Huzzah! I have now been signed up at GameSpot for a grand total of five years and two days.

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Now am I a veteran or what?

DannyC

PS - Uni is still rather good, wish I could write more but I'm so sleepy...I've had two hours sleep and am about to try to hit the sack again

Freshers week is bloody awesome.

I was soooo tempted to end the blawg there but I probably owe you a little more than that (just not a lot more cause I've not had a great deal of sleep xD). Basically freshers week is there to get everyone to be friends with everyone else, with the main catalyst in all of it of course being the alcohol! To be honest I've definitely not drunk half as much as some other people have, I've never been a binge drinker and I don't intend to change that one bit. But suffice to say I've still had quite a lot, and I fear that life will seem incredibly mundane after these first few weeks when you actually have to pull your finger out and do some work. And I've got absolutely no idea what I'm going to do when that time comes, I've barely even looked at a pen in months.

I'll find a way though..

DannyC

PS - Shall catch up on blogs tomorrow hopefully seeing as I've not planned to do much in the day. Here's hoping eh?

This blog is a goodbye. Thanks for all those great memories, I apologize for being an idiot from time to time but I can't help myself..I'm naturally a bit of a prat. Not to worry though! I don't mean GameSpot in general, it's a fond farewell to my twenty years in a suburb of the Birmingham, England. This Sunday I will be taking all of my worldly possessions and shifting them a fair distance in hope of a better life, a better future. Yes...UNI!

Considering the current economic situation it was a no brainer, having GCSE's and A Levels isn't enough in the 21st century so I have decided to embark on a course that I feel is my best bet for a career and encompasses my greatest academical skill. But what is it? Where am I going? I'll keep that a secret for now! Moving onto other matters, I finished packing today and I never knew how much stuff I truly had before I tried to cram it all into what initially looked like a huge suitcase. Suffice to say after emptying half of my wardrobe it now looks rammed. Maybe I'm just taking too much stuff? I just don't want to have to do washing too often. But at least I can operate a washing machine, on the other hand my culinary skills leave a chasm to be desired. This uni thing is going to be really interesting...

PS I'd like to ask you all one or two questions:
Are there any iPod Touch apps that you can recommend?
Mac users: do you use iWork or Office for Mac? (also considering that the University system WILL be Windows)

Advice is greatly appreciated and given an address possibly rewarded (Note: UK bloggers only ). Good day.

DannyC

Continuing the Apple theme from the previous blog, Dan went a step further in the past few days towards complete nerdiness and got a new 16GB Apple iPod Touch. Now every night before I sleep I pray beneath the picture of Steve Jobs on my bedside cabinet! Joking aside, the iPod is a nice bit of kit. However..one or two things have started to get on my nerves and unfortunately that's more to do with the creators of the device as opposed to the iPod itself.

Want Video? Cough up for it!

FIrst of all, when I was getting the Touch I thought that I'd be buying a device that you can listen to music, view photos and watch videos on right out of its little box. Alas, this was not the case! When I first plugged it into my MacBook, iTunes popped up and informed me that I would require system software update 3.0 if I wanted to do anything apart from play music or use some of the older applications. And that aforementioned update wasn't free..it was 5.99GBP. Greed or what? I tried to hold out and stick one finger up to the mighty Apple but my one man crusade lasted all of 24 hours. They had me right where they wanted me.

Shinyness!

Why on earth must the back of the iPod touch be so shiny?! We all know that after a few months its going to look rather scratched because its almost unavoidable (without getting a proper case of course). Plus its also susceptible to FINGERPRINTS! Gah.

Other than that the iPod is awesome of course. Maybe next time I'll moan about the other more expensive Apple product but you may be surprised to hear what I think about that one. Thanks for taking the time to read this and until next time..toodlepip!

DannyC

PS - pictures of both should be up hosted on here soon, if not I'll put them in a future blog.

For the first time evar, sitting here..I'm not posting from any old ordinary PC or laptop. I'm posting from yes, you guessed it, an Apple MacBook. I've actually had the smexy little thing since yesterday but haven't since been around to test out the internet on it or play with it much but all in all I'm really starting to like it. Hopefully I can post a moresubstantialreview when I have a little more time as..

I haven't got long to post this as tommorow I shall be working to the bone clearing up after the V Festival in Chelmsford, Staffordshire where The Killers played and Oasis almost played. With time not on my side I just wanted to ask a few small questions regarding the thing I have purchased..

What do I do about using MSN?
Any hints and tips about learning the little quirks of the Mac?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and with that note I bid you goodnight. PS: I apologize for not posting in any blogs in the last week or so..for one reason or the other I haven't visited my profile page a lot and thus I shall catch up by the weekend! Sayonara.

DanC

Another PS- it's my birthday on Friday!