Aftershock

Yeah, finally sinking in as I sink another pint!!

I'm going to university to start life on my own, and there's only about a month and a bit left until I do! Now that's a scary thought!

You know what, I actually can't wait :-)

So there's the aftershock - and now let's have some aftershock :-P Heres to the next 5 years!

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Results!

Computing - A
Physics - B
Maths - B
Music Tech - C

Absolutely over the moon! Thought I'd be off to Kent, but then got a letter through from Durham saying I'd got in! Awesome!

Anyway, waiting to hear what college I'm in at Durham in the next day or so, and then it's time to start preparing!

Off to Hungary tomorrow though, but for now - drinking time!

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Holiday!

In 24 hours I will have some A level results, and 12 hours after that I'll be on a plane to Hungary! What a busy life!

Hungary should be good, going with people from Cheshire Network. Lots of drinking while it's nice and cheap :-P

Once I'm back from that, it's off to Windermere for a week for another summer camp. Again, should be very good! 3 day hike in the middle though, which won't be as fun! Ah well!

Better get packing, as you know from the last post I'm not doing too well!

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The extent of my packing...

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Works well!

Well, this seems to work alright! Only improvement I'd like to see is the inclusion of categories for Blogger, but I'm rather pleased this is a free app!

Hopefully you'll see some more posts coming from me, as I can now blog whenever I have spare time, rather than just when I'm at the PC.

One other thing I've just noticed about this app -the keyboard has a slight bit of lag on it :-( Ah well - just excuse the spelling mistakes!

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Lifecast

Thought I'd try out this nice looking application on my iPhone - lifecast. At the moment, I'm typing all of this on my phone, which will be cool for blogging when I'm out and about! May actually motivate me to post more often!

It's also supposed to show where I am, which is slightly scary! We'll see how well it works!

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Summer stuff

Absolutely loving summer :-D Even though I have a vast cash underflow situation at the moment, I am thoroughly enjoying being 18, and being able to partake in legal pub drinking at long last!

Spent a good 4 hours in the pub at lunch today, and I'm probably going back very soon! Do they do "Frequent Drinker" cards?!

Anyway, I'm getting A-level results in about 2 weeks, and flying out to Hungary the day after, which is absolutely guaranteed to be one giant piss-up. Woop :-D

Besides that, I'm filling the days and nights with various expeditions involving alcohol and fire (nothing illegal, just hilarious!) Various Scout camps and other stuff scattered through summer as well, and a week in Windermere working on my D of E at the end of summer. Never mentioned the other hike on this blog, will have to post about that some time soon

Anyway... the evening's young, the weathers warm, and the beers are cold. Ciao!

The Dyson Faith

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1309867/Why-the-Dysons-keep-faith-in-their-genes.html

Found that highly amusing, even though its about 7 years old!

Pukin' BBQ

Yes, it looks like puke. Yes, it smelled like puke. Yes, it made Olli puke. This is how McNetwork do a BBQ!

That concoction wasn't for eating, by the way... it was for Explorers to stick their heads into, in order to retrieve Midget Gems sunk at the bottom. Seemed like a brilliant plan for an activity, until people started throwing the mixture around!

Anyway, hopefully some of the wee explorers got an idea at what crazy stuff we get up to in Network, and will want to join. If not - we got to make some stupid mixtures, and then had an excuse to go to the pub! Sorted!

Approaching 18

And I doubt I'll feel much of a change!

I don't think much will change overnight magically, apart from my transition from sober to drunk!

The above was written at about 6.30pm yesterday, the following is when I get back in, 6 hours later.

Yeah. Definitely no change. Underage doesn't seem to stop the pub trips!

End of exams (roadtrip!)

Anyway, now that I've finished twittering, my life story over the last few weeks...

Had exams for a long looooong time back, but they're finally over :-D I had my last exam on Tuesday afternoon, and then went out drinking. Well, not straight away.

Myself, Dom and Taylor had been told in no uncertain terms that we had to go to Cheshire show, but we couldn't get on the coach due to everyone else leaving whilst our exam was on. Problem. Me driving to Cheshire show (fast) after the exam - solution!

It all started well, plugged the GPS in and off we went. Passing through Didsbury (I think), Dom spots an off licence.

"OOOH! STOP! I'll be 2 minutes"

And out he jumps, returning with what can only be described as a bucket of beer, and a six pack of cheap lager. Right, off we go.

Going along towards the M56 (not the quickest way, but the satnav told us to!), and we end up at a junction.

