Wednesday, December 28, 2005
This post is taking ages to write, coz its being written on a net connected psp. My pressie to myself among all the other cool stuff.Much fun!
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Thursday, December 22, 2005
We went back to Milton Keynes today, for the first time in 4 months, to take presents to my family. This was a mixed bag of fortunes, which you'd understand if you knew my folks.Next we went into town to do some shopping.
I'm gobsmacked at how much the shopping centre has changed in such a short time. Shops that've been there for as long as I can remember have gone, with pointless crappy Christmas decoration stores in their place, other stores 'refurbished' with new fangled self service checkouts for your inconvenience. Woolworths has gone all 'modern' in it's layout, so now you can't find your way out of the store once you've got in there.
Yup... very different.
See what happens when I turn my back for 5 minutes?
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
This'll probably catch a few people out, and no doubt disapoint a few more.... I've dropped out of college. The whole "go to uni, get a degree followed by a big well paid job" plan is dead in the water.Why?
The very short answer is college was making me miserable.
The longer answer is somewhat more complex.
What it really comes down to is this.
I asked myself "Do I as an extremely independant person who *hates* being told what to do, really want to spend a year jumping through hoops, learning very little, and what little I do learn is despite the tutors, not because of them... and then go onto uni and get into *huge* debt (around £20k) so I can learn a whole lot of stuff that I'll hate and just a little of what I'll like, for four years.... so that I can then go onto a job which though it will be well paid, will basically mean doing what someone else tells me to do?"
Well, this question has been going through my head for the past few weeks, and though I've been resisting giving myself an honest answer, I finally had to face up to the fact that the answer is a resounding "Hell no!"
So here I am, feeling relieved that I don't have to go back to that place and have my time wasted by some boring twit who's getting paid good money for blathering on about nothing and simply going through the motions.... but also feeling entirely fed up, coz I quit. I didn't do what I'd set out to do. That part sucks.
What now?
I go back and do what I should've done all along. Build more websites.
Expect a fledgling "Benway's World" to appear shortly after christmas.
Labels: college
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
I dunno how long Yahoo has been running this flickr photo website, but it seems pretty cool. I just signed up and uploaded a whole bundle of photos.A lot you'll recognise from my own online gallery, but there's quite a few new ones too. You can find them all at http://www.flickr.com/photos/benway68/ should you feel like taking a look.
Sooner or later I'll get round to updating my main gallery site, but for now, this seemed like a pretty easy way to let people see my newer pics.
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Thursday, December 08, 2005
Yay!My webcam's up and running again.
After 4 months I finally got round to finding out how to do port forwarding on the wanadoo livebox wireless router.
Anyone else out there having trouble with port forwarding on their router, or who's found some programs that used to work on their modem now don't work on their router should check out this site. It'll tell you everything you need to know.
So anyway... the webcam's working again. The link's over no the left somewhere. It won't be on as often as it used to be, this being Andrea's place and all. While I don't mind letting complete strangers invade my privacy, it's not just me I need to think about now.
Labels: webcams
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