http://blackburnroadrunners.co.uk/

I have been working on that site for the last couple of days. I spent about two hours on it yesterday and about three hours on it today.
The site is so out of date and needs sorting out mega style so I am trying to do at least an hour on it a day from now on. I reckon even at an hour a day it is going to take me about two months to sort it all out and update it all but the end result should be worth it.
At the moment I'm spending ages going through the files and seeing what's in them, and just so I don't forget and I'm able to find the pages/files I'm after fastly I am noting down the names of the files/pages and writing what's in them. When I have gone through it all I will type it up and save a copy to the computer and print off a copy and put it in a file that I have started to put together with all the paper in.
Today I did a page, well the page was already done on the website but I updated it and made it a bit more colourful and it looks FANTASTIC now. I'm really happy with my results on it. It took me two hours to do in total and I know when you see it you will wonder why it took me two hours to do but I had a lot of deleting and changing to do and all the details on it now I put in and wasn't in before. If you want to see the page I am talking about then go to the website and click on CALENDAR = that is what I did today.
So far I am not in need of the Java for dummies or the HTML book I got from the library but I am sure that I will do soon. Maybe I shouldn't of gotten them out till I needed them but they are out for three weeks and I am sure I will need them sometime during them next three weeks.
I don't have a clue what page I am going to do next but I am looking into changing the background colour to a nicer blue as I really dislike that colour. I won't be doing that yet as I want to sort other things out first before I go changing the colour of the site.
For the site I am also looking at a pay system so people are able to pay to enter the BRR races online and I am hoping to get that sorted in time for the next race in August, I am sure I can do it in the next month.

TMA02 - A207 - PASSED!!!!!

I got my TMA result back today for TMA02.

And I PASSED!!!!!!

I am in total shock over this to be honest. I really didn't expect to pass it.

Before I even looked at the TMA I knew I wanted to get 45% to make up for the 5% lost on my first one. Then I saw the TMA and thought I would be so lucky just to pass it.
I spent about 3-4 in total on this TMA and the last but I think with this one I did more work on it. I know I spent about the same amount of time on then both but with this one I went a bit more in depth with it and tried harder. That's not to say that I didn't work hard on my first one because I did work hard. I thought I would pass the first one (just) but I didn't.
It looks as though whatever I did paid off because I passed it and I got 51%.
I'm in total disbelief and shock over this but it does go to show that I can do it.
I just hope I can keep it up and pass all my TMAs from now on. I am going to be working harder and spending as many as two hours a day on my course. With a minimum of one a day so then I don't fall too far behind.
These TMAs do get more difficult as they go along so I need to work hard on the course work as well as the TMA. I have a while till the next one is due in but only have to do two units in order to do the next one so I should have at least a week to do it in so it will be done on time for once, well I hope it is.

Got a Cold Coming on :O(

Today I woke up not feeling 100% and as the day has gone along I have started to come down with a bit of a cold.
I have a bit of a tempeture which is getting worse. I also have a growing headache and I'm thirsty.
I've managed to go for six weeks without being ill which is a record for me lately as for the last six months I have been getting a cold each month. They usually last 9-14 days in total. So I am then ok for two weeks and then get struck down with a really heavy cold yet again.
I have just passed 6 weeks of being fine and now I am coming down with a cold :O( as you can tell I don't want one and will do everything I can to try to stop it from becoming a really heavy cold.
After my TV program which finishes at 8pm I am going to go to bed for a couple of hours as I am really tired. I will then get up till midnight so I can watch my fav program and then take some night nurse and go to bed. I am hoping that taking that will stop it from getting any worse than what it is now and that if it doesn't get any worse I should be OK in a few days time.
I would take some night nurse when I am going to bed at 8pm but it makes me mega drowsy and I know that I wont want to wake up and will be out of it later. So I shall wait till just before I go to bed later on before I take it.
I just hope I don't get any worse than what I am now.