"Erm... M56 north or south?"

At this point, satnav battery dies, Dom is mid way through drinking from the bucket, and Taylor doesn't have a clue what is going on. So I foolishly go North, bad choice.

I'll omit the next part, due to large amounts of swearing etc etc.

We end up on the M56, 4 junctions north, but heading south. Gooooood! By this point, we have another 45 mins left to get there, and the queues are horrific. Ah well... more beers to be drunk by everyone but me.

Anyway, end on on the A556 going towards the show ground. The A556/M6 junction is a HUGE roundabout, and the show entrance was on the wrong side of a dual carriageway, on the same road as we entered the roundabout. So we queued right the way round. But first time - I missed the turning. So we went ALLLLL the way around again, after some rather dodgy manoeuvres including pulling a U-turn across 4 lanes of dual carriageway. Less said about that the better.

Right - so we're now approaching the showground. By this time is is 4.25 - 5 mins until we're PLAYING - actually ON STAGE! They've also reversed the traffic cordons, so we were pulling up behind police cars, asking nicely to be let round. 4.28 - we reach the site.

No clue where to park, so Dom & Taylor bail out half way across the site, I keep my head down. I have no idea how I came to be driving across the actual site, it's usually locked down for all vehicles. I was pushing people aside with my bumper!!! Ended up ditching the car next to a toilet, and running before anyone found me.

We made it, just. To be honest, there wasn't much point. I was shaking too much to play, Dom was hammered, and Taylor was half-way hammered as well. Ah well!

Getting back was a whole other story... for some other time!

Twittering away

In past, I've never really bothered with Twitter. Seemed to me like very few people I know use it, and hence it seemed rather pointless. Recently, I've changed my mind and started using it! I have 1 follower (mate of mine), but its like this blog - no-one may pay any attention, but its nice to talk!

www.twitter.com/WARlrus is the address, check it out if you've never heard of it before... its quite fun. Kind of like Facebook status's, but you don't have to be friends with people for it to work! There's some really random ones, like the Mars Lander, and some more down to earth ones like BBC News. Pretty cool stuff, since you can have it texted to you for free!

I'm also posting all these blogs directly to my Facebook profile now, so maybe someone may start to read them... or maybe not?! We'll see. The address of the blog, for anyone reading on Facebook is www.mattdyson.uni.cc or http://mattdyson.blogspot.com. Either will do!

On the subject of domain names, I'm looking to get my website back up and running, so I can have some development space available, and start distributing some free scripts, as well as selling myself (nothing dodgy) as a web developer! If anyone fancies donating me a domain and some hosting space, in return for advertising, then please get in touch with me - mattdyson2004 [ at ] gmail.com - I'd love to hear from you!

iPhone 3G - me want!

God bless you Steve Jobs, you never cease to amaze me with your new technology. New iPhone 3G was announced last night at WWDC, with some brand new features:

• 3G (duh!) which actually seems to work at the same speeds as HSDPA(?) It is actually a HSDPA phone, according to Apples tech-specs - which makes it 3.5G!
• A-GPS (Assisted GPS, works with Wi-Fi and Cell tower to calculate positions faster)
• 2.0 software (obviously!)
• Also available in white!
• Flush headphone jack
• All-metal buttons
• Better speakers

The 2.0 software looks good as well, can't wait for some native games to come along!

The best thing of all - o2 offering free upgrades to existing customers! No contract termination fee, just pay for the new phone, sign up for a new 18 month contract, and you're away!

I've already registered so that o2 will phone me up to set the ball rolling on these things in early July - I can't wait!

Update: Just realised I'm away through most of early July - damnit.

Revision Dodging

Right now, I have 26 hours until my next exam (Computing CP4), yet I am sat blog posting! What a mistake-a to make-a!

Anyway, I've now done 5 exams, and have another 8 left to go. Only 13 days left though! They do like to cram these exams into a nice small space of time!

Since I've finished school, I've discovered PKR - a 3D poker game that you play from your computer over t'internet against other people. It's quite addictive - and a very good waste of time! I came 112th out of 400 in a tournament last night, went all-in on a pair of Kings, the other bastard had a pair of Aces -.- Will be back in the tournament tonight, going to beat last nights record!

I've also discovered some more stuff, which I'll post about later today.

Right, who wants a game of Monopoly?!

