When I joined uni over a year ago I knew it would take up lots of my free time with work and socialising, and last year it did just that. But this year is even more manic than before!

So far I seem to have more lectures this time round, or at least more 9am ones. Which drains my energy before I've even had lunch.
Then we have exams looming on the far side of the Christmas break which is starting to be in the back of my mind now with revision starting to make a mention in lectures too.
We have two group course works and both are pretty dull. One is using SPSS to do some analytics stuff and the other is a tiny bit of code and lots of write-up for a timetabling system. It's nice to have group courseworks to spread the load, but they're just so dull this semester! However the main reason I'm posting this at this time is because I just finished some code and editing the writeup at +3am >.<
Not to mention job hunting too. Next year I'll hopefully be taking a year out in industry to gain an extra diploma and another 3 letters after my name. But job hunting takes more time than I thought. On the up side I do have lots of cool freebies from the careers fairs.
Oh, and I'm a member of two societies again which though fun they do take up time

Anyway, this mostly boils down to my excuses for not posting for ages and when I have been posting lately, not having much to talk about.

So I'll do a short list of random things instead:
Shoutboxes
Not been working on them too much but whenever I open Notepad++ I have it set to open about 12 shoutbox files with the To-Do list at the front to remind me.
I do hope to take some time off over Christmas to revise for January exams, so I might use the shoutboxes to have a break and keep my mind sharp and hopefully have it ready for some sort of release around then.

MiniPolls
They went dead for a short while, so much so that I didn't even check my logs for a while.
Today though it says that this month has seen well over 100, 000 hits. Wow!
New Palmnet record!
As it seems fairly popular I might try and expand/open source it soon too.

Christmas Coding
This Christmas will be the first actual break from university / work for about 2 years. So I plan on actually enjoying it and having a bit of a break.
A break for me though means programming into the early hours on all sorts of silly things, so watch this space. I do have a few plans on little projects I'd like to just knock out for fun but feel free to add any suggestions. (The shoutboxes don't count as a suggestion, before Kevin asks :P )