TMA02 - A207

I managed to get my second TMA sent in the day before it was due in.
Gosh that was a really hard TMA. I thought the first question was the harder of the two so I started to concentrate on that so I got a massive shock when I looked at the second one.
I had to rush through the TMA yet again just like my last one.
I am going to have to try to keep up with the course work from now on as I have the time to do so but I get lazy and side tracked at times.
Once I have caught up this time I am going to try my hardest to keep up and even get a little ahead.
This block (block 3) I only need to do the first two units of it in order to do the next TMA, TMA03, so when I have gotten through the first two weeks of it (which I started today) I will be doing my next TMA which should be finished 1-2 weeks before it is due in. That is unless I get really stuck on it. I looked at the question today and I really don't have a clue what to do or what to write for it but then again I only started the first of the two units today. So I am hoping that once I have done those two units,even if I need help, that I have it finished at least a week before it is due in.
Then I will carry on with the rest of the block.

I haven't received my results back from the last one, TMA02, and I am dreading it a little as I failed my first one. My tutor is a little harsh with her marking but there is nothing I can do about it. I know that I did a passable TMA but she is marking it from the level of being a doctor so it was marked unfairly. I got 35% and I need 40% for a pass and everyone kept saying it didn't matter as it only contributed towards 10% of the overall score for the course but I needed the extra five incase I didn't pass further on down the line in a even harder TMA.
I really don't know what I will do if I don't pass this TMA. I really was hoping for 45% to make up on the 35% so my scores then are 40% each but I don't know if it is doable. I know what I wrote wasn't as good as my first TMA. I can say that because it is so true and now knowing what I got for a better TMA is worrying me a little as I may only get 30%. That will mean I will need to make up 15% over the next 5 TMAs in order to pass the TMA part of the course. I then need to also get 50% in my exam in October to be able to pass the course.
If I pass TMA02 I will be so happy about it and so knuckle down to my course. I need to be doing that anyway and have started on it today. I really want to pass this course so I will be working a lot harder on it than what I am doing now.
I am at the point that I don't know if I want to look at my TMA results when I get them. Last time I didn't but I opened them when I got them thinking I couldn't of failed and was in for a little shock when I got 35%. So maybe it is a good idea that I don't open it till I have done my TMA. But I don't know if I really could do that. It would be like coming down on Christmas day and not being able to open my presents till New Years Day. I just wouldn't last an hour. I would maybe last a couple of hours by keeping myself busy but then I would just have to open them.
So I will see what I do.

123 Rating on Ebay

Two weeks after getting my 100th feedback on ebay I am not on 123. I like that one. 123 is cool.
I'm sure by the end of the week my rating will have changed.
Also as you can see I am well on target to get my 200th feedback by the beginning of next year. In fact I am a little ahead atm.
I haven't really been trying to get loads of ratings, they have kinda just shot up in the last 2 weeks.
I think I will have 150 by September anyway which is like four months away and then I have the same sorta amount of time to get abother 50.
I wonder what rating I need to get in order for the colour star to change? I'm not too sure on that but I really like the colour it is now.

Fat guy singing and dancing

Today I was on my fav games sites playing Monopoly with someone when they asked me if I had seen the clip of the fat guy singing and dancing. No was my reply so they gave me the link so I could check it out.

LOL!!!!!!!..................

That clip made my day if not my whole week ... I was lmao when I was watching that clip, it is one of the funniest clips that I have ever seen.

You have to check it out. The link is:

http://blogs.linux.ie/xeer/2005/01/26/fat-dutch-man-funny-guy-dancing/

For an interview in the New York Times go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/nyregion/26video.html?ex=1113105600&en=9e26eccd73153d54&ei=5070&oref=login

But to read that you may have to sign up so I will print a copy at the end of this.

And to check out spoofs of it check this site out:

http://www.newgrounds.com/collections/numanuma.html

You will probably LOL at it as much as I did. It is hilarious. LOL.

The Interview:

Internet Fame Is Cruel Mistress for a Dancer of the Numa NumaBy ALAN FEUER and JASON GEORGE Published: February 26, 2005
here was a time when embarrassing talents were a purely private matter. If you could sing "The Star Spangled Banner" in the voice of Daffy Duck, no one but your friends and family would ever have to know.
But with the Internet, humiliation - like everything else - has now gone public. Upload a video of yourself playing flute with your nose or dancing in your underwear, and people from Toledo to Turkmenistan can watch.

