hey youguuuuys!

right, okee slap your timetable on here, so we can see who’s free when..etc..and if there are any days we can get the 201 together or dine together or have se…anyway…i have classes:

Monday

10-11, 12-1, 2-3, 3-4.

Tuesday

12-1, 2-3.

Wednesday

9-10,10-11,11-12,12-1.

Thursday

11-12,12-1, 2-3, 3-4.

Friday

10-11, 12-1, 2-3…and every odd week 3-4

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so i’m thinking we can meet up on wednesdays? yes, we’ll go badminton, turon (dunno why..u tried to serve the shuttle as if it was a tennis ball) but we’ll do that after ramadan and when afiza’s off her placement, but i hope we can meet up every wednesday even if it is getting on the 201 home.well let’s just see what times youguy finish at..obviosuly if u finish at 10..u dont’ have to wait till one just cos syed “wants some action”

hey youguuuuuuuys, got an interview with lloydstsb on tuesday at 9:30 . hopefully that will go well. i’ve booked all my tutorials now and i’m left with tuesday free, expect a maths lecture at 3 . so just waiting for the accountants and cash box guy to call so i can fill tuesday with that. let’s see what happens anyway.

microsoft & intel choose toshiba’s hd dvd format. they haven’t completely ruled out the incorporation of blu-ray, however for the foreseable future this is unlikely to happen.

Today, the two companies will announce that they are backing the HD-DVD format developed by Toshiba over the Blu-ray standard championed by Sony, Matsushita Electric, Samsung and others. Microsoft announced in June that it would work with Toshiba to develop high-definition DVD players. Now, Microsoft and Intel say they will develop software and chips that will allow personal computers to play the next-generation DVD’s from Toshiba.

click here for the link.

i can accept the decision on a pure cost basis, which translates into cheaper discs for users (hopefully, but come on what about blue-ray?

dont’ have one..soo..

nah turno told me to post it so whatever.

right, currently i’m working on my CV and going to get it checked by the Career Advisor at uni. got a Job Fair at our uni in a week’s time (i think) so going to pop along to that. they’ll have part-time/full-time/temp/vacation work. in the mean time just lookign around hyde and places liek that for christmas work, but i reckon i’ll get something solid at the fair.

long term wise - i’ll look for summer vacation jobs at a computer company at that fair. already sending off emails to smaller companies asking if i can piss around and make tea for them. and going to apply to the companies at the Manchester Science Park.

aww you know what? i really can’t wait to start this year. fucking lecture on Web Page Design..that ain’t a fucking lecture..it’s bloody heaven! i do that shit in my spare time! going to rreeeeeally concentrate this year because i enjoy doing this sort of stuff. people say the first year is easy, but i’m not going to take it easy…going to work as hard as i did in my 3rd year at college. and hopefully i’ll have a class Web Developing job at some cool/indie company

and since turon posted a pic of his life in the future..i’d though i’d do the same..”bloody missus..always hogging the computer”

hey youguys, seen as mason’s got his stuff up on c3, his cv is gonna look better and better . i thought i’d update you on what i’m up to, or what i expect to be up to .

soooooo, the volunteering stuff at cash box. the guy emailed me today saying that he’s gonna bring me up in the board meeting about working on their accounting documentation … so hopefully the board will say yeeeeeeees . also, you know how i went to those accountants at hyde to ask about work experience, but they didn’t reply i mean i don’t know why, the guy seemed really positive and said when his partner returns he’ll reply but he didn’t . that was about summer work experience. but tomorrow i’m gonna go in and ask if i can do 2 or 3 hours every week just helping out and seeing what they do.. if i get it it’ll look pretty class on my cv.

finally, the lloyds job, maaaaaan from what my sisters saying the recruitment people are positive about me and they should defo contact me this week about a saturday morning job. hopefully i’ll get this , from what i know there are jobs in stockport and hyde, soooo we’ll see what happens.

so that’s me.. as of yet none of the above has materialised but as i say it’s a slow process, one day… one day.

I’M ON CUBED3!

http://www.cubed3.com/review/277/

Top of the world man! WE’RE ON TOP-A-THE WOOOOOOOOORLD!

The BBC’s Director General Mark Thompson has demanded an explanation after Sky News was featured in an episode of Spooks.

According to the Daily Star, senior executives at the corporation were left confused about why BBC News 24 was not used instead.

Five members of the Sky team, including political editor Adam Boulton, were shown on screen in the episode.

