down and signed for this package thing and i would have argued with him about the time but chose not to because:

1. I was half asleep - i even opened the door with the burglar alarm still on which set it off (i promptly went and typed the code to turn it off quickly).
2. He was too jolly - you know these people that are just happy about everything? No? Well anyway, he was jolly and i would have had trouble arguing.

Suffice to say i went back to bed and got up at half 12.

We're all going on a.. summer holiday - apart from me

2007-03-31T13:24:00.000+01:00

Well my parents decided that this week we would go on a holiday for 6 days from today till friday. I have decided i don't want to go and they've reluctantly agreed to leave me here! If i get lonely they will come back on Tuesday for me or if i just want some company for a bit, Michaela's (my aunty) boyfriend is a taxi driver and he would take me to my nana's if i wanted although thats not to be used more than once cause i don't want to annoy him lol. I have also got lots of microwave dinners and an oven pizza to have to eat aswell as 2 big packets of chocolate biscuits and things to make a sandwich with.

Yesterday seemed to be tagged with the slogan - "Be-nice-to-Andrew day". One of the main things that happened was that i seen my English teacher about my coursework and instead of giving it back to me to improve, she gave me a new one to do which would replace it. The old one was something to do with shakespeare but one the new one i have to write about somebody close to me and also do a comparison of 2 newspaper/magazine adverts. I have 2 weeks.

Drama Exam

2007-03-27T22:32:00.000+01:00

Ok, today i had my drama exam. Well between the start of school and breaktime, all of the drama students (about 40) watched 2 plays and then had break as normal and then after break we came back and after watching 2 more groups perform, it was our turn.

Our group went into the room next door to prepare and then the examiner came through and told us that he wasnt there to pick faults and to deduct as many marks as possible and that he was there to give us marks and assess what we've done well.

So we were all really nervous and shaking and then we went infront of the stage, give our candidate numbers and then the lights went off and we got onto the stage the best we could with the lights off.

When the lights came on, you could see lots of silouetted black heads with a bright light above them and it seemed kinda weird. The bit i was most worried about was the stnading still part near the start where Terri and Alex (2 people in my group) were doing a scene and me and Dan (the other person) were doing a freeze frame on stage. Turned out to be absolutely fine though and i didn't move an inch.

Something i was relieved with was the fact that i didn't laugh when the audience did and i managed to stop it most of the time and when it did it was a little smirk which i managed to quickly hide with a confused look or something.

I dunno how but, as everyone else says, you kinda forget that the examainer is there once you're on the stage since you cant see him or anyong else much when you look into the audience. The audience laughter also helps because its a motivation. We've been performing this since January and we once had an audience of 5 people and the rest of the time it was either performed to nobody else or to the teacher who, after seeing it a dozen times before, doesn't laugh. So 40 people laughing at it is a motivation and just makes you think "oh wait, this is funny isn't it." because after doing it for so long you kinda forget.

I die at the end (sorry to spoil it for you) and then as i'm lying on the floor i'm listening to Alex and Terri saying their last lines and after doing a "Oh henry (Alexs character), you've made me the happiest woman on earth." bit (or words to that effect) and then hear Alex made a "wuuoop" noise and then the audience bursts out laughing. I later found out that put the stick he was carrying infront of where his penis is and swung it up to imitate a penis going erect.

When the lights went off there was a massive cheer and we went off with the lights still off.

So then a few more interesting unrelated things happened that day which i might tell you about in another post (this ones been long enough).

Thanks for reading! :D

1 day

2007-03-26T21:53:00.000+01:00

Tomorrow we have our drama performance where we perform our 20 minute piece infront of an examiner which is the drama version of a written test. In drama today some people were feeling nervous but some people (like me) were excited.

On saturday i went into school from 10:00 till 1:00 to do a rehearsal with the rest of my group which went well. Mrs Clark (the teacher) made us start by running through the entire 20 minute piece in 7 minutes (about 3x as fast) and it got us out of breath and the end but was lots of fun. We then watched a few other people perform theirs to us (at normal speed) and we practiced ours. So yeah, added something to my weekend and it went well. :-)

We get the whole day off lessons tomorrow where we go to the drama room (both year 11 drama classes) and then we watch all the other pieces (and act like we haven't seen half of them 3 times already lol) and act as the audience and perform ours when its our turn. Obviously we get breaktime and lunchtime as well.

Changing the subject for 1 paragraph only... i bought a drink on Friday at breaktime just before PE. In PE we were doing a thing where we could go freely between trampoline and table tennis since they were both in the same hall. So then i went to the changing rooms to get it out my bag half way through (with permission from the teacher of course) and i drank half of it and then it was my go to go on the trampoline so i went on and then got off after a few minutes to let someone else on (3 trampolines but only 1 person at a time per trampoline cause of health and safety) and then i went and played table tennis for a few minutes and then went to my drink to find that it was gone. I then found it at the end of the lesson lying on the floor completely empty. Some f***er had drank my drink knowing full well what they were doing.

So I'll report on how my Drama went in my next blog post which'll probably be tomorrow.

Wish me luck!

Social Bookmarking - Is this the "thing" of 2007?

2007-03-19T00:42:00.000+01:00

Youtube was the "thing" of 2006 with it shooting up in popularity over the year and people are continuing to use it on a daily basis.

So if 2006 was the year for Video Sharing then what is it for 2007? Well we're 3 months in and i think it may be Social Bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking sites are where people go on, post a link to some content they like on the internet be it a news article, a video they liked or even just a picture and then people can rate the content with the most popular ones going onto the front page of the site.

Unlike Video Sharing, there are 3 current main competitors, all trying to be the number 1 Social Bookmarking website but there is 1 which seems to be in the lead so far - Digg.

On Digg the conent is put into categories and then people can go and look in those categories for the popular content or click the "Upcoming Stories" button and see the content which is still trying to get popular. You can then click "Digg it" on the upcoming stories and on the popular content and it'll then be put onto your profile page for you to view quickly later and your vote will be added to the story.

2 of Diggs main competitors are Reddit and Delicious, both used by thousands of people every single day.

MSN

2007-03-14T21:41:00.000+01:00

Well MSN has been good this week. By that i mean i've talked to lots of different people and had lots of fun and interesting conversations and all of that sorta stuff. If i talked to you a lot over the past few days then you're one of the people probably.

Well i told you about english the other day and so let me tell you the next part of the story...

Mr Jewitt (my old english teacher) apparently didn't give the English to my teacher on friday and my english teacher has been telling me she'll ask him again so it doesn't look like anythings gonna get done about it. I think that Mr Jewitt is the one telling the truth. Heres 2 possible reasons Mrs Rushmee may be lying if i'm correct:

1. She keeps forgetting or can't be bothered or something.
2. She wants me to resit next year because maybe if she takes students on to resit she gets extra money or something.

Either way its bad and something should be done soon.

Seasons, BS and English teachers - in that order

2007-03-08T22:54:00.000+01:00

Ok, so lets start with Seasons. This is of course the sims 2: seasons. I have been playing it a lot and found that it's my favorite expansion pack out of the lot so far. I'm still playing the pre-made family which i mentioned last time and they're doing great. It's raining at the moment though making my eggplants on the farm all damp and in a poor condition.

Anyways, from sims life to real life, it's BS. Contorary to what you may be thinking, BS stands for Business Studies and not bull shit. Today the teacher needed to go and do something so she went out of the lesson about 5 minutes before the bell and we had all finished so we were allowed to talk till she came back. So then once she gone someone suggested the brilliant idea of hiding in this long store room thing so when she came back we were all gone. After a few minutes of convincing everyone to go into the room, we shut the door and waited for her to come back. After about a minute, we heard her come into the room and say something which we couldn't make out due to the door being shut but we could hear a confused tone in her voice. Then we opened the room door and burst out and went "BAH!". When she came into the room though, we were all trying our very best not to laugh out loud, it was SO hilarious.

Dunno if i mentioned it on this blog but in early January i changed English teachers and decided at the start of February to get my English coursework back and redo that. So i been asking my new teacher every lesson and shes been saying "I keep asking Mr Jewitt and he keeps saying he'll give it to me." (Mr Jewitt is my old english teacher). Today i was walking up the corridor on my way to registration and i walked past Mr Jewitt and he said "Being good in english?" and i went "yeah, fine.".
"So you got all the coursework done already so you just need to concentrate on your exam work." he said.
"I need my coursework back from you actually, i want to redo it." i said.
"Well you should have said sooner cause times getting on. I can still get you it though."
"I been asking Mrs Rushmere since the start of February and she said she's been asking you all the time." (Mrs Rushmere is my current english teacher)
"Well i've not heard anything from her."

And then it went on like that and the thing is i believed him cause he sounded serious and i don't think he would have stopped me and asked me how it was going in the first place if he couldn't be bothered to get me it and also Mrs rushmere seems to be telling the truth aswell so i think 1 of them must be fibbing. I dunno, i'll just have to see what happens...

The Sims 2: Seasons

2007-03-04T02:25:00.000+01:00

Ok, well i got the sims 2 seasons today (well, its now early Sunday morning so technically it was yesterday, saturday) and since it was out on friday it's spoilt my track record of getting every sims game the day it come out which i've managed to do for 10 of them in a row. Never mind...

So lets have a mini review. This is the first time they've got a new base neighborhood and i went straight in and decided to play this family there. The family has a nice dynamic to start with since they got 2 old women and a man and a teen boy. The house itself is fantastic. The view from the front into the kitchen is brilliant and shows off the entire kitchen which is in itself really good with benches going through the middle and stuff. It has 2 living areas, a dining room, a porch, a kitchen, 4 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms and lots of decoration outside. I particularly like the way that the rooms seem to be built around eachother and doesn't look like 1 room with lots of rooms hanging off the edge. The rooms themselves are nicely decorated aswell.

And as for the game, i havn't went through it much yet so i coudn't say much about the gameplay. I have noticed though that if you pause the game while its snowing (and i'll assume its probably the same for raining and hailstoning) and then move the camera or rotate it from side to side, the snow moves with the camera and if you rotate it up and down, it seems to have some weird effect which i can't really explain well. Also, it's good how the snow settles outside but if you put the camera inside, you can't see the snow falling any more so you can't watch the snow inside with your sims. Bit annoying really considering the game is based around that practically.

