Study Food

I have been eating the strangest food recently. For example this morning I had two pitta bread with peanut butter and for lunch I had two pitta bread with peanut butter; same thing yesterday. I have lost all will to eat proper food and am surviving on a base diet. I'm sure there are people out there though eating much worse. I better eat my banana now to make me feel better.

Shopping

I finally confronted my fear of clothes shopping. I have in the past been scared of going into shops in case all the clothes are to big for me and I look silly and get told that they don't make clothes for children. Today I managed to go into quite a few clothes shops with my friend Ben (who doesn't go to St Paul's) and tried on some clothes. Admittedly no more than a third of the clothes in the shops came in sizes that fitted me but I did find some really nice stuff; only problem was, they were really expensive! I have finally had to make the jump between children and adult clothes and I feel really annoyed. I want the clothes but I can't have them :-(. In the end I bought a sweatshirt from NEXT but resisted an amazing short sleeved shirt that cost £45! I hope to carry on these exploits but it will be definitely harder next time if I go alone.

Revision

I did my first ever revision session today and it didn't go to badly. It was 45 minutes of Biology on the GCSE bitesize website. I've decided that because I'm lazy I'll start off with Bitesize and then once I've drained it I'll look at the bits that challenge me in more depth. I survived but I'm depressed because my lava lamp has broken and my desk is no longer bathed in its glow. Only 1.5 hours more of revision so I better get it done. I've settled on 3 units of 45 minutes a day. Is that more or less than average?

We will survive!

Revision Plan

My parents forced me to write a revision plan so I have made one but with some slight additions to make it more fun. (whoops spelt Scilly Isles wrong)

Windows Vista v Linux

I am dictating this blog posting using windows speech recognition. I have just installed windows vista on my computer. Windows Vista is working fine but it has some annoying features. The security is slightly overdone for example every time you wish to open an Exe file it opens up a full screen window where you have to click a button to accept the opening. Another example is the installation of drivers I have a network printer which connects over the Wireless network, I had to install a combination of four drivers and then I had to use some computer wizardry to detect the printer. I am now trying to start a new project. My sister’s laptop only has a 40 GB hard drive, I am trying to put up some Network Storage box I failed to do it with the apple G3. My next door neighbours, the Mays, have given me an old Compaq Computer. I was planning to run windows home server on it but the specifications were not high enough. I am now trying various Linux solutions but I am having some difficulty. So far I have tried Ubuntu server edition and freeNAS. Ubuntu server edition worked but was far too complicated and freeNAS had mounting problems. Well I think I’d better finish the article here. When background noise was minimal speech recognition had no problem but there was a lot of background noise for most of the writing making this article a long and drawn out process. Certainly a fun feature but perhaps not the most efficient. Enjoy the holidays and good luck with revision.

Embeded banners badges

I've gone slightly over the top on placing badges on the blog and now have quite a few. I think it is still quite reasonable but I know some people hate it. Can I please have some feedback and feel free to recommend new badges as well as telling me to remove them. Many thanks!

Exam results

After Farhan posted his results on his blog here are mine:

Maths	91%	A*
Physics	78%	A*
Music	80%	A*
Geography	82%	A*
Biology	89%	A*
Italian	90%	A*
Latin	86%	A*
Chemistry	79%	A*
English	82%	A