Sunday, April 20, 2003

Well, today, apart from being Easter sunday has been a pretty normal day.
Happy easter to any who want it wished to them, happy passover or spring festival or any other appropriate festival to anyone who wishes to be wished those wishes.
Went to church this morning, busked some songs, played some from music. Had lunch, went to grandmother's this afternoon. Played games, ate tea, came home. Watched a fascinating programme on Leonardo da Vinci, then did an hours Physics revision. Checked microsoft.public.publisher, here, and Monkey830.co.uk, then wrote this blog entry. Who knows what will come next?

posted on Sunday, April 20, 2003 9:19:47 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Saturday, April 19, 2003

Diesel Estate. Quite a nice car. It's not as nice inside as the Saab 9-5 Estate, but after the abismal service we have received from Saab, and the fact that we have lost £12000 to them, we felt it was time to move on.
There aren't leather seats unless you pay a few thousand more (which we don't have), so your bum sticks. There is no tape deck, no ACC unless you pay more, and the dashboard reminds me of a Ford Fiesta. But it is cheaper than any offers for new cars we've had from Saab, is new rather than the second-hand cars they were trying to give us, and is cheaper to run (being diesel and 5 insurance groups below the Saab).
I'll be sad to see the Saab go, but after the trouble it's given us there's nothing else we can do.
The streamed videos of the TV appearances have now been taken down from The Ferret site, but all we can do is learn the lessons and move on. After 15 months of abismal service, it's time to give up.

That's what I posted to Monkey830.co.uk forums yesterday. My parents are out now collecting the Citroën.
/me signs
All I can say to anyone who's considering buying a Saab is this: DON'T. Especially if you're in the UK. Their cars DO have faults, despite their claims to the contrary. The difference is that they will not admit when they have a fault, and refuse point blank to do anything about it. Their service is abismal and the only thing they are interested in is cash. If you buy a Saab, you may be lucky and become a happy Saab owner, but you would not want to waste £12,000 on a crap car. I'm sorry if I've offended anyone, but that's the way I feel.

The bottom line: DON'T BUY SAAB

posted on Saturday, April 19, 2003 9:19:00 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Friday, April 18, 2003

I finally managed to install smilies today (after corrupting my GM install last night). Sure, I should have been revising Welsh, but never mind...
:rolleyes:
I have managed to do 1/4 hour of revision today. Not much else. Another boring day. Sure,the weather's nice, but I can't enjoy it without feeling guilty about not doing revision.
On another note, check out LegendaryFrog's website - it's home to many great flash cartoons (such as the One Ring to Rule them All, Kerrigan and the Frog, etc...)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LegendaryFrog/
You need a Yahoo ID to get in, tho. it's worth it. i changed my wallpaper to "What the Crap?!" :)
Later

posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 9:17:24 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Thursday, April 17, 2003

I made this post in the Monkey830.co.uk forums yesterday, but have decided it belongs here. After reading many All Your Base sites, watching videos and looking at images, I went and downloaded an emulator last week.
It's not anywhere near as bad as I predicted (sure, it has the opening dialogue reproduced below) - it's basically one of those games where you work from right to left in a spaceship (or "zig" as it's called) shooting evil Natol craft out of the sky. I'm stuck on the first level.

In AD 2101 war was beginning

(I'll leave out the names for simplicity - no guarantees are made for accuracy)
What happen!
Someone set up us the bomb
What!
We get signal
Main screen turn on
It's you!
How are you gentlemen
All your base are belong to us
You are on the way to destruction
What you say!
You have no chance to survive make your time
Ha ha ha ha
Take off every "zig"
You know what you doing
Move "zig"
For great justice

It has really cool music, too (wind band and organ arrangements may be coming soon...)

Today I have been an exceedingly boring person. I have done about an hour's maths revision, practised trombone for about an hour, eaten, tried to ring Finesse Photography (but received an answerphone after 20 RINGS!!! Who would be sad enough to wait that long for an answer? Don't answer that.) I worked out how to insert OLE objects in Publisher programatically, so I am a step closer to the WordArt 3.2 add-in. So a pretty boring day really. Maybe I'll do something interesting tomorrow. If I do, you'll be the first to know (unless someone else sees this page first)

posted on Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:16:10 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [3]
 Wednesday, April 16, 2003

I set up a new guestbook today as a displacement activity.
I'm curious to see what sort of people come here, and why. Please sign the guestbook so I can find out! :)

posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2003 9:14:18 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]

For anyone reading this from another country and wondering what on Earth I am on abour, I shall explain.
At 16 (or 15 in my case) - at the end of Year 11 of compulsory education - all pupils have to sit exams called GCSEs (for General Certificate in Secondary Education). Mine start in about a month, and I need to be studying hard. But I'm not studying as hard as I should be.
To be honest, I hate revision. It sucks. It is incredibly boring, and I never feel any information being absorbed. Plus, there's always something better I could be doing, such as:
- Writing an entry in my blog (like I'm doing now, probably as a displacement activity)
- Setting up my blog (like I was doing most of yesterday)
- Practising my trombone (which I was doing yesterday and need to do every day)
- Exercising (which I seriously need to do)
- Working on the yearbook (which is going out later this year - see Monkey830's site (http://www.monkey830.co.uk) for some stuff on that)
- Sleeping/eating (which I always need to do)
- Answering questions on microsoft.public.publisher (like I was just doing)
- Looking for something else to do to avoid revision (like I'm probably going to do now)

posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2003 9:13:29 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Thursday, April 03, 2003

W00T! I now have GreyMatter up and working, so you can have updates from me far more regularly, and if you are that sad, you can gain an insight into my life.
Enjoy!

posted on Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:12:05 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]