Jul 22 2009

My New Play Room

Well I finally finished decorating my play room about a week or two ago, but I’ve been a bit lazy getting around to taking some photos. I’m calling it a play room, pc room, media room anything but office. Office just reminds me too much of work… but I often find myself slipping up and calling it an office anyway.

Mental ramblings aside I’ve got some photos now and you can view them below, WAHEY! :)

Desktop1 Desktop2 Desktop3
Desktop4 Desktop5 DVDShelf1
Window1 Door

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May 29 2009

Can't believe my eyes!

niceweather

Nice weather for the next couple of days according to google, awesome :)

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May 28 2009

Playing With Rainbows

r6v2

I’ve been playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 loads recently. It’s a brilliant game to play with mates over Xbox Live and really encourages team tactics by giving everyone the XP earned in game.

I played the first one quite a lot online and really enjoyed it and this one is no different. Playing Terrorist Hunt with friends mostly but dabble in multiplayer matches every now and again.

So yeah if you have a 360 and haven’t got it yet, I recommend it. It’s only £9.99 over at play.com.


May 20 2009

Bye Nvidia, Hello ATI

atiruby

Well my good old 7800GTX has lasted me a good couple of years but now with ATI offering a cheap but solid gaming solution with the HD4770 I forked out a measley £90  to get a massive performance boost in my aging PC.

Currently running it on an AMD Athlon 4000+ with 2GB of DDR2 memory, which is a bit of a bottleneck but what matters is the games and they are performing great. Certainly beats the full £500 upgrade I was looking at which I can’t really afford right now.

Oh and Ruby certainly beats the stupid fairy woman Nvidia have as their mascot.

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May 6 2009

Bit of Web Design

Two web sites I’ve worked on recently have gone live in the last month so you can check out some of my work :)

First the A2Z web site has finally been updated with a new layout I designed based on a template the boss chose. The site is using a new CMS that my department has built so I have no control on how the content looks within the layout but it handles it pretty well. I have created all the banners so far though, not 100% happy with all of them but you don’t always have the luxury of time at work.

http://www.a2zcoreitsolutions.com

Secondly the development team I work in tasked me with creating a site for our products brand name Medida. I designed this site from scratch everything here is my work minus some of the content that has been written to explain the products. Content is a bit sparse in some areas but overall I’m very happy with this site.

http://www.medidasoftware.co.uk

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Apr 14 2009

Moved In

Well me and Laura have moved into our new house now. We’re happy with the size, it’s plenty big enough.

We’re currently in the process of decorating the living room so we have at least one room how we want it. Hopefully that will nearly be finished at the end of the week and I can plan on getting my friends down sometime soonish.

Decorating is a right pain though, when it’s your own home you’re far more critical on everything. Painting is easily the most difficult thing to get spot on but I’m getting there :)

Just a quick update this one, been really busy with sorting house stuff and working so struggling to find time to update.

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Mar 10 2009

Weekend, HOOOOOOOOO!

I went to IKEA retail park in Nottingham this weekend in search of house things, was there from about 12-6PM shopping.

I found the best cheese grater I’ve ever seen and it was a mere three hundred and seventy one of my English pennies. Money well spent.

thegreatestgrater1

Got some glasses of the pint variety and some smaller ones for fruit juice and what not. We also went to look in CSL for a sofa or two as my mum has given us a grand towards them. We ended up buying a three seater and a two seater, have to wait ages for delivery though. I would post a photo but the one on the web site doesn’t look anything like it.

So that was my weekend, now back to work…

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Mar 2 2009

New Home, New Bed

Well finding a house has been a pretty stressful process but we’re nearing the end now. The solicitors are are in the process of sorting out the contracts and they have to be done by the 18th March but could be finished earlier.

We’re going to be living in Mountsorrel but I’m not going to say where until it’s finalised, don’t want to jinx it :)

I can however show the awesome new bed me and Laura are getting from her parents…

bed

In KING SIZE baby! :D

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Feb 10 2009

A few thoughts

My friend Jemma fell out with me back when I went down to evesham. I was having a bad weekend, stressed to the eyeballs and completely knackered.
Anyway, I think most of my friends are cool with it (I think!) and understand that I was just having a bad weekend but for some reason Jemma doesn’t. As far as I can tell she’s unable to forgive me and after the things she has said really has a low opinion of me now.

I’ve been thinking about it and she really has no right to hold things like that against me. Everyone slips up and if a so called friend can hold that kind of a grudge you have to question whether that person is really a friend at all.

All I know is it’s a shame, I’ve always been there for her, given her advice and company when she has needed it but I don’t think I need a friend that thinks that lowly of me.

On another note I’ve realised that buying a house is a hell of a lot more difficult then I thought it would be. Every good opportunity me and Laura have had we’ve missed out on. Just bad luck I guess, just hope our luck turns around soon as I really want to get out of my parents house now.

On a positive note 10 days till Street Fighter IV, WOOP WOOP!
cammy21 chunli


Feb 3 2009

Fred the snowman

Fred this is everyone, everyone this is Fred.

fred

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