Official Forums Now Available

Hi everyone,

Just a quick update to tell you that the website now has forums. Just point your browser to www.jack-bromby.com/forum and you'll be able to sign up. Right now I only have a few boards as only a few people are signed up but if we grow I will add more discussion boards. I will also be recruiting moderators and admins in the future (this position is only for people who I trust the most). Anyway please sign up, contribute and advertise ANY way you can. I will also be performing some website updates soon.

Thanks,

- Jack

Saturday Night

First off I'd like to thank Javier and TMC for their lovely comments on the previous post. It has been nearly a week since my Mum had her wisdom tooth removed and she is still unable to eat hard foods, she has been eating soft foods recently, today she had a bowl of cereal, ice cream and a packet of chips that melt in your mouth so you don't have to chew them. It must suck to only have cereal while I am sat their having waffles and bacon for breakfast! I will keep you all informed of any progress on that.

I did mention in the previous post that it is half-term next week so all the schools/colleges in the UK are now off. That gives me time to work on all THREE assignments which I received as well as my website. I have done a little bit of work on my Software Design assignment but it was very difficult. It is all about programming paradigms of such etc etc. I won't go into detail. Anyway I started a little bit of work on my Installing Computer Software assignment which is a little bit easier. The first part of this assignment covers software licensing. Why is everything to do with a computer so difficult? :( it sucks. Okay the software licensing isn't too painful but programming paradigms, WTF?

I have had a letter from my orthadontist this morning, I will be getting my braces installed very soon. Okay I know it's a painless procedure but I don't want to go into it right now. Anyway I can't think of much more to write, weather has been raining today and a bit cold, still according to billinghamweather.com we have only had 7 rain days in October, so it's not too bad. Could be worse. I hope we don't have a cold winter. Snow is quite rare in England and even more rare in my area of the North East so I probably don't need to worry much. Just that the snow was quite heavy last year, even though it was only for a couple of days. In 2007 and 2006 we didn't get any snow at all. Highest recorded temperature in Billingham was 32.2 C which is 89 F. Very hot.

Oh, a new show started here last night (Friday) on Channel 4 called "The Event". I enjoyed watching that, it is on every Friday night here now. I will be watching it.

Website Updates are being done!

I am just taking a quick break in working on my website to say that the updates will be coming to the site very very soon. I won't release too much just yet. I am hoping to have them done by Sunday but I am not sure if I will, web design is very time consuming, believe me. And it's guarenteed that if I am doing the updates SOMETHING will go wrong no matter how small. Anyway if you want to check on the progress of the updates then check back here as I will try to update about them. I begun the updates at about 7:30 PM and it's now 8:30 PM! All I have done so far is worked on the navigation bar but I will get more done, hopefully Friday. I don't think I am staying at Dad's on Saturday because he is working but I will on Sunday. So I hope everything will be done by Sunday. Check out some screenshots from my iPhone :)

Nearly 600 days! Website Updates (Coming Soon!)

Hi Guys,

it's been 597 days since Jack-Bromby.com has been on the web which means on Friday it will be 600! Truthfully I never expected my site to be on this long but, well here we are!! I am also going to be doing a few updates on the website and hopefully have them done by the end of the month. Jack-Bromby.com is not an extremely popular website but I do get at least 5 visitors on it per day, a few of them do return and read this blog often and I will credit them at the end of this blog post. As much as I want to update the site I am very busy with college at the moment, I have an assignment that needs doing and I am getting another one tomorrow. I also have to give a presentation about me on Thursday which I'm not really looking forward to, but everyone else in the class has to do it so whatever, I am sure I'll get through it. Rest assured though I will make time and get these updates done, I will probably work on them Sunday night when I have lots of time. I am also off college next week, all colleges and schools across the country are off because of half-term. I will get the updates done. I won't give too much away but there will be a new section which will be updated on a regular basis. Thank you to everyone who has been on my website and left me positive feedback on the shoutbox, thank you to everyone who reads my blog regularly and thank you to my blog followers.

My most regular returners to the website:

-AKRON, OHIO (6.20%) although I am not sure who that is. Please leave in the comments who you are so I can thank you properly.
-ALLEN PARK, MICHIGAN (6.20%) again I am not sure who you are so please let me know.
-REDONDO BEACH, CALAFORNIA (3.20%) don't know who you are either! Please contact me.

These seem to be my most regular visitors, thank you, the people who are above ^^

Top 5 countries:

-UNITED KINGDOM (56.60%)
-UNITED STATES (30.00%)
-GERMANY (4.20%)
-POLAND (1.00%)
-TURKEY (1.00%)

I did have a few visitors from Turkey recently, and Iceland and Mexico, I haven't had those countries on my site before. Well there's a first for everything.

