As I mentioned previously I came home from uni on Sunday. I actually really impressed myself on my journey. Firstly let it be known that I hate driving. Driving in the snow on the way home was not as terrifying as I expected it to be. It was scary but I didn’t seem to mind it, unusually!

I also had ‘issues’ with my sat nav. It wouldn’t calculate a route, anywhere, it was constantly coming up with errors and crashing. I suppose that’s to be expected when its running on windows mobile. I know the route home anyway but I was slightly worried as I’m planning a trip to South Hampton soon. I’ve had problems with it before too. If the cable isn’t in exactly the right position, and I mean by the millimeter it wont recognise the PDA and doesn’t work.

I got home and unpacked all my stuff. In the process I pulled another muscle in my chest. (For those that don’t remember/know the story) This time its on the breastbone, still on the right side just above my bewb. Its so annoying, why me! If it gets any worse I’m going to have to start taking those painkillers again.

Anyway, I digress, I told my parents about my crappy sat nav, which has served me pretty well tbh. Twenty minutes later my dad and I are in the car heading for Halfords! My dad does go a little overboard, I was thinking ooh lets get the cute little one, but because my dad will be using this when we go to Florida in July he got the biggest, fattest, most expensive one there! TomTom Go 520.

It does everything. You can plug your ipod into it, it has 5 hour battery life (the rest had 2) but the best features of all, not only does it tell you when there’s speed cameras coming up. It calculates your speed using its satellite positioning and tells you when your going too fast. It also tells you the speed limit on the road your on. My mum and I found this particularly useful when we went to ikea yesterday.

I finished uni on Friday, two weeks after Easter weekend. I was planning on leaving on the Friday but a mate of mine managed to get hold of a power mac g4. He came round so we could be childish and obsess over it!

It has 128mb RAM, 400Mhz processor and a 4.5gig hard drive. For comparison purposes my 4 year old Dell pc originally had 512mb ram, 3.06Ghz processor and 1 80gig hard drive. It now has another 250gig harddrive and 2gig of ram.

This was our first attempt at booting it up. I don’t know what we expected, click to read more »

Do any of you remember be telling you that I have a problem, its gotten worse! I’ve just signed up to Orkut, google’s social network! I’m actually pretty impressed although there’s certainly room for improvement.

Theres profiles and communities, but you can make custom groups for your friends, which is so useful! It’d be better if I had some friends to group though!

You can also import feeds, add people to your ‘crush/hot list’ which is a dating feature I suppose. Theres a scrapbook on which people can post and the site integrates with picassa and youtube/google video nicely too.

Its only real down falls are not being able to edit your profile, even a custom background would be cool and all the communities are full of spammers. A simple ‘report as spam’ option would be great for this, say 1 spam report flags it to the rest of the community and the more spam flags it gets the quicker it’ll go!