Half Term

Well as half term's go, the one just gone was pretty damn good.

First weekend I went paintballing with 15 of my mates. Now it was amazing. I was expecting to find a little place with a few maps and no-body else there. But it was more like an army training ground. There were about 150 people there I would say. Lots of good gametypes and even grenades which were pretty awesome. Absolutely knakered after that though.

Most of the rest of the half term was spent playing on the xbox and preparing the house for what was the best party I have ever been to (nothing to do with the fact it was my own party i swear...)

The party itself was great. I drank way too much, kissed a girl for the first time (w00t) and generally had a fantastic time. Hope there will be other times for certain activities just like at this one :P

Back to college, and today was alight I guess. Just had physics and maths, which are the least favourite of my 4 subjects but they went by pretty fast and then i went and saw my dad in town, which was nice. Next holiday is Christmas, so hopefully there will be lots of partying then, but for now its back to work for a few weeks.

Till next time.

Open Sorcery...

(forgive the horrible pun in the title :D)

The magic of open source programs has hit home today. I tried to find my old Photoshop CS3 and Office 2007 discs today... to no avail. So i decided to try what I thought before were inferior programs, such as OpenOffice and The GIMP.

Well to be honest I always knew that Open Office was superior because of it's compatibility with every known file format and (decent) plugins. But GIMP took me by surprise when I used it for a bit earlier. It has full Photoshop .psd and Paint Shop Pro compatibility, which was extremely surprising, down to every last layer the compatibility was perfect with everything I had used.

I have alse been using 7-Zip and VLC for years, but no-one in their right minds would use any other program with such functions as these two. Truly superior in nearly every way. The only downfall of these open source programs that I can see is the lack of support, by phone and email. I think that this is the only thing holding back these fantastic programs from the big time that Microsoft has achieved with its OS and Office programs and Adobe in the PDF, Photoshop and Video Editing departments.

Actually I don't know of a good decent open source video editor. If anyone can point me to one, it would be much appreciated.

Donate to these lovely programs, cause I have. They all deserve it for the hard work that goes into them and it would be a shame to see any of them go under or stop being developed.

Weekend!

Hey, its the weekend. So I went to work on a Saturday as usual. Then I met with friends, and went home. I also am meeting my friends today at Lamas land, a park in Cambridge where I live. I look forward to it every week, cause they nearly all go to a different college. Should be good.

Now I am watching Star Trek. Next Generation, for anyone who knows the different names. Series 5, ep 21. Its good.

Now my friend is tagging loads of pictures on Facebook, which is kind of annoying. 151 emails so far -_-

Next week should be the same as last week, doing lessons. Actually, on Wednesday I had Sound Technology for an enrichment thingy, which was really awesome actually. I said a sentence, "The quick fox jumps over the lazy dog" and then made other words out of it such as "Docks" and the like. That was quite fun. Next week we will be manipulating animal sounds to sound like other animals. Which will be very interesting.

Have a good Saturday and Sunday and week ahead everybody.

P.S I have a few Google Wave invites left. Email me: jamieroos1@googlemail.com and I'll see whether I can get one to you :)