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21st trip around the sun
Jun 2nd
…and so another year of my life goes by on this little rock we call Earth. It’s been a tough year but I did achieve a lot of things.
- First, and probably most importantly, I made it into the University of Bristol to study Computer Science. Not that I had any doubts but still it’s kind of a relief to finally be here.
- I dumped Windows Vista!!! Not as important or hard to do as the previous one (especially given what a great job Microsoft did with it!) but Compaq (or HP rather) sure as hell didn’t make it easy to switch.
- I have gone Open Source. After years of putting it off I finally decided, with the help of Vista, to switch over to Ubuntu. Not the best Linux distro out there but hey, it’s a start.
- I grew a box beard. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and finally did it last year. It didn’t last very long though. I had to get rid of it before I flew back for Christmas.
- I went to see Manchester United vs Everton in the English Premier League at Old Trafford with Shaun and GaPs.
- I took 6 whole months (Nov 2009 – April 2010) off all forms of sport to let my knee heal properly, something which I should have done 2 years ago although I still don’t know what the hell was wrong with it in the first place!
- I’m 21 years old! Not really an achievement but now I don’t have to worry about age limits for clubs and pubs any more and THAT is something
Not a very impressive list but all relatively important to me. So kudos to everyone who helped me through this year, both family and friends. I couldn’t have done it without you. Here’s to another 21 years of excitement…but hopefully with a lot less drama. I think I have had enough of that to last me a lifetime!!! Oh and of course, to mark another birthday, a new design for the site. Hope you like it!
Mourinho are you listening?!
Jul 28th
This is just one of a billion reasons why I love United. This song was sung during the 2006/2007 season. This version was sung after the 3-2 win over AC Milan in the Champions League semi-final at Old Trafford. United lost the semi-final 2nd leg but still managed to win the Premiership back from Chelsea later that month!
Mourinho are you listening?
You’d better keep the trophy glistening.
Coz we’ll be back in May
To take it away
Walking in a Fergie wonderland!
Joe Jacobs v20
Jun 2nd
Another year, another birthday…
To mark my turning another year older (and unfortunately another year bigger as well..literally) I’ve decided to give the blog a little redesign. The design was getting a bit too blue for my liking so I thought something a little brighter this time would be nice. I was going to call this post Joe Jacobs v2.0 but then I realised that I’ve probably redesigned this site about 20 times so version 20 is probably not that far off. So time to come out of your RSS readers guys! Here’s a little glimpse for those of you who are just too lazy
Tweets on 2009-05-20
May 20th
Tweets on 2009-05-07
May 7th
- just logged into identi.ca after a long time & I must say it is WAY better then twitter. i especially like the groups feature. #
Tweets on 2009-05-04
May 4th
- Linkin Park are writing the song for the new Transformers movie coming out next month…can’t wait to hear it! #linkinpark #transformers #
- Artist creates invisible car, http://digg.com/d1q8KK #
Tweets on 2009-04-29
Apr 29th
- RT @donncha: Twitter’s like IRC http://tinyurl.com/cfaso2 #
- server issue was caused by WP Super Cache. the load time kept increasing when wp super cache is enabled…weird #
- RT @marchorowitz: What would happen if a man botoxed his balls? #
Tweets on 2009-04-28
Apr 28th
- just migrated from lsws to nginx. site load time has reduced by about 30sec but it still takes about 10 sec to load #