But apart from that, it seems great so far and i'll be back on it tomorrow.

We had a solar eclipse today aswell which i watched. It was quite good! The moon went very red and even though it was all covered at one point, you could see the entire moon because of the redness. I also liked it when it was coming back and half of it was white and the other half was red and there was a big fade in the middle.

No Entropia

2007-02-23T19:57:00.000+01:00

I have no school this week because of half term so my dad cut the internet cable for my computer in half on monday and told me to do work on that day, tuesday and wednesday and then i could have it back on wednesday. So i done hours of work every night and spent the rest of the day bored not able to do virtually anything so then on wednesday he said "you can go on it but not on entropia." They say it takes up lots of internet usage and they're already over the limit for this month. They went oer the limit on sunday though so they knew they weren't gonna let me on but i done all that work and then after i've finished it they don't keep their side of the deal.

So here i am on my laptop and bored. Anyways, i thought it may be pointless doing an update post when hardly anything has happened so i'll do another flashback thingy...

Ok, before i tell you this little story, you must know a few things. Reese is my cousin who is now in the first school i went to. The school has now changed from being from reception to year 4 to now being from reception to year 6. In year 5 at middle school, i had a teacher called Mr Tiltman who now teaches in year 5 at the first school since it changed. Ok, so i was at my nanas and this happened:

Reese: Andrew, did you know Mr Tiltmans died?

Nana: What you talking about, who told you this?

Reese: Well i aint seen him for a few weeks.

So ANYWAYS, lets talk about Mr Tiltman. I have a few random stories which don't really relate to eachother...

In year 5 i used to spike up my hair everyday so even though my smallness was the outstanding thing about me he gave me the nickname "Spike".

One time, he got everyone in the class quiet and told us a story where he died and went to heaven and then decided he didn't want to be dead and then god said "you can pick up every grain of sand on blackpool beach (it wasn't that beach, i forgot which one he said though so i'll say that as an example)." and then mr tiltman said "Thats impossible! Is there not something else i could do?" then god said "Well there is 1 thing. You know that boy in your class called Andrew Hart. You make him write neatly and you can be alive again." so then mr tiltman said "Give me that bucket and spade."

On another occasion, we were about to do a maths test and he shouted at me and told me to come out of the room with him then once we were out of the room he said "Jordan sits next to you and i think he copies. I want you to get all the answers wrong on the test to see if he copies them." so then we went back in and he went "Don't ever do that again Mr Hart." and then i got them all wrong and so did the person next to me. He did have the same answers as me and got sent down a few maths classes.

Anyways, he was a funny teacher and was quite good from what i remember although he did tend to go missing for a few weeks at a time a few times so it seems like thats happened here aswell.

So that was Mr Tiltman!

The earth is flat

2007-02-16T23:31:00.000+01:00

I just came across a theory that people actually believe which is that the earth is flat. I thought it was interesting enough to blog so here's a nice small quick summary of this theory...

These people think that there is a big conspiracy going on where they don't really go into space but instead make fake photos and pretend they have. They don't say why they would have these intentions but say that it is possible. They also say that everything is moving upwards everywhere so that is how gravity is caused. Here's a map of what they think it looks like:

As you can see, Antartica doesn't exist but is instead a big ice wall which stops the water from falling off the edge. On their site they explain that the sun and moon in this picture are infact 1/40 the size that they are shown on the map.

They also believe that Sunrise and Sunset and basically everything in space is just an optical illusion. Here's their website if you want to have a look yourself:

www.theflatearthsociety.org

Long time no blog

2007-02-10T16:35:00.000+01:00

It's been quite a bit of time since i last updated so a big update...

I finished key skills which was fine. We blasted our rocket off sideways along a line of rope which it was attached to and 1 stopped about an inch infront of the instructors face and 1 actually went flying off and almost hit him. The person holding the rope up got hit with loads of white chemicals and soaked every time. Brilliant. If i find the videos on youtube i'll show them here.

On thursday morning someone in my dream said "I need to go and *strange cough*" and i went "what did you say?" and they went "i need to go and *strange cough about 5 times*". I then woke up to see oscar coughing lots and then a load of sick came pouring out of his mouth all over the carpet. It was 6.50AM. I stayed up with him and he was sick again and i just comforted him and stuff. Anyways, i was really tired and my mam was going to be out all day and my dad would get home at 2PM at the earliest so i got to stay off school and look after him. Naturally, i just spent the time on Entropia.

I've had a good time on entropia lately. Not that i've made a tonne of money or anything, i've just had fun doing lots of different thing which really is the main thing.

Yesterday was my brothers birthday and he had 2 friends over for a sleepover. Everybody had a bit of cake and sang happy birthday apart from me cause my door was closed so i didn't get to be there. Even the dogs managed to attend.

1 year of Oscar

2007-01-31T22:31:00.000+01:00

It is a year today since we first got Oscar. And what better time to announce the new idea i had for my blog - flashback stories.

Basically, i'm gonna just go back and tell you about things that've happened before i started this blog. I'll do this later in this post and talk to you about when we got Oscar.

BUT FIRST... This week i'm doing Key Skills where basically we go into school and do tonnes of writing and work solidly for a week at school with no other lessons but we do that for the whole day. So far we've designed and almost finished building some rockets from bottles which we plan to launch on friday.

Yesterday we done a bridge building task where we had to make bridges out of paper in a clever way. Only 2 bridges met the specifications to complete it which were it had to span a 60cm gap and it had to stand with a small weight (think pencilcase weight) on it for 15 seconds. Ours was one of them but the other one collapsed on 16 seconds so i think we should have got a prize.

Today we done a knot making thing plus we finished off all the paperwork for the bridge building and we did a mindmap aswell. I think we have about 18 pages of writing to do plus mind maps and stuff like actually carrying out these projects. It's kinda like a big long exam where you get to talk throughout and it lasts 5 days. That's probably the best way to describe the written stuff. We also done more on the rockets. This was the bit where we turned out design into a model which we'll use. It looks quite good.

Ok, so onto a year ago today. I had NO idea that we were getting a dog, i just vagely remembered my mam blabbering on about going to visit some that day. So i got home in the car with my dad and then i seen some cat sick on the ground from next doors cat as my dad rang the doorbell.

I said "Why had Tiger (next doors cats name) puked on our doorstep?".

Then my dad said "I dunno. Must be off him though cause we havn't got a cat." Then mmy mam opened the door and he went "We've got a dog." And then right on cue this tiny little yellow labrador puppy comes wandering up to me looking very excited. I was gobsmacked.

Then my dad went to get my brother from school (lazy mam, making him do the school run) and during that time i have 1 very good memory of my mam lying on the sofa talking to me and then Oscar (who wasn't named until 4 days later in the car one day) standing beside me. I then lifted him onto the bottom end of the sofa where my mams feet were and he walked up the sofa to where here head was and i remember that it would take him 3 or 4 steps now but it must have taken him about 10 steps to get all the way up the sofa. Then when my brother got home i showed him the picture (with oscar locked in the livingroom) and whilst filming him i said "We're getting a dog, and this is him *shows the picture*." He got excited. Then i said "Be better if we could have him now though wouldn't it?" and he went "yeah.." and then i opened the door to reveal the tiny little oscar. I have the video of that somewhere but i dunno where. Here's the picture though which was taken in his first hour in our house:

So that's my first flashback story.

My 16th Birthday

2007-01-28T19:23:00.000+01:00

It was my 16th birthday yesterday. I got lots of cards including a proffesionally made on from my mam (she's been making cards for a few years now as a hobby) and one from my brother which reads:

This birthday card can only be opened by the perfect brother - one who is kind, thoughtful, considerate, generous and virtually faultless!

Then i try and open it and find out that the back is stuck to the front so you can't open it then on the back it says:

You mean you actually tried to open it?

I got £20 off my nana, £10 off my grandad (other side of the family if you don't know) a book, a new desk and a new chair off my parents (i knew all about the desk and chair because i picked them).

I have the new dsek set up now and the old one is in the skip in about 10 pieces. This one is really good and everything fits on it with lots of free space. Just a bit of clutter and it'll fit in with the rest of my room!

Last night we went to Chiquitos in the metrocentre. It was very nice. I like things with barbeque sauce on quite a lot i've decided and it, along with cranbury sauce, is my favorite sauce.

The final of Big Brother tonight. I want Ian to win but i think Shilpa probably will. Because she was harrassed by Jade i think people have forgotten the bad things she's done and said.

Also on tonight is Richard Hammond's car crash. Hopefully it'll be repeated some time. If not i think i'll get my parents to dvd it.

Racism

2007-01-23T23:02:00.000+01:00

As you probably know, i'm a big fan of Big Brother and unless you've been living under a heavily uninformed rock for a week, you'll also be aware that there's been lots of reports of racism in the house coming from Jade Goody. My opinion is that she's not racist. I think she took the argument over the top on the night of the big argument but that was after the fuss started about it and most of the complaints were in by the next night which featured the one they picked on the most when she called Shilpa a popadom so really she didn't actually make any racist comments, it's just people seeing "oooh, she's having an argument with saomeone foreign, she must be racist." You don't see her arguing with Jermaine do you and some people will just say "oh, she's indian and he's african (is he? i dunno where he's from) but really Jade's just angry at Shilpa because she doesn't like her. If she was saying those things about a white person nothing would have been said and the show would have continued.

Didn't do the show any harm though. They got the most viewers for a Big Brother eviction EVER and it also beat some of the finals.

I updated the top of this blog with a new thing showing my email address which i think looks slicker and nicer.

The characters are here

2007-01-16T20:09:00.000+01:00

Grandad's out of hospital now. Apparently he got out on Friday. I did not know that! Well today my brother and mam went to visit him but i couldn't go because they were gonna be there for hours making his tea for him and that was too long for me lol.

Well over the past week or so i've been thinking of the idea of actually making some sort of sketch show or something using my characters which i'd thought of. Since they can only really be played by adults i probably won't make this but i thought i'd tell you my 3 sets of character i've come up with:

______ and Michael: Well i actually told someone this idea so he used it and named the first character but i hadn't named him and i dunno if he wants me to use the same name so i'll wait and find out...

