Plans for the Summer

Well now that life is simple again, no school and everything, I can start to think about my websites again.

Reminds me, must get my blue form signed off.

I really would like everything to go back to how it was, you know in its hayday. That was awesome. It was buzzing and it was always something nice to be a part of; I think the reason everything slowed down was due to a lack of innovation – a lack of change and freshness. I think that’s something that is always hard to achieve, especially when we’ve got so much other work in the way. But I’m desperate to try and get some of it back.

Spreadfire is always the most difficult thing to keep fresh and interesting. It’s supposed to be a community made by you; it’s success relies on you using it, but you’ll only use it if it’s successful, so it becomes a bit of a catch 22. I endlessly try to integrate new features to make it interesting, but it’s difficult. Not to mention the school, they’ve always hindered the success to some extent, as soon as people get interested they’d pull it to shreds. At least that can’t happen again.

And then I think, will anyone be interested in my websites at college?

I always think if you have to ask yourself a question like that you already know the answer.

Regardless, I’ll do what I can to make it interesting.

ET3X is easilly successful, other than creating a neat and quick way of signing up and accessing the features, and making sure that I can offer the features that you want, it’s easy. People always want to put a piece of themselves on the Internet, especially if it’s for free.

Then there’s Qerno, I’ve decided I’m decomissioning Qerno as a site that I use as a search engine, or a proxy site at least. Instead, I’ve got a few ideas for business products – web stuff mainly. But what a hideous name, what was I thinking?

And, of course, I also own hounsdown.com and brockcollege.net. I think I’ll be able to make use of them especially since Hounsdown want us to make a prospectus for them.

Oh yeah, the Beach this Wednesday

I’ll be there, so long as the school don’t want me (and if it’s not raining). Should be fun.

I can’t wait for college. New people, new courses – new place. I think a change of scenery will be one of the biggest and best changes. We’ve been stuck in Hounsdown for years now, I don’t think I can tolerate any more. The Year 7s just look so small, I mean I adore my Junior Form and I’ll miss them when I leave, but we all have to move on. Which is what I think about when I think of all the people who aren’t going to Brock. There are a few people who I’ll miss and I hope I’ll see them again, but I have a horrid feeling that they’ll be gone – forever. Anyway.

I still don’t know what courses I’m actually going to take. So far, I’ve got Physics, Chemistry, Economis, Maths with Mechanics and Computing on my application form. But I was thinking of changing Maths with Mechanics to Further Maths at the expence of Computing or Chemistry. Still haven’t decided, but hope the New Students’ day on the 3rd of July will give me an idea.

An hour! The bus to Brock from my house takes an hour! What should take a 15 minutes, lasts 55 – so I’m definitely taking the train.

Anyway, I can’t wait for it all.

I’m working at Southampton Uni for August, same place as I went for my work experience, except getting paid this time :P .

Looking forward to doing nothing in July. I really need a break. By nothing, I mean my website of course:).

I was going to mention exams, and how I didn’t think they were too awful, but that would be tempting fate, right?

It’s the holiday everyone. Relax and Enjoy – there’s no reason not to, literally no pressure or anything. It’s excellent.

Everything

Today was the first “official” day of school, though, of course, I was there yesterday too with the rest of the team. It was certainly a good feeling to be back.

I was with my Junior Form, 7CE (Mr Carr), all day yesterday. It was It’s very strange working with Year 7 so closely, it reminds me a lot of how we must have been at some point. Shell and me have to come up with some games etc for Thrusday. I’m amazed at how much they respect and admire Shell and me, I certainly wasn’t expecting that.

The timetables seem a bit better this year, at last (after 5 years) there’s no such thing as a good day or bad day – I’ve just got monotonous OK days. Also, no more awful Wednesdays (Maths, English and double Triple Science). But what have they done to the log books and what’s all that about handing back the plastic? I don’t like the idea of not having special Year 10 and 11 log books any more either – bring back the black log books. Not keen on the whole glossy picture of the school on the front.

Talking of teams, Matt Coombes, Head Boy, doesn’t seem to think the Senior Prefect Team is much of a _team_. I understand where he’s coming from. I’m not sure if I agree entirely though. We certainly aren’t actively trying not to be a team and I don’t think there’s been a great deal of opportunities for us to act as a team or come across as a team. The only opportunities we get are in the meetings, where we have mega constructive arguments discussions, (but they’re constructive so its not a bad thing). Anyway, as I said, I understand that we’re certainly not coming across as a team – and we should, we really should but give us some more opportunities and we will, I’m sure Charity Week will be the perfect opportunity. (BTW Matt: wasn’t laughing at your speech today, I was laughing at Shell and I don’t know what she was laughing at. You know how it is though, laughing is contagious, even if nothing’s funny and its always when its really inappropriate to be laughing).

Senior Prefect Assembly is soon, honestly: I’m not looking forward to it. On any normal day I wouldn’t like to do an assembly in front of hundreds of people – but a dance? I will do it, just a bit reluctantly maybe.

Big Brother ended some time in the Holidays, for anyone that’s interested: I think the outcome was quite fair, disappointed Nikki didn’t get further though. The next Big Brother (8) will go ahead as normal on Channel 4 but subsequent series won’t be at Elstree Studios (too much noise on eviction nights) and may not be broadcast by Channel 4, instead possibly by ITV. This seems like Big Brother on its last legs, to be honest. If I were Channel 4, I’d certainly drop it to ITV while it was still considered relatively good, instead of watching it spiral further and further down into TV hell. I honestly doubt I’ll watch Big Brother as religiously as I did now during any of the future series – next year is our GCSEs (I suppose I’ll get to see the end of it) and the year after will be A Levels. I’m not stupid enough to let a TV programme get in the way.

Lol, didn’t have the best day with buses today :P , I almost missed the bus in the morning because it was too early and this evening, a Club Bus Tuesday, there was no club bus. Susannah gave me a lift home (Thanks so much), but was it unreasonable to expect a bus today, especially when the Year 7s had a Football Trials thing they needed to get home from?

Anyway, ground I’m much more familiar talking about: where have you been on Spreadfire? Well I suppose it had to happen sometime, I didn’t expect it to last forever. But, what would you like from Hamdev? Spreadfire’s got old, I’ve given you the opportunity to make your own blog, what would you really like now? Email me with something innovative, new and even quirky, or, of course, go over and post your thought on Spreadfire.

Need Google Images at school? Of course you do, head over to Qerno (pronounced Kerno), yet another Hamdev website, enter your search term, click Search and, if you want Google Images, select Google Image Search from the drop down at the top and click the Change button. (Yahoo! Images and Windows Live Images don’t work at school yet).

Finally, the Gumpo post below apparently came across as a bit blunt in some way, for which I apologies; I have since amended it and hopefully removed the bluntness.