All about me

Frustration, Frustration and Frustration!

by Matthew

Don’t you just hate when you lose a computer file? (or anything for that matter)

I sat down with the intention of making some sort of progress with my old project techmouse.org. Although it appears this won’t be fulfilled tonight. It appears I (in my infinite wisdom) accidentally deleted all .psds and plans of the organisation altogether somehow. Despite me thinking I had backed it up using google docs and my external hard drive 🙁

At least I still have the logo! Seeing as I can’t find the .psd I might design a better one tomorrow. I have increased my knowledge of photoshop since then. Of course that’s after I finish working with my clients. Everything feels so rushed 🙁

TechMouse Logo

PFFFFFT! I feel so frustrated. Dunno why I feel so fragile at the moment.

At least my MCDST (Microsoft Desktop Support Technician) book came today. Might just crack on with reading that. Hopefully I can crack through the course pretty quick. Really need this certification. It doesn’t seem too hard, got 60% without any study.

Off to bed now.. gonna have a read then snuggle up. Night readers!

Ubuntu 10! Simply wow!

by Matthew

I’ve not been following the Ubuntu (operating system) project for a while. Randomly decided to head back over the other day and saw ubuntu 10 has been released. Last time I looked ubuntu 9 was on the scene. I didn’t gel with ubuntu 9 hopefully 10 will be different.

I’m downloading it and will report back my opinion here 🙂

From what I see on site it looks like the system has had a major overhaul. Simply looks amazing!!

University, What a way to waste two years.

by Matthew

I’ve wanted to talk about it all for a while. So, Many people have asked me why I left and some people have even said I will be worse off. Time will tell but right now I’ve felt the best I ever have! I don’t think university was ever for me. However, I was excited when I started. I thought it’s a change and I expected so much. To be taught, the vessel they call a brain filled.. where I could get lots of hand on practical experience. Taught by lecturers who were passionate, loved their job and cared about the students.

The experience wasn’t all bad but one or two lecturers stood out as being poor. Reading from powerpoints and working from course-notes into workbooks wasn’t what I had in mind. Maybe I was a fool?! Paying over £3000+ in tuition fees though I expected better.

F12010 finally and being generally busy

by Matthew

Last week I couldn’t wait. I became a little kid! Counting down the days till the F12010 game was released. I received my copy on release day Friday. My feelings on the title are mixed.

Having waited so long and followed it so long I feel that it’s a great game, and has a lot of potential. I’ve tried some of the new circuits out and even tried my hand at a 7 season career with full race distances in my lotus. I tucked into that straight away and thought it would be great. However, It was clear in the race things were not as they seemed. Starting that first race and driving around for 50+ laps. I experienced almost every bug listed here. After waiting so long for the game to say I was a bit disappointed was an understatement. However I enjoyed driving the new cars and when the bugs didn’t pop up! 🙁

Codemasters (the people who make the game) must realise something is up. They had a meeting yesterday (Monday) and there is speculation of a patch.

Which they will have to release because the game is far too buggy. Not to digg into codemasters but what were their test team thinking? Some bugs are pretty obvious and I know I could have detected them if the game was thrown in front of me before release.

Ah well…. just hope a patch comes out soon!

I’ve been massively busy working on the business and even now have a pile of things to do. A lot of things are being worked on. Mostly now site polishing and getting grammar and marketing correct.

To give you a taster of the new things being worked on at The MonkeyPC… take a look. Our offerings will be the best available on the UK market 🙂

When I get some free time I do finally plan to watch inception…. till next time stay safe!

A day to be happy about in many ways…

by Matthew

Today, I finally pre-ordered F12010 for xbox 360 from shopto.co.uk for £31.85 (including free delivery) quite a deal I must say. I couldn’t find it cheaper anywhere else.

The MonkeyPC has a few new clients on board and our business bank account has been finally set up.

A tweet really hit me today and made me remember life is about more then just money. This lady is amazing. I’ve always thought of doing humanitarian work at some point and her tweet really inspire me to go ahead and just do it. It’s late so I can’t make this as long as I want to unfortunately 🙁

I will make a post on here that’s a bit more meaty soon! I promise 🙂

Danicar, If your reading this. I think it’s pretty amazing what you do and I’ve read your post. I’m happy because someone like you has reminded me that some things are more important then others. You are a inspiration to many.

Peace & Goodnight

Busyyy!

by Matthew

I’ve been so busy the last few months, with The MonkeyPC, searching for jobs and annoying people.

I hope to get some time to update this a little bit more soon 🙂

Wow what a eventful month!

by Matthew

This month has been really busy for me. With a unfortunate and worrying illness in the family and even more progress with my business.

I have a business advisor and been to many seminars back in London about starting up and I have a real roadmap for these 3 weeks. To finish market research, finalise my business plan and submit to banks. The main priorities after then will be structuring and sorting the premises with the council. The website really needs tweaking because it wasn’t really structured to handle a store online and offline! In reality it was created before any plans were firm and this was a mistake. One that won’t be made again. I’m drawing up a website plan too.

Work has become somewhat ridiculous but I will speak about that when I become detached from that company (then I can’t be fired) 🙂

Must get to sleep now… got work tomorrow again. Not long left till I leave Oxford for a bit.

Btw, If you live, study or work in Oxford please fill out this quick questionnaire for me. It will help me with my market research and you will be entitled to a money off voucher when we launch.

Peace! 🙂