So the first person who doesn't have a name (we'll call them A) says things like "well i was driving along in my car. what was i driving along in miiiiichael?" and then michael says "car" in a bored voice. It then goes on with things like:

"what type of car was it Miiiichael?"
"i dunno you havn't said."
"ford focus. what type of car michael?"
"ford focus."

And maybe things like:

"then i seen something which was quite far away, i'm not sure how far, maybe a few miles, but it was in the sky and i think it could have been anything from a bird to a hot air balloon, i couldn't really tell. what did i see miiiiichael?"

"you seen something which was quite far away, you weren't sure how far, maybe a few miles, but it was in the sky and you think it could have been anything from a bird to a hot air balloon, you couldn't really tell."

So yeah, they go on like that. The idea for these is a mix between several characters on the catherine tate show who are the married couple being interviewed, the "i dunno!" person and a bit of the fund raiser woman.

Next up is "Mrs Emily Green" and she is acting all posh very convincingly and then she'd say something like "oh shit, i left my keys at home." and then one of her posh friends would say "pardon?" or something and then she'd reply "ohh.. it's a robbie williams song darling, havn't you heard? Co written with some of the musical greats." and basically goes on to blame her bad language on all these things. The inspiration for this one is late last year when my brother was on San Andreas and he done something wrong so he went "FUCK IT ALL!!!" and then my mam (who was in the other room) went "DANIEL! What was that??" so then he rushed across the room to his ipod, picked it up, put his headphones in, sat back down and when she came in he went "oh sorry, singing along to a robbie williams song." And he got away with it!

And my last character is some guy who works for a company who kinda comes up with ideas for products which are just highly inappropriate for some reason. The main example is that his company is trying to come up with a new idea for a toy for kids so his idea (which he makes a presentation for) is a dress-up "tranny saurus-rex" where you get to dress it up in drag basically. I actually got this idea today and for NO reason at all the thought "tranny saurus rex" just popped into my head. I have absolutely no idea why but i know it wasn't connected to any previous thoughts. So then i thought "oh, wouldn't it be funny if that was made as a toy for kids" and it's just kinda developed in my head throughout the day. I havn't thought of a name but i think i'm gonna make the name an in-joke for myself..

So those are my characters!

Mock GCSE Results

2007-01-12T16:11:00.000+01:00

Today a few things happened but the most seemingly important one is getting my Mock GCSE Results. Feel privelaged guys, my mam doesn't even know what i got yet lol.

Well my mam said don't open them at school cause she wanted me to open them with her. There was SO much temptation to open them at school cause everyone else was (apart from Sean) but i didn't. I brought them home and my mam was visiting grandad so she wasn't in but my dad was. He didn't even know i had them until i mentioend it and then he told me to show him them and i explained what mam had said and he was keep pushing me out of the way to get to the results. So then he pulled it out of my bag and opened it. I then went upstairs to get changed, came back down and asked to see them since he had and he said no and then i tried to get them off him and he made it easy for me to get them and was trying his beset to try and make it rip (he even used his other hand to make a slight rip in the hope that it would all go across the page) and then grabbed onto the corner. I just wasn't pulling anymore but he was holding it out obviously wanting me to and i said "go on, make a drama out of it trying to get me to rip it." and then i pulled his hand off it so he let go. I then went an opened my results. Retard..

These are my mock results:

Business Studies - C. That's good, what i expected.
Drama - C/D. We didn't even do anything so i dunno how that happened but our group is ahead of schedule in our performance so i think that'll go well.
Electronics - U. Our teacher is doing this method on us where he thinks that if he doesn't teach us stuff we need to learn, we'll be a lot more determined to learn it for the real thing and we'll get better marks in that. I am totally unconvinced with this theory and i don't think he realises that our mock results mean a lot to us aswell.
English - E. I've come to a conclusion about English: f**k it. I wrote 5 pages in 1 exam and 4 pages in another. I wrote the entire time without any sort of break apart from thinking and these exams were 2 hours. There's nothing more i could have done and it's horrible to think that i'm hurting my hand scribbling away for all that time and then someone just gets it and gives it an E.
Geography - E. I could have done better in that, i'll admit it.
Maths - B. OMFG!! I was doing these test papers and done loads of work on it and got D's in every test paper and i got a B! I'm so proud of myself for that!!
Science - D. I think i got higher than that in some of the tests but the Biology test really brought that mark down.

So there's my results!

The English teachers have decided to move people around the English groups. We're still not in sets but apparenty this is a new start and a new chance to impress someone who doesn't already know you. They just picked seemingly random people to go with random teachers. The teachers who currently teach us got to pick who went where though and our teacher had obviously picked the best in the class to stay with him so i imagine that the other teachers have aswell. I'm with a teacher who i've never had before.

I have also been picked to do Key Skills for a week where basically, you have no lessons but go to this room for the entire week and do 6 seperate pieces of work and then you can get 2 GCSE's at the end. You can turn it down but i don't think i will actually..

Oh yeah, i also won a game of Bingo in business studies.

So it's been an eventful day!

Series 2

2007-01-10T20:07:00.000+01:00

I said that the end of school for christmas was like the end of a series and now i'm back at school for the next term, i've decided it's series 2 (the christmas period can be a christmas special). Anyways, i have a few things to talk about..

So yeah, back at school but i am always going to sleep at about 1am after lying there for about an hour. School hasn't had anything interesting happen anyways.

I did go to visit grandad like i said and he had passed out whilst Edith (his girlfriend) was there just a few hours earlier. She ran out the room screaming for the nurse cause she thought he'd died. He hadn't, he's still alive..

I just been on entropia and must have spent about 0.2ped shooting this exarosaur (i've previously called it an exosaur but apparently exarosaur is it's proper name). I looted it and got 10PED worth of loot. It was really good. That's really brightened up my day. :D

Before december, my blog had an everage of 4 posts per month and then in december it shot up to an average of 7.16, almost double the previous amount. Just to let you know..

Lots to talk about

2007-01-04T17:58:00.000+01:00

I didn't do much at New Year, just sat at home and done the countdown which nobody else actually took part in cause everyone was being miserable. I remember the bbc cocked up twice because the first time during the countdown you just had to go off what the audience were saying in their countdown because it wasn't showing you the tower or anything with the countdown numbers on. ANd the second time a woman was doing the first ever erformance of her first single straight after the new year and you couldn't hear the first few lines cause her mic was obviously switched off lol.

On entropia i've now discovered that i've grown out of hunting snablesnots and the slightly harder Daikibas so i've relocated to north of Fort Troy and am now hunting Exosaurs and i'm also hunting Daikibas aswell but those have now turned into the easy ones. I've actually started making a profit now while hunting which is very good. I've had some loots give me over 1PED.

Today i woke up to see Oscar jumping at Charlie. Closed my eyes again and then though "wait a sec! Charlie?". Charlie is one of the kids in that posh family who i posted about a few times before. I just remembered that they were supposed to be coming over for the morning and realised that i'd slept through their arrival lol. They stayed for a few hours and were fine. We had hot dogs and charlie was interested in my webcam and joysticks (seems like a gadgety type i suppose) so i showed him them for a bit.

Grandad is still in hospital and i think i'm gonna go and visit him later cause he had his operation yesterday where he had a hip replacement.

I'm currently reading Inside Little Britain and i strongly recommend that you go out and buy it cause it's the funniest and most unique biography i've ever read. Basically, the author is a guy following Matt and David around the place during the year when they're writing the christmas series, filming series 3 and David is swimming the channel and it really gives you an insight into their lives and all that sorta jazz. They also tell him stories from their past and then has bits where he writes about a certain year and what happened with them and they've obviously told him all this. Here's an extract from it which i read last night and thought it was brilliant:

Matt spots a young girl checking out the Little Britain birthday cards. He sidles up to her.
'Want that one,' he half-whispers.
Her double-dake is perfect.

And a bit of a longer one but this is great too and near the bit above aswell.

In the cramped black van, Matt and David are trying to change into their Emily and FLorence dresses. David's getting a bit exasperated because he can't put his tall wig on in the low-ceilinged space. He opens the van doors for a couple of seconds and sticks his head out into the open air. A little boy is standing outside, staring up at david with big enraptured eyes. 'Little Britain!' he observes. David smiles and nods and retreats into the vehicle, wig perched precariousl on his head. He has to take it off again. The door's still open and the boy spots Matt in his dress and wig.
'You should see what you look like!' says Matt to the boy, who smiles broadly. 'I'm Matt...'
'Yeah, i know,' says the boy.
'Yeah, i know!' Matt says in character as Andy Pipkin.
The boy laughs and says, 'Cool...'

And it just goes on with the kid getting more and more excited and it's really nice. I highly advise and recommend getting it.

So yeah, quite a lot of things there. I've come up with 2 funny characters in my head over the past month which i've acted as a few times. If i manage to get a third in my head i'm gonna post all 3 on here. I could make my own sketch show! I have had lots more ideas but they're mostly quite crap and just wouldn't be as good as the 2 i currently have.

New years eve

2006-12-31T18:56:00.000+01:00

Today is New Years Eve. I've been on entropia universe for about 2 months or so now and i finally decided to put some money on so i put on £5. I was telling someone ingame about it and they decided to give me some stuff which i was planning on buying for free. I then spent 10ped (about 70p in real money) on ammo and then i used half of that on hunting and looting animals. I ended up making more money than i used!

2007 sounds like a big number, just like 2006 did a year ago. And we have seen some big things happen in 2006. Lots of world news happens which you forget about like youtube becoming all popular this year, Steve Irwin dying and basically all these other sites being made which are now very sucessful. one i go on a lot now is www.digg.com where it basically has lots of stories about lots of stuff and you can kinda bookmark it and make comments and stuff on all this content. Really, 2006 has been a huge year for online content and next year will hopefully include the release of spore and that again will have a lot more content. Lots of people this year have learned how to hack the Wii and are now making stuff for that.

As i briefly mentioned in my wake-up rant yesterday, Saddam Hussein has been executed. Within 24 hours a video was put online showing everything (there was already a video with the thing around his neck and his dead body afterwards but this one actually showed his death). So what's my opinion on this? I think it's good that he's now gone and everything but i have a feeling that lots of terrorist attacks and things are going to happen as a result of this and don't be surprised if you see more tall buildings being bombed. There already has been 4 or 5 bombs around the place, 1 in an airport i think. Luckily, not many people were injured but still.. it's happening.

