It's Over!

I might have already written about this, but I don't remember. But
exams, and secondary school, are finally over.

Yesterday, which was the day I finished, was brilliant after the exam.
We had a barbecue on Midsummer Common in Cambridge, which was great
fun. Did some cooking and eating, some swam in the river, some even
swam naked (which was funny). Anyway, it was an extremely tiring day.
After that I went home and played xbox solidly for 6 hours, Farcry 2
and COD, WaW. Well deserved if you ask me.

Anyway, got up this morning about 10am, had some stuff to do. Went to
pay for some schoolbooks which needed to be paid for (that came out
badly) and got a late birthday present for my mum. I am bad at getting
presents for people. After that, went home, watched some Wimbledon and
then my dad picked me up.

He picked me up cause we are going to see BB King tonight live at the
NIA in Birmingham. Going to be amazing. We stopped off at the suit
shop and my grandads pub to pick up, well, my suit for my prom
tomorrow, and my grandad, cause he is coming to the concert too.

Going to be immense. Hopefully this sends, cause I am sending this via
email from my iPhone while going at 90mph on the A14 just outside
Huntington. Peace out guys.

P.S if you are going to BB King tonight, I am in Block A, Row C. 3
rows from the front :P I will twitpic some later.

The Post-School Life and Early Holiday

Well, exams are nearly over (1 left!) and I haven't had much to do. At all. So I have been catching up with some xbox 360 gametime after my exams mostly. However I have also had a 16th Birthday which was ok considering it was in the middle of exams, and have had a few good trips out.

Saturday the 20th of June was a fun day, I went out with my mums parents to a very posh restaurant (which was interesting). The food was awesome(ly overpriced) and the service was incredible. After that, I was dropped off at the Vaults for a drink. Well this turned into eventual chatting up the barmaid drinking before a tasty dinner (mmm ostrich burger).

Sunday 21st - Fathers day and my mums birthday. Went out for a walk with my mum for an hour or so before heading home for a lazy day at home. Didn't get her a present but I don't think she really wanted anything anyway. I would have got her something if I knew what to get her. But alas, she is a woman, so it is difficult for a 16 year old boy (w00t) to find clothes for a 40-something woman.

Monday - Had to go early into school to mount some photography stuff for an art show. Took about an hour and a half, then went home and played farcry 2 on the 360 for about 5 hours (sad I know. Thats why I need a girlfriend :P). Then wrote a bit more of the iPhone 3.0 jailbreak tutorial that everybody has been eagerly awaiting (i hope).

I was thinking about new stuff to write tutorials for so I wrote a list of them for everybody to see here. I am looking for more suggestions so email me at jamieroos1@googlemail.com or sound off in the comments below. Will finish screenshots and upload the 3.0 jailbreak shortly.

Happy Birthday.

Today, the 16th of June 2009, is my 16th birthday. Not a great day so far, I must say. Although it has been nice to have so many birthday wishes. (i should have joined facebook years ago :P)

Had a 2 1/2 hour media exam, so I had to go to that instead of doing something i wanted to do. Spent the morning before generally chilling, eating some breakfast and doing nothing apart from half an hour of Media revision and a bit of present opening.

Presents: Got a USB fan and a USB flash drive and a Clarkson book from my sister, which are great.
I got a nice shirt, £40 and a couple of DVDs from my mum.
Haven't seen anyone else or got any presents from anyone else yet, so I imagine my dad will have gotten me and external hard drive and Red Faction: Guerilla for XBox 360.

Oh wait, i got a £50 gift card from my grandad and step grandma for GAP. I need to get some English summer clothing (e.g some shorts and a waterproof coat :P)

Happy birthday to me :P

Schools Out

So, school is over. For real this time. From now on, I never have to go to secondary school again, its a huge step in life. Sixth form is where all the real action happens.

I will really miss Parkside. Last day was full of shirt signings and hugs all around. Unfortunately for me and about 20 other people, we had to spend the afternoon everybody else had off in the exam hall doing a classics exam. However it didn't matter because the feeling afterwards was amazing. I really felt truly happy for the first time in ages, because I rarely do. Of course there is sadness too, with the possibility of not seeing some people for a long time.

I walked home with a smile and looked at the t-shirt that loads of people had signed. Dirty stuff from Digi, a penis drawing from Catherine (sand phallus :P) and of course loads of Rooster written everywhere. A nice drawing from Will of a rooster also looked awesome :P

Looking ahead to the summer, I see I will be bored. Swimming, gaming, drinking, concerts, coding, friends and work are all on the list for summer. But that can only go on for so long, cause 12 weeks is a long time with no school or learning to do whatsoever.

