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I think it’s time for a re-design. I’m getting a bit bored of this one. What I was thinking of doing is creating a content management system whereby all of the sections on the website are a sort of ‘blog’, and I can just update each category online. It’s crazy, but it just might work!

Having said that, it does sound like… well, too much work. Maybe just a re-design, if you’re lucky.

Anyway, I’ve got the comments sytem working now (yay), so feel free to leave comments as you wish. But if you leave anything negative I reserve the right to edit them and make you sound like an idiot. Not really, but I do have the power to delete comments I don’t like, so make them constructive! 😉

I think that’s about it. See you later, siblings…

Nope. No news. Except that I applied for a job yesterday at the university.

I’ve been playing some songs out of my Spring Harvest 2004/05 book, and some of them are pretty good!

That’s about it for now. Later….

Well, I don’t have much to say really. I haven’t done anything interesting.

But — I have found out about a great new band! They’re called ‘Keane’. You may have heard of them already. If you haven’t, I’d advise you to check them out. They’re a bit like Coldplay, except I think they’re more ‘pop’ (whereas I’d say Coldplay sound a bit more indie). And, um, yeah.

Check out their website!

Anyway, that’s it from me. Peace out.

Well, apparently there are a couple of job opportunities at the university working in the new robotics lab. I might have to check those out…

By the way, Simon said that he may have robbed a Tesco at gunpoint! He claims that he didn’t, but I think he did! He’s a dodgy geezer! Somebody, go and arrest that man!

I think when I finally do get a job it’s going to feel like a holiday; holiday is just getting monotonous!

It’s getting to the point where I don’t think I can take much more of doing nothing… (and having no money with which to do it)

Nothing particularly exciting to say (as per usual). But I was reading through my blog, and a couple of weeks ago I mentioned about playing the piano — does starting later in life mean that you have some form of ceiling as to how good you can get?

I didn’t know then, but I am beginning to suspect that – no, it doesn’t. The reason being, I’ve certainly improved over the past six weeks (or however long I’ve been practising). I’m sure that people who start earlier only have the advantage in that they get to practise more, it’s just something you do. So I’m fairly confident that with practise, I’ll get to the level where I’m adequate, even if I’m never really good!

One more piece of news — I applied for a job last night, a programming job in Felixstowe. I’ll update when I hear anything. To be honest, being unemployed is one of the toughest times to be going through — it really isn’t nice to always have no money. I can’t buy records or go down the pub or anything! Being a student means that you have to count pennies to an extent, but it’s nothing compared to having no money whatsoever.

So a job would be nice 🙂 I’ll keep you posted on that one.

And it’s less than a month now (in fact, quite substantially less) until my good friends Sarah and Jon get married! That’s a day I’m looking forward to 🙂

Ok, I think I’ve rambled on for long enough now. Later…

Well, I’m back home safely. As I’m trying to get away from the whole ‘this is what I did’ style, I’ll just post up a few things that have happened.

Philippa came up here from last Saturday to Tuesday, which was good. We didn’t do anything particularly exciting, stuff like look around Christchurch park and go into Woodbridge and have dinner at the Bull Hotel!

On Tuesday I went back to Petts Wood with her… on Wednesday evening we saw Spider-Man 2. It was actually a good film – certainly as good as the original! So if you liked the original, you’d like that 🙂

And we did some other stuff, but nothing you’d really like to read about.

So, um, yeah, I’ll leave it at that… I promise to update when I get some more content here!

Muahahahahaha! BT have activated broadband! Yeah baby!

I’ll update sometime later this week, probably. Or something.

No news, and nothing particularly exciting to write about! I’m still alive… so there you go. Now you know.

Phill 🙂

Update: Well, this didn’t publish before, so I’ll take the opportunity to just say — I’ve applied for a graduate training programme in Suffolk. Who knows if I’ll get it or not; I’m not getting my hopes up (given my luck with jobs) but you never know.

Certainly something to pray about 🙂

This is really beginning to annoy me now. What is the problem? Well, it’s a bit complicated, but I’ll give it a go.

Now, the trouble is, if you want to have comments enabled on a blog (provided by blogger), you have to have individual post pages available. So, if you want to make a comment, you have to go to that post’s individual page here (if you click on the date and time below each message, it’s a link to that — although as and when it starts to work I’ll make that a bit clearer).

It doesn’t work at the moment though, because on my website I use includes. Includes usually work fine, EXCEPT that you have to specify a relative path when you’re including something. For example, you can say include “../includes/file.include” but you can’t say include “www.webserver.com/file.include”

There are good reasons for this, but unfortunately as blogger have the (sensible) habit of making subdirectories according to year and month, then it doesn’t work. Especially as you can’t define templates for individual posts, it just uses the general blog template.

So, at the moment I have two options open to me, if I want to use the blogger comments: (1) use another template for the blog and make it less integrated with the site; (2) email Blogger and ask them to provide a template for individual pages.

I could go back to the old home-made comments system I did have, but to be honest I’d rather not! I didn’t like it much, and I can’t be bothered to make it better (there’s dedication for you).

I’ll let you know how I get on.