Category Archives: life

End of Mocks.

So today marks the last of the ‘dry-run’ of GCSEs that are the mock exams. Now I’ve got a couple of actual posts brewing.

Fireworks at Legoland Windsor

On account of yesterday being Guy Fawkes night, here are some photos of some fireworks from October. Fireworks-IMG_1047 Hosted on Zooomr More photos….

Skype, now not available at Sainsburys.

Enticed by the offer of 120 minutes free skype credit when a skype voucher is bought from Sainsburys; I went to my local branch to purchase a £10 voucher on the last day of the promotion. It seemed as if I was the only one in the entire shop who knew of Skype and Sainsburys

Sound notification- so very very useful

Sound notification is useful, it tells me when I have new mail or an im. This is more useful with growl- but I digress. Now where this starts to become less useful is when many programs use the same nondescript sounds, and when there’s more than one set of speakers which are linked to something

Flying lesson

On Saturday I had a flying lesson as an early 16th birthday present. It was an amazing experience and one that I’d be happy to repeat any day. And I am planning to save up to do just that. More Photos Hosted on Zooomr

Duke Of Edinburgh Bronze Photos

The previously aforementioned* photos: Photo27_24A Hosted on Zooomr More here… *[tortological but aforementioned is a great word]

Miscelania

Well, now I have become a member of teenage blogging network randomshapes- I’m going to start a series of possibly useful insights on OSX soonish. In other news: I have just this Saturday finished the walk for my Duke of Edinburgh award Bronze and have signed up for the Silver. Photos coming soon I guess.

Your Startup Disk is Nearly Full

Today, as I far too often do; I came within 500mb of a completely full hard drive. This is something that makes me realise just how much has changed in technology in the last few years. I remember being extatic at a 40gb drive and later amazed by how unconfined I felt by an 80gb

Just two seconds

This is a tent, don’t let it’s giant frisbee image fool you… …although that is the most fun way to put it up. Remove tent from bag. Remove strap from tent whilst holding on to it. Through it straigh up in the air. Not too vigourously now, that could break the tent, and would make