Monday, April 30

I Heart HTML

Through the magic of HTML, I have managed to get some kind of window thing to work on the even shinier Downloads tab! This means you don't even need to follow links and stuff, it's all on that page. Good eh?
Scoot on over and have a look!


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Sunday, April 29

Help is at Hand!

Struggling with your AS Quantum Physics course? Can't get your head around all the equations? Never fear, help is at hand! With my new Quantum Physics Help Sheet, all your equation-related woes will disappear! The sheet itself is available in the shiny new 'Downloads' tab, or here. This is an external link (to a document-sharing website, Scribd) and there are two download buttons- one on each side of the page. Hit one of these, and the .pdf file will be screaming through the blogosphere to your waiting hard drive. A bit like magic.

Revision for the Summer modules is well under way. They have no right to call them summer modules in this weather, it's damn cold. I didn't realise how much free time I had until I started revising, and suddenly it's all taken up with enthalpy and essays and electricity and logarithms. It's no fun being 'young' any more. 

I'd like to say I have Mass Effect 3 to take my mind off things, but I don't. All my money has disappeared somewhere, and I'm not entirely sure where. Leeds tickets, maybe. I don't even care if the ending is rubbish, I just want to shoot things. 

Until next time. 

Sunday, April 22

Writing!

Hey guys, just a quick one tonight, as I am deep in the throes of writing my book, after too long an absence. Yeah, maybe revision time isn't the best time to take up writing again, but oh well. I think it's good. Basically, it's a swords-and-horses fantasy (my favourite type) based around two warring kingdoms, which were once one but split due to a difficult succession for the throne. A war broke out, with each son believing themselves to be the legitimate heir. The kingdom split, and the feud has been passed down for generations, with the king of each respective land believing them to be the true ruler of the land. It's all told from the perspective of a mercenary leader, Alaric Gabriel, who is distantly related to the King of the northern country. He is caught up in the middle of it all, when in fact he just wants to stand aside and let it all blow over. That's basically it, as far as a plan goes. We'll see how it all pans out!
On a side note, my iPad may be great for surfing, and writing, and Facebook and Twitter and everything else, but trying to write a blog post on it? Don't be daft. I can only edit it in HTML, which I'm a little rusty at. Anyway, I'll leave it at that for now.
Until next time.

Saturday, April 7

An Easter Special

Hey guys, seeing as I won't be posting tomorrow- family stuff for Easter- I figured I'd post today instead. It's a bit of an Easter special, and is what happens if you leave me alone with a camera for any length of time. Yes, I should be revising, I know. But this was so much more interesting

Without further ado, let the egg puns commence!


My mind works in strange ways, but, I got to eat the egg. Win. 

Happy Easter to you all!

Until next time. 

Monday, April 2

An Outpouring of Thought

I'd like to say I have a legitimate reason for not posting yesterday, but I actually don't. I DO, however, have a legitimate reason for not posting the week before: I was calling at the club's TKD grading. Well done to all who passed, it was a pretty good group this time around. Also, it gave me a chance to show off the new certificates I'd designed; pretty good, if you ask me.


Right, to the reason I didn't post yesterday. I was playing, wait for it, a game. On my iPad. 
It's called Hunters 2. Screw Temple Run and Angry Birds, this is the best iPad/iPod game I've stumbled across. It's a strategy/turn-based/RPG/shooter. Sounds complicated. It isn't, really. Basically, you control a fire team of bounty hunters (hunters, for short, hence the name) as they fight their way through a galaxy controlled by big corporations. The main campaign is only 8 missions long, but there are 5 new missions generated every day, and I haven't come across a repeat contract yet. It is, in short, pretty damn good. Best played on iPad, in my opinion, as the graphics look better. 


Also, I'm going to CERN! I'm going to see particles collide! And hadrons! Yeah! Hopefully I'll find out more about it when I'm actually there...


Another thing; do you ever just sit and write down whatever comes into your head? Probably not. But I did the other day, and this is what happened...

"So, I'm sat here waiting for those files to attach. I am monumentally bored, and blame Aston's internet connection. I wonder how much I could write until these files attach? When you think about it, the internet is witchcraft. I mean, where is it? How the hell does it work? Is the one server with the entirety of the internet- and therefore the entirety of human knowledge- on? Isn't that just an STC machine? Why hasn't it been targeted by terrorists yet? That's one file attached. Attached to where? And another. Are these being pinned with glowing bits to a page of bytes? Or is all the information in this email soon to be a stream of photons/electrons? (Depending on what wires the area has. I know our lane is still copper wiring). Does, therefore, this email have mass? If electrons have mass, which the do (9.11x10^-31kg, at rest) (oh look, another attached) then therefore they must have gravity. Another attached. Can this gravity affect things? What could it do? If this email has mass, then can human thoughts? They are sparks of electricity, therefore electrons. Electrons have mass, and therefore gravity. Isn't that just the Force? Can we, if we get enough people thinking the same thing at the same time, literally move mountains? With our minds? Telekinesis. On a tiny scale. If all of this is true, mass prayer COULD work. Millions of people, all praying for something physical to happen, and it happens. Amazing, right? If, indeed, this email has mass. Ah, there's the last one."


See? That's what happens when I read Dan Brown and I'm left alone with a computer. Next thing I'll be spouting stuff about how antimatter is matter, just going backwards in time. Backwards to us, anyway. Actually... Hmm...


No. I'll stop there before I bore you so much your eyes fall out. If I haven't already.


Until next time.