Welcome to my life, everything I do on-line you will find here (almost).I am a college student right here in Hull (UK) and at current that is all I do so I have a lot of time on my hands which is mostly taken up with on-line stuff. In the sidebar there is a section called “My Links” (currently has 5 items) watch this list grow a time goes on, it lists all the places on the web you can find me (well for the stuff I still use).
If you haven’t worked out yet I’ll sign up for almost anything but that doesn’t mean I’ll use it for any length of time.
I decided to move to WordPress from Blogger and Google Pages because it’s easier to use and I can have my blog and site in the same place with the same template keeping consistency. It also makes it easier for me to tell people about it’s jst one URL.
Spare Time
I write simple programs in Visual Basic and you can find some of the working ones here. I started writing programs at college for my course although I had used the language before writing ASP.net web pages so it was easy to get started with the software side of things.
I have also used some of the advanced features of Microsoft Excel, mostly the stuff people don’t know about or don’t know how to use (VLOOKUP, buttons, Visual Basic Code, Macros), to create an application to produce an invoice for a picture framing company with the inputs begin Customer details, picture size, and frame code nad it does all the calculations and gives each invoice a unique number.
Some other example’s of my programs are a radio player which just lists over 100 radio stations and plays the one you selected (downlaodable here) and I’m currently working on a web browser based around Internet Explorer 6 but with some of the features of Firefox, and a refined interface (there’s a basic working version here which shows how the interface might look and work when I’ve finished it.
Plans for the Future
By the end of this year I will have a domain (domain.com) not a subdomain (subdomain.domain.com), then my friends wont think I’m cheap for using free hosting. Well one friend thinks that but he’s site is down as he forgot to renew the hosting plan. He uses GoDaddy and pays around £30 a year and he hits his bandwidth limit about twice a year when he does a major update to the site. That’s why I’m going to use WordPress.com for my hosting I get less storage (but cheap to buy more) and the domain will only cost about £10 a year, plus unlimited bandwidth. I can also get 2GB mail boxes with Google Mail in Google Apps which will have the domain name in the address (example@domain.com) for free that’s more than the 10MB you get from GoDaddy which costs if you want more I just wait and Google will give it to me (for free, again).
