Ah well…
In the past week, all it’s done is rain on and off, and then pour down like there was no tomorrow for a few minutes while everyone was trying to get on a bus (or round about then at least). Thursday, swimming carnival. Not much fun, cold day, wet and rainy, crowded, and I’m not a swimmer, so I wouldn’t have put myself in a race… and so I didn’t. It’s not that I can’t swim, it’s that I don’t swim well. I remember all those hours where the swimming instructors would try to teach me how to better perform my freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke… never got to the butterfly, thank goodness. I definitely don’t enjoy the racing type swimming either. I prefer just the lazy, relaxing swimming, playing with friends.
But besides that, like many other people, spent much of the day playing cards or something similar.
Moving on, this week has seen (for some at least) a massive amount of homework. Now, if I were to compare my homework now to last year, yes, it is more, but no, I haven’t yet got the massive amount that other people have got… maybe because I’m doing SDD and Music 2?? Besides, I’d enjoy any work from those two… I think.
You know what would be good? At least for me? A laptop of my own… I’ve got my eyes set on a slightly customised version of a ‘New’ Dell Studio 17 laptop… here’s the basic run down of it (more for me than anyone else):
- Intel Core i7-720QM (1.6GHz per core, 4 cores/8 threads (i.e. multi-threaded multi-cores), with the new Turbo up to 2.8GHz)
- 6GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM (2GB + 4GB)
- 1TB HDD (2 x 500GB, RAID0)
- Slot load, fixed (i.e. fastened, stuck in, etc.) Blu-Ray/DVD +/- RW Combo drive
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 1GB (1GB mobile graphics card, great for movies and games!!)
- Integrated Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi MB audio software (great for HD surround sound!)
- Backlit keyboard
- 1 x 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet port
- 2 x USB 2.0 ports + 1 x UBS/eSATA port + 1 x Firewire (micro) port
- 1 x DisplayPort + 1 x HDMI port + 1 x VGA port
- 17.3″ HD (1600 x 900) LCD screen with 2MB webcam and WLED (White LED) backlight
- Wi-Fi n + Bluetooth
- 1 yr limited Warranty, 2GB Dell OnlineBackup, Standard delivery
- 10 month Subscription to McAfee
- Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
- All for just $2,405.60 (includes GST and shipping)
Now that I’ve written all that down for prosperity, to myself mainly, I can look back at it, and see how quickly and how far technology advanced between when I do finally get my own DRL (Desktop Replacement Laptop), and when I wrote this down at the beginning of 2010.
In other news, I’m now teaching myself C#, partly out of interest, partly because of SDD, but mostly because it is a very useful language which can be used for web apps, general programming and is virtually parallel to Java. I wonder if I’ll take as long learning C# as I did to learn the small amounts of HTML and XHTML, Javascript and jQuery, and PHP that I know…