Tamino

I apologise, deeply, before making this post.

 

It has been a while since I have blogged, as I'm sure that anybody that actually reads this blog has noticed.  I'm trying to get everything sorted - all my coursework has to be in THIS week, freeing up a lot of time from now on, free time that I intend to spend working on a project of mine, that I have discussed with just one other person, and am almost ready to start on.  But before I start work on this, and continue blogging, I need a change.

For the past few months, I have been using blog.com, as my blogging portal.  At first it worked perfectly fine, but now it is unstable, laggy, and rather infuriating.  If I am to post on a regular basis, I am not going to spend half an hour trying to load the post editor page.  I'm sure the majority of you already know where this is going.

Put simply, I am moving my blog.  And yes, I can hear your groans now.  Those that actually follow this blog (There must be, what... 2 of you?) will probably realise now that I have had 5 blogs in the past 18 months.  But this is vital, and there is no way around it.  Blog.com is far far too limited.  The choice of styles is lacking, the lag is getting to the stage of being unbearable.

I am even more sorry to the 3(?) people that have a link to my blog in their sidebar, having to constantly change it all the time.

So, what makes me so sure that I will keep at the next blog?  Well, I'm not.  I thought blog.com looked absolutely wonderful when I first joined, as I do with my new blog portal.  I cannot blog with blog.com any more.  I cannot blog with Serendipity.  I cannot blog with xanga.  They have all become too laggy, in the long run.  I have faith with my judgement that this change will be for the better, though.

 

My new blog can be found at the following link.

 

>>> http://mindez.wordpress.com <<< 

 

This IS the last change, and I'm going to make the new blog WORK.  Despite the doubts that I'm sure that you have. 

Huh?! What happened to the word wrap on the previous post?!

This is rather ridiculous. I have no idea what caused it or how to put it right. Or whether it will happen again - we'll just have to see by posting a long sentence like this one, that wraps over several lines, to see whether it will wrap as horribly bad as in the previous post. Yeah, I think that's long enough now. *post!* Edit: Okay, maybe it's not. A few more lines oughta do it. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi pretium placerat dui. Donec quam velit, vehicula ut, vulputate et, lacinia in, lacus. Aliquam erat volutpat. Aenean auctor eros id orci. Cras ut nulla. Suspendisse potenti. Proin in erat. Cras arcu tellus, mattis dapibus, tristique sit amet, iaculis quis, libero. Donec ultricies est. Nam eget sapien. Vestibulum et odio quis ligula nonummy semper. In ut elit eu dolor tincidunt porttitor. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Quisque nunc. Mauris eget felis eget neque pretium ultrices.

Well, as you can see.. it didn't word wrap horribly. I have no idea what caused that o_O;

This editor is weirdly.. terrible.

*groan*

Also, my fonts appear to have been put right.  So everything's fixed now, hopefully.  Doy.

[Er.. I only found out after posting this that fonts.. don't actually make that much difference on the actual

blog post. It looks terrible in the editor window though.]

Ah, what kind of example am I se--WHAT IS UP WITH THIS FONT PLEASE?!? ARGH, do I have to change EVERYTHING around here?! Wait, is this thing still on? Aw dammit.

Anyway, that looks better. I, uh, think this is what it should have been. Okay, now we can begin.

Ah what kind of example---...Oh, oh, now this is just great, isn't it? I press enter and all the.. *sigh* Wow, this sucks. *grumbles* Testing testing testing...

Right, working now? ...Oh, for God's sake. I give up. I'll just post in this font, annoying though it is. For some reason fonts appear to be defaulting to this, and revert when I press enter. Strange.

OKAY, NOW WE BEGIN:

Ah, what kind of examp-- OH, OH, WHAT THE HELL? YOU WANT TO WORK NOW?!? YOU'RE GIVING ME THE RIGHT FONT AGAIN RANDOMLY?!? OH, WOW, THIS IS JUST GREAT. JUST WHEN I GET USED TO THE OTHER FONT, AS WELL?!?

*sigh* I can't work under these conditions. And it just changed back as well. *cries*

Alright, I give up now, for real. Whatever the hell font it wants, I'll use.

 

Ah, what kind of example am I setting by not following my New Year's Resolution? It states quite clearly there that I must continue blogging. Hrm, well dang. It's been a hectic few months, anyway, so I've not had much chance. For starters, I've been attempting to set up a proper

blog at tamino.co.uk again - my Perplex City in-game blog . But that's not had much success yet - partly because I can't find a theme that I like, and partly because Perplex City has been delayed until June. *sigh*

I am, though, a straight A student. In all 5 mock exams that took place a few weeks ago, I got all A's. This scares me, given the rather terrible results that I got last year on my AS exams. And the results of the January module exams (Bloody hell, that was ages ago, have I really not updated for that long?) have been returned to me:

Physics - 90/90 - 100% - A
Further Maths [Mechanics] - 95/100 - 95% - A

So naturally I'm pretty pleased with these results. I'm predicted an A in every subject. *squee*. That is... provided I get this coursework finished. It's all due in for next Monday, and I have two things to do - the write up of my Electronics project, and task 3F on Computing. Task 3F, though, shouldn't take very long. It's just making and carrying out a test plan for the program I wrote. Simple stuff.

I also have an XBox 360. This has been one of the best purchases I've ever made, and I say this from the heart. I love it. I'm really getting into console FPS's as well. This time last month, I abhorred them. But now, I'm working through 3 - Prey, Gears of War, and Farcry - and am loving them. The controls seem a lot more natural than I first thought.

 

But, I'm kinda going off track. This was only meant to be a really really short post. I've posted this because my

blog has been bumped. And one of my resolutions was to write reviews of Doctor Who episodes. And I need somewhere to do that. And the series has started again.

However, looking at this, it may be more effort than it's worth.

Blog . com does have a rather hard to use editor, and dashboard. I'll see if I can sort out this whole fonts thing and get the panel page bookmarked.

I leave with a quote, spoken by a truly great human..oid.

"I'm back. And I'm bad. Obviously within certain preset parameters." ~ Kryten