Please sponsor me today.... I'm rising to the challenge to raise money for Sport Relief. I will be running/jogging/walking 6 miles (just under 10K) in London on the 21st March 2010 at 11:45am. I will start at London Victoria and will finish at London Embankment so look out for me on TV! I'm getting involved because Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives. All the money raised is spent helping poor and disadvantaged people turn their lives around - in the UK as well as the world’s poorest countries. I'd really appreciate your support by sponsoring me to take part.  To make a secure online donation, click on the link ...

A couple of months ago I received a message about problem with speeding up time in Sims3. I have had a look into this issue and it seems to have been a large problem only affecting some copies of the game! There is talk suggesting that the issue has been fixed in a recent patch, but as I haven't personally seen the problem myself I am unable to say that for certain. If you search google for the issue there are sites which offer possible manual fixes but I wouldn't suggest to try any of these as they don't seem correct after looking at my copy. If you have a genuine problem with this try backing up your game save (copy the entire folder called "Electronic Arts") located in "My ...

Yay! I'm so glad I have had my results for the second year of my degree. The results below are out of 15. GUI:Design and Implementation - 14 Professional and Enterprise Development - 12 Web Programming with Servlets and JSP - 12 (really happy about that grade) Software Development for Mobile Computing Applications - 11 Concurrent Programming in C# - 9 (this could have been higher if it wasn't for the tutor who marked it) Database Systems - 8 Windows Game Programming - 4 (don't do games programming in your second year, if you didn't do it in the first year) Further Object-Oriented Programming - 4 (really don't know what happened with this one! Time management ...