Thanks everybody,

- Jack

Nice Monday

Well today was a nice Monday. I got up at 10am and watched half of Jeremy Kyle. A few minutes after that my mum came home, unexpectedly. Apparently she had been in pain all night with her tooth, she was awake all night and did not go to work today, she had been to the dentist to have the tooth removed! Now I had teeth removed recently as you will remember, it's not a painful procedure but it's not very nice. She isn't going into work tomorrow either, so I was thinking "great, the two days I am off college, ruined". Well it wasn't that bad. I still got to have my chip butty (English term for chips and a bread bun), I watched Everybody Loves Raymond. I did, however, leave at 2:45 PM to go to my dad's. Although first I went over to the school to see my friends Sara and Estelle. THEN I went to my dad's house. I got there at about 4:30 PM. While I was walking to my dad's I put my earphones on and listened to Skyrock radio (French rap radio station) on my iPhone via 3G :) I enjoyed the music. When I got there I cleaned my room. I picked up some papers and other junk on my floor and stored it in my cabinet, I also picked up some junk near my bed. I vacuumed the floor and dusted the furniture (e.g. stereo, TV, cabinet). My room does look nice and clean now. Pictures are posted at the bottom. At 7:00 PM my dad had a phone call work-related that he had to drop something off at a sub station in Wolviston Services (street view). I didn't realise he had a key to this building. I then found out that he has a key to every sub station in Newcastle, Sunderland, Teesside, and all of Yorkshire (Leeds, Sheffield etc). So if he wanted to he could cut the power to every town and city in the North East and Yorkshire! And lose his job lol. He can shut the power off for the entire town of Billingham too. I asked if we could do it, he said no :(

Oh, another strange thing happened today - I got 47 friend requests on Facebook, in 5 minutes !

New Website Updates

Hi Blog followers,

I have done a website update tonight. Well a few actually. There are 2 brand new pages on the "Extra" area of the site. First one "Photos of Billingham" and second "Old versions of the site". On "Photos of Billingham" you can see some photos I have taken around my town with my iPhone 3GS. I will be updating this page very regularly. Second one "Old versions of the site" I have included old screenshots of the website so you can see what my site looked like on the previous versions and layouts. There's only 3 on there at the moment but there will be more in the future. The last update I have added a countup on the bottom of the front page which shows you how much time has elapsed since my website first came online on January 3rd 2009. Right now it has been up for 587 days. I am hoping to keep this website running as long as possible, the renewal is in January 2011 and hopefully it will be renewed for another 2 years, I could renew it for only 1 since it's a .com domain. Anyway enjoy the new features and let me know what you think. The updates took approx 2 hours 15 mins to do, from 8PM to 10:15 PM.

Got on the wrong bus :(

Okay, now this is what happened to me today. I woke up, had a shower and got dressed, went online for a bit and left to go to the bus stop to go to college at 8 AM as the bus was coming at 8:10 AM. The bus came and I got on, however I didn't realise I had got on the wrong bus, I had got the 52 instead of the 34 so I didn't end up in Middlesbrough, I ended up in Stockton! Well actually I panicked before it got to Stockton and I actually got off the bus at Norton village, just outside where my mum works. I panicked, and rung Dave and he said to get the bus back to Billingham and then get another one to Middlesbrough. Since I was in Norton I had to walk up the village and into Stockton town centre on the high street. I wandered up the town centre then went to Greggs, bought a Coke and then caught the bus back to Billingham which was late!!!! When I got to Billingham I discovered didn't have enough for the bus to Middlesbrough so I went into Billingham town centre, bought another Coke and went back to the bus stops where I waited for the bus. The 34 eventually came and I got to Middlesbrough. I arrived at the college for 10:45 AM and everything was fine. Still, it was my own stupid fault for not reading the bus number in the first place. However, this happened after I lost my bus pass and so approximately £6.60 (approx $10) out of a £10 (approx $15) note has gone down the drain this morning. God really does hate me, still at least we had some nice warm weather today, it got to 19 C (66 F) today in Billingham.

Happy 1st.... Uh 2nd of October!

Fellow blog followers and Jack Bromby fans, HAPPY 1ST OF OCTOBER! Although I'm updating on the second of October I apologise for that. I forgot to update yesterday and I haven't updated in nearly a week because Dave has been in France since Tuesday. Anyway, college has been going great so far. Yesterday I got my first experience of computer programming. On Friday's, 2nd period I have Software Design, usually it's quite hard to follow but actually doing the coding is quite easy. We are working with VisualBasic which seems to be easy. I was also let out of college a few minutes early because I was the first to finish. I got let out at 5:05 PM rather than the usual 5:15 PM. Next, the weather, last night was warm strangely enough. Strange for October, it seemed to be warmer at night rather than the day which I find happens in winter sometimes. Anyway, time to get on with Saturday, it's going to suck spending Saturday at mum's house, at least I get to live with my dad for a week when he comes back from France because then my mum goes to Egypt with her friends for a week. She is going to Sharm El Sheik.