Amazon Grace, How Sweet The Sound

First of all thanks to all my fellow peers who helped me out with my user testing on my site, both of you. I have had to resort to asking friends, family and basically anyone who knocks at the door to help me improve upon it for next week.

This week has been filled with illness in my household and I am suffering from a bad back which hurts mostly when I sit in front of the PC. I thought I would use this time to read and try and absorb some information that I may find useful in the future.

I was reading about broadband speeds and the fact that even though your ISP may say that you have a 4MB connection the fact is in most cases it won’t be working how it should. There are various tests on the internet that you can run but a recommended one that gives detailed information can be found at www.thinkbroadband.com. Mine came out just slightly below the 2MB that it should be but that is due to this fraction being used for ‘upstreaming’ as this part of the 2MB is less used than the downstreaming.

For my own amusement in my spare time I have been looking into capturing video, editing and converting to DVD. Just over a year ago I bought a Dazzle DV Bridge unit that cost me nearly £200. In just a short time the cost of buying a DVD recorder has come down so much that it is worth buying one to do your converting for you (providing you have analogue in connections) and at the same time you have yourself a DVD recorder for recording TV programmes to boot. Im looking into buying one of these in the near future. I have so many VHS Videos that could be compressed onto just a few DVD’s it would save space and be more secure.

I’m looking forward to getting back to college on Wednesday after missing last week. I need some snippets of advice on the magic of CSS which I have been using in my assignment 100% more than I used to. My website is practically complete and I hope to research more into CGI, in particular Formmail which I am informed that we should hopefully be getting a small tutorial about shortly.

Lastly, anyone who actually reads my blog and is in the market for a USB Pen Drive and your after something else from Amazon. They are down to a BARGAIN £2.14 for 1GB and £7.19 for 2GB.
If you want to buy something to make it up to £15.00 to take advantage of the free delivery then check out this website. Type in the amount you need to make it up to £15.00 and it will search Amazon for something EXACTLY that price.

Nifty, informative, useful.