Jamie R

Well at the moment it’s 23:59, so almost Sunday 17th June 2007. I’m sitting here in a rather philosophical mood - with one main question bouncing around my mind. What does the future really have for us? I mean, some people say that everyone’s lives are already planned, and that we are living them day by day as they’ve been planned, but is this really the case?

Most things which you do, well some things, affect the way that something else in the future happens, or how events will turn out and end up. If you think of an event, and think about how it ended, you can usually work out how it ended like that, and how if you’d changed one or two things during the goings on, how different the ending would have been. I guess that’s the story of my life sometimes - you don’t know the ending, or the beginning, but how if you’d changed a few things how things would have been so different. I can’t really think of a specific example, but I’m just saying in general. There are things I guess which I could fit into this.

In life, you get these little things which test your strength as a human being and your ability to cope with things. It varies from person to person, but at the end of the day we’re all humans and we all have some form of mental strength - some people have more than others - some people can deal with things better than others can. However, it’s not always the case of how we deal with things, but more so what we do as ways of dealing with things. Mentally, you can do anything - in your imagination you do anything that you want, but in real life, you can’t - you can’t do anything which you might just imagine.

Well, I really am talking shit tonight, but I’m in that kind of I’m-going-to-talk-shit-and-bloody-bore-the-pants-off-you mood - I’ve had an alright evening I guess. Rows with dad about shit and all that kinda malarky, but apart from that I’m ok.

I’m looking forward to the summer now. When I woke up this morning (well, OK I’ll be honest - 12:30pm) it was hot and perfectly sunny. No clouds around or anything. Ten minutes later however, the rain clouds had moved in quickly and it was pissing with rain. Lame…it’s been like that all day - one minute nice, then rainy etc.

This summer will be different from last summer, because it’ll be shorter and most people will be working somewhere or other. The biggest difference will be that last year was GCSE year, and the holiday was 11 weeks rather than the standard 6 which we usually get. It’ll also be the last summer holiday in between years before people go off to university, so we HAVE to make it a good one. Some people are or will be driving - myself included. I passed my theory test on June 2nd (got 32/35 on the questions and 61/75 on hazard perception) which was good. I should also be taking my practical test in mid July. All I need now is some money for a car and insurance and other things needed for it.

Me and LJ are encroaching on 9 months - woo, three quarters of a year. Now it’s awesome, but it’s rather strange in a way. I mean, I never thought that when I first started dating, the relationship would last this long, but it has - and it’s still going strong. She’s lovely

My cat is sitting next to me at the moment (I’m sitting on my dining room table for some reason - I don’t usually sit here) and she’s sitting next to my computer on the table with her eyes fixed in one position on my face. I think she’s hungry, so I better go and feed her. Beautiful little puss cat she is

My website hosting and domain registration is up for renewal soon so I better get that paid up otherwise this site will be going off-line!
In terms of IT news, most people who keep updated with it will know that Apple have released Safari for Windows. Hopefully, it’ll mean that the previously Mac OS only browser will now grab a much higher market share than previously. It’s been out for Windows for barely three days, and within a few hours several flaws were discovered in it. Now, as of writing now, the Windows version (which is a public beta of version 3) has been downloaded over one million times. Hopefully it will mean that because Safari has been released for the operating system platform which has the biggest market share in the world, its browser market share will increase even more.
Anyway, I know most people have already done their GCSE and A-Level exams - I did my 15 hour IT practical exam last week which went alright. For anyone who has done exams, or is doing them soon, here’s a rather belated Good luck - GOOD LUCK!

Well, I’m off - ttyl.

Jamie.