On flight sim x i have had 2 attempts at flying into the pentagon to see if it's at all possible actually, and i didn't manage it twice but the second time was due to lack of speed and i do think that had i not have went too low and hit another building by accident, i could've crashed into it. I still think the attacks are a conspiracy though!

So, next time i post will be next year (god it makes it sound like i'm not gonna post for ages lol, it's only tomorrow) and no, i don't have any resolutions. Oh yeah, actually i have 1:

I will change from a n00b to something better in entropia. It'd be nice to own a virtual apartment aswell but then maybe i'd be better off spending the money on real things.

Unfair treatment

2006-12-30T12:09:00.000+01:00

Ok, when my mam started working weekends there was nobody here on a saturday morning so my brother already got extra pocket money for hoovering but then the dogs needed walking so he got extra pocket money for doing that.

So now my brother is going "Mam, i hoovered downstairs" or "Mam, i walked Oscar" and then my mam is now gonna get me to walk Molly and do the hoovering for half of the house. Of course all of his extra money is still inact and he makes it every week but i don't get any bonus or anything and at the moment he (who is 4 years younger) gets more than me. I walked Oscar (when we didn't have Molly) every day for 3 weeks during the holidays, sometimes twice a day, and i never got anything in return for it at all.

So coming back to this one, my mam is now saying "If Daniel or you don't do your jobs, you get the same punishment as eachother." I then asked what it was to find out that it was a banning from the computer. My brother VERY rarely goes on the computer and when he does it's just for looking for cheats for some game or something. So if he decided he didn't need any extra pocket money (when he's bought whatever he's saving up for) there'd be no loss but i bet i'd have to continue doing it.

Boxing day

2006-12-26T22:57:00.000+01:00

Today was just like any old boxing day. Playing with all the new things from yesterday and eating the leftovers from yesterday.

Well today i done my first proper flight on flight sim x and i was good. I done some quick stunts and then landed. I gave up on the tutorials.

I also discovered that youtube has a new feature of letting you ercord videos straight onto their site with your webcan so i tried that and here is the result:

Christmas Day

2006-12-25T22:19:00.000+01:00

It's christmas day 2006!! Hooray! Ok, here's a run down of the stuff i got:

Flight simulator x
Joystick with lots of buttons - very good
That logitech webcam i wanted. On the video lonely girl had of it on youtube which i linked to in october or september, she said it's kinda freaky when it follows you around as a quick comment but it really is. It has a red LED at the side, the little camera inside which you can see moves around up and down and the whole thing rotates left to right. Behind this "eye" you can see a circuit boards. All this adds up to create terminator. It's really scary sometimes lol. I have more to say on this later though.
Little britain talking mug
Little britain series 3 dvd
Little britain live dvd
Little britain series 3 scripts
Little britain autobiography
Peter Kay's autobiography
Alex Rider film dvd - i read the books
£20 off nana - dad's side
£10 off grandad - mam's side

Ok, back to the webcam. For some reason it refuses to do all the cool effects and just gives me crap about restarting which i have tried several times. I have asked on Logitech forums for how to stop this and they clearly know but instead of saying it are giving me cryptic clues as to how i should go about solving the problem.

Apart from those not working though, it still can take video, can go on msn and can follow you around. And because of that, all the people reading this blog who know me online or have found this 1 way or another by chance and are still reading (i think there's a few) then here's my first ever picture of me posted on my blog and it was taken with my webcam today:

Christmas Eve

2006-12-24T14:05:00.000+01:00

Today is christmas eve!!! YEY!! Today i opened my last chocolate on my advent calender since it only goes up to 24. It was a rectangle of chocolate with "santa's on his way!" engraved into it. And while we're on the subject of santa on his way.. www.noradsanta.org

The fridge now works with ice cubes. Yesterday it wasn't working because it was too busy making them. We just need some coke now to use it in. Going together with our new dishwasher, it's gonna be hard going in our caravan on holiday with our small little fridge with no water or ice dispensor and that doesn't make slushys and we'll have to do the dishes ourselves.

So.. 1 day to go and i have nothing else to say really!

The end of a series

2006-12-23T13:08:00.000+01:00

Well yesterday felt like the end of a tv series in a way. By that i mean everything just wrapped up nicely. I handed in my ICT coursework, done my final exam and handed the disks back to Sam (even though i couldn't put his program on them but every end of series has to have a bad thing doesn't it?).

So i went home after i'd done all that and got here (after walking) at 10.50 and i crept in the back door so when i swung open the living room door the dogs got such a fright and were so exited to see me! They thought they would be alone for many hours after that.

Our new fridge has just arrived. It has so many things like a slush thing and an ice maker and it's so much better than our other one which is just like 1 notch up from a mini-fridge. It's really good.

Exams, Retardism and final days

2006-12-21T23:41:00.000+01:00

Well because of the power cut yesterday i had 3 exams today and it was literally non-stop. I done my first exam which was maths and went ok, went for a 10 minute break and then went to do my electronics exam for ages and then i went for a lunch which mainly consisted of me eating my lunch and then dashing off to the ICT room to print off my cousework, show Mrs Dow (i dunno how to spell her name) and then she told me what i needed to add so i sent it home and i've been doing that tonight.

Then we had to dash off to an ICT exam and then after that i went home. Just before that exam though i felt unwell actually cause i had stomach ache all of a sudden. It felt like someone had just kicked me in the stomach but they didn't cause if they did i'd probably notice.

I spent about an hour the other day making a thing on line rider and then i done a screen capture thing so i could youtube it and then it brought up the blue screen of death. I just made a one on the other computer which took me about an hour too and then i came through here after my mam wanted to be on and promised to keep it open. I got back to find my brother on looking at it so i told him to let me back on and he was a retard and pulled the mouse away and in doing so pressed one of the buttons on the side (don't ask, my dad has one of those mouses with everything on) which made the browser go back a page. I lost about 1/4 of it. And that is what i class as retardism (my brothers actions).

Tomorrow is my final day and i'm only in till 10.15 then i walk home cause my mams going to work. The dogs are usually inside from 10.00am till 3.15pm when my dad gets home but that's only on a friday and only been for the past few weeks on my mams new shift at work. So anyways, it'll be a nice surprise for them to see me arrive home unexpectedly after they've seen the school run take place which they now know leads to me going missing for hours on end.

No tests today

2006-12-20T18:23:00.000+01:00

Well my exams have went fine this week but today i heard a loud alarm when i was going in which was coming from the place where exams are done. I went to the classroom and found out that our Electronics exam has been cancelled because there has been a power cut in that part of the building.

So we had geography first lesson where we watched Monsters Inc. which i have only seen once a few years and and it was very good. Next we had break as usual and then after break the History people went for their exam (there was sceduled to be a history exam, then lunch, then another history exam to be on after the technology ones which includes my Electronics one). So in Drama and Maths we just done random things really and then i had the worst lunchtime ever which i don't want to really go into detail with. Then in the afternoon we watched Volcano in science and that was good.

So basically, here's what the exam timetable is for the next 3 days:

Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
First exam	Technology	Maths - Calculator	Science - Biology
Second exam	History 1	Spanish	Music
Third exam	History 2	RE/ICT

So as you can see there's a big gap on Friday and since you don't know, i don't do History, Spanish, RE or Music. We have been told that we get to go home once we're finished all the tests we need to do on friday so i can go home straight after science and some people were set to go home after music. Unofrtunately though, Technology is being moved to where the Spanish exam is and the Spanish exam is being moved to coincide with the Music exam. This means however that some people who do Spanish and Music will have to stay back till the end so they can do their Music exam in the third slot. Where i come from they call that unlucky.

12 days of christmas - Day 12

2006-12-16T16:06:00.000+01:00

It's the final day today and as you can see the site has changed and there are some big changes so here's a list of new things:

The colour has changed to black. I think it gives the site a new kinda technological feel.

It has a new name. The new name for the blog, as you can see at the top is AHposting. That's cause my initials are AH: Andrew hart.. incase you didn't know.

The web address has now changed to ahposting.blogspot.com.

I now have a good things list at the side. Here's how it's gonna work.. When something comes up in my life which is good, i add it to the top of the list and the list will display 5 things and things will keep on being added and then things will drop off the bottom of the list. First up i've added Entropia Universe.

I removed the Links from the side since they weren't very useful. In future if i need to link to something, i'll either post it here or put it in the brand new Good Things list.

As you all know, i messed up with the timings for my 12 days so this was originally planned to be posted on the 11th day which i thought was tomorrow but since it ends today i can't post it tomorrow so i'll post it today.. It's a link!! This site is like project rockstar in the sense that it's a online money making game (not real money though). It's called Tycoon Online and the next round of the game starts tomorrow. It includes a guide for when you start to get you going and it works like a big economy with factories, most of which need things which other factories make and you can either own those factories aswell or buy the stuff off someone who does and has sold their things to the overall shop. So add Tycoon Online to your bookmarks/favorites and go on it tomorrow!

And that's it from the 12 days of christmas!

Now onto my personal life. Last night i heard a big boom from all around me and then all the electricity went off. I went downstairs and apparently there was a bad smell coming from the dishwasher (i can't smell things for some reason). So basically it broke down and tripped the electricity for the house. So then it came back on instantly and now my dads fitting in a new one. He got the other one after those posh people who i mentioned ages ago moved house and put in their own dishwasher but gave us the one which they hadn't tested but the previous house owners had left. We got it for free though and nothing got destroyed.

12 days of christmas - Day 11

2006-12-15T17:00:00.000+01:00

Well today i realised that i messed up my dates and it turns out that the last day of my 12 days is not a week before christmas but is infact tomorrow.. 9 days before christmas. It's still gonna be 12 days though cause i havn't got 2 extra days of stuff.

Today i have 2 items though. 1 which was planned and 1 which i've just found now but i thought i'd post it anyways cause it's quite good.