May Ball

Just woken up after a rather epic night at the May Ball. I expected it to be a bit more emotional, since it is the last time we're going to see everyone, but as soon as the booze was flowing (at expensive rates!) I realised that wasn't true :P

Got a lift there in style (with Daves dad, same as for year 11 prom) and then Rick tried to emulate the prom some more by jumping into a bush... video's will be up later!

Food was crap considering what we paid (£37, for a slab of chicken!), and the DJ wasn't up to much at all!

Started calling in drinks from all kinds of people, got 2 free shots and at least 3 free cider's from various people, including Mr Hughes - you legend! I really couldn't afford much at £3.75 a pint! £3 for shots as well... more than twice the price you'll pay around Poynton!

Anyway, got in at about 2am, after trying to put my key into a wall. Doors are hard to work after a night drinking! Bit worse for wear this morning, but nothing a bit of revision won't fix! 19 days, 1 hour, 7 mins until I'm done with exams :-D Woop!

No more school... ever!

I have finally left that horrible school they call 'Poynton High'! Yay :-D

It's a weird feeling, knowing that I'll never have to go back to there for lessons, but I've waited long enough for this day to come!

We spent the day leaving our mark around the school (not graffiti, just some well placed pranks!), but I shall not post photo's for fear of incriminating myself 8-) What fun!

Celebrated with a nice weekend chillaxing with mates, and a trip out to Kings on Friday night, where it turned out that most of our year (past and present) had as well!

Only regret - not getting one of the PHS leavers hoodies, I'd never been told about them :-( I'll have to see if I can get one made up!

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I need to get better at this blogging lark, no updates in nearly a month! :-o

I have just got back from completing my Music Tech coursework logs. If anyone from AQA happens to read this - they're a waste of time! I've spent the last 2 days doing nothing but logs, and I bet they never get read. I hate examiners some times!

I've also got A2 exams next week. Eek! Maths C4 and Music Tech resit on Wednesday, and then Physics resit on Thursday. Can't wait...

Still, on the bright side - 32 days left until my last exam :-D Woop!

Bought a Punto!

This is a bit of old news, but been rather busy recently!

Signed the relevant forms to sell the old Peugeot 307 off to a dealer in High Lane, and then went off to find myself a new car :-D

Found a nice Punto at the Hazel Grove garage - 1.2l W-reg with 43k on the clock, for £1,995 - absolute steal! Managed to talk them down by a further £100, and adding in service, MOT and tax (another £200 worth basically). Done deal!

This was all last week, rang up today to confirm collection tomorrow

"Just let me get the paperwork... erm yeah. Not been MOT'd, serviced or taxed yet, should be available next week"

"Bugger off, get it done by tomorrow or I'm claiming my insurance (£5.20 per day) back from you"

Anyway, phoned them back just now, and its been miraculously done in the last 3 hours! I'm collecting it at midday tomorrow :-D Then off to the pub celebrating!

Damn... that means I'm on the J2O's then... going to have to get used to them!

One good thing, though

I passed my driving test :D

Forgot to mention that!

Spent yesterday cleaning my Peugeot, going to try and sell that next weekend, and find myself a nice little Fiesta to knock around in! Can't wait!

When will it end?!

This week is going to be another bad one!

Not got another free between now and Wednesday - including lunchtimes! They're taken up from now until Friday with doing Battle of the Bands in school! Damn Music Tech!!

Got a Cub meeting at the fire station tonight, should be entertaining... for the Cubs! Group leaders meeting on Wednesday night as well.

Oh, and on top of that I've got school, homework, coursework, the usual crap! Goodbye week!

This week...

I've been busy.

Monday brought a Music Tech day, with people from Huddersfield Uni coming in to talk to us about their course basically. Then some practical workshops, which were a bit useful, but not very! Could have spent the day better by doing my coursework. Which brings me on to...

Tuesday. Tech coursework. Managed to get Task 5 pretty much complete, but I bet that Slim MT will butcher it tomorrow! Did some more work on my Task 1 (multitrack), trying to get vocals to sound good. Don't think that'll happen! Came home and did some Maths work, what fun!

Wednesday (Tomorrow/Today). Tech coursework. Hopefully will get Task 1 and 3 complete, and then work on 4. Fingers crossed I may finish the coursework part of the course! Probably some Maths/Computing when I get back.

Thursday. Driving lesson + maybe cinema in the afternoon (if I can afford it!). Need to try and get a hair cut as well!

Friday. All day Computing/Maths/Physics.

