Well I'm back on the Green Isle and getting set for the big project ahead. You can check out the progress reports at http://census.philroche.net/ . I ringing Xerox tomorrow to see what the story is with getting a job there for the Intra period. My link for today is http://www.zend.com/ ,they have alot of useful PHP stuff. Tip for today is : check your house insurance to see if loss or theft of your mobile is covered , If it is as mine was then you don't have to pay the monthly phone insurnace cost ( a huge saving in my mind ).That's it for today ….

Never used a macintosh for anything really but i'm on one now in Gill's Uni and they are well mad to work on , the mouse is just one big button and everything is see-through. Also A few javascripts that I have don't work, anyway who cares nobody uses Macs well not any important people. My link for today is http://www.punchbaby.com/ , a lot of funny videos and jokes. I'm off swimming now so untill next time “To alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems”(Homer)…..

A side salad does not consist of a leaf of lettuce with half a tomato placed on top of it. : Well today has been a productive day , 3 o'clock and 2 pints down the hatch already (it is a tough life being a student ).No luck so far on the job front but Xerox in Ballycoolin have openings for Norwegian tech support so I will be applying to them as soon as I get home. I forget to mention my weekend , I stayed in two hotels , the first one was like a travel lodge and at 4:30 in the morning we were rudely awakened by a couple having 'loud' sex outside our door in the corridor (mixed feelings about that one) the second night we stayed in a £180+ room in Chester for a mere £30 (it's not what but who you know).I will soon be putting a brief introduction to all the progrming languages I know, on my web page so watch this space ( this idea is thanks to Frank Smyth ). My link for today is http://www.dictionary.com/ useful for words you can't remember how to spell and words that you haven't got a clue what they mean . My tip for today is look at the 1 euro coin and look at north scandinavia ,Norway, Sweden and Finland together they have an uncanny resemblence to a limp penis with a hanging bollock ….Till next time:- Fac ut vivas – Get a life……

Well as the subject suggests , there will be no Oracle placement for Philip , This is due to ( according to Oracle HR) availability…ie. time we can start and also due to the the technical test ( why on earth people don't realise that writing code by hand is very silly )Supposedly only one dcu student got a job ( from the 6 I know of ). Well I'll have to keep searching and I think it is time to start applying to places myself too so if anybody knows of anywhere that is willing to take on a very eager Software Engineering student please let me know as time is running out . I'll be back in Ireland on friday or so when I plan on starting my CA3 project which is a big project and at the moment quite daunting . The link for today is http://www.jobsnation.net/ which we hope has something in there for Philip when he looks . I also have a tip for today :- place an email address in your addressbook nobody@philip.xx then if you get a virus in your system that plans on sending itself to all in your addressbook the one that is sent to the above address will bounce back to you and thus informing you of your virus.Sya … and remember folks Philip needs a job.

Well after travelling for 10 hours I'm here at last , what an ordeal boats delayed , trains cancelled but I got here in the end .I tried to install the tv card i bought but as i live well beyond the pale it couldn't find any stations , and tell me what use is that, so I'm bringing it back . The link for today is http://www.zdnet.com/developer/ yet again this link is to do with web develoent . I'll see you when i see you …..food of the day is popodoms .

Interview finished , I've never had such a good interview and beleive me I have had a few. The questions he asked weren't too hard and we chatted more than him grilling me. The technical test was not too hard and I attempted everything except I couldn't remember what IPC stood for (Interprocess communication). Ah well we can wait and see . I bought a tv card for the pc today , €63 not too bad but it has a remote which is great. Todays link is http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ , it has loads of learn from exple web help , I have learned alot from that site . Todays favourits song is Weezer , Island in the sun(at least i think that is the ne)if anybody has it please let me know…Updates will be less frequent for the next few days as i going to england for a week. As they say in Norway polse brod (sausage bread ).

That's a load off now anyway, The last exam went ok , it was pretty tricky but what can you do. Now I have to study for my Oracle interview tomorrow (my fifth interview for intra) .The link for today is http://www.richersounds.ie/ which is an online hifi store that often have alot of great deals , I got a wharfedale subwoofer for £20 .Till tomorrow sya,…

Well Sunday today and study time for philipousus , AI in my opinion a very waffly subject but there is a few good ideas in there .We have a sample exam with answers so let us all pray that the exam is very similar to the sple paper , in fact let us all pray that the exam is the exact se as the sample paper . I have decided to have a new link included in my news every day . today the link is http://www.w3schools.com/ it has alot of good tutorials , I myself trying to get around to learning how to use CSS but as of yet haven't had any time . Anyway till tomorrow .And if any sunday astro players are reading this, you're going down boys .

Well you might notice that I have yet again copied ste's ideas , this is my version of his update pages . I however have written this in php which after a day or so of use is a f#~%ng brilliant language .A good site for php stuff is
http://www.phpbuilder.com/.well todays news is not very exciting . I had an Operating Systems exam today which went ok I suppose but as with all exams it could have gone better . I have one left on monday which is Artificial intelligence , it should be ok I have done a good bit of work for it . Anyway back to study.