Well for the unplanned thing.. i have a quick video of a summary of the year and what a year it's been.. It really has been Nucking Futs:

For the second thing i thought that this blog needed something it hasn't had before so i decided to get a game! This game is one of the only type that i play on the internet and it's a motorbike game which i like.

Click here to play, no download required

Tomorrow is the last day of my 12 days of christmas and i have lots of things lined up including big changes for the blog!

Well today i had a Maths exam and it was ok i suppose. The worst part was that it was a 2 hour exam and most people (me included) spent the last hour sitting there bored. Still, i got to miss most of PE and since we only had 15 minutes of it and bearing in mind that we would have to get changed into our PE kits and then out of them again, we didn't have to do it!! We just done what we wanted in English and then in Bssiness Studies we had a general knowledge quiz which i came last in (stuff like sports, pop stars, recognise pictures and stuff). I recognised the picture she gave us of the Russian spy though!

h yeah, and i got home to find out that my gradnads girlfriend had asked my mam to order tights for her cause my mam does stuff like that around the family and then when they arrived the dogs had been alone since 10am (my mam had to go into work today) and it was probably around 1pm then so naturally they ripped open the packet and chewed the £17 tights to pieces. There was also cadboard and toilet roll everywhere!

And oh yeah, we got a dishwasher!! Although it's not been put into the cupboard space yet, we have it and it's stilling downstairs.

12 days of christmas - Day 10

2006-12-14T19:39:00.000+01:00

Today's day 10 and it's time for a video. If you have been living under a virtual rock for the past few weeks you'll not be aware that there's a game out called line rider so it's a double bonus for you! Visit it at www.linerider.com - no download required.

ANYWAYS, today's is a video which someone made with line rider called "Helicopter Rescue". This time it's actually from google video instead of youtube which i usually show videos from. So here it is:

Now onto my personal life.. Well today i had my Chemistry exam and 1 of my Business Studies ones. Science was OK but I think i done very well in Business Studies. My favorite test so far with English as a close second. I still don't like them...

Also, Physics (which i have last lesson on a Thursday) was my first lesson i've had since Tuesday! Tomorrow there's just maths and from now on i think there's just 1 test a day every day. Better than 3...

12 days of christmas - Day 9

2006-12-13T19:18:00.000+01:00

OOOH! It's day 9 and there's only 3 more to go after this..

Todays is a christmassy style thing - www.elfyourself.com - get a picture of you and make yourself an elf. It seems good but i can't do it myself because of the very simple fact that i havn't got a picture of me on this computer. Have a go yourself

ELF YOURSELF!!

Well i can't find the timetable for my exams so there's no timetable but today was our first exams and here's how it went..

I arrived at school about 10 minutes late (which is normal) and went straight into the hall to find everyone lining up in english classes so i join the one for my english class. We were then taken through to the other hall and we done our exam in there. The english exam was 1 hour and 45 minutes long and i was thinking i would be sitting there bored for half an hour because i was finished but i was wrong because i just finished it in time and i think if i had another 15 minutes i would have went on to do another page. In total i done over 5 pages.

Then we had a 20 minute break then i was straight off to a 1 and a half hours geography exam. That one was alright and i finished 10 minutes before the bell but went back through it in my head and got 2 or 3 extra marks.

Then came the 30 minute lunch and then onto the third exam of the day, another geography one. This one was a bit harder than the previous one but only a bit. It seemed quite straight forward but i bet my mark comes out crap at the end.

After that we came home.. So that was my day. None stop with exams. Oh yeah, and Molly ate the entire tub of my mams face cream but i think she's ok.

12 days of christmas - Day 8

2006-12-12T20:48:00.000+01:00

Yesterday was a link and so is today.

Today though, it's a link to a very different site. This is a site that helps you visualise and come to terms with something you've always wondered - what does 1,000,000,000 pennies look like?

Ok, maybe not but it does show you what it looks like aswell as 1 penny, 16 pennies and then goes up and up and up on a huge scale, comparing the pictures with real life things to help you get a better understanding of how many there really are. It also lists the costs, the weight, size and everything like that.

Click here to see..

Now onto my day.. Today we had a fire alarm taking up the first half of English. Tomorrow is our first exams and i have an English exam and then 2 Geography exams (with a 25 minute lunch break in between!!). Still, it gets geography out of the way. I have another english one a week before christmas. I may post my timetable here tomorrow.

12 days of christmas - Day 7

2006-12-11T20:21:00.000+01:00

Well it's day 7 and i promised you a link to a cool site. The site is Project Rockstar. On there, you are a band manager. You are given £50,000 to start off with and can make 2 bands for the first 2 weeks and after that you can make 10 bands. Here's how it works:

Every day is a week in the game. Every real life day you see if your bands are busy doing something you've set them or if their being lazy and not doing anything. If they're not doing anything you can set them away song writing, practising, recording, promoting or gigging. You choose the practise procedure, the recording and gigging venue and the promotion technique and also choose how long they should be doing it for.

I said you start off with £50,000 but i'm very good at this game and i seem to make an average of £1.4million every single day.

So if you join up today i'll send you a present and £5,000 extra money. Just email me at simsgenius@gmail.com with your account name and i'll send you the stuff!

And a quick few tips!!! Go for the bands which are cheapest which is the ones with just 1 member. You can get people with the skill they need at 100% in the range of £11,000 - £14,000 salary. For your first band you should definately spend as little as possible otherwise you'll go bankrupt and have to start again so spend under £15,000 on fees to pay them and spend 1 day writing your first song. Record it at a £1000 recording studio and then promote it for as cheap as possible with the promotion lasting just a day. After that day you can probably afford 2 more days on a slightly higher promotion but always keep a balance between the days writing it, the amount to record it and the amount to promote it for the best result.

Project Rockstar

Have fun!

12 days of christmas - Day 6

2006-12-10T15:34:00.000+01:00

Well i had most of these days planned in advance but today was an exception and i didn't know what i was going to put.

I found something which i think could be one of the best days for these 12 days. Today i have decided to show pictures of space and space related things which i thought were cool.

This first picture is of the launch of the space shuttle Discovery into space.

This second picture is of sunset from mars. As you can see the sun looks a lot smaller from mars and another interesting fact is that their sky is red during the day and blue during sunset, the opposite of ours.

Another mars picture but this one isn't as colourful as the one above. This is the earth from mars. You can see that, just like every other planet looks like a star from Earth, Earth looks like a star from Mars.

This picture is of another space shuttle taking off but this time the picture is taken from space.

And finally, it's Europe and Africa from space during the change from day to night.

Tomorrow i have a link to a cool site.

12 days of christmas - Day 5

2006-12-09T15:17:00.000+01:00

It's day 5 and today it's the exclusive download.

Of course, it's the realease of Iggy 0.8 - my Artificial Life Simulator.

Now your iggys can get jobs with your help and go to work for 10 seconds whenever they want and earn avgold. That's right, avgold. The avnuts are now called avgold. You can also customise the list of jobs through instructions on the guide page on the website.

You can also save all your iggys at once and load them all back up at once meaning you could just leave them going for days. Save one night and load them up the next morning and see how long it takes them to die off or see if there is a sudden surge in their population.

The file is just over 100kb aswell - amazingly small.

So download iggy 0.8 now..

CLICK HERE

12 days of christmas - Day 4

2006-12-08T19:54:00.000+01:00

Well today was supposed to be an "exclusive download" but here's what happened..

It was originally gonna go up on day 3 but the person who was supposed to upload it said "won't it be better for a friday?" so i said ok and agreed to have him put it up today. It's now 7PM and there's no sign of him so i'll just post another planned one today and have the "exclusive download" on another day.

Well therefore todays is a video of what the future may be like. This was an advert from AT&T in 1993. Some of their predictions have come true and some slightly differently. Enjoy.

And incase you're interested, they currently have a webpage online where you can type in text and choose a voice to say it and then listen to your text. Click here to see it.

12 days of christmas - Day 3

2006-12-07T17:53:00.001+01:00

Hey guys,

For day 3 of the 12 days of christmas i have an interview from one of the workers on a new virtual online world known as Galaxy Life. It's gonna be open soon in a BETA state (not finished) and it's a huge online 3d environment where you start off with your own character and planet and the main general aim is to make money. So here's the interview with one of the people working on this online world, Anne.

Me: What does your character start with apart from the planet? This includes money and basically just everything they have to start off.

Anne: Apart form your very own unique planet (more about the planet in next answer) each character starts by choosing an avatar from one of 7 character types and then they choose set of clothes and customise their appearance (size, hairstyles etc). If people sign up now for the Pioneer Programme or join the closed beta test they will all get a pack of free items (ncluding some rares) to give them a head start, they can sign up at www.galaxylife.com These offers won’t last forever, so it’s worth doing now!!!

2. Is there anything on their planet to start off with and how do they build things and how much customisation of things is there?

Anne: Each planet has their own Lifepod, this will be your home and you can furnish and decorate the Lifepod how you want giving it a unique feel. It is your own personal space where you can invite friends and socialise, so getting it just how you want will say a lot about you .There is also a robobutler in your Lifepod who wil give the player helpful information about the planet. Each planet has some basic terrain which will have been generated by your planet customisation choices, as the game evolves so will the planet, there will be plant life and animals and ecological consequences but this will all come later, the idea now is that you are at the very beginning of this new life and the planet is also just starting out and will evolve with you, altered and developed by , amongst other things, your choices.

3. How do you reach other planets and the central place in space from your planet? Will you have to buy something to get there?

Anne: From Elamaba – the space station and social hub of the universe you can travel to your own or other people’s planets. The travel method is via light tube and it’s free. To get from one planet to another, you need to return to Elamaba by light tube and then chose your destination planet. In the future we will introduce bus and taxi travel as well.

4. Is there any way of getting a spaceship or rocket or something and being able to see your planet from space as you leave it or something?

Anne: Yes we have plans for this and many space craft have been designed!

5. When you build stuff does it cost money for all the materials?

Anne: Yes it does at the moment – prices for all goods start from 1 crown which equals 10p.

6. What's the chat feature like?

Anne: three kinds: local area (talk to everyone in room), p2p (talk to one person) and group (talk to your whole online clan, etc) This is all text based but we have plans for voice chat and that should be implemented very soon!

