May 3rd, 2009
I had a very nice birthday on Friday, though been 22 feels pretty odd, which is mainly due to realising how old my little cousins are now, as in driving and getting jobs. I had allot of money for my birthday which I’ll be using to fly over to Orlando again to visit Susan, its a shame that she has been unwell this weekend but hopefully will get through her flu quickly.
I had asked for a few books for my birthday, all of them been zombie related, I had fun reading Max Brooks ‘The Zombie Survival Guide’, made allot of sense so at least now I have a decent idea what to do should the dead walk. I also had plenty of chocolates which I’ll be working my way through this week, and a nice rose from Susan.
On a side note, last week for work experience I went back to my old primary school, which was a very surreal experience, every thing has changed, all new teachers (though there was allot of old timers still working there), there had been allot of building work done as well, some serious and heavy duty construction and a few walls that had been put in to separate various old classrooms, which was funny as I could recognize them all.
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April 24th, 2009
Well its been a little while since I updated my blog, can finally say that I’m out of college but I’ve been out of college for a couple of weeks now, that’s how little I update this blog now. With that said I wasn’t to sad to leave the college my course has been a struggle from day one, if it wasn’t for the fact that the aim of the course was to get people back into work and all the students within the class had been out of work for a while for something or another, no one would be leaving their with anything. Self motivation is the only driving force that has gotten anyone through the course, the instructors are good but don’t seem to care about handling the bigger issues as they are tired of dealing with them, oh well I’m done with them so no need to worry about it.
I managed to get responses for work experience one is at my old primary school which had some real nice people, I’d be with the part time technician there which would be a good learning experience. The other response was from the local hospital, New Cross in Wolverhampton. I’ll be going in on Monday for a interview, if it goes well i’ll be able to work full time there or split the time with the school, but we will see how it goes.
Been trying to get into web/graphic design, its a slow process but I’m getting there, been playing around on Adobe Photoshop CS4, learning the basics and getting a general idea on what each tool does. Dreamweaver is pretty nice though Its harder to make a site from scratch as I’m having a hard time on what ideas to try out on it, been tasked with helping my sister do a site so I’ll start there I guess. I did apply to the local college for a part time course on creative web design, would of been perfect but unfortunately they were full.
Bouncing a few ideas around in my head on what to do, been thinking about resurrecting zombeh.com to use as the name for a little production company for machinima and other gaming media, though its all ideas right now.
Tags: College, life, photoshop, web design, work
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April 6th, 2009
Global Agenda 411
A new MMORPG is currently in the works called Global Agenda, myself and Susan have been looking at it for a while as chances are we will be playing it as long as nothing else is released around that time (such as SW:ToR).
Now Hi-Rez (the company behind Global Agenda) announced that they are holding a contest to help promote their game, this contest consists of building, promoting and maintaining a fan site geared toward their game. The prizes for the game were alright (mainly beta keys), we figured it could be fun setting up a fan site, and well here it is, Global Agenda 411. We only released it yesterday, so I expect their to be plenty of bugs or errors plaguing the site, I’ve already encountered a few serious ones I’m trying to resolve, like syncing the database once a user has registration, so far no luck with that.
The site is up, and I have allot I need to do still such as general game info content which to be fair, should of been put up before we released it, but we were excited and didnt want to wait any longer which isn’t really a problem, as there are plenty of sites out there now with the information, we would just be repeating it.
But yeah check it out and let me know how it is, I’m welcoming any suggestions/ideas anyone has for it.
Tags: fan site, global agenda, global agenda 411, web site creation
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April 2nd, 2009
One thing I’ve noticed about myself is that I used the term “sod’s law” far to often, though unfortunally I’ve always had good reasons to use it, such as this week.
So this week things have been going pretty well, I got my level 2 signed off, finished my new build and gotten it signed off, gotten an extention so I can finish my level 3 and I’ve landed a job placement at my old primary school which should be fun, but this is where that annoying law kicks in, I get sick. As soon as I looked at my level 3 cross refferencing on monday evening it started, head started to hurt and my nose bunged up and I can no longer concentrate on my work. But yeah thats how it goes, I’m aiming to get my work done for next thursday so I can finish up my time in college.
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March 23rd, 2009
Eight months down and one more to go, sure doesn’t seem like eight months, feels like yesterday I was nervously walking up the steps to my section meeting everyone for the first time, though there were a few familiar faces that were there when I did my 2 week taster.
I think the weirdest thing with a roll on roll off college is the fact that people you work, talk and laugh with every day suddenly go and your left looking at all the new faces wondering who’s who and if you’ll get on with them.
My time here I’ve met allot of great people, I do have contact details for most though getting round to talk to them isn’t easy as it feels as if they have just left so you plan to leave it a little longer before asking how there doing but before you realise its actually been three months plus.
Cant say I’ll miss the food here, the portions wernt that great and variety isn’t something I could live with, I’m just lucky I packed full of goodies before leaving home.
My course itself has been a bit of a mess from day one, though that’s been mainly due to the college and them not wanting to take on more trainers, as its 30 to 2 right now, with either trainer out most of the time dealing with other things. Our head of section isn’t very useful either, I believe I’m up to my 8th month and he still doesn’t know my name which is pretty poor. Weird that one of my trainers left as soon as I got there, and myself along with everyone else have had to get used to the new trainer, though I already knew him as he was doing some of my ADC classes back when I was doing my 2 week assessment.
I’m pretty sure everything would remain how it was from when I started if it wasn’t for the fact that us students get involved and have to force structure into the course, though its been good experience learning how to deal and adapt with situations like that.
Finally started my new build today for my level three, I have 3 weeks now to get it finished along with my cross referencing though if I don’t finish my cross referencing I can always bring it back up once completed from home to get it signed off, unsure about my A+ I don’t see them paying for my exam, its something I’ll look into before I leave.
Well right now I have 16 days 3 hours from this post before I leave for good, its been quite an experience, now I need to look for a job to tie me over while I look at further education as I would really like to look into web site design and development.
~ cell 120
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