I am a big fan of Formula One Racing; it is about the only sport that I have any interest in. I follow daily updates with what is going in the world of F1, I follow my favourite team McLaren on twitter and I also check up on the official F1 website. And then I have embedded the F1 minute updates into my sidebar here on the blog. My favourite racer is Louis Hamilton who races for McLaren, although he is not performing his best this season so far, he is getting better as the car begins to get better while trying to cope and adjust to the new racing regulations.

The Monaco racing track is the best track in my opinion. It keeps all the racers close together and makes overtaking virtually impossible and risky when it is attempted. Another reason I like it is because it is not a proper race track, it is just a normal road that is converted into a race track for the week that the race is being held.

Anyway today I slept in late until about lunchtime and then decided that when I got up I would wait until later to watch the race, I recorded it and decided to enjoy the sunny weather today  

I then watched Britain’s Got Talent when it was on tonight and up until now I had done my best to not hear anything about the race and who had won it. And what do you know would happen? Bloody Piers Morgan at the beginning of Britain’s Got Talent decided he would compare one of the acts to the winner of Monaco’s race today! So basically all my work of trying to avoid finding out who won the race it was all for not because bloody Piers ruined it!

The race turned out to be great anyway with lots of action as expected and of course Jenson Button won the race as with his teammate Rubens Barrichello coming in second. Even though I knew who won the race I still enjoyed it but it would of being even better if I had of had no idea of who the winner was. 

Getting to your 100th blog post is considered to be a big achievement, it shows you are commitment to your blog. Well now I have reached my 100th blog post and I can’t believe it! Apparently once you get to 100 there is no stopping you or so I hear!

It doesn’t really feel like I have written 100 posts though, this might be because it took over a year! Yes that is a long time for such a small amount of posts. But the bulk of them have only been written within the past few months of this year. Since March of this year I decided I would begin a regular update by adding a post every now and again. So since March I have written 60, that is 60 out of the 100! So what the hell did I do for the other 9 months which I only managed to post 40! 

Most of those other posts were vague posts; they didn’t really have many points of interest and were very short in length. Now however my post length has begun to grow. I used to find it slightly difficult to write to this blog, I would just have no idea on how to go about beginning the post. But once you start a post the rest of it tends to come more naturally to you. The first paragraph is usually the hardest, once that is written it just starts to flow better.

So as of Thursday of this week I am free for the summer from college, no more until the beginning of September Next week I want to get four things done. The first is I want to add back in my About page to this blog, most likely nobody has noticed that this has gone, but I have! I took it down when I changed the design of this blog. It was a little outdated and vague. So now I want to add a short 2 or 3 paragraph ‘About Me’ page so that readers of this blog can find out a little more about who I am.

Next on the agenda after that will to finish updating a website for a Limousine company, I had meant to get this started about 2 weeks ago but I put it on hold because my exams were on, but now that I am finished with that I want to get it done. Also the person that owns the site is really eager to get the site updated as you can imagine he specializes in wedding cars and this is the season where a lot of people like to get married since there is a good chance of sunshine.

And then the next thing I want to get done is finish off adding content to my new .ie partnership site with Smemon and then finally get it launched within the week. I want to have a lot more content on the site before we launch it. I aim to have at least 10 times the amount of content on the website before it is launched, I will take note of what I have done so far and reflect back on it when the launch date of the site arrives. The launch date has yet to be confirmed but I would imagine it might be mid-week or Friday. Once this site is finally launched it will be a matter of continuing to add as much content as I can and get that visitor count up as much as we can. The design of the site is really nice and compliments the content really well, it is simple and easy to navigate through. 

And now the final thing I want done does not have to be completed for at least a month or two. It is a site that I have wanted to build for a long time now and I believe I have finally found a great template that I can use with a little bit of tweaking. The site will be a news based site, on what I will not say as it is too early for that. I may look for people to help out with adding content to it, but that may not work out. If you want to help out with this little project idea of mine you can contact me through my contact form on this site. Another thing about the site will be that it is going to be running on the Joomla! platform. 

I have recently begun to use Joomla! for the .ie site that I am working on and have begun to really grasp on how it works. A few months ago I had no clue on how it worked, it seemed far too complex for me to use it and I played around with it before and just gave up. But for this next website I want to build, Joomla! will be a perfect match as it has the power behind it for this site. 

I used to always try and build websites using wordpress as I had mastered on how to use wordpress and how to edit the themes, I knew what linked to where and where to find things that I needed, I also learned how to remove encrypted footers and also how to fix theme preview issues that I had. Wordpress really was the first time that I really began to work with php, by getting stuck in with it I quickly began to grasp the different terms used in php coding language. Wordpress is really good for beginner website users. I would not recommend beginning off with joomla! because it would just confuse you more than anything on your first look at it.

I used wordpress as a stepping stone towards joomla!, with learning the simple CMS (Content Management System) of wordpress it gave me an idea on where things might be in joomla! such as plugins and modules, also I learned how different files communicated in wordpress and this helped me with how the different files communicate in joomla!.

