Super-Zero

Over my past few years as a student I have had the tolerance to put up with the network and computer services provided by my University. I’ll draw your attention to the word tolerance. The computers are severely out of date – I understand budgets don’t stretch to state of the art machines nor would I expect that, but Pentium 4′s with 512MB RAM? That coupled with the networking software which they run, plus windows XP and a suite of desktop adverts (Why this resource hog is necessary I have no idea) it doesn’t make for the most fun or even usable student computing experience.

Play.com sucked up my pre order. Didn’t arrive early or even on time. Please don’t preorder from them…go Woth Game. They fulfill their preorders really well.

Play can handle my return. I’m on my way to game where the special edition is £10 cheaper too.

After months of internal debate (mainly in my own head) I decided to buy an Apple iPad over a netbook. There were a few well formed reasons for making this decision as well as a few one would come to expect from a crazy techno-obsessed student.

Battery-life: For me this was the big hitter. I currently own a MacBook Pro as my main laptop (2008 Unibody edition to be precise) and while I love it to pieces for great high powered mobile computing, it’s battery life really sucks – were talking 2-3 hours here with wifi on. With wifi off the max I have been able to squeeze out of it (screen at lowest brightness tick etc) has been about 3 1/2 hours, so its not really amazing.

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• Driving a convertible is awesome. I want one. #
• Stan heaviest really shouldn't leave his phone unattended… #
• *jewhurst #
• Kendal can't use predictive text lol #
• Is alone in westfield on Derby. It's unnerving, this place is massive… #
• Is playing with his new toy. I figured there was no point waiting, and the shop in Derby had stock. No-one tell my mother. Shell kill me. #
• Twitter still sucks, Even on the ipad… #
• Security is queued right to the opposite side of the airport…I can't believe it, its like alton towers… #
• This is what's behind me… http://twitpic.com/27lh8k #
• http://twitpic.com/27nxn1 @chibi_sora new additions! #
• Is this a black war bear I See before me? Why yes, yes it is. For The Alliance!!! #
• Seriously loving my #iPad To all you haters out there, go and play with one for a while. Find some free apps you like. It's epic. #
• Just saw an advert fir a TV show called suck my pop…… #
• I have discovered that email on my iPad makes me want to read my email, no matter who it's from! It's just so easy! #
• Extremely impressed with my iPads battery life. I have used it heavily all day and still has some life left in it. Lovely. #
• Ok, first iPad app purchase. Is instapaper worth 2.59? @jabbrwcky @scribb thoughts? #

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• Huh, apparently blizzard has scrapped real id on the forums after all…suppose that means their listening to people? #
• Hmmm if my phone can get wireless here at the end of the garden I wonder if my laptop can…actually its rather hit or miss #
• TO AEZEROTH!!! #
• Damn its so good to have crisps in the house again. I don’t know why mum refuses to buy them!! #
• Midnight – time for some Battlestar Galactica! #
• Rain outside sounds absolutely awful.. #
• is finally awake. What to do today…play games? Watch battlestar? Play games AND watch battlestar. Ohyesplease. #
• Sitting in my car listening to foo fighters…I’m ridiculously early. Sun has momentarily appeared through the cloud. Very warm too! #
• Cataclysm is out in November.it supports dx11…my 4870×2 is good but 2 years old now..so stick with it or get a dx11 card? //cc @bittech #
• I just paid the minimum amount off my credit card…I am so skint its not even funny. I want my iPad =( #
• Sitting in botanic gardens enjoying the fine weather. The lawn is meticulously mowed and empty. Really tempted to go lie right in the centre #
• Off to the reptile shop. Possibly returning with two snakes! For snake babies!! #
• Just discovered iTunes U #
• I entered the Ebuyer.com iPad Prize Draw for a chance to win a 32GB Apple iPad: http://wfi.re/1mqr6 #
• Epic Win – Level-Up Your Life http://bit.ly/dB4avA #
• Just met my cousin at the airport. Seems he too is going to visit his other half… #
• And I have arrived in…gray, possibly soon to be rainy England… #
• http://twitpic.com/25uzus There is a tree growing out of through airport… #
• Alton Towers here I come! #
• First up, OBLIVION! #
• STILL SHAKING #
• http://twitpic.com/263t50 Queue for thirteen… #
• Can’t sleep* #
• Twitter SUCKS… #
• Sorry all, ny girlfriend stole mg phone and traped me…//cc @chibi_sora @jabbrwcky #

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I often find myself at a loss for things to do in work. To some people this might sound like an ideal situation but not for me. I tend to work in bursts and when I do work, I work hard. Thus I tend to finish up 2-3 hours of work in perhaps little over an hour. Then I have no work to do. However, admitting that I have no work to do is either inviting my hours to be cut (and thus pay) or alternatively inviting for more work than I can feasibly handle.

And so I come back to the question – what can I do with all the spare time. I browse the web, read interesting things, tweet etc, but oddly enough updating my blog or working on it is something which never really crosses my mind. And in fact its a great thing to do at work because I’m making all the right noises. After all typing continuously is a sign of working hard…right?

I mean I have development tools here and I have super fast web access – by rights I should be updating this way more often.

Anyway, I’m off to England for a week. Heading to see my girlfriend and go to Alton Towers! I’m having iPad urges and think I might end up returning with one, but well see how that turns out too. Additionally, since she will be at work a few days during the week, I really want to try and get some graphics started for this site. Hoping that I can finally make some progress!

Might try something cool with the free time I have…just an idea…