Here, then, is the cautionary tale of Gary Brolsma, 19, amateur videographer and guy from New Jersey, who made the grave mistake of placing on the Internet a brief clip of himself dancing along to a Romanian pop song. Even in the bathroom mirror, Mr. Brolsma's performance could only be described as earnest but painful.
His story suggests that the quaint days when cultural trinkets, like celebrity sex tapes, were passed around like novels in Soviet Russia are over. It says a little something of the lightning speed at which fame is made these days.
To begin at the beginning:
Mr. Brolsma, a pudgy guy from Saddle Brook, made a video of himself this fall performing a lip-synced version of "Dragostea Din Tei," a Romanian pop tune, which roughly translates to "Love From the Linden Trees." He not only mouthed the words, he bounced along in what he called the "Numa Numa Dance" - an arm-flailing, eyebrow-cocked performance executed without ever once leaving the chair.
In December, the Web site newgrounds.com, a clearinghouse for online videos and animation, placed a link to Mr. Brolsma on its home page and, soon, there was a river of attention. "Good Morning America" came calling and he appeared. CNN and VH1 broadcast the clip. Parodists tried their own Numa Numa dances online. By yesterday, the Brolsma rendition of "Love From the Linden Trees" had attracted nearly two million hits on the original Web site alone.
The video can be seen here.
It was just as Diane Sawyer said on her television program: "Who knows where this will lead?"
Nowhere, apparently. For, in Mr. Brolsma's case, the river became a flood.
He has now sought refuge from his fame in his family's small house on a gritty street in Saddle Brook. He has stopped taking phone calls from the news media, including The New York Times. He canceled an appearance on NBC's "Today." According to his relatives, he mopes around the house.
What's worse is that no one seems to understand.
"I said, 'Gary this is your one chance to be famous - embrace it,' " said Corey Dzielinski, who has known Mr. Brolsma since the fifth grade. Gary Brolsma is not the first guy to rocket out of anonymity on a starship of embarrassment. There was William Hung, the Hong Kong-born "American Idol" reject, who sang and danced so poorly he became a household name. There was Ghyslain Raza, the teenage Québécois, who taped himself in a mock light-saber duel and is now known as the Star Wars Kid.
In July 2003, Mr. Raza's parents went so far as to sue four of his classmates, claiming they had placed the clip of him online without permission. "Ghyslain had to endure and still endures today, harassment and derision," according to the lawsuit, first reported in The Globe and Mail of Toronto.
Mr. Brolsma has no plans to sue, his family said - mainly because he would have to sue himself. In fact, they wish he would bask a little in his celebrity.
"I don't know what's wrong with him," his grandfather, Kalman Telkes, a Hungarian immigrant, said the other day while taking out the trash.
The question remains why two million people would want to watch a doughy guy in glasses wave his arms around online to a Romanian pop song.
"It definitely has to be something different," said Tom Fulp, president and Webmaster of newgrounds.com.
"It's really time and place."
"The Numa Numa dance," he said, sounding impressed. "You see it and you kind of impulsively have to send it to your friends."
There is no way to pinpoint the fancy of the Internet, but in an effort to gauge Mr. Brolsma's allure, the Numa Numa dance was shown to a classroom of eighth graders at Saddle Brook Middle School - the same middle school that he attended, in fact.
The students' reactions ranged from envious to unimpressed. "That's stupid," one of them said. "What else does he do?" a second asked. A third was a bit more generous: "I should make a video and become famous."
The teacher, Susan Sommer, remembered Mr. Brolsma. He was a quiet kid, she said, with a good sense of humor and a flair for technology.
"Whenever there were computer problems, Gary and Corey would fix them for the school," she said.
His friends say Mr. Brolsma has always had a creative side. He used to make satirical Prozac commercials on cassette tapes, for instance. He used to publish a newspaper with print so small you couldn't read it with the naked eye.
"He was always very out there - he's always been ambitious," said Frank Gallo, a former classmate. "And he's a big guy, but he's never been ashamed."
Another friend, Randal Reiman, said: "I've heard a lot of people say it's not that impressive - it doesn't have talent. But I say, Who cares?"
These days, Mr. Brolsma shuttles between the house and his job at Staples, his family said. He is distraught, embarrassed. His grandmother, Margaret Telkes, quoted him as saying, just the other day, "I want this to end."
And yet the work lives on. Mr. Fulp, the Webmaster, continues to receive online homages to the Numa Numa dance. The most recent showed what seemed to be a class of computer students singing in Romanian and, in unison, waving their hands.
Mr. Reiman figures the larger world has finally caught on to Gary Brolsma.
"He's been entertaining us for years," he said, "so it's kind of like the rest of the world is realizing that Gary can make you smile."


