Ok so that might be a lie but I couldn't resist. What with dissertations, exams, graduating, full time working and not forgetting the student gumball, there hasn't been a great deal of time for updating this aging site.

As I mentioned, this time last year I was cobbling my dissertation project together. This process was documented on FramedIT.com with full reports and pictures. By easter the dissertation was complete and the mess before it can be read here. (username: guest password: password)

Following the particularly awful exam period I took a trip to Brugge with my flatmates. Other such photo opportunities such as our end of year BBQ can be seen here. Graduation came later in the year, myself only managing a 2:1 in Multimedia Design & Technology (hons) and getting food poisoning/heatstroke the day before the ceremony.

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11:54 22/12/2006 | NEWS News

And thats it for University in 2005, my final full year. Some scary stuff. My final week started with a bang, Christian came over for a weekend of eating chinese and going to pizza express. The weekend excess took its toll on tuesday morning with a bout of upset stomach/food poisioning putting me out of action till 8pm. This naturally less than 24hrs to my interim presentation, which was not completed. With it out of the way a short-lived Yiewsley pubcrawl and some quick card shopping and I made it to the end.

Christmas day #1 was spent drunkenly chowing down to dinner with my flatmates, Verity and Roxy producing an amazing roast dinner, pictures to follow. Friday night was out celebrating Jamie's 22nd (we are so old now!) before returning to Uxbridge for hopefully the last time this year to rescue all my computing stuff. This leaving the majority of saturday to rebuild my room and life at home before racing out to Coulsdon and Christmas day #2. An amazing spread of food for all and fantastically I managed not to leave anyone off my christmas card list, even if i . . [more]

20:01 18/12/2005 | NEWS News

Obsolete design it may be but its back. After valcatohosting upgraded their php, 90% of my scripts stopped working. I wasn't about to recode them all so its been bodged back and working.

University now becoming a stress to complete dissertation projects as my attention wanes. I'm looking to research how consumers interact with multimedia devices in the home, with a target of changing perspectives and further integration. Yes, I want to build more computers. . . [more]

01:26 11/11/2005 | NEWS News

Initially just an offering from one of Rob's house mates, I found myself up at the crack of dawn on a sunday morning to sit in the fire engine a few hours. With only my phone for entertainment the day was littered with borat quotes. The round trip to brands shouldn't of taken long but traffic ensured 4 cramped hours in the back. Yet the A1GP show more than made up for it.

Arriving in time for the GT races we wandered around gridside looking for vantage points. For the sprint and main races we wandered up round druids corner and got really close to the action. Its the best circuit i've ever been too for spectating. Beautiful weather saw a great day with much playing with the camera. Pictures are up here. Is neyeice. . . [more]

14:40 21/10/2005 | DIARY News

So a new school year, new modules, a new house and a new Uxbridge ghetto for me to live in fear in. A week in and I still dont have my loan. Come to think of it I dont have my cycle helmet, any lights or locks, certain cables for my computer, enough wall sockets for my gear or half the clothes I'm sure I owned at the begining of the summer. What I do have is a bad dose of freshers flu and repeating headaches. Either way to add to the congestion the shower wall has fallen in, my main and backup computer PSU's are broken, I can't get digital tv reception for love nor a large collection of maplins RF connectors and a booster ariel, and I've run out of motivation to do anything. Oh the joys of new digs. . . [more]

20:43 01/10/2005 | NEWS News

This is the unabridged tale of my first camping trip in over 8 years, this time with the lads. Be warned, this is probably the longest news article (containing some of the longest sentences ever seen on the internet) on the site, so go and get yourself a cuppa.

Monday, after collecting Stuart, Alan and Alex the car was full. Had Alex been charged for excess baggage the holiday would of totalled far more than £50 for him. Conveening at the scout hut after collecting Burns we 'collected' a tent, some 'billies?' and repacked Borat for his 4hour trip west, on what was official 'talk like ye pirate' day. 4 hours fairly calm driving, a £17(!) Tesco lunch stop, numerous 'death farts' from chris, finding out there aren't enough actors names begining with F, and an incar seating rota we arrived to meet Jo, Richard and Max the dog (somewhere a few miles shy of minehead).

Continuing our journey into the failing light we arrived at several sites, all a bit pricey for our liking. Conspiricy theories forming in our heads (5 lads? oh that will . . [more]

12:18 20/09/2005 | DIARY News

Having missed the 'colossal' Coulsdon to Dorking pub I jumped at the offer of the next big walk (or something). Yet up and out the house at 9am during the summer holidays, to go to the pub!? Eitherway I met Stu and Alex enroute and Alan at the start of the 13 or so mile hike. Wandering through the Surrey countryside turned out an execellent idea on a warm day. Meeting Vicars and other natives alike along the way through some quaint old styled villages.

My favorite watering hole of the day had to be the White Horse in Shere, with an excellent lunch. Other such pubs were less accomodating, one near silent bar the three people there and a magic 104.5 esque backdrop. Some brilliant backdrops to the photos, the full documentation of here.

Note these photos were taken with Stu's mums kodak, thanks to her for lending it. I feared a DigitalSLR and 16 half pints just wouldnt mix. Alan happily confirmed this in . . [more]

09:48 16/09/2005 | DIARY News

After deciding my dreams of buying another 1:1 scale car deteriorated I was left with a grand left in savings. The majority of this 'invested' in the new camera I set about spending some more of it. 12 months to the day of me signing up for a mobile phone contract with Orange and they were breathing down my neck to 'upgrade'.

Resisting temptations again and again I finally convinced them that they wanted to drop my contract to £19 a month including 60 anytime minutes, 3000 anytime texts and to give me this wonderful SPV M500 device for nothing. With such savings it would be rude not to take advantage, thus the new device now syncs via bluetooth with this amazing foldaway keyboard, perfect for lecture notes. With access to a lovely X reg Bora it seemed finally the right time to get some GPS action. Tom Tom Navigator 5 guides me around the country in full postcoded bliss, . . [more]

19:48 09/08/2005 | GENERAL News

A Revised message board, improved search engine, updated news stories and fire fox friendly pages bring Indecisive Design into summer 2005.

Probably the final revision of this layout you'll ever see (admittedly the only service performed on the site in the past 8 months full stop) before I changeover to something else. Not that thats been started yet. You may notice that the photos page hasn't been updated in forever, congratulations. The majority of photos taken with new hardware have found themselves here and here. The hashed photo viewer looks nice in photoshop, has bugs in Internet Explorer, and doesn't display them in chronological order. Eitherway you can peruse them at your leisure under here, and they are more likely to be updated. . . [more]

09:21 03/07/2005 | SITE News

What if i had studied the warning sign on the back, well I might of had an easy evening. Sadly I was put in my place when upon arrival I was told 'no cameras'. Caught unaware I argued this twisted logic (after all its not a proffesional piece of kit) but to no avail. After travelling for an hour after work to Crystal Palace athletics stadium all i could do was talk to the security patrols trying to get in. The clocks ticking I told myself 'dont panic' and headed for the pool building at the speed of sound, with the intention of using one of the lockers for storage. Convinced I was a terrorist they denied me access. Heading back to the station was the hardest part, in two minds whether to sell up and go home or find a place to stash the camera. An offer of £10 for my ticket made my mind up and I headed back to Victoria in the fading daylight.

An hour and a half on, and five pounds lighter (no longer any lockers, you have to pay for left luggage to hold onto things for you) I returned to the stadium at high speed and finally got in. Locating Rachel, Alan and Jack in the stands I dried off and sat . . [more]

23:51 19/06/2005 | NEWS News