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Well, it just seems like yesterday I was messing around with OpenID, yet it was in fact two months ago. I mean since the time of that article I have left school, started work, got into university and finally turned 18! So lets take each in turn.

Back on, I think the 22nd of June I finally left Syon, was a rather sad day as I had been there for 7 years and I think I really am going to miss the people that made my time there so great. (I would especially like to thank TBI for getting me through, without her I wouldn’t have even made it to 6th form.) It was weird going out with everyone to celebrate finally leaving but in a way I was glad as it finally meant I am moving on, moving to what I have always wanted to do.

Leads on quite nicely to work, I am currently working for Zoomf.com, I am currently helping expand there inventory of property and also doing a fair bit of design work. Its a nice little place and if your looking for property in the UK there is no finer place to go.

Next I guess is the fact that I am now 18, legal to drink, vote and party! Had a nice quiet birthday with a few close friends, which I was great.

Now, on Thursday was the day most people have been dreading for years. Strangely enough I felt, kind of spaced out, not really too fussed or scared, I dunno if I knew I would be all right or not, but it turns out I was. I didn’t quite get the best grades ever, but I did enough to get me to NTU doing Computer Science, which is what I have always wanted to do.

Strange to think that in a month and 10 days I won’t be living in Osterley anymore, I will be a full time student in Nottingham, I don’t quite know how I will take the change..

Well, for a while now I have been working on the coursework project for this year. It is an attempt to create an application to  handle mapping the globe from street level. Currently, it is in a private BETA state, which will hopefully not remain in for too long.

It has been a real pain in the ass to get this completed as for the 1st revision it has had a fair few features to program into, however it is coming along quite nicely and by the end of the week I hope for a public BETA, well, as many people as I can pursuade to test it basically. So hopefully that should go swimmingly.