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I have been doing my GCSE exams at The Gilberd School over the last month or so, I have 3 more to do. Physics, Statistics and Graphics - hopefully they will go well, i'm fairly confident that i am doing "okay" with all my other exams. It's been a long month, but it will soon be over! Been spending my time between exams seeing my girlfriend Charlotte, seeing my friend Dug and working on all my websites.

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Toadtube.co.uk is now online and ready to use! Thank you to Dug for all the help in development of Toadtube. I will add more features as time goes on, but for now ToadTube is a simple video sharing website allowing anyone to upload videos, no registration required! Please take a look and let me know if you have any suggestions or complaints.

Today I had my Chemistry exam in the morning, I went to fix a problem on someones computer after my exam, then went back to Charlotte's for a nice rest before my English exam in the afternoon. Charlotte kept annoying me as i was trying to write this but i love her anyway :)

Dug came round today, we had great fun playing around with Linux and PHP, Techtoad.co.uk is now hosted on a linux server, running Gentoo. I just want to thank Dug specifically for helping me set up MySQL and teaching me about databases, it is a big improvement to this website! We went down to Sainsburys to buy some Relentless energy drink because i had never tried it before and i really wanted to try some! Had a great day and got alot done. Thanks again  dude! As an additonal note, I have made alot of changes to this website recently, so please allow for erros and bugs, please feel free to report them to me using the contact page.

Thats right, no exams today! Instead, i had a wonderful day with Charlotte. We watched Alice in Wonderland because we ARE cool, and had some great fun arguing about who sits in "the seat" (even though the seat was a corner of a sofa and there were two sofas in the room, we were the only people there.) Despite the argument, it was great fun and just what i needed as a little break between my exams. Pretty much completed the new design tonight, just a few more things to code and a bit more testing before i release it!

Spent my morning with Charlotte before my biology exam in the afternoon, the exam was alright, i dont think i have done great, but i think i did ok. The paper was really shiney and it was difficult for me to write clearly on the paper because my handwriting is already bad, and the shiney paper just made it worse. Never mind. Went home and did some more work on the new design which I plan to release some time next week.

Had my english lit exam today, i'm not great at english as you can probably tell by the poor spelling and grammar on this website... i dont think i did that well, but i am hoping i did enough for a pass. Charlotte had her ICT exam in the afternoon, so i got the bus home again, and continued working on my new site design.

Had my non-calc maths exam thismorning, I was quite surprised to sit down to what i thought was a rather easy paper, i'm farley confident that i did well, and felt quite relaxed afterwards. I got the bus back home and then had a quiet evening making a new design for Techtoad.co.uk™

Had my R.E. exam today, as i expected, the exam was long, slow and boring. I think i have probably scraped a pass, i finished the exam rather early, but still had to sit around waiting for the full 2 hours. After that exam, I am rather looking foward to my Maths exam on Monday.

Today I went into school for the leaving assembly, everyone was shirt signing, where as i chose not to mess up a good shirt, so instead had my face signed instead (view picture). The assembly was really good, very emotional in places and brought a tear to most people. I have now left The Gilberd School, but will soon be going back to do my GCSE exams. Dug picked me up after the assembly and we went home to try and clean my face, which needed alot of alchohol (which stung) hot water, soap and some hard scrubbing - but finally we got all the ink off. My new 24 port 3com superstack switch arrived today and i am very please with it. Had a great day, goining to miss The Gilberd, but now its time to move on in life... I will be attending the Colchester Sixth-Form College where i will study Computing (with additional CISCO), Electronics, Psychology and Business Studeis. Best luck for all my mates for the future!

Tonight was the night of our Gilberd School year 11 leavers party. The venue was a secret and unknown until arrival, by bus. We arrived in Halstead at The Scene Nightclub at around 7:30pm. The venue looked really good, lasers, lights, disco smoke, dancing floor and stage, tables, sofa sitting areas, bar, bar stools, VIP room (air conditioned) and LOUD music. The year group went crazy about it dancing all over the place, well, i suppose "jumping" could be a better description. I went with my girlfriend Charlotte, we tried to"dance" and join in, we probably looked like a right couple of idiots, but at least we had a good time! Nobody was quite sure what to wear on the evening as we did not know where we would be going, but overall, a smart casual look for the boys, and a fashion show for the girls (nothing new there). I have uploaded some photos i took during the party, but they have not come out great. You can find the pictures in the techtoad galleries, or alternativley, click here.

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Today we had our year group photo taken, aswell as our form group photos. It was quite funny really, everyone being sorted into height order, me rather close to the back (the tall people). Other than that, quite an average day. Had to stop off after school at my mums friends house for about half an hour, and now just some work to do at home (yes homework already). Been an 'okay' day.

Back to school today, as expected, i was bored after the first 15 minuets. The day went ok, i had to get a few forms signed for my sister, but that was not a problem. Dug visited me after school, he helped me set up RSS on this news page, and showed me how to do watermarks on my image galleries (thanks dude!) We had fun playing with some graphics tests using 3DMark2006. After Dug had left, i gave my dad a hand with his computer, not much time left in the day, so i went to bed shortly after.

Went into highwoods with mum thismorning to meet Charlotte and go into town, we had some old games, CD's and a film SLR camera that we wanted to get some money for at a pawn shop like Cash Converters, but when we got there, discovered that we could not accept cash for the items as we were under 18. We did manage to get MySims for Nintendo DS for £14.79 from Gamestation though, using a £8.20 part exchange discount from the old games. After getting a bite to eat, there was not much else to do in town, so we went back to my house and started a new game of monopoly, which we didnt finish, so i have saved it for another day...

Charlotte came to my house again today, staying the night this time. We played on the Sims 2 for most of the day because Charlotte is slightly addicted to it, thanks to my new graphics card, we were able to play it on my 42" plasma TV which was allowed us both to interact easier. We had great fun, and then watched Kung-Fu Hustle before we went to bed. Next morning we were not sure if going on the Sims would be a good idea concidering we had been playing it all day yesterday, but in the end we did play it for a while. We listened to some music, and sadly, Charlotte had to leave at 6pm when her mum picked her up. It was hard to say goodbye, but that was not the end of my day. Later, around 7pm, Chris Beck and his dad arrived to pick me up and take me back to Draycott house so i could finish setting up their home network, or in today's case, adding his mums laptop to the secured wireless network. I had the job done in just a few minutes, but my mum wasn't due to pick me up until 9:30pm anyway, so we had a long descussion about life, trains, school, computers etc etc followed by a stab at the good old impossible quiz (which Chris had only got to q 42 on before i helped him.) Mum arrived promptly on time and took me back home. I had dinner and then had ANOTHER early night.

Well, it has been a long exciting enjoyable holiday, packed with late nights and activity, so we were both really tired. We pretty much just layed down all day, a bit lazy i suppose, but we were tired. My parents come back off holiday today, so after a long walk home i welcomed them home shortly before getting an early night.

Me and Charlotte have been together exactly 6 months today, so as a special treat, we are going into town to watch a kids film in the cinema. 'Horton hears a who' Yeah - we ARE cool. We had far too many sweets, but it was enjoyable all the same. We went to caf'e nero, where i had a hot white chocolate which was really nice, and later, we went to Shakey Jakey's again, this time i tried a strawberry cheesecake milkshake, which was also really nice! We headed back home to Charlotte's house and played on a new PS2 game that we bought earlier today, Red Ninja. After dinner we watched some TV and then went to bed. Had a wonderful day.