“It’s a definite own goal - how crazy to plug a rival news operation,” one source explained. “Some top people within the BBC are far from amused.”

pictures of what looks like the w850 have leaked.

update - better pics

soo i guess it’s here, autumn and winter. i must admit autumn is probably my favourite season of the year. what kinds of things remind you of autumn/winter.

my list:

The Office - that was when i was getting really into it. coming home after being on the 330 with youguys. with the street lights on at 4:30pm. and then putting it on when i got in

Madvilliany - i got it just before christmas and remember listening to it on the 330 to college. one that really sticks in my mind is when i had an exam and i got on the bus really early and sat on the top deck and it was still dark outside.

Hyde Bus Station - opened during winter last year. it’s a wintery place.

1984 - (the book, not the year, turon) again, read just after christmas. i remember sitting in my bed with my longsleeve tshirt over my tshirt and two blankets on me…awww…how class is it going to sleep when it’s cold?

fasting - i know it changes every year, but ever sinc ei can remember fasting was always in the winter, comign in from school/college. starving. gobbling down food quickly. try to get in some homework before going to the mosque. then popping off to the mosque for an hour and a half. it was bloody boiling in there, then you get out and it’s freeeeezing but it’s so comforting.

turning your bedroom light on when dressing for college/uni - up at 7am. u have to turn on your light so u can actually find your clothes and stubble them on. when you start doing that you KNOW winter’s here.

snow - pretty obvious this one. but remember those days in college, when it snooowed? and that day we were allowed to go early? haha and yeah when it snows everything seems so much brighter. turon gave a nice little scientific explanation to me in the canteen about how the sun rays reflect off the snow’s surface, thus, he concluded, that the world seems brighter.

the way that TV fucks up for 2 weeks - it can be a bad thing. but sometimes they have decent films on and decent christmas specials (the office, grumpy old men..etc..)

right that’s all i can think off. what kind of things remind youguys of autumn/winter?

…From some guy on a forum.

“How does it compare to a mouse?”

Add to that the fact that the controller can correctly interpret roll (rotation of the controller clockwise and counterclockwise) and movement toward the screen or away from it, and you start to get an idea of the universe of new gameplay possibilities that Revolution games will be able to explore.

Miiiint.

“right lads, let’s go and get your visitor passes”

“right before we go into the main meeting room, i must warn you there are alot of ideas flying around and everything might seem confusing and you might think ‘how the hell do they run a company like this?’ but it works”
“a’right..”
“soo..the meeting room”

“what the…?”
“aaah…Google Talk has just got it’s millionth download”

“heads up, here’s the boss. dont’ mention his 3rd leg”

“sorry i called you in, syed, i know it’s your day off”
“nah it’s fine”
“i know you’ve read about our war against the Microsoft…yeah we’re not having anymore, i’m tired of us being look at like kids, liek we can’t take on the big boys”
“what? you mean like…”

“exactly. so syed. i’ve had enough. i’ve employed someone. someone who’ll make sure we KILL microsoft. someone who’s so leathal they’ll make Microsoft beg us not to bring out any more products. i need you to make him angry, you know piss him off a bit”
“but i can’t do that”
“syed. you face can piss anyone off”
“…who is it?”
“Engord Bronstand…AKA Spear”

i just handed in my cv, there. had a chat with the manager. asked me what hours i wanted “weekends” then asked me if i was at uni “yes” asked where i could see myself working. “anywhere, really. i’m doing a computer science degree and i know quiet a bit about technology and technical info” said good. circled my number on my CV and said he’ll get in touch.

prolyl wont’ get it, cos after reading my cv, it’s rubbish. got this jobsfair thing at salford next month so i’m gonig to pop along to that.

Right, I’ve applied for Cubed3 as a reviewer/previewer (they give it the tag of general writer). Why do I feel so weird about it, then? I’ve wanted this for ages.

I think I feel a conflict in loyalty. I know VGC is small and is a bit…crap at the moment, but I feel loyalty towards it and I want to help it grow. Nintendolution doesn’t bother me, it’s an entirely different project that won’t conflict with anything. It’s VGC and the writing I do for that which is making me feel like this I think. I’ve told them that I do DS reviews for VGC and I will continue to do them, and that if a situation arises where the same game has to be reviewed by me for the two seperate sites, I’ll write two entirely different reviews (though I doubt it’ll come to this, should be able to go ‘nahhhh don’t wanna review that’ - I actually plan to try and review the more average and shite stuff for C3).

