WednesdayMorning

Hey Guys,

Well I haven’t done this in a while and to be honest a lot has been going on with me. I’ll just sum it up in a list:-

• Saw Chuck Finale (okay not a big thing but chuck is awesome)
• Became ECSS President
• Revised for and Completed my Exams
• Switched from Crunchbang to Ubuntu Jaunty
• Tried/Trying to get a job

A summer job might I add but considering how (how to put this nicely…) fucked up the economy and job markets are at the moment the pickings look slim and unfortunately 2 years of a Computer Science degree isn’t actually a qualification. So i’ve been focusing on my Third Year Project research and trying to cut down on some of the things in my “Idea Book”.

I’m going to digress and go onto what my “Idea Book” is and where it came from because as this blog is to do with me as I go through my degree, anyone interested can see how I work. So the book, right well its a book mostly full of diagrams and little notes and yes this is where I put all of my bright Idea’s. This isn’t just about Computers (however it’s pretty focused around that kind of thing). Just to give you an idea of some of the more recent things I put in there.

• A vegetable patch (a monitored vegetable patch that calculates the best places for each to be replanted based on past data, I was watching Jamie’s Kitchen at the time)
• PHP Framework to save myself time whenever I want to build a new Website
• Some Third Year Project Idea

So yeah by “Idea Book” is a to-do list of things I’d love to build during the year and usually save it for the summer because I don’t really have the time during the year. So Third Year Project, I suppose I should talk about that. Well basically it’s a 9 month piece of work that includes a full design project resulting in a piece of software. If i remember correctly such things as AudioScrobbler where created by Soton students that did this project. So basically mine is a

“Personal Learning Environment”

my general aim is to design an environment that takes advantage of the features of a computer over paper. I’ll go into it a little more over the next few weeks as I do more research!

Darius