Saturday. Some sort of Network workshop. No idea what it is, but its region-organised - so probably a load of bollocks. Hopefully will end up in a pub though!

Sunday. Cheshire Hike base with McNetwork. Going to be a fun day - that'll definitely end up in a pub!

Monday. In school for Computing probably.

And then its back to school

Goodbye holiday!

Back from Skeggy

And it snowed. Wooop.

Tell you what, I would have much rather been at Network Gathering!

Sorry this post is a bit late, didn't get round to it until today, reasons will follow!

We're all going on an Easter holiday

To sunny Skegness. Woop. (Note the sarcasm)

I'm being driven off to lovely skeggy for a week, returning next Saturday afternoon. Gale force winds and extremely low temperatures forecast, along with snow. Should be fun... ish!

I shall write and tell you all about it when I get back... if I'm not blown into the North sea!

Linux Adventure #2: Networking

Well, we all know that the main uses of a computer are:

• MSN
• Wikipedia
• Porn

All of which require the internet. So obviously, my new Linux box (mLinux - I'll explain some other time) must be connected to the internet! "No problem", thought I, "I'll slap in that USB dongle I got ages ago and never use!"

So in went the Belkin Wireless G Adaptor (F5D7050), and up popped the "dysonHub" network! Score! Not quite...

Enter the password, and Ubuntu will connect fine, but absolutely nothing happens. No internet = no MSN, Wikipedia or Porn! Damn!

The adventure must be halted at this point - I must have internet to continue!

Linux Adventure #1: Installation

Step number one in my adventure on the road down Linux Lane went surprisingly easy!

Slapped in the shiny new Ubuntu 7.10 disk, and installed it with no problems. Probably is a good point to mention that the PC I'm using is an old machine with a 20.5Gb HDD that was liberated from a local primary school when they chucked it out. What a waste!

Anyway, the only error I got was the lack of internet connection for a system update, and something about commenting a line in a file :S Didn't really understand that, I'm more of a GUI guy if I'm honest!

Next came the peripherals... Mouse and keyboard worked (obviously), and then I realised I only have 2 USB ports on the computer! Enter my trusty old Belkin Hub, which worked out of the box (read: dusty cupboard) and gladly accepted the mouse, my pen drive and the USB Network Card (discussed later)

Everything working so far, played a few games... everything's hunky-dory!

Until the time came to start on t'internet...

One man and a Linux distro

Here beginneth my journey with Ubuntu 7.10, my voyage of discovery into the world of Linux!

You may remember from previous posts that I have dabbled in the 'dark arts' before, but this time I'm going for it hard and strong!

First task... installing the damn thing!

Back from Barnswood

Been camping again, Barnswood this time, "running" the home base for the Cheshire Hike practice with McNetwork.

Not a lot of work, just a hell of a lot of lasagne. Lots of lasagne. 3 trays of it to be precise... we've been eating it for dinner and tea the past 3 days!

Was a fun weekend (besides the food :P), watching a few films, drinking. The usual!

Think the downfall of the weekend for me was fruit cocktails. Found a Margarita maker in Netto for £7 (basically a blender made out plastic) and then preceded to put fruit and booze into it. I thought it would be healthy - not deadly! Lesson learned.

Anyway, sleep time.

Waste of time

If anyone feels like they need to waste some time at school - I can
recommend ALIS tests. We sat another today, just as boring as the
last, but this one serves no purpose whatsoever! All it does is get
compiled and sent back to school! That was an hour I could have used
for doing homework!

Got another stupid tutorial tomorrow as well, finishing the reports we
already should have done! They wonder why we dont show up?!

Fools. I'll take the extra hour in bed thanks!

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I have officially fallen out with wireless networks over this weekend. Printer stopped doing network printing over this week, so decided to fix it yesterday afternoon. 3 hours later, nothing works any more. It turned into one of those projects which keeps getting further away from the true goal. I think XKCD summed it up pretty well!

Anyway, we decided to bite the bullet and get two new printers (one for me and one for sister). This way - I get to keep it when I go to uni :P Haha

Will be collecting it from Argos tomorrow afternoon! Then the installation fun begins!

1.1.4 a bit of a let-down!

Not actually figured out if it fixes anything yet, not heard any rumours around various other blogs either.

Ah well... roll on next Tuesday - apparently a potential release date for the SDK :D

iPhone 1.1.4 Released

Firmware update 1.1.4 for update has been launched this morning. No new features (apparently, not installed yet), but a few unspecified bugfixes. Nothing in the Apple KnowledgeBase about the security fixes either!