After that is the big time, sixth form. I really am looking forward to going to a new school. I will really miss the friends that are going to other places like Hills Road and CRC, but i will see them around all the time. I can't wait to do subjects I really want to do (Maths, Physics, Computing and Electronics) and some other things too... but thats for later :P

WWDC, 3.0 and My Week So Far

So, WWDC was a fail. Well, for me anyway. The MacBook rebranding to MacBook Pro didn't impress me, and Steve Jobs didn't appear. The only thing I wanted was 3.0, and Apple dude (forgotten his name) said 17th. 17th! I cannot wait that long for some software i was hoping would be released that day. So, I took action. I downloaded a torrent of the GM/Golden Master, which is the development seed that is supossed to be the exact same as the proper one.

I took the risk of restoring my phone, as before, if you tried the beta it wouldn't work unless your IMEI was on a developer account. Which didn't happen this time. Oh yes.

I restored it, synced it, backed it up and restarted. It works fantastically.

Cut, Copy and Paste are fantastic, Voice Memos are no use to me whatsoever and landscape keyboard and MMS are two features that should have been there in the first place. Awesome. Plus the new note syncing is awesome and works well (with Outlook) and i have noticed less crashes in Safari and backups are faster. All in all, a well needed update.

Anyone who is thinking about getting it but is unsure, search by the bay for "iPhone 3G 3.0 7A341" without the speech marks. The file you are looking for is called "iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw". I am not going to place a direct link just in case. This filename is ONLY for the iPhone 3G (you will seriously mess up the other devices if you restore this firmware on it), but there are others for iPod Touch and original iPhone floating around the torrent network. They will all have 7A341 in the name i believe.

Away from iPhone 3.0 news, i have switched to Windows XP from Windows 7. Long story, but basically i enjoy the speed of XP compared to the memory guzzling Windows Vista and 7 in comparison to the 128mb of ram that XP is running at most of the time for me. Also, i switched to Outlook and Firefox 3.5b99 is out, which means it is nearing final release, which is awesome.

Also been having mixed feelings about leaving secondary school. Will be fantastic at Long Road (my sixth form) but I will miss the small things like my friends and hanging out on parkers piece at lunch playing football. It is the end of what I feel has been the best 2 years of my life (Year 10 and 11). I have had the best group of friends and will really really miss them. They probably won't even see this but they know that anyway i hope :P

Also, next Friday is my prom. Got a dinner jacket and trousers and will look fantastic. Hopefully will be turning up in a limo that some of us must organize ASAP. At least i have a blog to remind me of this stuff :P

Goodbye everyone for now.

A Chilled Weekend

I've had a quite chilled weekend after a hard week of exams and have been staying at my friend's, Jamie Rumbelow, house, for most of it. When I returned home I was shoved straight out again by my mum, who wanted to go out for dinner. I also met her new boyfriend, who is very nice. He is the cousin of my mums best mate.

When I returned home, I decided to finish my transition from Windows 7 to Windows XP. Now some may say this is a downgrade, but i have my reasons. Firstly, Windows 7 is a Release Candidate and still has a few errors with compatibility, and is generally slow. Secondly, I might have to erase it anyway cause the chances of me having the money to upgrade to the full thing is unlikely at best.

I just finished erasing my Windows 7 partition, and now am creating a Media partition to hold all the stuff I want to keep as I mess around with various Linux distros I want to try out. Although I will probably just use VirtualBox.

I am also going to do add a tutorial on using VirtualBox and testing out stuff with it to my list of stuff to do over the summer.

3 Weeks To Go...

With 3 weeks to go until I finish secondary school for good, there isn't much going on apart from revision and exams. But there is a few things going on such as E3. E3 is going quite well, especially for the xbox side of things. Facebook and Twitter integration! w00t. And PSP Go! just announced.

Next, there is my blog. I haven't been blogging much recently as I have quite a lot of stuff to do like revision. My blog, after my exams are done, will be much more in depth and more tutorials will be added. With iPhone 3.0 coming out soon, I will do a jailbreak tutorial for noobs newbies to the jailbreak procedure. I will also do some OS installation and Computer building tips, as I will be embarking on a couple of projects (providing I can get the money). I also added a counter to my blog at the bottom, to keep track of reads. So far, it is all me looking, so not looking great for my blog...

11 exams completed, 9 to go. French tomorrow. Tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday, then next week. That is 6 exams in that time. Then, my Birthday on the 16th of June, then some big stuff party wise to celebrate.

Peace out.