That is the best clip ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

100 Feedback!!!!

I have this evening got my 100th Feedback on ebay!!!!!

So I managed to get it just over three weeks before my target of the end of this month.

I now have the green star that I have longed for, for the past two months and now I have reached my goal of getting 100 feedbacks on ebay before the end of April. It only took me just under 2 months to do so.

Things seem to be selling for me at the moment on ebay. I am getting rid of things from my house that I no longer need and want as well as selling things that I have bought to sell on ebay. I'm doing ok. I have bought a lot of stuff on there over the past two months but I have made a lot more than I have spent which is always good.

I have about 20 things on there at the moment and I plan on putting some more things on tomorrow that I remembered I have but no longer use/wear. Thursday is my fav to to list at the moment as I have found Sunday is a good day for things to end.

My next target is to have a feedback rating of 150 by October and hopefully have a 200 rating by the new year with any hope.

92 Feedback on ebay

I am now on 92 feedback on ebay.
It is the 1st of April now and I got my 92nd feedback last night.
I haven't done too bad seen as less than two months ago I had a feedback of 4.
I have bought 92 things - my buying has slowed down some though and I have only bought about 5 things in the last two weeks.
I have sold about 50 so far and I have 30 things for sale on ebay at the moment. 6 of the items will sell. I have a lot of watchers on some of my items.
10 items will end on Sunday, 3 of which will sell, one that is selling has 5 watchers on, 1 that is selling has 2 watchers on and 1 of the others has a watcher.
I have 1 that will end in three days on Monday and as of yet that doesn't have a watcher or a bidder but I hope it sells.
I then have four items on that end in 7 days, 2 of which will sell and both have a watcher on.
I then have 8 items on that will end in 8 days time, only one will sell - that has a watcher and also one of the other items have a watcher.
I then have 4 items on that end in 9 days. As of yet non of them have watchers or have bids but they haven't even been on a day so they need time so people can see them.

At the moment I am surprised that Hanson things are selling really well. I used to be a really big fan of Hanson and I do really like them. When I get my next Amazon voucher I will be getting their new album as the songs I have heard from it so far are really good.
I used to have all their CD's. Well I did have some on tape and I was so shocked to see how much some of these things are going for. At the time CD singles were £4 and I used to pay that for a single even if I had the album just because of the bonust tracks on it. So I do a few Hanson Singles. I did have their first album but I had it on tape and I played it so much that the tape snapped so I selotape it back together and eventually is snapped in a couple of places and it was unfixable. That was a really good album. For the ages they were it was brillien, maybe any album someone of their now ages would be writing. I do hope to get another copy of that album one day soon as it was such a great album. They are the only things I wouldn't put on eBay is the albums but I would put the old singles on as I don't listen to them anymore. Well I have done over the last couple of days since I got them out to photograph and put on ebay.
I also have Hanson books, two of, that have gone on and got bids within an hour of them being on. One cost me £3.50 and I put on for £1 and the other cost £6.99, and is the nicer of the two, and that I put on for £1.50. I know these people that have bid on them are mega Hanson fans as I have looked at the other things they have been buying and they have been buying Hanson things off eBay. I do really like them but I wouldn't really go nuts over their old singles as they have the songs on their albums as a lot of the extra tracks where taken from "3 car garage" an album they did before they did their "first" album.
Anyway I have a few things of Hansons on eBay and will see how they do before I put the rest on or I may wait till they all have bids before I put more things on.
The way things stand I should have 8 more feedbacks in the next 10 days and then I will have a feedback of 100. The ultimate goal for now.

Oh and by the way I have got ten more than I ever did on my other ebay account that I had last year as I only got up to 82 on that one and I did that in a much longer time. If I would still have that account now I would have about 174 and my goal would be 200. I will pay that account off when I have some money as I got in to a bit of debt with that account and I couldn't afford to pay it but I am sure the way I am going with this account that I will be able to pay it off in a few months time.