7. How would you spread the word about your planet? Is there an advertising system?

Anne: We have plans for something like this. Right now, you can write on the forums http://forums.galaxyserver.net/ and let everyone know how great your planet is

8. Is there a way of getting outside content into the game and then selling it for in-game money?

Anne: We have plans for something like this, but it won’t be introduced for a while

9. Is there a way of hiring people and also go into some detail about how businesses and things may be run?

Anne: Labour is done by workbots, not players, leaving you free to enjoy yourself whilst the work is being done. You will be able to develop your planet agriculturally or with mining. There are plans for being able to encourage wildlife and get income via tourism. Trade wil also form a big part of the economy

10. How easy is it to get started?

Anne: We aim to make it as easy as possible! It’s free, a simple download to get started we want everyone to feel comfortable about joining Galaxylife

11. Could i possibly see lots of screenshots of it please?

One of the bars that will be opens soon on Elamaba

A view of Elamaba from space (it’s massive – there will only be a tiny part of the Elamaba open to start with)

a scene of a developed planet with new buildings and evolved planet terrain

Tomorrow there's an exclusive download...

12 days of christmas - Day 2

2006-12-06T18:26:00.000+01:00

Well yesterday i had a search engine added to the blog. It's at the right hand side and you can find out how to make sites of your choice more likely to go to the top in the post below.

Now though it's day 2 and it's a video. I thought this video was quite funny and i seen it about a week ago. Click the big play button to play it and enjoy:

And now for a personal bit of writing..

Well today it was christmas lunch in school. There were about 10 stars on the bottoms of plates and out of the hundreds of people getting meals, i got a star and with it came a big selection box so that lunchtime i had:

1 sausage
1 slice of turkey
5 sprouts
1 mashed potato
2 normal potatoes
30 (or something like that, i didn't count) peas
10 (about 10 anyways) carrots
1 lump of cranbury sauce
and gravy

1 piece of christmas pudding
1 lot of custard

5 chocolate bars

So all in all, i'm completely stuffed. I meant to get a drink aswell but it took me all lunch and registration to eat it all (i took my last chocolate bar to registration).

12 days of christmas - Day 1

2006-12-05T18:35:00.000+01:00

Hey everyone,

this is the first day in my 12 days of christmas event on the blog. So for the very first day i thought i'd start off with something new for the blog so i come up with a search feature.

It's powered by google but it's a bit different. It would bring up the same search results but i have it set so you can search for things on this blog and certain sites which i have picked out are more likely to come up nearer the top but only if they relate to your search. So here's where you come in..

You can obviously search using it at the side and the search results will come up above the blog (press the back button to get it back to normal) but you can also edit the results.

All you have to do is send an email to simsgenius@gmail.com with a site you think should have priority over all those not picked (billions of them not picked, obviously) and if it's not utter crap, i'll make it appear nearer the top. HINT: If you want your website to get more clicks, this is your opportunity to get it higher on google.

Obviously, the results will only come up higher here and not on the actual main search engine at google.com .

So get searching and come back tomorrow for Day 2...

A few changes

2006-12-03T11:13:00.000+01:00

I've changed a few things on this site around. Firstly i've got a new thing above this main bit here. It's just a countdown to cristmas. There was a thing there originally saying "please contact me ....." and that is now at the bottom of the things on the right hand side of the screen. I also got rid of the 'About Me' bit because it only had where iwas from and it was just pretty useless. It wouldn't let me insert my own bits aswell so i couldn't really change it. I may make my own one of them soon and just have that on instead (although it'll look different).

I've also been considering changing the design of it but i'm not so sure about it. Let me know if you have any good layouts if you find any.

On 5th December i plan to have the 12 days of christmas where i post some content on the site every day for 12 days going from then till a week before christmas which is also the date for my last mock exams which are TWO english papers and a business studies paper. There may be more to come.

That box that is now at the right hand side but was at the top saying "please contact me" was actually useful because someone has been searching all blogs for posts saying about entropia universe. Mine came up because of my christmas wish list where i mentioned getting a subscription to something like entropia. So after reading about my interests in entropia she thought she would write to me asking if i would like to be part of the beta of Galaxy Life which is released in beta form in January. So we've sent about 7 emails back and forwards and through reading the site i still don't fully understand how it all works so i sent her lots of questions in my last email and as 1 of the 12 days of christmas there's gonna be an interview with her.

Oscar's birthday

2006-12-01T22:52:00.000+01:00

Today is Oscars birthday. He's 1 year old today! We gave him a toy but he's a big softy so when Molly kept snatching it off him he just let her have it. We've also got both of them this soft leather thing in the shape of a christmas cracker and inside is lots of treats so they have to get inside themselves. We're gonna give them those on christmas day though. They'll be happy although Molly's fat so she shouldn't have treats like that really. She was fat when we got her and she just doesn't seem to lose weight.

It's also the first day of the month and the first day of christmas which means it's the first day of our chocolate calander things.

The trip to New York in 6th form is £500 but i really want to go. Maybe i'll manage to get enough profit off entropia by then that i'll be able to pay for it with that. Wouldn't that be good?

My mam wants to swap rooms round between me and my brother so my brother has more room. So basically they want him to have the bigger room and for me to have the smaller room. Bearing in mind that i'd have to ahve something VERY nice to convince me to sleep in a smaller room for quite a few years and live in a smaller room which is a lot more cramped. I also have more stuff than him...

My poor, poor foot

2006-11-26T23:25:00.000+01:00

Something bad happened to me today. Here's a quick story:

Well i was running down the stairs for a biscuit or something, i don't quite remember. Then i put my foot down wrongly on the bottom stair and stubbed my big toe on it and then got a fright so i ended up doing the same at the bottom of the stairs (which is a hard wooden floor). I was complaining for the rest of the day that it was sore and then seen later that it had bruised. My mam thinks it might be broken and i think that it'll be too sore to go to school tomorrow. It's not nice when stuff touches it and 7 hours of my sock and shoe constantly touching it without stop and then walking round our big school and walking home (i get a lift there but mostly walk home). I think my dad would probs pick me up but he's careless enough to forget.

In other news, i'm getting better on entropia. I've bought myself a gun and got a mentor. He helped me kill some things and i ended up with about 10PED so i bought a much better gun for not much and then went around killing things with him today. I spent about half my money but it's the skills that count. I'm also almost the highest skill level on sweating which means i may get sweat every time i try, i dunno. It would be good if i did but i think it just increases my chances. I've also lowered my chances of being hit which helps and also concentration skill which helps aswell.

The first organized post

2006-11-22T20:28:00.000+01:00

This is the 20th post and the first one which i've actually planned out. Basically, last night i found out that someone on msn works as a telemarketer so i wanted to know quite a few things about it so i asked my questions and then asked if i could put them in my blog. He said yes so here is my interview with my anonymous source:

Me: what percentage of people (on average) would you say decline your survey?

Him: Erm, quite a majority. It depends on the survey that you're doing. If it takes a while then people won't be too keen to do it.

Me: How many people give you a chance

Him: I'd probably say about half but some will let you ring back later.

Me: do you actually ever "phone them back later"?

Him: If we put down that we're to call them later, then someone who's doing that survey is likely to call them back at some point.

Me: have you heard any smart comments from them and if so, what have been the best?

Him: Well there have been arrogant people, I had one today (my second from County Durham) that just went on and on. Fortunately I pushed the wrong button and didn't continue with him. But a lot of people say they're on X-Directory (where they don't expect cold calls), but we use random dialling, which I think is the loophole past it.

Me: oh so do you yourself just type in random numbers or does a computer figure out which ones work?

Him: I have to manually type in numbers for certain options.

Me: so what's the reason for me going "hello" and then a second later there being a burst of noise from the silence and then i hear "hello could i speak to ..... please"

Him: Yeah, I don't know if this is for all call centre systems, but with our one, when the person picks up, it takes about a second or so for our screen to load with the script we have to read out. So if you say hello immediately from picking up, we won't hear it, and we'll have start reading the script, or just ask for another hello if we're not sure who's on the line.

Me: do you ever get "can i have your home phone number so i can call you back at home?" and then you say "no, sorry, i can't do that." and then they say "well at least that way you'd know how i feel."

Him:I've had someone say 'how'd you feel if I were to call you about (topic)'. I wouldn't be stupid enough to give out my personal details. I only say our Call Centre's based in Kent. But I don't see the good side in them being rude, as I could write down their number and make things even worse (though I haven't done).

Me: do you get told to read out your script in an indian accent?

Him: The first time I did market research for another company, I actually did use an Indian accent, because I was calling post offices (owned by Indian's with long names), and I just found it more comfortable to talk that way. But I use my English accent on this job.

Me: do you actually ever personally "phone them back later"?

Him: If we put down that we're to call them later, then someone who's doing that survey is likely to call them back at some point.

Me: Do you ever tell the people on the end of the line when they yell at you "look, it's just my job."

Him: Well, I talk in a more professional manner. I sometimes state my rate of pay if they ask.

Me: what's the weirdest thing you've been asked by someone on the phone?

Him:I don't think I've had any weird requests. Some people ask if they're getting paid for taking part in the research (I didn't know that happened).

Me: and are they?

Him: no

Me: have you ever ended up phoning someone you know?

Him: I've only contacted my own area code once.

So that's everything you wanted to know about telemarketers. They have a script, pretend to be indian and are basically, just normal people.

Next on the agenda is... Entropia Universe. I've been on this quite a lot in the past few days and after a few more days i might be able to move up in the world to the next level. I currently do sweating which makes hardly any money but it's where you have to start (unless you pay them, which i havn't got any money to do but i *MAY* do at christmas). It takes ages to download but doesn't take long to load and what i like about this one is that even though it's a company, they don't make any limits for non-paying people. They just make it hard to start but once you're past that and they've filtered out the people who are lazy and unwilling to pay, it's ok from then on.

This seems like by far the longest post and probably is because of the interview. That's all though. Bye! :D

Catch up

2006-11-20T19:23:00.000+01:00

Well not too long since my last post but i thought that since i have had a lack of them i would post again to say how everything's going.

