Settled in and Ready for the new semester

Sorry it's been a long time again people. I have had the maddest month ever. I have passed all my exam resits with the exception of Quantitative Methods which I am doing this year. My girlfriend of two months has been down. She is called Laura and she has been really supportive of me over the last two months and has helped to turn my life around. I told Rob Miles about her and his reaction was "Wow, a computer scientist with a girlfriend". He was joking about it.

I have been helping out at International Week as a volunteer. I have been helping to move people into University Accommodation and while doing so have met a few friendly faces. I also have new housemates. I am living with two American girls who are really friendly and a lad from London who is equally as friendly. I love the atmosphere that my new housemates have helped me to create. We all pin our doors back and just hang around in each others' rooms.

I should be getting broadband shortly although it is taking its time. The thing that gets to me the most is the library now has "new" opening hours. They are only open till seven on Monday and Tuesday, till five on Wednesday and Thursday and till four on Friday. The library is no longer open on a weekend so I now NEED a broadband connection because I can't use the 24 hour center because they use 14" CRT screens which are very old and flicker and they have set the resolution to 1,024x768 and I need it at 800x600 on a 14" screen. They don't have ZoomText although that should be coming shortly. If I don't get my broadband, I fear that I cannot continue my studies at this university and will have to drop out and re-apply to a different university next year.

In other news, Vodafone have agreed to install Talks for free on my Nokia N73 which would help me although I am STILL waiting for my Nokia 6280 unlocking code, which has annoyed me as I have paid £15 for it, which I can ill afford.

I do however want to make it a good year, for it to be better than last year.

ZoomText Scripting

If you have read my blog, you will noticed that my entry about finally getting ZoomText 9.1 has had a comment made about it. This comment was from somebody who works at AI Squared about a blog called ZoomText Scripting which gives us, the users a chance to comment on the making of ZoomText and submit ideas and code. I like the fact that I have been read by AI Squared as one day I hope to write programs like ZoomText that magnify and read the screen.

Back at Chez Student

Fellow blog readers, I am back at Chez Student. I am in the big room with the bay window and it is absolutely fantastic I am on dial-up internet for the moment but I will be getting broadband in shortly. I moved in on Friday August 31^st and the day went something like this

9am – Wake up

10am do some studying

11am continue studying for a bit

12 noon take big wheelie bag, OPTi Verso camera and smaller Head Sports bag up to the accommodation office to collect the key to the room, then take the bags to my room

12:30 set off to Computer Systems exam

13:30 Do exam

14:50 finish exam, collect empty bags and head back down to my friend's house, stopping along the way to get shopping

15:00 re-pack big bag, and bring computer, VCR and cases of CDs down

17:00 take things back to Chez Student in taxi

18:30 walk back down to friend's place

19:33 Take big black back and head sports bag back to Chez Student on the number 115 bus

19:50 unpack everything in my room

20:10 walk to bus stop with empty bags

20:15 head out to my friend's house on the number 15 bus

20:40 pack remaining things that will fit in black bag and bring large boxes and Printer/Scanner downstairs.

21:00 head back to Ferens Avenue and unpack.

I finally got finished unpacking at about 1am this morning, briefly stopping to chat to my girlfriend. The funny thing is, I've still got to collect my musical keyboard and a few other items from my friend's house. Yesterday was very tiring.