Scouts

Went to help out at Scouts, they all seem to be getting into it! However, slight catastrophy I was looking for the cups to make the Scouts some squash in and it turned out they had not come back from Summer Camp!

For the rest of the day I was still working on my Disertation, so spending a whole day at a computer, now with a broadband connection is still not good! Finished updating the Eurojam website, so thats one job out the way, only another hundred to go including completing my dissertation, its all go around these parts at the moment!

Conference Call

Today, I spent the evening reading through and making modifications to the various websites associated with Scouting 2007! Ready for the impending conference call tonight! I also tried to get my Linksys router working with Redhat Linux Professional 9.0, but at this moment in time it doesn't seem to want to!

Have also been working on my dissertation entitled "Promoting Scarborough on the Worldwide Web", all good fun, as they say! Hope everyone is well, this evening I have been watching "The British Isles: A Natural History" on the BBC, at last a programme I am actually interested in, see above link!

Today, I have spent most of the day working on my Dissertation!

I spent most of the day working on my dissertation, however I also noticed the above link of the BBC news website, about human cloning which I thought could be quite an interesting topic to debate! Especially with all the outcry over Dolly the sheep a few years back!

Last night I went to the Gym to try and improve my fitness levels, but tonight I intend to stay in to get some updates put on the Eurojam site, before we have our monthly conference call tomorrow evening!

Gym!

Today, I made my way to the gym I have joined at Hornsea Leisure Centre in order to increase my fitness!

Well Done!

I was just doing my round of the blogs this evening when I came across a post on the above blog of Martin saying he had got the presentation dates for his Queens Scout Award! I would just like to take this opportunity to say well done Martin, in joining the group of people to attain this award.

I gained my Queen's Scout Award in 1997, and actually got to go to Windsor and be presented with my award although that seems a long time ago now!

Went to see "The Groovies" at the Floral Hall

Today, I had a relatively quiet day all considered. However, this evening I went to see the Groovies at the Hornsea Floral Hall a kind of tribute band with lead singer Raymond Soul. They were pretty good all things considered, and the turn out on this occasion once again, just shows how much Hornsea needs the Floral Hall!

During the day I spent a lot of time on the internet, writing emails and working on my dissertation I am on week 2 now, so I will really have to get writing something good soon, as time is really starting to tick away now!

Went to the Pub!

Tonight, I visited the public house in my home town of Hornsea! On the way down I passed some very strange things, they are so strange I will list them!
1) Lots of young people on the streets surrounded by the local police force, making Hornsea look tatty! At this stage I wonder why the local Youth centre was closed and not relocated, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council must be out of its mind!
2)My local the Alexandra was relatively quiet so I decided to go for a walk to the other pubs, which were equally as dead!
3)Found out Austin Powers look alike group the Groovies are playing at Hornsea Floral Hall tomorrow evening, which I think is good!

Anyway,I am sure I will get over the above points and will Blog soon!

Scouts!

Went to help at my local Scout Group which was an enjoyable experience! Have helped at Scouts for seven years, and am now a scout leader for Scouting 2007!

I always find it very interesting to find out what the Scouts I have worked with do in life after they have left Scouts! And tonight I found out what one person now does and actually got a thank you, which really pleased me!

Am posting from the living room while watching the TV!

Tonight, I am pleased to report my wireless network is now fully working and secure, it is also relatively fast at this moment I am connected at 54Mbps, which I think is a relatively good wireless connection!

Gym!

Today, I made my way to the gym I have joined at Hornsea Leisure Centre in order to increase my fitness!

Went for a walk into Hornsea to see the ongoing works!

Today, as well as working on my dissertation I went into the centre of Hornsea to see the work the council are doing to the town centre, you know what they say! Third time lucky, as this will be the third time they have dug up the centre of Hornsea to install the new pedestrian area. Hopefully, this time they will get it right, we will just have to wait and see!

Monarch of the Glen!

Tonight, I spent a quiet day in working on my disseration, in the evening I remaind in and watched Monarch of the Glen on television, which I thought was still quite good even without the precense of Archie as he moved away last series, but surprise Lexie is back without him!

Can't wait for my wireless router to arrive!

At this point I am working on my dissertation as well as setting up my wireless network at home, it will be a relief not to have to watch out for trailing wires around the house, anymore!

I am starting to make progress now with my dissertation. At this moment I am looking at past dissertations for inspiration, these include dissertations about E-commerce, Evaluating University Web Sites, Development of a prototype community website for the Borough of Scarborough and Promoting Tourism on the worldwide web! After reading these I now have established the chapter headings for my dissertation, with the original ideas I had!

