Vodafone sucks!!!. They just hiked up the prices of text messages to britain without telling me, I had to find out on my statement a month later. It now costs a whopping 25c to send a single text message to a foreign number compared to the previous 13c. To think, with NTL you can ring Britain or USA for 5c a minute at anytime. Vodafone could learn a few things from NTL. It also seems they could learn from their brothers in Vodafone UK and europe, you don't see them shafting their subscribers with giant wellies now do you but it's quite a common occurunce in ireland. feckin welly shafters. As an aside ….. check out Google's zeitgeist which shows you what people are searching for on google. Also check out http://www.ellisisland.org where you can search to see if any of your ancestors feature in their immigration records… There's a few Roches in there.

Yup ….. new logo and new url http://www.aggreg8.net. The logo is courtesy of Alan keogh (alan@medmedia.ie). After I finish this Project I aim to put it up on Mozdev.org for further development and it is therefore I have purchased the Domain name.

Peter(my brother) got called up to the Meath U.17s on saturday which is a big boost to the Roche footballing clan. Now we have both palyed a county match for our county (they were both friendly matches but they still count). His manager commended him on his game so hopefully he'll be called up again soon. Farewell to Alan Sheedy who is off to OZ today. I'll see you in June Al…have a good one.

Finally I finished my Software and Metrics project. The Documentation is here for any of you that are interested. I'm out tonight to yet again celebrate Alan Sheedy going to OZ…hopefully it won't be as mad as last weekend. I don't think my body can handle another one of those weekends. I got a book on austraila ,”Lets Go Austraila 2002″, so i can read up on what to do when I get there. In the Sydney employment section it said that people with IT qualifications tend to to do better than anybody else and always seem to get a job quicker than anybody else too. It's all good.

C++ coming out my frikkin ears but it all seems to be going well now though, and I'm on track to reach my efficiency week goals.

Toooo tirreedd too tyyppe ….will update later.
Update:- What a wicked weekend ..off our trolleys we were the whole bleddy lot of us especially that Dooley fella and David Bernie; was he even in Galway. For me that weekend set a benchmark for nights out to live up to. From the copious amounts of beer made of rice, the winning of money from a race I didn't even know about, the possy of elderly hotties in the hotel bar, the hen party dressed up as reindeer, the fondle Enda gave me in the Gents (It's ok I didn't mind), the senegalese doctor from cavan, the old skoool dance toons in Cuba and finally to the re-inactment of our times at a Gaeltacht colleges in Joners room. Final words “Ni Credim” agus “Ceard a rinne se”.

Absolute carnage last night trying to get home from college due to the lake-like floods. I eventually gave up after trying all the roads that i knew and stayed in Conor Oddballs house for the night. I headed off at 10am this morning trying to get home from the east side but alas no joy yet again. I ended up in swords in Garys house where I satyed for a few hours unitll I tried to get home again at 3pm. I eventually managed after being turned away at a good few roads. Time I left DCU 8:30pm. Time I got home 4pm the next day. It took my mam 5 1/2 hours to get to Kilbride (her friends house not home) from Kilcock. The Navan road was like a war zone today with abandoned cars all over the place. Some people must think that their cars double up as boats….. Anyway off to Galway tomorrow woooohooooo.
Update:- 19th November 2002 : Courtesy of an email from Alan Keogh I have some
images here of the carnage mentioned above.

Again I feel the wrath of the dreaded C++. I had an application that I had written and compiled in a previous version of Microsoft visual studio and when i tried to compile it again on the new visual studio .NET , all hell broke loose with error messages letting loose all over the place. I eventually got it working after 5 hours of trial and error. All I can say is Fucking microsoft and their fucking compilers. You might be wondering why it is that I post different images now and then; the reason for this is that after reading Joelonsoftware's article about how to write functional specs.. I thought it a good idea to brighten up the web page so as to make it easier to read. I think it has worked anyway. Check out Fluffycat.com; a very good resource for programming beginners.

How are things then folks?All (I'm probably talking to myself here)looking forward to Galway I hope… I definitely am. I went to the gym for the first time in months yesterday and boy did I burn. We did circuits and, although I am a naturally fit (cardio anyway) I was absolutely in bits. I think a few more vists to the gym will be in order if I am to compete for those ausie hotties next year.

I refer you again to my project deadlines here, and then to the date which is 12th November. Too much going on. I will be pushing some of my self inflicted final year project deadlines back me thinks. On a lighter note I'm 23 in 20 days. I hope you lot are saving…. I'll be posting my wish list soon. It's a big one.
I don't know who the creator of this quote is but ;
"We build (software) systems like the Wright brothers built airplanes — build the whole thing, push it off the cliff, let it crash, and start all over again." — R. M. Graham, 1968