Website and new blog!

I decided it was time to get a website a few weeks ago - I have finally finished setting it up, and I invite everyone to come check it out, it uses Wordpress and a basic theme for the moment, hoping to have it all customised a little more soon.

Projects are updated, as is the About Me page and the Home page forms my blog. I have imported all the interesting articles from here to my new website, but this blog will stay here as archived.

See you all at http://www.rooster212.com!

Summer So Far

Haven't posted for a while, so thought I would update everyone on what i've been up to.

• Had my Dad's wedding on the 3rd of June - it was a lovely day, and I think I performed my duties as best man well!

• My birthday on the 16th of June was nice, went for lunch at Brown's in Cambridge, then in the evening I went to my girlfriend's friend's 21st birthday party. I'm 19 now!
• I got some nice presents, a great 7.1 surround sound headset, a set of knives for the house in Hull next year (as I like having knives to cook with), a sandwich toaster from my girlfriend's parents, a set of shot glasses and some Aston Martin cufflinks from my girlfriend and loads of other stuff from very generous family.
• Other than that, i got Photoshop CS6, so tempted to do some more Photoshop tutorials sometime, along with some other one's I have lined up.

Hope all the other Comp Sci people are having a great time on their summer holidays. I'll get my Raspberry Pi out soon and get some tutorials out and experimenting with XBMC a bit I think.

Raspberry Pi: It arrived!

A mysterious package arrives...

Oh its beautiful! And tiny!

Flash is awesome on the iPhone 4S right?

When they said it was credit card sized they weren't lying!

All connected up:

All plugged in and ready to go.

The setup:

Sorry about the mess...

I'm a little afraid to plug my Razor peripherals into the Pi as they are high powered and backlit (my keyboard requires 2 USB ports but has a USB port on it) so I think i'll try it out tomorrow when I have some more time (as breaks in revision). It is a lovely little thing! 

I got the model B (so 2 USB ports and ethernet, with 256MB of RAM). Can't wait to get some real stuff done with it! I might try XBMC on it (for a media center) and some other distributions of Linux soon. I put Debian on the SD card for the moment as it was the recommended one from the Raspberry Pi foundation. I got a 16GB Sandisk SDHC card to put it on, and it works great from the looks of things!

I'll be doing more blog posts soon about the Pi and hopefully be showing some programming stuff soon!