So, hopefully next week I will have a busy week writing my dissertation, now I have had new ideas for the content! I have a feeling I won't get out of the area to camp until after Christmas, as with working on the Scouting 2007 Website and the dissertation I don't have time for much else. So, I hope everyone I know is well, and I will see you all soon!

Dissertation!

Spent the day working on my dissertation, I am working very hard on my dissertation and have been working on this for most of the day! By the time the night came I decided a break was needed so I decided to visit the pub for the first time this week!

Scouts!

This evening I did my usual Thursday night thing and went to help at both my Scout Group and Explorer Scout Group Meeting! At Scouts we spent most of the evening tidying out the stores with the older Scouts as well as playing some games to break up the two hours.

However, I was shocked to find out that the Hornsea Scout Group Headquarters now needs a new roof, and this will cost several thousand pounds which is proving a real dilema for the present committee. In a relatively small town where will we find the necessary money to replace the roof!

It would be a real shame if the Scout headquarters closed, as the guide HQ also closed three years ago and although the town has three schools, I don't really think any of them would be suitable for a Scout meeting. So, I really think the Scout Group needs help to raise the necessary funds for a roof! After all if the Floral Hall closes the Scout Hut is one of the only venues in the town for hire!

Anyway, back onto my day, today I decided to go to Scarborough to do some further work on my dissertation, but the problem was that University was really busy with new students registering for the coming year, so, not much work got done. However, I did pick up some Dissertations to read, hopefully which will give me some inspiration for writing mine!

Spent the whole evening playing on Broadband!

Spent today mostly playing on the new Broadband I have had installed I am very pleased with it so far, I also went to the Gym to keep up my fitness levels. I also spent some time working on my dissertation once again, so a pretty full day once again!

Got 512Kbps Broadband!

BROADBAND IS ACTIVATED, I can now once again post in a manner that doesn't involve using a 56Kbps dial up modem so am therefore pleased, I can watch various videos, listen to music and download documents without waiting an age!

I am so far pleased with the ADSL Broadband service provided by One Tel, that was activated this evening, so hopefully I should be able to post more often without getting stupid connection time out errors from my dial-up setup!

However, I have to say it is a shame that I have finally got rid of my US Robotics (now part of 3Com) modem that has been a good servant for the past six years, through several computers, the first being a Packard Bell 486SX 25MHz, then a Cyrix 686 100MHz and finally being used on a RM P2 350. At this point I have had to exchange it for a Thompson Speedtouch Modem, as it was free with which to connect to the new ADSL enabled line. Will just have to wait for my wireless router now!

I have to say the service that One Tel has supplied seems good so far, I have connected fifteen times over the last few hours and have never had a connection under 512Kbps, in fact most of the connection speeds are over that, at present I am connected at 576Kbps and got connected on the first attempt plus I also now have a Static IP address, which I am also pleased about.

Anyway, with all this new found speed I am going to try it out by completing some downloads, there is no point in having all this spare bandwidth if I don't actually use it!

Had a nice long walk and pick me up!

Today, has being quite a strange day, all in all! Early this morning I got up early to start work on my dissertation, everything seemed to be going to plan, and I had quite a few good ideas when starting to write!

Anyway, I got up after three hours at the computer, working towards my dissertation, to watch the news! What should be happening but a protestor had bi-passed the new allegedly stringent security checks at Buckingham Palace and was on the balcony of the place! Claiming to be part of the father's for justice group, I suppose they must think they have a point to prove, but why they can't just write to their MP like normal people living in a democratic society I am not quite sure. Anyway, that made the lunchtime news a little more entertaining today!

After this short side track I got back to working on my dissertation, and I also found out that the Alternative Rally last weekend, had being cancelled. I don't know why this was, so it is maybe a good job I decided not to go because I was too worn out!

Anyway, the rain stayed away once again today, which was good, I don't know how long the weather can maintain its calm spell for, according to the weather forecast it should all end tomorrow, when I will make it to the gym! This afternoon I got back to working on my dissertation, only another few months to go I suppose!

Today I spent the day working!

Today, I have being a busy bee it is strange how that always seems to happen on a Sunday, I have updated various websites and sent various emails to different people! I also did some work on my project before I start properly tomorrow, so I doubt whether my posting will get any better, and any more reliable this week!

I was quite pleased to see that Rubens Barrichello won the Grand Prix today, and not Michael Schumacher as usual, this should happen more often as it would make the sport more interesting, and Jenson Button also came in third place in front of both the Williams and the McClaren Mercedes team!

Anyway my Broadband should be up and running by Tuesday so I might just test this new setup and see if it makes it any easier to post, it should do, but I will just have to wait and see!