Cubed3 was the next step for me really, I remember asking if I could do a freelance Yoshi review ages ago and not getting a response, presumably because they weren’t looking for anybody at the time and I was a relatively new regular, unestablished if you like. I want to do this, and a relatively big Nintendo site is going to get me into media sites more easily, and look better on a CV…but I still feel a weird conflict of interests to do with VGC. I get the feeling that maybe I’m biting off more than I can chew. Spreading myself too thin, perhaps?

I don’t know. Both Turon and Vikki said I should go for it (and I bet you would’ve said the same, Sy, but you probably weren’t in the mood for ‘decision making for Mason’ after your long day, so I’m not bothered you didn’t reply. I knew what you’d probably say.), so I did. If I feel it gets too much, I’ll drop one later…sadly it’ll probably be VGC. I don’t think it’ll come to that as I’m a fast writer. I don’t know what I’m confused about.

I’m just damn confused.

so where the fuck do i begin?

right had uni school introduction/registration, today. got on 201, to piccadilly..was bloody cutting it close me. got on at 8:30. with my train at 9:22. but i maaade it. just got to the station as the train came in. had a few thoughts “is this is my train?” “yes it is” “is iiiiit?” “yes!!” i just went on it. but it was the right one.

so i got there. found my bulding but couldn’t find the entrance. but i wasn’t on my own this girl couldn’t find it either, so we found it together. i was in lecture theater 5 she was in 2. so she said thanks and everything. then i walked to theatre 5, and there was people waiting outside, so i thought this must be it. a quick 10 minute wait and we went in. nice little lecture theatre, the head of the school of computing, science and engineering said welcome and all that crap. then the head of computer science said yo…and more people spoke. some saftey guy told us what to do in a fire and shit and how to break doors with a hammer. i was sat there on me own just next to this other guy on his own. i was a bit scared and sad to be honest with you. then i had to go to school registration, in the computing block. was a huuuge queue, was talkign to the guy behind me but he really didn’t talk. so i got my form and started to fill it in while sat on this table, and then he entered my life. alex zoomed over to me and went “do u have any idea how to fill this in?” hehe laughed for a bit, then he asked where i was from etc..and we just chatted. then we had 3 hours free together, he said he’ll spend it with me. so first we just walked round campus and talked..they have a huuuge park in the middle of the campus and i mean huuuuuuge. it’s class cos it’s so quite, with people reading books on benches and under trees. we went to the student union to look around, alex said he wasn’t a big drinker so he didnt’ fancy going to the bar. so we then went to mcdonalds. just sat and ate and talked. he told me quite alot of stuff, he just split up with his girlfriend and he was apparently depressed. poor guy, then we did more exploring, checked out the student shops and the library (but we couldn’t get in..cos we don’t have our IDs, yet) so we jsut went back to the park and just chatted. i told him about youguys and iain and kim. haha and after a while he said a class thing..i didnt’ even tell him then i liked kim and he went “it sounds like you and kim will make a good couple” haha. “yeah we will”

and then, we had this student union lectuer and this girl came in and told us about the union and student reps and all that crap. and then we had our first mini-lecture. the teacher took us through the year planner and what we’ll be doing. then he put up random pictures of a brick, a butterfly, a car, wayne rooney, Deep Blue (IBM’s most powerful computer that was built to beat this chess champion), a 1940s computer and other random stuff and we had to list them in order of intelligence. was well funny. “now a brick must be the least cleverist, it just sits there it doesn’t do what you tell it to do” and this guy raises his hand “actually, sir, i beg to differ…if u told a brick to move into someone’s face, it WILL move into someone’s face” so we had a bit of a laugh. and then we just went home

but i dunno, i know it sounds like i had a good time, but i dunno. there wasn’t one familliar face. hate coming to a new educational place without knowing anybody. and uni is too big, for me. i don’t hate it. i’m sure i’ll get used to it, in time, once i go to my classes, i think that’s what pissing me off, all these registrations, student union welcomings, “would you like to go on a 15 hour party?” shite. just let me go to classes, yes ok if i wanna join a club i’ll go to the student union and find out about it. dont’ come me a 40 minute presentation on how to use my email. i guess i just missed youguys, alex, iain, kim and all the people who know me properly…i’m going to stand in the shower for half an hour.

Bloody hell.

http://www.c-jump.com

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