Archive for the Personal Category

Theme change

Posted in Personal with tags on September 16, 2008 by michael b

I decided it was time for a little change as I was getting bored with my previous theme. Not to say it was bad but I just fancied something a little ‘darker’.

So here it is.

Settled at last

Posted in Personal on September 13, 2008 by michael b

Wow, it’s been nearly a month since my last post and boy have I been busy.

I finally have a job now which has been the reason for my absence as I have been working some really long hours. I have to say though I’m really enjoying it though, it’s great to finally push all these long hours and actually get paid for it.

Anyways since I’ve been so busy lately I’ve hardly had any time to get in some serious gaming which I hope to rectify in the next few weeks as I get my daily schedule sorted out. I’m actually getting ready to change the HDD in my PS3 this weekend. I’ve been contemplating what I will do with my old 40GB HDD but I don’t even have a PC I can put it into yet.

Unfortunately for the time being I have had to put the last project I was working on on hold since I have little to no time for casual programming at the moment. Maybe once I settle into a routine I will be able to pick up where I left off.

Returning home

Posted in Personal with tags , on July 27, 2008 by michael b

It’s been about a week or so since I last posted but so much has happened in that short space of time. I recently sold most of my belongings as I had decided I wanted to return home to Barbados to live.

It’s been a long week with packing and moving and all the stress that goes along with that but I can say I’m over the worst of it. I’ve arrived in one piece and think I have everything I planned to bring with me but I still have some unpacking to do so time will tell.

Sucess at last

Posted in Gaming, Personal with tags , on June 29, 2008 by michael b

I finally got back my PC yesterday and managed to get the internet working on it so I can put away the pda for now thank God. There is just one problem, I only have an allowance of 1GB which sucks so bad. I find myself watching my network meter to see how much data I’m sending/loading all the time. Anyways I suppose I should be grateful I have some internet at all.

So I was browsing today and what do I see, Blizzard announced Diablo III! I’m off the net for a few days and Blizard drops a bomb shell like this. This connection I’m on is the speed of dialup, so trying to browse and get all the info takes forever. I’ll get it all in the end though but let me just say the game looks amazing from what I’ve seen so far. I’m not surprised though I expect nothing less from Blizzard.

A few more days

Posted in Personal with tags on June 26, 2008 by michael b

It’s been over a week now since I last posted and it seems like a lifetime. Well I’m still alive I just don’t have any internet access…yet. I tried to transfer my old account to my new address but my service provider who I won’t give the name of, told me I would have to start a new 12 month contract, no thanks.

Anyways I have been trying to setup some internet access with my mobile service but that isn’t working out how I planned either with their service conveniently being down just when I decided to sign up. I plan to call them today and give them a piece of my mind as I am not pleased at all.

Aside from that I don’t even have my PC which was ok for the first few days, but after being so busy before and now literally having nothing to do, I feel like I am slowly losing my mind. I…need…to…program…something. That’s how I feel all the time which is quite interesting and I guess confirmed for me how much I enjoy coding. I have been attempting to entertain myself with TV and my PDA but that isn’t really working out but 2 more days and I should have my belongings again. Ah joy.

It’s really quite interesting to see how much I depended on the internet for everything and now not having it has made me feel cut off from the world. I wonder how I used to live without it a few years ago.