Tommorow, I intend to go to the Gym, but this weekend I was supposed to be going to the Alternative Rally, and didn't make it! Can't do (anything) everything I suppose, I will see all the SAGGA members soon I hope!

This weekend I have to much to think about, with one thing and another, hopefully next week will run a little bit smoother, it will as I intend to make a start on my dissertation so will be very busy for the next twelve weeks, I am certain of that! Will speak soon.

Received my Broadband Modem!

Today, I received my Broadband Modem, and also found out that my Broadband connection should be enabled on Monday next week, so from next week I should be updating my Blog more regularly!

I think it is a real shame that I missed my last camp of the year at Giant's Seat campsite, a site I have never visited before, despite it being relatively close, I was really looking forward to it, and seeing everyone I haven't seen in over a year. Unfortunately, Scouting 2007 and Hull University work have had to take priority over the last few weeks.

I will start coming back on camp soon! I would just like to apologise to all concerned, especially Nicholas and the rest, sorry guys, for not making it, for the enjoyable weekend I am sure it turned out to be!

Working on various assignments!

I spent the day working on the project plan for my dissertation, before I made my way to my local public house to have a night out with friends!

During the day I went through to Hull, now I am seriously wishing I went on the Alternative Rally at Giant's Seat Campsite in Lancashire, as one of my friends is organising it!

This weekend I have also got to find some time to update the Eurojam website! But I don't know whether I will have time with it being such a busy weekend! At least I got all my University things sorted out last week, that is one thing sorted I suppose. Sometime, I need to get out for a walk to stretch my legs it's all go around these parts, at present!!

This weekend another friend is getting married, it is all go around here, will post again soon!

Joined the Gym!

Today, I popped down to the local gym and rejoined after a year away! I also finshed off updating my laptop from the Windowsupdate website as well as working on my dissertation!

Watched Steel River Blues & listened to England win

Spent the day working on various projects, before retiring for the night and listening to England beat Poland 2-1 on Radio 5 Live! I then watched Steel River Blues which I think is a good drama on ITV1, making a nice change from the soaps that the channel seems to broadcast constantly!

Spent some more time getting organised!

I spent most of today, spending some time getting everything organised!

Collected my results!

Today, I finally got to find out how I did in my resit exams and coursework I spent all summer on! I passed most modules and therefore I can now continue onto the dissertation phase of my MSc.

I was very pleased, as you may gather, after all the work I spent summer doing! This means that I can get working on my dissertation after spending the rest of this week on holiday, and sorting out various things! Will speak soon, hope everyone else is well!

Finally Here!

Tomorrow, is D-day I finally go back up to Scarborough to find out whether I passed the modules I failed first time around at Hull Universities Centre for Internet Computing, so tommorow is D-day!

I am hoping I have done well as I have really enjoyed the course and think I know a lot more about the web than I did a year ago. I also think it will be useful when I am working on the Scouting 2007 and Eurojam websites!

Ordered Broadband!

After much deliberation I decided to change my Internet Service Provider (I.S.P.) from Telco who have provided a very good dialup service for the last two years. I have decided to change providers for broadband to One Tel, as my friend recommended them to me.

So hopefully in 15 working days I will be able to surf the net with more speed, which should prove to be useful when updating the Scouting 2007 and Eurojam website. As well as watching various video and audio clips as well as performing hopefully much faster downloads!

The location of my website will also change but I will update my blog, when this happens! So, hopefully the two weeks I have had at home with a slow connection will soon be coming to a end!

I have decided on a 512Kbps connection to start with that can later be upgraded to 2Mbps if I find I need that degree of speed. Anyway, I would just like to thank my friend Matt who recommended Onetel to me as the people at their freephone number have been extremely helpful today, and have helped me sort out the package I want at a good price!

Tonight I have been to the Alexandra Public House!

Today, I have spent most of the day in Hull shopping and renewing my Library books, plus I spent some of the day seeing my Grandma for the first time since christmas!

Tonight I attended the local public house with a few of my friends who where celebrating their last night in Hornsea for the next six months, still am not sure how long I will remain in Hornsea!

Spent the evening helping at my local Scout Group!

Spent the evening helping with a pioneering project at my local Explorer Scout Group! Next week, all the Scouts should be back from the summer break, so Scouts will start again properly, so that looks like it will take up my Thursday evenings in Hornsea for the foreseeable future! Spent the later evening checking the all new Eurojam Live site and how it is laid out, in case I need to update it! Overall, i think it is quite impressive!

Plenty Of Work!

Spent the day working on organising myself and all my things in my room at home, then started doing some background reading for my forthcoming dissertation entitled, Promoting Scarborough on the Worldwide Web! I think I am starting to get some good ideas! However I still have not got the elusive broadband yet, am still waiting!!