Last week at Miniclip we launched the YoMe Facebook application that I have been working on for the past few months.

A YoMe is a fun character that you can create to use as an avatar for Miniclip games and your Facebook profile, you can also share your YoMes with friends and take a look at their YoMes too.

My YoMe created using YoMe Creator

We’re planning some cool new features in the future so give it a go and have fun, you can install it from http://apps.facebook.com/yomecreator/!

City of London Skyline – Greenwich Park, Greenwich

It’s not often you get the chance to sit back and relax while looking over the marvellous skyline of the City of London, and there certainly aren’t many places where you can see the whole thing all at once.

There is much debate about the historic London views that will be ‘ruined’ by Mayor Ken Livingston’s deregulation of the planning rules in the Capital, however, while the historic buildings are known the world over and are an important part of London and English Heritage in general, in my opinion people come to London to see Buckingham Palace and St Pauls Cathedral up close, not just look at it from a distance.

London, like every other city has changed over time, I’m sure the same was said about Canary Wharf back in the late 80′s when it was being constructed, but like it or not the need for more and more buildings and the limited amount of space available means that there are going to be trade-offs, a more developed skyline is one of them.

I’m looking forward to the new buildings, there should be a few good photographic opportunities.

Over a lifetime you collect hundreds of thousands of memories, some of those memories are more important than others, some are remembered only by a fleeting daydream but others are remembered because of photos and video that were taken at the time.

While I was conducting the move of my site recently I started thinking; What would happen if I lost all of it all?

My blog represents about 2 years of my thoughts, feelings, stories and rants, it contains the story of my pre university struggle, my post university struggle, post about my time in America and all the things in between. While I do have backups these only consist of 2 database backups and a handful of written post backups in various documents scattered around my hard drive.

Then there is my gallery, this too contains photos from before uni, during uni and my time in America, and while I do have the originals, it has over 1700 photos, it would take a huge chunk of time to re-upload and sort them out again. Just the move alone has taken hours to do and even now there are problems with some images not working.

This got me thinking even more, out of all the photos I have taken, over 4000 in America, a few hundred of Kingston Uni, and a few more thousand at various other events and occasions I have hardly any backups of any of them, I have no regular backup process in place.

What would happen if all of my photos were deleted in some crazed act of nature never to be viewed again by man nor beast?

Usually I’m paranoid when it comes to backing up and saving things, if I’m working on a document I usually save it ever 5 – 10 seconds, but for some reason when it comes to the things that require more than a 2 button combination I seem to put it off and forget about it.

I know of others that also do the same.

There was no real point to this post only to illustrate that sometimes no matter how important memories are, not even those are safe.

When the eyes of the underworld are upon you there’s nothing you can do but submit to the slow and painful torture.

Problems seem to be a regular side effect of breathing lately, if it’s not people messing things up and loosing vital information it’s people messing things up and loosing vital information….they deserve a promotion…no really, they do.

As you can probably tell from the title I am writing this post under duress, the Queen of the Underworld made a request, dare I say ordered that I posted a blog because my “frequent” posts weren’t frequent enough, my only response is how frequent are they supposed to be?

Well, it’s been a while since I last posted, partly due to the fact that I haven’t had much time or energy to post anything that isn’t above a line or 2, but I guess I should start again, just to please the teeming millions that read my blog…

The embassy experience was just that, an experience. After 4 hours of waiting just to see 2 different people for a total of about 5 minutes the only up side was you get to sit back in a crowded waiting room full of 200 or more people and quietly contemplate your impending fate…Just maybe not that quietly.

The amount of paperwork that’s needed for something like this is pretty large, banks, doctors, embassies and universities all want their half of the Amazon rainforest in order to make these things happen. It makes it 100 times worse though when records of things like injections haven’t actually been forwarded to your GP by the school that you had them at, for the most part this is just something that we’ve learned to deal with (just read all of the past posts about A-Level results) but it’s still surprising that even a year after leaving things still manage to get messed up.

With little over a week left till moment zero, it’s still hard to believe that everything is going to change, everything seems quite surreal. I’ve used the analogy before but it’s like a speeding train, you only get hit by it after you’ve stood and stared at it in shock for a few seconds.

There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.

My last few posts have been of a more serious nature so I think I should break the trend just in case they start to become boring (which I’m sure isn’t the case right?) plus I’ve had a few people (Shane being one of them) telling me that I should just post something and have done with it, so this is going to be one of those lame update posts that I hate writing but for some reason are a necessary evil in the world of blogging.

It looks like Lloyd is going to be blogging a bit more now he has his blog back up and running, if you go and read his latest post you’ll also know why I’m writing about it (is that enough cross promotion, or do you want more?)

Over on Shane’s part of the internet he talks about Mondays not being out for a while, I know what you mean, what’s up with that, there’s been nothing on franklins blog about it either, I know they don’t make any money out of the show but come on, listening to them just bounce stories back and forth would be good enough, I’m starting to wonder if there will be anymore but with any luck there will be, I think we should start a petition to get ActiveNick back, bring back shows 9 and 10

So I guess the next thing to think about is First year results. For the past god knows how many years it’s been the same, you endure a year of education, doing the same thing as you usually do, doing all of the work the night before and still managing to get a decent grade, then you have a bit of a break, your mind wonders off onto other things, and then out of the blue it all hits you again….

I hate results day, even though nothing (so far) has gone wrong….oh wait

Here’s My Experiences

Ok, scratch that, I just hate results day

And can anybody blame me?