Well today in Drama we had to decide what we will do for our GCSE performance in March. The play has to be 20 minuts long (5 minutes per person) and we discovered that a Sherlock Holmes script Dan had decided to bring in was too short. We also got help from someone who done the exam last year and she said that if we were to do it we would have to do the victorian style perfectly so we put these 2 input things together and come up with the best solution - we'll work around the detective idea with the same kind of characters but write our own script, possibly with a very different detective storyline.

Yesterday i made a christmas list for erm.. Santa? No, my mam asked what i wanted so i told her the following:

Logitech quickcam orbit xp - that's the one that the girl used on youtube and got tonnes of views and then logitech offered her whatever she wanted for free cause they had loads of sales after that. i showed my mam the video and she seemed impressed so i'm getting that.

Little Britain Live dvd - i went to see this in April and then went to see my favorite author the day before so overall that was a good weekend. So yeah, i want the dvd.

Inside Little Britain - I think that's the name of it.. Basically, i want their autobiography book.

Little Britain Series 3 dvd - and this is the point where you can say i'm obsessed. This is the final little britain bit of merchandise for now. I have a little britain mouse mat aswell you know..

Electroshock pen - Childish i know but still, teach people a lesson for forgetting their own pen. Basically, when you press the button down on the end it gives you an electric shock.

Flight Simulator X - I've been told by sean that "IT MEANS TEN!!" but either way, i want it. Seems pretty cool.

Subscription to an online game - Not sure what yet. Maybe something like entropia universe or imvu. If anyone has any suggestions for ones where i can do well without paying them then please let me know.

A lot, i know but i don't get money or anything and some of it will be off my nan and grandad (they're on opposite sides of the family so they're not married or anything. I only have 1 of each now, you see.).

I think that lot'll keep me going for a while so yeah, that's what i want. I've only asked for 1 thing each christmas in the past and i've always got stuff that i like but this is a real change.

So yeah, long update for 2 days.

Updates on being banned

2006-11-18T13:01:00.000+01:00

Well i have to do over and hours work every day and every single day since i last posted i've been online so that's good.

I asked to go on this morning and they let me so i'm gonna do work later today after going to my nana's who is making pie crust today which is my favorite!

Apparently i'm up to date on my business studies coursework now and oh yeah.. one of our mock business studies exams is exactly a week before christmas. That must be our last day, musn't it? It's on a monday so maybe we'll end on the friday of that week.

I'm on this BEtA version of blogspot still but i wonder when they'll make it into the normal one isntead of BETA. It is taking a long time.

I've also thought that after i'm finished iggy 1.0 i might make a business tycoon style game. Making iggy 0.8 is going well and may be finished quite soon!

And for my next trick.. i shall dissapear

2006-11-11T14:13:00.000+01:00

Well i've been banned from doing practically anything over the past week and a half because apparently my school work isn't good enough. My parents went to a special day where all the parents meet with your form tutor who tells you how you're doing in each class. I got an F and a level 5 effort (that's the worst) in english but it seems like a very rogue figure because everything else gave me C's and B's with mostly 2 effort level (that means good and better than average).

So i've been doing 2 hours work every night and now after about 20 hours work i've been given the computer for 30 minutes.

So that's where i am. After the 2 hours work aswell, i have to spend the rest of the day lying down bored.

Apparently this is good for me say my parents. I showed that they couldn't give a shit because i showed me dad a blank piece of paper and said it was my maths work. When i asked him what he thought he said "good." Obviously he didn't look at it.

Did you miss me?

2006-10-22T21:07:00.000+01:00

Well i havn't posted in quite a few days because i've been busy making iggy and working on advertising and stuff for it. Just a few quick updates on me.

I've not abandoned this, i'm still going. I got the sims 2 pets the other day and it's very good so far. I may make oscar and molly soon if i get the chance. I dunno if i mentioned it but Oscar has a tiny stubby little tail because that's how he was born and none of the tails are that short in pets and when it's longer it just looks strange, weird and silly.

I've also started on Project Rockstar where you're a band manager and it's a free game which you play through your browser and you go back on every day to set your bands new tasks and see how they're doing. I was addicted to it quite a while ago and now i am again!

Iggy 0.7 i did manage to fix and it's now up for free download on it's website.

Molly's has grown according to people who have seen her once and then seen her again 2 weeks later but i've not really noticed at all. Oscar is still the same old teddy bear.

So that's it for this update. I recall saying this wouldn't be a personal blog but it kinda has turned into 1 in some bits. I think i'm just finding what's right for me and the blogs gonna be set like that and it'll change once every now and again.

Pictures, votes and broken programs

2006-10-13T19:45:00.000+01:00

Not had a proper post in quite a few days so here's a few topics in this one.

First off, pictures of my new dog. All the previous pictures we had were of Oscar but now we have another one we can't just leave Oscar out so he's in all of these pictures too. Now acompanying him is our 3 month old chocolate labrador Molly. Molly enjoys walkies, squeeky balls and doing her business in the dining room. Here she is:

Next on the list is the Student Council. I was elected for it over a year ago and today i got first lesson off to count votes which lots of year 9's and year 12's made because they're electing new people. We spent the whole time talking about people and it was quite fun. We also got lots of chocolate chip cookies and brownies to eat while counting the votes up. Turns out that it was close in the 6th form vote (1 person was getting elected, hundreds of votes and less than 5 votes seperating the winner from the person in second place) and not as close in the year 9 vote (3 people getting elected, 1 person with more than half the votes, 16 candidates, hundreds of votes, 2 people less than 20 votes away from making it). It's quite cool knowing who's won when all these candidates and everyone else wants to know and they don't.

And broken programs. Yeah, Iggy 0.7 is in a bit of trouble at the minute and i have no idea what to do to fix it. It's the most bizzare and unexplainable thing ever.

Iggy 0.6 can still be downloaded though at www.huckool.com/iggy.

Release the iggys!

2006-10-02T20:20:00.000+01:00

Well to start off i wanna say that i've been working on an Artificial Life Simulation and it's finally released to the public! It's hosted online at huckools site and you can now find a link on the right to it. It's called iggy and it's really easy to use so why not give it a go?

Iggy

And if you want to link to it (please do!) then use the word "Iggy" in the link, apparently it means that in search engines your ranking goes up. That's how they managed to make "Miserable Failure" return George Bush's biography as the first result in google.

So please give the program a go because i spent a while making it (although it was first only intended for my use).

Thanks.

Here's an experiment!

2006-09-25T21:45:00.000+01:00

Ok, one of the features of blogspot is that you can set up a top secret email address where you can send emails to that address and it'll post directly to your blog. So i had a thought.. what happens if you sign up for somewhere with email verification and then gave it your top secret address, would it post to your blog?

I decided to find out.. I have set up a blank forum (to save me spamming someone elses forum with a useless account) here. I will then set it to have email verification and make a new account on it and give it my top secret email address. If there's a wonderful verification email post above then it's worked!

EDIT: Blogspot has past my wonderful test. There seems to have been a spam filter which has blocked it. Experiment over! (it's still a sucess because we completed the experiment and got results)

New things

2006-09-20T21:39:00.000+01:00

New things!

First off you can see i have a little bit at the top now telling you how to get in touch and please do cause i want feedback on this.

Next thing that's new is dogs! I'm getting a new dog tomorrow. She's called Molly and she's a 10 week old, chocolate labrador puppy. It's quite exciting!

New link.. almost. At the side i have 4 links. Soon i will remove the bottom one and replace it with a link to the NEW website of my artificial life simulator i'm currently busy making.

The website isn't hosted yet but it will all be sorted and online in just a few days time and by that time, verion 0.5 of the program should be finished aswell.

The past week has been filled with wasp stings, angry chavs, annoying teachers, annoying parents and a lack of chocolate biscuits (and my currently beloved crunchy nuts). I guess that's all to say really without boring everyone to death!

Day 6 - 6:25PM

2006-09-13T18:16:00.000+01:00

No, i'm not still going through big brother withdrawrals, i'm reading a book about it called "Dead Famous". It's quite good so far. There's a murder in the big brother house (although they can't call it that because of legal reasons but it is definately intended to be that way) and the people in the book who were editing the show made this really nice girl look horrible through editing. I wonder if the real bb does that..

My desk is a one where the keyboard slides out but one of the tracks has just come loose but i'm balancing the wooden bit on top of that track for now so it doesn't go down and take off the other side aswell. Hopefully i'll be able to get it fixed.

2 days since september 11th, 4 days since my last post. I uploaded a video onto youtube ages ago about conspiracies to do with it and over the past few days the hits have went through the roof.

I finally thought i would show you a few photos of my dog. Here's 2 of them:

Those kinda pictures are a rareity though and this is what he's usually like:

There was also a picture of him which was a great advert for a company but i'll not tell you what it was incase i decide to upload it sometime in the future (everyone likes a good surprise!).

But until some time in the short future, bye!

Dinner Disaster

2006-09-09T20:36:00.000+01:00

List of food i don't like:

Berries of any kind
Macaroni cheese
beef bourguignon (a thing my parents make)
Soup
Hot Spicy stuff

I used to like some of those things but now they're on my list of things i don't like (have been for about a year). There's not that much really and i'll most other stuff.

Today we've had visitors round so i arrived at the dining room table for lunch to find my dad had made... SOUP! I was like "ok, i don't like it. i must have told you so many times, can i have something else." He said there was nothing apart from the tea stuff so i had to eat it. Wasn't very nice at all but i still had to have it.

Then we went to Jesmond Dene (try searching for it on wikipedia, quite an ok area) for a walk and i was then told for tea we were having beef bourguignon and i went "RIGHT! I was ok with soup and eat it without much complaining but 2 things that i hate in 1 day?? Wait, ellie (1 of the people who visited) is a vegetarian, what's she having?". Wanna guess? "Macaroni Cheese".

By this time i was really annoyed that they KNEW what i did and didn't like and yet they had went ahead without thinking of me and somehow chose 3/5 of the things i don't like. I asked what was for pudding and was pleased to hear "Apple pie". Finally, one of my favorite things. I could just eat tiny bits of tea and then have lots of that afterwards.

So then i was called downstairs for tea once we got home, i wandered through to the kitchen while i was waiting to be told where to sit and then i seen the apple pie.. with some purply stuff coming out a hole in the middle and some around the outside of it.

