I just paid for this for another year, so I should use it!

I don't know whether it's just because I've been busy recently, or whether I don't have anything to talk about, or whether I have lots of small things to talk about that don't warrant an entire post (which I promptly forget about). Perhaps I should get on Twitter.

The winter theme for the site has been and gone - it was basically a different header image that I pasted in with some snowflakes on, but I thought it looked nice! Of course, as soon as I remove it there's loads of snowfall across the UK. Curse you southerners! I expect most of the schools in Kent and Essex have been shut today. I can only hope that my school is closed tomorrow!

One thing I haven't mentioned since I added them are the shiny profile buttons on the right. They're just about the only graphics I've ever made myself that don't look awful, and if anyone wants to nick any of them then feel free! They sum up my online persona pretty well, I think. The only problem is, you can only see my Facebook profile if you're a friend-of-a-friend!

I had a fairly boring Christmas seeing as I didn't ask for anything in particular. Unfortunately if I ask mum or dad for an Inno3D GeForce 9800GTX OC they'd probably look at me strangely and buy me a DVD of Allo! Allo! instead. (Not that there's anything wrong with Allo! Allo!) I've decided I don't really need a new computer for the forseeable future - I'd rather save up for the next year and buy a really awesome one when I finish sixth-form. I'm getting increasingly tempted by these tablet PCs though, particularly the Motion M1400 slate that Rodney carries around in Stargate Atlantis (carried then: RIP SGA)

Sixth Form has been particularly rubbish recently, although I hope it's just the post-Christmas laziness that'll wear off. I'm meant to be doing Computing coursework over the next six weeks, but the computers we use are so pitifully slow it takes almost 20 minutes just to log on and get Visual Basic.NET open in front of me. My roaming profile on the school network is now hopelessly broken as well, having gone from "Active Desktop recovery" as a wallpaper to no wallpaper at all and a pile of error messages when I log on. Of course, the administrators have more important things to work on, though. What these things are I'm not sure, as nothing else ever seems to happen.

Finally, I'm rather pleased that for Dad's birthday last week we got him a Wii; although ironically he knew about it before I did! I've taught him how to play golf and he seems very into that, but I prefer a good race online with some other players who fortunately aren't miles better than I am as usually happens with online games. So much for paying for internet multiplayer, all you XBox lovers! :p