Good News Allround

*People sensitive to sarcasm please skip the following paragraph*

Grand news, those clever people at Telewest managed to fix my broadband, and within a reasonable time scale of five weeks. I’d like to thank all the people in there customer service department for being so very helpful, and for the wonderful attitude they had to my problem.

I will be sending a card or some sort of muffin basket to show my appreciation for this. I also don’t at all begrudge paying that months bill in full and I appreciate the wicked irony of them threatening to “limit my service” if I didn’t pay said bill.

*Sarcasm now ends*

With my internet up and running again I was able to work from home for the first time since going back to college two weeks ago. This has made a lot of difference to the work I have been able to complete.

A7 – iMe

Not a great deal done on this assignment at the minute, but updating this blog is a priority I'll be aiming to update once in college at the beginning of the week and at home at the end of the week. This will be done once my 16 hours self study has been completed. I will also be scanning and archiving my time sheets as evidence of self study.

A8 – CiSSy

We had the first lecture on beginnings of CSS which will come in handy for the first question of the assignment. I will do the research for this question this week and aim to produce a first draft for the week after.

A9 – The Biz

The basic drafts of the essays for questions 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 are completed. These need a bit of spit and polish, referencing and placing into the essay template.

The test plan for 6.2 and the documentation for 6.3 needs to be produced but the basic design work i.e. the layout and the content for them has already been produced.

The database of competitors is up and running, I will aim to add ten a week till the hand in deadline.

The lecture and notes on the outline business plan have made the process of completing this seem relatively easy, with a 1000 words not seeming like enough (don’t make me write any more though).

Important Stuff

Leeds United 3-2 Birmingham City

Bye bye Blackie, don’t let the door hit you on the behind on the way out fella, cause your going to be spending a lot of time sat on it.

Ta for taking the time to read, Dale

Second Week

My second week back at college didn’t go as I would have liked. I had to spend a day off waiting for the good people from Telewest to come and fix my broadband, which they still haven’t done.

The repair man that came (late) kicked the side of the house and said it would “cost me” to fix it, then told me it was “knocking off time” and left me still broadband-less.

The lack of internet access has made working from home very difficult, research has been especially hard. I have learnt from this though, and realise that I need to be less reliant on the internet as a research tool and consider using more paper based sources.

Assignment Progress

A9 – The Biz

The progression in this assignment wasn’t helped by the lack of internet access but I still managed to complete the first task in draft format. This needs to be chopped down to a thousand words and placed into the academic template.

The lack of internet access made my think harder about the question asked and the essay is mostly of my own thoughts and opinions, not quotations and opinions of others.

I have made a start to question two, writing the first few hundred words as an introduction to the essay. I need to do more research into cross-browser compatibility and have scheduled some time to do this with the aid of my time plans sheets.


A8 – CiSSy!

I haven’t spent as much time on this as I would have liked, this will be rectified this week.

A7 – iMe

I have completed this, my second blog entry.

Thanks, Dale

First Post - Back to College

This is the first post on my college work blog.

This blog is part of assignment "A7 - iMe", I will use it to record my thoughts and progress on the work I have completed and the work I have yet to do.

The first three assignments have been handed out and I have completed time plans to divide up the time I will spend on them.

In following posts I will provide links to time plans as evidence of the work I am doing.


Thanks, Dale.