A number of issues have already been reported with TIM, and as a result we have opened a “bug tracker” to display all currently reported bugs so that we don’t get duplicate submissions. Feedback on current and desirable features is being considered, but most importantly we are accepting ALL bug reports and are in the process of squashing them - if you find a bug and it’s not on the list, please report it as it will greatly help the development of TIM.

Thanks to all those who have tried TIM and have been providing valuable feedback. If you have already reported a bug you have been credited on the development page. If you find anymore please keep sending them to us and be sure to tell any techies you know about TIM Alpha and get them to help test it!

I’m currently in the process of researching all the different options I have for modules to take next year. While I don’t have many options to choose from really, its still soemthing worth giving a fair bit of thought. Problem is, when you find yourself looking at the lecture slides for a module and have got up to slide 14, you really feel like you might not need to go into this much depth just to make a choice

In other news, there has been work - a lot of it. Coursework tied in with revision is nasty at the best of times, and this isn’t the best of times as I have a toothache - the last of my wisdom teeth is coming through, all the others have subsided in a few days though, so I hold out hope this fourth and final time horay! Still it doesn’t help trying to read/write/program with what feels like a pneumatic drill crashing on the left hand side of your jaw. Ah well.

It was with great sadness that I “handed in” my resignation as an administrator on the ADSLTech support site the other day, those with keen eyes noticed my links to the forum disappearing from this site and e-mailed me about it - well spotted!

My reasons were more sad though, not as you might expect (pastures new - although more on that later, lack of time, etc. etc.) but changes in Safecom company policy (Safecom host the forum and it is primarily for their products) that literally was designed to make non-safecom administrators feel unwanted and undermined to the extent where they wanted to leave. Clearly Safecom didn’t like people who knew what they were doing who just happened not to “work” for the company being involved. Not only that, but they created a two tier system in which those who knew more didn’t rise to the top but got pushed aside in favour of company rhetoric and this clearly wasn’t going to work well.

Over recent months, relations had been becoming more strained and it was clear that for the long term things were not going to work out. Still, as the longest standing forum administrator posted “It was fun while it lasted”, and indeed they were right. I have had many freebies from Safecom, got involved in a lot of things, been thanked personally (by e-mail anyway) by dozens of users who initially couldn’t get hardware working, been invited to a technology show (although I couldn’t go), and best of all met a superb group of people whom I am fully in touch with and have in fact gone on to design, build and run a new technical support forum, RouterTech as a team. You can read more on the new site in my blog on the subject.

As I said in my resignation; “Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.”

Well, we finally made it

An alpha version of TIM (Tagger and Indexer for MP3s) - a project for my computing course, has been released. Please feel free to download, test and evaluate this version of the program and submit feedback and bug reports back to us for improvements to be made before the beta and eventually final releases of the program.

You can grab a copy from our development page here

Was walking past the weir at the Clarence Dock canel connection this morning, and I saw a large number of police officers and a fairly large cordon over 3 bridges and a fair section of the canal around that area. There were police divers entering the canal on the opposite bank and a forensics tent over there as well. I had to take quite a detour to get around it all, but I couldn’t see what it was all about and the officers on duty weren’t saying anything. One assumes it’s some kind of murder enquiry and they are looking for a body. Just speculation of course though.

If anybody knows anything about this or spots an article on the web giving some information, then please post up about it.