Not easy

This is much harder than it sounded I found an open office program that sounded good called Feng Office, I thought I could do my final presentation on it as well but it has been inactive for ages. Then looked at MAME GUI's but they have been inactive for ages. MAME has been going since 1997 I'm definitely leaving it well alone.

MAME project to well established I'm out of my depth

This is definitely to much of a well established project for me to work on, nice idea but at least I now have an arcade emulator set up on my work PC. I can play Metal Slug on my lunch or even if I'm bored, if only I could get away with using an arcade stick at my desk a key board is rubbish.
  

Social networking pariah

Cutting myself off from Facebook has made me much more efficient, so tomorrow I will be removing all social elements from my Xbox live account. I haven't missed it and my phone battery is lasting much longer.

Thisislegal.com

Just found this awesome website, let's you practice security testing on websites. Ive been on Lynda.com as well starting a programming fundamentals course because I feel as though I can't make any great contribution to a project if I can't even understand the code. I'm going to start with some Java, HTML 5 and CSS I will be doing these in my first year uni modules so I think it's a good start.

Facebook deactivation

Just Deactivated my Facebook account hopefully this will increase my productivity in general.

Bloody ROMs

I still cant get this to work, I know what I will do for the community I will write an idiots guide to installing this program, suitable even for me.

Early Start

After getting to sleep at 23.30 I was awoken at 1.30am by a surprisingly chipper ADT call operative, she was ringing to inform me that there was a fault on our works phone line which was causing problems with the alarm. I suggested that this could probably be sorted in the morning, she agreed, then added "but if anything does happen between now and then you may have a problem with your insurance". I thought I had better get down and check things out, everything was fine as expected but I decided because my daughter usually wakes up around 4.30 and it was 2am now I might as well just stay and upgrade the operating system on the other company directors PC. I have been putting this off for some time due to other peoples inability to back things up adequately yet remember everything they needed when they get the formatted PC back.
Anyway while installing the operating system and software I have made some progress. I have downloaded the MAME code, I have discovered that I need a separate front end but best of all I have found some contributions I can make.
The one problem I have is that it isn't completely open source it cant be used for commercial use, I don't think it matters too much its more the interaction that counts I think. I have a lot of documentation to read so I hope it is OK.
I AM TIRED!!  

This is a distraction

I am finding this weblog a distraction and rather than working on my assignment I am thinking of things to blog about. I now have 3 blogs.

Distractions are everywhere

I set aside time both on Saturday an Sunday to work on my assignment, and go to the gym, between my 6 month old daughter and Netflix I have achieved very little. I ate a family sized pizza and watched the first 2 seasons of Dexter, which is very addictive.
I still have most of the day left but it's mostly going to be used to buy toys for my daughter then work out how the batteries go in. My sister is also visiting from Portsmouth so I will be going to see her for a bit. I'm actually visiting Portsmouth next weekend so I won't be getting any work done then either.