It appears that Google is mapping Dundalk, Co.Louth in Ireland I didn’t know about this, it was said that only a few locations were going to be mapped in Ireland and Dundalk was not on that list. However they must have changed their minds because the Google Street View car has been spotted in a few places around Dundalk over the past few weeks  

Here is the Google car in Dundalk mapping the street: Tom Bellew Avenue, last week  It’s a bit of a hazy image but sure I couldn’t find it anywhere on the internet so I had to scan the picture from the newspaper

This is taken from the 'Dundalk Leader' Newspaper

I wonder how long it takes before Irelands street images are uploaded, I know there is some up of Belfast but that is part of the UK, so far none of the Irish roads have been added. I know it will take them a few months to blend all their images together, so it will be interesting when they finally launch Irelands street view pictures I wonder if they are going to map all the different housing estates, I assume they would because they have done in other countries. It will be mental to see my house up on Street View

It also looks like DKIT will be at some time, phasing out the free parking spaces available in there on-campus parking lots. They have applied for a new staff car park so that they can move there current staff car park from where it is currently located to over by the Carrolls building. Maybe they will keep the old one too and give it out to the students DKIT requested 300 new spaces however they were only given 150, i wonder why, they clearly need a hell of a lot of spaces, and since the parking spaces are not very visible from the road, you would think they would of been granted the parking spaces.

Its not too long ago since office 2007 was released, and people are still getting used to its new look and feel as it is fairly different to the good old 2003 version. I now know my way around the office 2007 really well, and what do i hear now? They are going to be bringing out a Office 2010!

Now i dont expect the interface to change too much, i reckon it will just contain some more features and perhaps make it easier to use for users who have not grasped how to work office 2007. Apparently Microsoft Office 2010 will be compatible on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, basically if you can run Office 2007 then there should be no problem with Office 2010.

Anyway the reason i am calling microsoft office creators ‘big-headed’ is because they really think that Office 2010 is going to be a real breakthough, so much that they have made a website for it, nothing unusual there since everything has a website these days. However they decided to go a different route with this site, instead of advertising there new Office as a program they are calling it the ‘Countdown to the beginning of awesome’ like come on that is just really big headed, they have already set the bar high and if they dont deliver on this so called ‘awesomeness’ then they will have a bit of a let down!

Another thing they have done with this new site is make it just like a movie site, yep they are so confident that they are pretending the best film ever is coming when really it is just a new office application suite! It says ‘In 2010 there hero will arrive’ they expect me to view office 2010 as my hero!

I cant wait to see this, as i write this there is 43 Days until the launch of the technical preview of there new office suite, and oh yeah they even have a countdown to the release! You have to see it though i just think it is funny the approach that they are taking to this new Office suite, i suppose it is creative and it will get people talking about it, just like i am

On there new site you can sign up for the technical preview, it is invite only so even if you apply you might not get accepted. I signed up, hopefully i get accepted Also they have set up a twitter page for the new office 2010. Anyway go have a look at ‘The beginning of awesome’ on the official office ‘movie’ site.

Apparently the new office 2010 technical preview has been leaked onto torrent sites already! go over to SiliconRepublic for more on that.

Well the title might be a big exaggerated, its not like i am been forced against my will to go to college But anyway i have now officially only got one week of college left. And of that week only 3 part days i actually have to go in for because i only have three exams left. For these remaining exams i am pretty confident that i will pass them, one i know i have passed already and the other two are not far of the pass mark either.

Image via Wikipedia

Once college is finished i will begin to work more at my job, we are currently understaffed so it plays in my benefit since i get more hours usually when the summer comes my part-time job usually turns into a full time job. But at the moment my job feels like a full time job because i have been working some very ridiculas hours, for example we didnt get out of work last friday until midnight when the store closed at 9pm! It just shows that they have too much to do and not enough staff!

Also next week i intend to do a lot of work on my partnership .ie domain and i hope to get it up and running fast. Once it is up and running i will make a post here telling everyone what it is I will tell you one thing, since it is a .ie domain it will be used to target the irish market and the site has got one major irish site that is in the same category as the one that we are making, the plan is to beat it in rank and hopefully catch more irish traffic than them it is a big goal to achieve considering the copetitiopn but i reckon with some good SEO skills, it could be do-able. 

After that i really want to get to work on finishing my design for my EntertainmentClam site, it is a long time ago that i said that i was going to change the look of it, and never did! however i did make the decision this year to renew the domain registration for another year so i want to try and make it work one more time. It does receive traffic,last month it received 361 unique visits, which is not bad since i havent added any new fresh content in about two and a half months! So once i focus more on adding new content i reckon that figure should begin to grow again. Currently the majority of my visitors are coming from the United Kingdom and the United States.

Also i have registered a new .com domain about a month ago, registered two names for it I have not done anything with it yet and i havent even pointed it to my server yet, so i would like to try and do something with that. The summer is the best time to get started with that since what the site revolves around is less popular during the summer months.

And more more thing i have to do before all this is work on 2 websites, the first is a quick update for a limo site, that will only take a day, if even that. And then the second is for a band.

So by the looks of things i have a fair bit to get done, and that is only so far, i am sure i will think of a few more things to spend my time on