week 26-27: Blue pill or red pill?

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." 

It's time to make a choice, a pretty big one to be fair because what i choose could possibly define where life takes me down the line, my job, the people i meet and just my life experiences as a whole. Luckily for me my mind is already made up, after 3 years of doing a mix between hardware and software it's become pretty clear cut to me that i enjoy the software side of things much much more than hardware and networks.

So in other words I've decided to go down the digital media route for my second year as i feel it suits me much much more than the other routes.

Week 24-25: Rawr!..i'm a panther?

After taking an 'Animal Personality test' i found through the solid science of two questions that i'm a panther with the following traits:
Strengths
Good at on-the-spot problem solving.
Can act and communicate quickly and decisively.
Can stand up for what they believe in even if others disagree.
Can adapt and change plans.

As a person
They enjoy freedom and adventure, which can result in clashes with authority.

As a partner
They’re usually good fun to be with. They’re full of energy and ideas. They can be determined and easily become bored – so variety and action keep them happy.

Your personality buzzwords
Flexible, enthusiastic and determined.

Preferred roles
Crafter, performer, promoter, engineer, explorer.

Fame Academy
FAMOUS EXAMPLES (PROBABLY):
Peter Pan, Jeremy Clarkson, Tigger, Zorro, Madonna, James Bond, Bart Simpson, Paul McKenna, Winston Churchill – all objective, determined and impulsive problem solvers

Suprisingly, i wouldn't describe the results as innacurate, but to me it's just the same as astrology, it's so vague as to encompass almost anyone that chooses this answer.  Either way it was abit of fun and made you think about yourself.

week 22-23: HARDware

The only thing i've done that was harder and more mundane than doing the practical work and writing this hardware report was digging a ditch on my nans farm, I am not a physical person. The assignment was the hardest thing i've done on this course, but i have something to thank it for, making my decision of which path i wish to take next year definitive, i was considering hardware and entworks until i realised how much i htae networks and how little i know about it.Thanks hardware and networks report, thank you for saving me from a terrible fate.

Week 20-21: Blogception

The idea of writing about a blog on a blog seems like some form of paradox and a worthless post but oh well, thats what i'm doing today. Soo, how great are blogs right guys? Oh wait no, im almost certain the only reason anyone on this course is doing a blog is because we get graded for it, none of us have anything interesting enough to say to warrant having a blog. I dont know about anyone else but as you can tell i just decided to use this as a platform to vent, to voice my opinions on the course, let's just hope that someone reading it cares.

Week 18-19: Gabe Newells Nutjob Brother

Soooooo Richard Stallman, i'm almost certain the only thing this guys missing is his tin foil hat, hes an absolute lunatic. He refuses to use CDs and DVDs due to the fact that they aren't completely unlocked and open, he believes that if software isn't completely 'free', and not in the sense of money, then it shouldn't exist at all. After having to debate on the side of free software during our class debate i can honestly say it made me realise just how off his rocker he really is, he makes hannibal lecter seem like a reasonible guy with sane beliefs.

Week 16-17: Computer Ethics

Computer misuse act 1988. This is the act that basically ruined all the fun people could have with computers, it stopped everyone from jsut doing what they wanted. The act, to cut a long story short, says you can't hack other peoples computers, and you cant use your knowledge of technology for 'evil'. Personally i was looking forward to creating skynet, but apparently i've been told i can't so i won't, i'm sure that's the mind set of every criminal right? 'The Government said that's bad so i won't do it', if the government really thinks that the act made any difference whatsoever then they are even more nieve than i thought.

week14-15:'Group' Work

So we've just started our group project for dynamic web and media, and while the planning so far has been in a group, as for the actual coding of the website, not so much. It turns out that out of a group of 5 i can write 100% of the code and get the same mark as everyone else, the joys of group work. To be fair, as annoyed as i was i didnt do any of the design work so i can't claim any of that, so perhaps some people deserved more marks than others, but still the principle is the same. 'Group' work should be done as a group.