As the year draws to a close I’ve managed to sneak in the odd update with more links on the ‘Links‘ page and also some ‘Desktop Wallpapers‘. I had particular fun with the latter, which provided a suitable distraction from French and the trials and tribulations of Adobe Flash (440KB file size I tell you!!!). They came about as the result of an initial attempt at a new layout as I am fast becoming aware of the nearing start of term and the speed at which this theme will become outdated! I ended up with two desktop wallpapers, of which I’m quite pleased with, but no layout - typical!

Other events that have occurred in these last days of ‘08 include me managing to nab a Kate Nash album for £2.50 in the light of Woollies’ collapse, ordering my 2009 moleskine diary on Amazon only to discover that it’ll only be dispatched on the 5th —–

—– This is where I got to when my computer went KAPUT. Somewhere in the midst of my desperate downloading of Flash .SWF file compressors an important file was damaged/deleted and Dad and I have been working on restoring my PC since - what fun! Touch wood, my documents seem to be intact, but many of the programmes will have to be reinstalled (including Adobe Suite - do you know how long that will take?!). Quite a large pain and not exactly looking like it’ll make for the best start to the new year. However, there are minor positives, such as managing to delete some of the junk lying around my hard drive and the fact that I’ve managed to regress to Internet Explorer 6 (the worst piece of browser trash since…Internet Explorer 5?), which is brilliant for testing cross-browser compatibility in. *cue total geekdom*

So I better head off to try and patch things up before the New Year partying begins, which just leaves me left to wish you all the best for 2009!

P.S. All this and I still haven’t done that French!

It seems mad to think that Christmas has been already! Nonetheless I enjoyed myself thoroughly. We spent the few days together as a family (just the four of us; Mum, Dad, Truffle and I, as per usual), went out to church on Christmas day, walked the dog, sat around in comfy clothes, opened presents and pulled crackers. As is probably true of many families, we probably ate more than good for us and enjoyed watching the various Christmas TV offerings such as Wallace & Gromit in ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’ and the Doctor Who Christmas special (having sophisticated tastes as we do).

This year I knew in advanced what my present would be, having taken part in choosing it, but was still very excited to receive my lovely little, green, 16GB, 4th generation, ipod nano who has now been dubbed ‘Froggy’! He now houses 5 odd gigabytes of music and 1.2 of video - far more than I realised I had!

Much to my surprise however, I also received some brilliant new cymbals for my drum kit. This was even more to my surprise as we only opened our presents around lunch time and the cymbals had been on my drum kit, in corner of the room where we were, all morning and I hadn’t noticed!! That demonstrates my skills of observation eh?

Hope everyone else had a lovely Christmas and would love to hear what you got up to!