Could this actually be the release of the SDK, but hidden away? I'd expect an iTunes update within the next week or so, to unlock the features of the SDK, and then maybe firmware 1.1.5 to unlock the phone

EDIT: Just tried to update my phone, got a "1602" error, apparently I have to restore to factory settings :(

Back from Kent - alive!

I made it back from Kent in one piece!

Journey went as follows... 18 hour day :|

Up at 5.30 am, breakfast and then out to catch 6.23 train from Macclesfield. Train was on time (for a change), but it was cold :(

Underground from London Euston to Victoria at 8.50am, crammed onto the tube like a sardine, and I'm sure I had a businessman feeling me up!

Victoria to Canterbury West at 9.19am, arriving at 11.07. Taxi to the university, ripped me off! Cost about £7 for a 5 min journey!

Had a very nice day looking around the university - absolutely excellent facilities!

Bus + Walk back to Canterbury East, train to Victoria at 16.02. Victoria to Euston on the tube, crammed in even tighter this time. Had to throw myself out of the tube at Euston, wasn't going to get out otherwise!

Caught an earlier train than expected, 18.35 to Macclesfield, supposed to be arriving at 20.20. Bad idea.

Firstly, couldn't get a seat because the train was that packed. Ended up sat on the jumpseat outside the toilet, although I was well off - most people were sat on the floor! Anyway, I tucked into my Sausage Roll and Apple Pastry, bought from Euston station for £3.95 - what a freaking rip off! They both tasted the same as well, and I think I caught a disease off the Sausage!

Here's where the fun really began... train suddenly stopped, and stayed stopped for about 20 minutes. No word from driver, and none of the "Train Managers" were about, they'd gone into hiding/bailed out. We finally start moving (slowly) when the driver comes on the intercom:

"Errrr, we've been diverted off the West Coast Mainline, due to errrmmm. We'll be about 1 hour late into Stoke-on-trent"

Brilliant, thought I.

Then managed to find a member of staff...

"We've been diverted through Birmingham, but we're last priority now, so we could be here for a while, probably 90 mins late"

Bloody brilliant, thought I.

Anyway, arrived at Stoke late, and then Macclesfield at 21.20, an hour late. No compensation either, not allowed to claim unless I'm more than 2 hours delayed. Its a freaking joke.

Moral of this story:

• Don't go to Kent on the train
• If you must go to Kent on the train - don't go with Virgin

Bed at 10.30 - 18 hour day. I'm still recovering!

Sat inside on a sunny day

Waiting for Amtrak to arrive with a parcel.

What a fun and exciting thing to do on a sunny day like today!

Blogging on the move!

Just set up a nice feature of blogger which means I can do blogs on
the move via email from my iPhone!

Looks rather simple, so you may be hearing more from me :D

Can't add categories though, which is annoying! Ah well!

Fun night

You've got to love the snow! Ended up on Chester Road at 11.30pm last night, throwing snowballs across the road at each other, after a nice session at Ricks! Haha :D

Got to bed about half 4 (crammed in a 2 person bed with 3 other people... how does that work?!), and got to sleep about half five. Up again at half eight for bacon butties.

I'll sleep well tonight!

iPhone Tariffs updated!

o2 are updating the tariffs for iPhone as of 1st Feb!

£35 p/m now gets you 600 minutes and 500 texts

£45 p/m = 1200 minutes and 500 texts

£75 p/m = 3000 minutes and 500 texts

Rolling out to existing users as of 1st Feb, complete by mid-March at the latest :D

http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/o2tariffsforiphone

You can now also get o2 "Bolt-ons" for extra cash, most interesting for me being the "Unlimited anytime texts" for only an extra £7.50 per month.

http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone/boltons

Apparently all iPhone UK users will get a text from o2 when the conversion is complete :D

Can't wait, I went well over my texts last month!

My life: update!

I'm annoyed at my computer right now. Are there any trojans going the round right now? :S My PC seems to slow to a crawl one minute, and then be fine the next :( I think its dying/infected - and either way I want rid of it!!!

Managed to get next draft of Physics coursework done this weekend - but then the bloody printer ran out of ink, and I've got none spare :( Have to wait for a Viking order to come through now!!! At least I've got an excuse for not doing Computing coursework though :D Hehe

I'm fed up of Poynton. That's enough said on the matter, although things are looking up slightly! School still blows though...

Thats about it for my life at the moment... interesting isn't it?!