I pointed at it and asked my dad "what is that?"
"Apple pie" he said.
"yeah, i can see that but what's that purple stuff coming out of the apple pie."
He then talked to my mam whilst avoiding the question: "Where do you want me to put this?"
"What is the purple stuff??"
"Berries."

I was so mad then!! They knew i was excited about that and i told them not to destroy it by making it so i wouldn't like it and they did!!! It's not much to ask, to avoid those things. There are loads of other meals we could have had which didn't involve them.

So now i'm starving. I've had bits of soup, a tiny bit of some potato's he made with the beef bourguignon (which weren't very nice neither although i do like potato's) and now i have no pudding.

Oh yeah, i came upstairs after the meal (we've just finished although they've not put out the pudding yet) to find that the dog had somehow grabbed my mouse off the desk, got the batteries out and carried the mouse downstairs (it's wireless). I'll upload some pics of him in the next post actually.

Enough moaning.. a few days ago i found http://images.google.com/imagelabeler where you can help label the images for google. I think it's quite a good almost-completely foolproof idea.

I'll be removing the sim brother link at the side soon when the series finishes so if anyone has any ideas of what i can replace it with then please let me know (instructions on getting in touch are in the post below but i may also put a thing at the top saying how aswell).

Infestation of.. Daddy long legs!

2006-09-06T22:44:00.000+01:00

I just thought i'd write this quickly. It was my first day back at school today. Crap schedule with only 1 good lesson everyday and with the rest being bad. With 4 lessons being 75 minutes each, they just seemed to drag on.

I also noticed that we had an infestation of daddy long legs, of all things. There was this wall with about 25 of them all on and then there were pillars next to it with 4 on. It's spooky how they've appeared there all of a sudden (well i've been off 8 weeks including my work experience as holidays so probably not all of a sudden).

I tried to get that audio thing working but i couldn't. I wrote away to the people who say they're away till the 10th of september so i might have it for next time but no promises.

If anyone knows any cool scripts i could put in for people to mess about with then please let me know (though email if you have my email address, through msn if you have me on that or just on comments if you don't know any of them).

So i guess that's it. I think i labelled the last post at the bottom but i don't think i want to get into doing that so i'll not this time. I dunno, i may change my mind.

Formatting..

2006-08-28T21:26:00.000+01:00

Well i'll start off by saying i have a new link at the side which is to Sim Brother. It's run by simmedia.co.uk who is also there (they also own the simtv.co.uk domain which it is hosted on) and it's really good and a few weeks in. It's a good read.

Speaking of Sim Brothers, i'm writing a guide on how to make a personal one and make it really good cause i do it a lot (which i've mentioned more than once, so i'll stop boring you).

I got some sort of virus on my computer or something going wrong where it kept restarting so then i had to reformat it (which means i got all the files off). I had so much crap on so it was good i done that anyways. I sent the few files i still wanted to my laptop over Windows Live Messenger and it was really quick. Sent a 117megabyte file in about 5 minutes.

So now i've decided that i'm not gonna let it get cluttered up with junk and i'm gonna arrange my documents nicely.

The speed of it now is just unbelievable compared to when it was completely cluttered up.

I'll find some more stuff to post and put it in my next one. I was supposed to have this post be all about this text to speech program reading out my blog but it turns out it hasn't worked but if i get it working soon i'll put it in the next one instead. I also want to include an html script thing i found just for fun but i don't know if it'll work. Bye!

I am sunrise.. apparently

2006-08-21T12:02:00.000+01:00

You Are Sunrise

You enjoy living a slow, fulfilling life. You enjoy living every moment, no matter how ordinary.
You are a person of reflection and meditation. You start and end every day by looking inward.
Caring and giving, you enjoy making people happy. You're often cooking for friends or buying them gifts.
All in all, you know how to love life for what it is - not for how it should be.

What Time Of Day Are You?

Click on the link, i found it quite enjoyable. You can also get strange things like your penis name..

Anyways, I've been hooked on big brother and after 13 weeks it's finally finished. Pete won which is great. He has tourettes incase you don't know and i'll post a link to a video of him wining so you can see what he's like in my next post. I've started to get withdrawral symptoms so i'm making my own big brother using the sims 2 which is really fun but i won't spend ages boring you about it.

I'm almost finished a project i'm making with someone which is a mix between a forum rpg and google earth. I'll not give too much away because it's a new and unique idea but i will give a link when it's finished.

MI5 rock!

2006-08-10T18:40:00.001+01:00

Today i was woken up by being told to go downstairs and watch the news because there was a story on their that 21 terrorists (it may be more now) attempted to blow up lots of different aircraft this morning by making bombs on the plane mid-flight out of special chemicals they've brought on the plane. MI5 had foiled this though and saved the day and none of the terrorists got on the planes and they were all captured (at least i think they all were). Apparently it would have been worse than september 11th.

Over the past few days i've developed a strange addiction to www.cherubforums.com which is some forums for a book series (the books website is www.cherubcampus.com). I've also been inspired to make a movie about war being everywhere in about 15 years time. I'm making it with the movies game and i've done quite a few bits of it so far and have changed lots of bits and moved them around to make it perfect. So yeah, it's been fun.

And to bring an end to this blog post, i shall leave you with this, enjoy: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hwthqRJ1Khg

Back from holiday

2006-08-07T16:13:00.000+01:00

I'm back from my holiday to France. It was quite good. My dog Oscar has just learned how to do paw and i'm waiting for my brother to come in to show him it so i thought i'd come on here while i'm waiting. He's about 8 months old now (the dog, not my brother, although my brother usually acts about that age) and he's a yellow Labradore puppy.

I've been thinking about setting up my own proper website but i'm not sure. It would include all my stuff in 1 place (even maybe this blog). I already had an idea for a virtual treasure hunt i could do online and maybe even a series of a sims 2 version of british tv show Big Brother.

I have a company of the day, week, month or even year which i love - Google (and no, it's not because they're hosting this for me). I love Google Sketchup, Google Earth, Google searching, Google Spreadsheets etc. They give so much away for free and they still make loads aswell.

That's all i can think of saying for now really. I just wanted to update to let you know i'm still here and havn't dissapeared after the first post like most blogs.

: )

See you in 2 weeks!

2006-07-20T00:24:00.000+01:00

There's a few things i'm gonna post about now.

Firstly, i'm going on holiday at the crack of dawn tomorrow to the south of france, by car. We're away for 2 weeks so that's probably gonna be 2 weeks without any postings but maybe i'll update half way through but then again it's not supposed to be a personal blog.

2 things i wanna talk about kinda link into eachother. They are Wikipedia and World Jump Day.

Wikipedia, as i'm sure you know is found at www.wikipedia.org and it's a massive encyclopedia that anyone can edit and change (although they have loads of people monitoring it so people can't post stupid stuff).

World jump day is on tomorrow. The event was organised by www.worldjumpday.org where they plan to put the earth into a new orbit through everyone jumping at once.

They claimed to have 58,000,000 registered users ages ago (to be a registered user you have to give your email address) when i went on and yet again yesterday. I made a note of the exact number, came back 15 minutes later and it had went down. So i edited the wikipedia page about it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Jump_Day) so it contained the additional fact of the numbers going up and down. I just checked back there now to discover someone had put it in a new section and they had looked into it and discovered some sort of code showing that the number was very false and it was a lot lower.

That page is very busy recently and it's just amazing how all these people just contribute their little bits to a page to build up a bigger, better and more accurate knowledge base. I'm also glad that my little bit of research was worth it because it has been seen by lots of people wh o have went on there because it's so close.

I am just about to go on there now and edit in a new fact that i ticked the box that said "email me the day before this event" and they havn't done that yet.

So i guess that's it for 2 weeks (probably 2 and a half weeks while i get myself sorted). I'm enjoying coming on here and writing when i want and it not being a thing where i'm like "oh i have to get the next entry out by ______" and i think it's more interesting than those aswell.

Bye!

Is the frosties kid dead?

2006-07-18T19:15:00.000+01:00

There's an advert in the uk which has been on our screens a lot lately. If you live in another country or you havn't seen it, view it here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-bLndLiDy5w

This advert is one of the most annoying ones i've ever seen after seeing it time and time again. But then 2 rumours started circulating saying that he was dead because:

a. He had cancer and it was his dying wish to be in the frosties advert.

b. He commited suicide due to bullying over the advert.

They are both false. He doesn't have cancer and if he did then no offence to frosties but what teenager would have a dying wish to be in those adverts and which big proffesional company would pay hundreds of thousands/ millions of pounds to forfill some completely unrelated kids wish?

He had been bugged about the advert (whether it was in good or bad nature i don't know) so he moved to africa. He recieves money every time it is played so there's no reason to feel sorry for him. Kellogs (the company who make frosties) also made a statement saying that he was good and well. Them still showing the advert and having it on their website is more proof that he is still alive.

My Links

2006-07-16T02:22:00.000+01:00

You'll find that near the beginning i'll do a lot of posts until i've said everything i've needed to and then it'll slow down to a regular time between posts. I'll also put seperate things in seperate posts.

Ok, i have 3 links at the side and now i'm gonna explain each one.

www.youtube.com - i have a few videos on there, my username is "ahpro" (without the speech marks or whatever they're called). 1 of my videos is really popular with 10's of thousands of hits and the other 2 don't have nearly as much. but give the site a look, it's basically a place for people to look for videos and upload videos.

www.huckool.com - This is one of my friends on msn. He has let me host a few things on his site so far and it seems to be very popular with his blog and his sims 2 big brother.

www.simmedia.co.uk - They are also a sims 2 site and they also have a sims 2 big brother. Not thaat i'm there for though because i go on the forums a lot and this is where i met "huckool" who owns huckool.com. Sim Media is owned by my friend Jon.

So that's my links!

About me

2006-07-16T02:10:00.000+01:00

Just incase you are somehow interested in me, here's some info:

My name's Andrew, i'm 15, my birthday is January 27th, i live in Northumberland in England. I don't like football or any sports like that, i like doing things to do with artificial intelligence, movie-making or radio shows. I'll not post a photo because i don't have one. So that's all i can think of and basically, let's you know who it is that's writing what you're reading.

Oh yeah, and this blog is just a big mess of everything from personal updates to things i'm doing to funny websites.