Got an unconditional offer to do Robotics & AI at Aberystwyth Uni very, very pleased about. Got it from doing a scholarship exam. If you’re planning to go to uni next year, do take a look to see if the uni you most want to go to does scholarship exams.

However, I’m still doing 4 A levels, because there’s no point dropping them now. If you get 3 B’s at A level you can get an excellence bursary from Aber uni, meaning that a year’s student fees are pretty much paid off. Or you could just vote Lib-Dem and wait 10 years ;D

On the web side of things, I’ve been messing around with the Facebook API, and am now working on a forum software that uses Facebook Connect (alongside Google Accounts, Windows Live Passports, etc.) to login. Social networking stuff is neat. Now trying to get my web-design skills known locally, so I could get some web-dev work over the summer.

I’ve also started working on a new site for the hosting side of things – although it’s not very far completed at all.

PEACE y’all

• I’ve had offers from 3 different universities to do AI & Robotics courses
• I’ve spent a night homeless (with 80 other people though)
• I’ve been sobre at parties I should’ve been drunk at
• I’ve met up with old friends and made plenty new ones
• I’ve taken lots of pictures…

There’s a lot which I can’t remember (or can’t list here ;P) but it’s been a good four months on the Slashing Edge side of things:

• I’ve designed one new site for a client and started work on another
• I’ve gotten a brand new dedicated server which is really fast, and will start offering webhosting on it soon
• I’ve been developing an array of web software under the SE name, although it’ll be released opensourced (and what it is I’ll keep under wraps ’til it’s functional)

So yeah. A lot’s happened. It’s all gravy!

It’s interesting stuff, I’ll give you that. This lab is cool. The coolest robots they have, though, have to be the humanoid, upright-walking Nao robots – they walk, and they talk to you. Wooo.

Why am I doing it as an unpaid/voluntary thing? Well… they weren’t going to offer me any money, ahha, but it’s also a very interesting experience, and something that looks good on a CV. If you’re in college and looking at doing an engineering/ComSci course at Uni, I strongly recommend doing something like this. If you’re lucky, it’ll rain heavily in the week you do it, meaning you haven’t wasted any holiday.

Ciao!

To celebrate, I added two new packages – one with 4Gb space, and one with 10Gb.

Click here to look at the hosting plans.

http://vps.slashingedge.co.uk/hosting

I’ve got a single customer so far, and I’m also being a mirror for a small linux distro.

I’ve realized how good Twitter is for advertising these kinda’ services, too.

I’ve also realized how much stuff you have to do if you can’t afford cPanel licenses and things like that. My virtual hosting + its control panel etc. are completely hand-crafted.

Is it me, or is that logic flawed? I can see a lot of people who’ll start using torrent sites a lot more because of the (in)famous Pirate Bay case, or who will completely cease to buy from major labels.BitTorrent isn’t software tailored for hoarding music and films – it’s tailored for distributing information over a huge network in an ingenious way. I remember, when it was first conceived, a lot of broadcasting corporations (such as the BBC) saw the potential of distributing their media over it, yet the film and music industry seems to have been left in the dust since. They could’ve embraced it; it’s a good software. But, no, they choose to condone it instead.

Man it’s taken me a long time. That’s what you get for doing web-design on the side whilst you’re doing A-Levels. Nevertheless it’s been a learning experience. I now know how to do decent-looking layouts which work on *all* browsers – including IE

Now to start advertising our services, and actually get some work. Looking forward to it!