Durham Interview

Note: Had written this on Thursday, but forgot to post it! Haha!

Durham interview went well today! Apparently will be receiving an offer of AAB within the next few weeks, which isn't too bad! Also heard back from York, they want AAB including Maths!

Josephine Butler college at Durham is extremely nice, en-suite rooms, lovely bar (:P), free gym... loads! The kitchens for the flats were actually nice as well!

Sadly, the choice isn't too clear cut between York and Durham, since Durham's Computer Science facilities didn't really impress me much (no reference to the song!), whereas at York the CS department is awesome!!!

I'm off to see Nottingham next Wednesday - that still looks like my first choice, with York/Durham forming the back-up offer (I know it sounds stupid, having a first place offer lower than the reserve!). I did learn, however, that Nottingham has the highest rate of student crime in England... may leave my phone at home!!!

Really enjoyed looking round Durham campus though, since it was a week-day I got to see more of the uni at its busiest - and I liked what I saw!

York Interview

Just got back in from a fun day at York University, just had my interview for Computer Programming & Software Engineering!

The day was quite enlightening, they have brilliant facilities within the CS building, and they're moving to the new site in 2010, when I'd be away on a sandwich year, but means I'd get my BEng and MEng years in brand new facilities! I wasn't sure about the hardware part of the course before I went, but I'm fairly taken with it now!

Can't say much for the other candidates, the ones I met were either over-the-top nerds, or drunks. The other CS students I met were nice though, Campus tour of all the bars went down well - even though they were closed!

Interview went quite well, I was able to get into some detail about my CP5 project for A2 Computing, which the guy seemed fairly interested at, so we shall wait and see!

Next up: Durham on Wednesday!

Changes in 1.1.3

Well, I have to say I'm fairly impressed with the 1.1.3 update I blogged about earlier. Even after my PC crashed and then started the download all over again -.- urgh.

The "Find Me" service on Maps isn't too brilliant it seems... it told me that I am currently somewhere in Poynton. Well duh!

The changing of the home screen is quite nice, however I don't like the shakey effect when changing icons around - I think it looks tacky!

I'm yet to see movie rentals for the UK...

Multiple texts is a bonus though!

On another note - the "MacBook Air" has been shown off to the world (well... the people who were at MacWorld - I'm still waiting for the video to be released!). Not that I'd want a Mac anyway...

iPhone 1.1.3 update

iPhone software update 1.1.3 has been released! Don't know if Steve Jobs has just announced it at Macworld or something, but iTunes now recognises the update, and its downloading for me as I write this!

Unfortunately, several million other iPhone owners are doing the same, so download speeds are quite low - it's going to take about 90 mins to download :'(

New features (from the download menu when you start the update):

• Updated maps
• "Find me"
• Multiple SMS
• Updated home screen
• 9 simultaneous screens side-by-side
• Safari bookmarks on home screen

and a couple more I forgot before clicking "next"!

I will post and tell you all how it goes! 83 mins left!

Maths C3 != fun

Just got back home after the Maths C3 exam - SO GODDAMN HARD!

I couldn't do half of the questions, and hence don't have very high hopes :(

Brilliant confidence booster for the Physics resit in 43 mins - eeek!

Lack of blogging

Well, you can all imagine why I've not been blogging much recently... I've got an iPhone!

Yes, almost 1 year to the day of it being announced at Macworld - I hold in my hand the epitome of cool.

The adverts really can't show it at all, its an awesome bit of kit, only got a few complaints:

• No multiple texts
• No MMS
• Headphone jack
• Home button
• Applications "crash" to the home screen quite often

Most problems should be fixed with the 1.1.3 update, however, which hopefully is out next week, being announced at MacWorld!

Anyway, back to life...

Got exams this week, had Maths C2 yesterday (went okay, thought of an answer as soon as I left the hall though :( there goes 5 marks). Got Physics resit and Maths C3 tomorrow - fun. I intend to have a fun time at Nic's party tomorrow evening though - I may not make it home!

Handed in my Physics coursework, a month before I had to :o! I'll wait and see if it comes back though, teacher's still had my last piece for 3 months without marking it -.-

I'm rather depressed about going back to school, would much rather be off to Uni tomorrow!

On the subject of Uni - I've had offers from Kent, Nottingham and Edinburgh so far, and have interviews at York and Durham! Kent want me to visit though, which means a 6 hour journey on the train just to get there :( May have to drive... somehow!