Student Blogs

Yesterday while killing time in Tesco before going to the cinema with Matt and Al, I spotted the following bundle of Kung Fu Panda with a free Panda! Awesome!

Here is an iSync plugin I have written for the Nokia 6600 Slide phone. (download)

To install:

1. Unzip to your desktop
2. Open up finder and go to your Home Folder -> Library
3. If the folder PhonePlugins (no space) doesn’t exist, create it
4. Copy Nokia-6600-Slide.phoneplugin to the PhonePlugins folder
5. Restart iSync then add a device

Please note that this works for my purposes, its is provided for free under the GPL v3 Licence without support. Also please note the following statement:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Today is the first day of Starbucks Christmas which is quite early but it does mean extra drinks on the menu and that everything has gone red!

I managed to buy the first Christmas Thermos cup in Coventry - and I think you’ll agree, its awesome.

My copy of Iron Man Ultimate 2-Disc Edition arrived today! I’m a bit surprised that it didn’t contain a booklet but it still looks cool.

I have been playing football once a week for just over a month now and I have realised something; I’m no footballer!

I have to say - it is quite good fun and definitely a good workout, however unlike most people there I wasn’t brought up on football but instead rugby. I haven’t the understanding or the love of the game and therefore the confidence to really be any good.

When I moved back to Coventry I was thinking about starting playing rugby again but I was nowhere near fit enough and as I had the opportunity to play football I thought it was a good way to play a team game while getting a bit fitter.

Now I am getting fitter (and not getting any better at football) I’m starting to consider playing rugby again, so in a couple of weeks I’ll make a decision after seeing how the gym goes but for now I’ll keep trying to keep up!

Yesterday I finally took the plunge and joined the gym. It isn’t as if I haven’t been exercising as I run most days, play squash at least once a week and play football (badly) on a Tuesday evening. However I haven’t really been getting the results I expected and as the mornings are getting darker and wetter I thought taking exercise to the next level might be a good idea.

My sister joined The Warwickshire Health & Racquets Club a few months ago and we were both members when we were juniors so knowing it is an excellent gym it seemed like the logical choice. Chris also joined last week which will hopefully mean I’ll go more frequently as I’ll have two gym buddies.

After joining yesterday I managed to book a gym induction for Today and I have to say - it was awesome. During the session my personal trainer put me through my paces with interval training and time really goes quickly exercising that way! Also the personal trainer told me I need to eat way more protein so now I have an excuse to eat meat with every meal! Result!

Wednesday morning is quickly becoming my favourite morning of the week. Originally it was one of the worst, having to get up slightly earlier than usual to avoid the cleaners! However it has evolved into something much better!

Wednesday morning is now Starbucks morning. In the beginning it was just me, I’d grab a paper and head down there for about 7.30am which was awesome. Now we are getting a little group of us down there regularly mostly consisting of Matt and Chris!

So, what are you up to next Wednesday morning? Fancy a coffee? Well feel free to call into Starbucks for a coffee and say hi!

There has been a heck of a lot of buzz about Google’s new web browser Chrome. I’m a huge fan of Mozilla Firefox and wouldn’t really consider switching as Firefox3 has some very cool features, however I do like the idea of someone challenging Microsoft. Competition is very healthy and you only have to look at how Microsoft has reacted to the growth of Firefox.

Chrome does appear to have some great ideas such as a personalised homepage which is automatically generated and running each tab as a separate process which means if one ‘page’ causes your tab to crash, the rest will keep going! Very clever.

Interesting, definitely, a good idea to use it, definitely not!

If you have a quick read of Google’s End User Licence Agreement (EULA) you will find the following paragraph:

11. Content licence from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

…uh, what? You mean if I type anything, upload any media content, do any work, do anything using Chrome, Google basically owns it. If I was writing this post now using Chrome, Google would basically own it! They could edit, adapt, mess around with it and sell it if they want.

Thanks Google, but no thanks. I think I stick with the Mozilla EULA.

This is almost certainly the worst film I have seen in weeks!

The basic story: people go to house, nasty people pop up as if from nowhere as soon as the music calms down for the first time in 10 minutes. People eventually get killed in the last minute of the film.

Sorry if I ruined the story for you, however to be honest I’m doing you a favor.

I saw this with Chris on Sunday morning and I have to say, it was awesome. Well it was awesome compared to the first one!

Basically there is a golden army controlled by a load of elves who decide to take over the world… who are controlled buy a golden crown which controls them… and Hellboy has to destroy it to save the world. Oh and there was a walking tree type thing. Nothing like any other story, possibly in three parts… .

Anyway, it was enjoyable and was a much better way of spending Sunday am/pm than being incredibly hungover.