Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Although I’m still getting plenty of traffic from MSN, as the amount of people searching on MSN rises the quality seems to be plumeting. I just ran a search for Carmen Electra to find the first few pages packed with generic directories and crap. The problem with Google is that this happened because it became a victim of it’s own success. It happening to MSN when they only have like a 15% market share when Google managed to hold the SEOers off until they had like 30-40% isn’t a good sign for MSN.

Dawson’s Creek series 6 comes out on DVD tomorrow! I’m going down to town early to get a copy before lectures. It means getting up like 30 minutes before I really need to (which is really impressive for a student) but it’s worth it. Now I just need to know how I can watch it while at uni.

I only have an hour break in my 5 hours of lectures which is a pretty intense day. Maybe I can fake a heart attack and get out of my last few lectures.

Ok a more complete round-up. My new project is almost ready to launch which is cool. I have another one on now though which I blew most of today working on. Will try and hack more into my to-do list tomorrow. Although it’s technically later today.

So with it technically being Sunday that means that Dawson’s Creek series 6 comes out on DVD tomorrow! I may have to skip Monday to go get it. Sure I could fit both uni and going to get it in but it’s the principle of the thing.

Bod Bar was cool tonight, I started off with some cokes as I wasn’t going to get smashed as we weren’t going out but I decided to switch at like 10:30 so I ended up downing three bottles in twenty minutes which kicked in just as we got back. That was a fun 15 minutes trying to type ;).

Well didn’t get too much done today. In fact I’ve just realised I have 18 minutes to update xmeltrut.com. Opps! Had a wicked time in Bod Bar though we spent like over an hour playing “Have You Ever?”

The weekend! I’m done with lectures for the week and I can hack into my all new to do list. It’s basically the same as the old to do list with more things on though. Someone remind me to ring Craig tonight.

As I mentioned yesteday I spent tonight (when I say I mentioned yesterday I mean tonight except that it’s past midnight so anyway…) watching The Wizard of Oz at the union. It was pretty good. It was basically a lot of dance numbers but then it wasn’t like a musical, it was a play just with added dancing ;).

After that we went down to The Old Bar where they were having some kind of indie band night. I only caught the last song of a band named Azure Glow who were cool (I bought their EP, £3 which was pretty good) and then some other band that were more hardcore.

In the spirit of getting into the student lifestyle, I’ve just had a chicken curry. I didn’t like curry and I can say that I’m still not a huge fan of it really. It was only a medium and that’s a little too hot for me still. Probably should have gone with rice as I can’t be bothered with the chibatas but live and learn.

OMG, I can’t believe how busy I am today. I got up at like 7:15 as mentioned two posts ago and I got to uni for 9. Then I’ve been at uni all day until now when I’ve just got home. And now I have 1 hour 20 minutes to update my websites, get down to dinner (which starts at like 5:30 so I will need to be there at 5:20 to beat the queues) and get on a bus to be back at the uni for 6:30.

I’m going to see The Wizard of Oz play at the Riley Smith Hall in the union tonuight for some reason. Sarahann talked me into it somehow. Then we’re heading of to Japanic afterwards with anime sock providing I have enough done to spare the time.

This should actually be my second post this morning but I just got a timeout or server not responding or something when I tried to post this morning. I don’t know if my connection was down or what. Still when I do post it later today (presuming I can) I will probably edit the timecode to set it back to my original posting time anyway.

Had my first maths tutorial today with a new tutor named Katy. It’s wierd because she can’t add up. She knows a lot more about maths than any of us but she can’t add up :p. Seriously, she gets us to check her adding to make sure it’s right and got 59 from 56+4. They actually seem quite fun tutorials compared to last semester. Although the whole 9am thing isn’t great.

I have a big to do list with random items sitting in my bag. I also have a load more work to get done on my sites tonight and some uni work to do. I also will probably be trashing some of my logs on my VPS as logs for media.audiosenate.net, forums.haumarush.com and maybe some others just die when processing and that puts the whole server behind.

I need to kill them manually then the server catches up again and the process repeats. I think once I get that sorted I might go back to 24 hour stats updating rather than 48 hours. I also might resume major crawling on CassieNet News too.

I’m a little disappointed with the response I’ve got for some new gossip blog partners. I made several posts on different forums about looking for new people to get involved with a gossip blog network but so far nobody has gone as far as to get involved.

World Domination Soc took another blow yesterday as John (the societies guy) really doesn’t think it will get through the union committee. But I’m not giving up, I’m going to re-word it to make it slightly more friendly then e-mail some political and campaigning societies, basically anyone with a strong opinion, and see what they think, just to gauge feedback.

Wow, I actually managed to get up to get a shower. I find myself with a little too much time now though as my bag is pretty much packed lol. Like already, I didn’t really need to do anything this morning. I was hoping it would be light by now but no such luck.

I’m not that tired which is wierd as I didn’t sleep much. I was going to go to bed for 11 but I didn’t get there until mid-night and didn’t get to sleep properly (though I think I got some) until 3:30.

I stole Tom’s idea of living my computer on playing music so I had something to listen to when I got up (normally I just stick my personal stero on to help me sleep). I have a whole soft acoustic playlist going on and just altered the balance to my 5.1 speakers next to my bed.

Tired! I can’t do with these long days. And tomorrow I have a 9 am start. What’s that about? I’ll have to get up at 7:30 and as student clocks run 2 hours behind normal people’s clocks (your 7am-11pm day is our 9am-2am day) that’s the equivelant of one of you non-students getting up at 5:30. That’s insane!

Anyway so yeah, in at 10 today. Got back at about 3 but then I had a film making society meeting to go to at 6 so I was only at Bod for like 2 hours. Left the meeting early at around 6:15 and didn’t get a bus for like 15 minutes so I made it to dinner at 6:55. They stop serving at 7 which is too close. The bus was stuck behind two cyclists on Otley Road and I was like “oh come on, this just isn’t fair.”

Still have all my sites to update and emails to check, etc. Should be a fun night.

Oh BTW the post title is named after some sort of grumbling sound.