Hamilton back on track

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: July 7th, 2008 | 0 Comments

Last Sunday (July 6th) the F1 Grand Prix was on at Silverstone, and of course i was routing for Lewis Hamilton.

Hamilton immediately overtook the few cars on front of him to take the position behind his teammate Hekki Kovalainen who was in the lead, a few laps later the crowd began cheering Hamilton on to overtake, after he successfully took 1st place Hamilton continued the race by keeping cool and calm.

The race was not easy in any way at all, because the weather was terrible, it kept raining on and off for the whole race which caused the track to become very wet and slippery and full of puddles, which resulted in the racers having to take extra caution. A lot of cars began to spin on the track because of the loss of traction due to the bad weather.

Hamilton went on to finish the race and took first place on the podium followed by Heidfeld in second and Barrichello in third. The overall results now has three leaders all on 48 points however Hamilton is actually in first place.

It has also been announced that the British grand prix will be taking place in Donington Park from 2010.

Back From Galway

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: July 3rd, 2008 | 2 Comments

Last weekend (28th June) i went to Galway with all of my friends for a 21st party, it was great crack, we initially decided to stay just for the Saturday night and go home on the Sunday. We got up really early on Saturday morning at 6:30am and went to the train station at 7:30am, we had to get a train to Dublin then onto Galway from there.

The train ticket cost €68, for a return ticket. When we arrived in Dublin and made our way to the train there was a massive line, we had to sit on the train's floor for 3 hours to Galway! That really annoyed everyone since it was really warm and packed. When we arrived at Galway it just got better from there. We were staying in the college student accommodation, these rooms are rented out for the 3 months that the college is closed. They were brilliant, they only cost €35 a night and you got free travel in a mini bus to and from the city center, and we got free breakfast the next morning!! all included in the small price of €35.

We went out that night and since it was our friends 21st we were all dressed as pirates (ARRGH!!) We had  a great time everyone seemed to like us and were taking picture's of us and everything  after a great night of partying we all were looking forward to a good night's sleep, however it would have to be cut short since check out time was 10am sharp!!

When we all got up we decided that we would stay an extra night so went down to book the extra day, they said it would cost €60 for the extra night since we were booking it with such short notice, but then they told us that if we went into town and booked it through there website it would be even cheaper! And indeed it was it was only €30 to stay on the Sunday night, €5 cheaper than the previous night this was because it was a Sunday.

When we had it all sorted out we went around the city center and looked in the shops and had lunch, then after lunch we were passing a group of people setting up a mat on the ground, they were going to be putting on a show so we decided to sit and watch it, it was brilliant they done loads of acrobatic performances. Here they are in the pictures below.

That was a brilliant show

Later that day we went and lay about in Eyre Square

Later that night we just had some drinks in the apartment and had the crack!

Then the next day we were back up at 10am and checked out and went around the city again until we got our train home at 3pm

The place we stayed in was called Corrib Village

It was definitely a great trip to remember!

Un-delete your mistakes

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: June 28th, 2008 | 1 Comments

How many times have you deleted a file by complete accident and could not get it back, gone forever is what you think. Well not exactly!

There is a way of getting back your deleted file just as it was before you deleted it. When a file is stored on a windows computer it is giving a place on a table known as the "file allocation table", then when you delete a file from your computer it is removed from the file allocation table and so you think it is gone, in one way it is however it is not really, for a while after you delete a file it is still on your computer, you cannot see it but it is still there, when you check to see how much free space you have it tells you how much you should have.

After you delete a file or empty the recycle bin the computer just adds some additional characters to where the file was stored, say a file was called 100110 in your memory well when it is deleted the few characters are put in front of it so the file might look something like this: ###100110 when the computer is scanning through the computer and sees this symbol ### before the 100110 it will know to skip the following sequence of 1's and 0's. These files will remain on your computer for a while, but if you are putting something large on your computer the space might be required so your old files with the # symbols will be removed.

So if you want to get a file back your best chances of getting the file back would be shortly after you deleted it. You can do this by using a program called UndeletePlus with UndeletePlus you can bring back the files you deleted.

You can retrieve files you deleted off your camera or computer once you connect it to the computer and scan it with the Undelete program.

Try doing this by making a file such as taking a picture on your phone, delete it then connect it to the computer and scan it with the Undelete program you will see loads of files you deleted some of which have been overwritten these are the files that are to late to be retrieved, but then you will see others saying that they can be retrieved so simply select the file you want to get back and click: start undelete, and within a few seconds your file will be back as good as new.

If you want to get your files to go forever after you delete them you have to use a shredder and it will completly wipe out the file when it is deleted.