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I have been thinking and I now feel as though the right time to move on is now.

I feel as though a change is in order and would like to move away from the whole completely personal blog so to speak. It’s not as though I dislike the personal feel but I feel as though the whole sort of focus has gone, if ever there was one… I feel as though I need a new challenge and I have since thinking about this I have got myself a brand new design, which I created from scratch and even purchased myself a new domain and web hosting account. I need a complete move from my current hosts too.

I am going to keep this blog open, however, as it still receives lots of visitors from those looking for help on Ubuntu etc and I feel that it is important that people can still access that.

I was going to get in touch with my readers individually, however, I will just post the address here. You will be able to find me now, over at themilkbox.co.uk. I have a kind of focus for the new blog, but as of yet I am not 100% sure. I can definitely say that I’ve lots of ideas for it though and am feeling particularly enthusiastic about it. I am also hoping that podcasts will be a regular feature there…

Also, I would just like to add that I understand that I haven’t been reading blogs recently and I am sorry. Things have been far too busy for me to find motivation to do pretty much anything other than College work and web design work has been at a minimum.

Anyway I look forward to seeing you there and hope that you will all join me in my new journey.

All day I have been eagerly anticipating the announcement of the vote in the House of Commons today, that being the proposal to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days. I personally think that it absolutely outrageous.

People may say that I didn’t want the vote to go the way of the Government seeing as I dislike the Government and the party in power. I didn’t want the vote to go the way of the Government no, but I also think that it is just so harsh to keep a terror suspect for 28 days, let alone 42 days! The suspects mightn’t know what they’re being held for and especially if they’re innocent. Anyway, why do they need holding for that amount of time? So that the suspects don’t have a leg to stand on and so that so much evidence can be put against them, guilty or not guilty and make it practically impossible to get any sort of defence sorted out.

I honestly can’t believe that even 28 days is necessary, surely the police can get enough evidence in 7-14 days. I believe they do that in other European countries so what’s so different over here? From the way it is portrayed in the media our police force Keep reading →

In truth I probably haven’t had the current design for that long, although, I don’t change it that often. I’m not like Ben at OpenSwitch, his changes regularly . The good thing about his designs are that each time they are changed they always have the same classy feel and look about them.

But anyway, I am looking to change the design of this place. It is looking a tad bland and a bit samey same. Obviously I haven’t been as prolific as what I should have been, however, I am hoping that it picks up and perhaps a change of theme may aid that.

There are so many different designs that I could go for, perhaps a fat header that stretches all across the page. A one column thin design, a fat footer design, etc etc. There are so many different ways in which this blog could change, but I just don’t know how at the moment. I quickly jotted down a Keep reading →

Yesterday I attended the Wear-Tees derby, my first ever away derby which incidentally didn’t go to plan seeing as we, Middlesbrough, lost 3-2.

In truth I don’t get to many away games at all. I attended my first one against Blackburn last season and yesterday was only my second. To be honest I dislike the traveling involved, especially if I end up going on a coach, and it can be too costly after having paid for everything else.

Traveling

Originally I had planned to travel up to Sunderland with my brother and friend, however, after finding out that my brother was in the press box for that game it meant he couldn’t take us as he’d be there much earlier than what we needed to be, plus we’d agreed to follow someone up there. Originally I had been offered a lift by the person who we were meant to be following up, however, I declined, only later to accept the offer seeing as my friend and I had no other way of getting up. He is actually a teacher at my College, in total I had him as a teacher for three years so I know him quite well.

It was a good journey up and luckily seeing as he is a Sunderland fan and has been on many occasions knew an easier way to get to the stadium. If we’d followed the signs for the Stadium of Light we would’ve been considerably later as we’d have to cross the bridge which can get busy. We parked on the south side of the bridge in a car park so it made sense to come in that way.

The journey in total didn’t really take too long seeing as it is only about 30 minutes up the road and there was little traffic on the way there, a tad more on the way back, but that’s because a lane was closed on the road so the traffic was caused by people filtering into the one lane.

Getting to the Stadium

It was extremely strange to be walking to someone else’s Keep reading →

Before I begin, yes this is another one of those many occurring posts on here saying why I haven’t been blogging much (which incidentally I hate writing but I need to write something), however, I will turn off the comments to stop feeling obliged to comment to tell me that it’s ok etc as I am fully aware that all of my readers understand and don’t mind me taking time away from blogging. Also I would prefer not to have the comments at this time, nothing against anyone, just my personal preference.

Current situation

Basically at the moment I am under a lot of pressure to get work done, not only on the College front though, I have a web design job on the go as well.

It is that time of year when exams are coming up and there’s a lot of work that needs to go into the preparing of these and that includes getting coursework out of the way for the subjects that require it. I only do coursework in one of my subjects but seeing as I took the double option of ICT which equates to 2 A-Levels there is an awful lot to do in conjunction with everything else. On top of all of the ICT coursework I have an exam approaching which takes an awful lot of preparation as it is a practical exam whereby we are issues the exam paper (and we have been issued it already) and we need to do a lot of preparatory work and research work before hand.

Next comes the fact that the current politics units that I’m doing are particularly challenging for me and require a lot of work, so I am trying to fit that in too… And lastly there is the French work, the preparation for the speaking is the most difficult. I would be happy sitting the reading and writing no problem, but the speaking is going to be very difficult as we don’t know for sure what we will be asked by the examiner, plus we need to talk for 12 minutes!

Driving

I am currently learning to drive as I have previously mentioned which is also taking up a lot of my time, it might only be one and a half hour lessons, but that is a considerable amount of time out of my working schedule on a weekend or evening. I am actually progressing decently well with that I think. Each lesson I feel improvements and feel as though certain progression has been made, even if sometimes it’s only a little.

Web design job

I have a web design job on my hands at the moment too which can take up a fair bit of time, especially when you put in the time and effort that I put into it. The website is actually being developed on a CMS which incidentally is WordPress and once that is done I will probably talk a bit more about it. It is certainly coming along well, meetings with the clients are going well and progress is certainly being made.