Usual long time no blog and larger catching up post however this time I have a genuine reason why I might appear to have been dead for a while.

I started my second year of university here at Loughborough (Sunday Times University of the Year ) recently and moved out of halls and got a house. Which though awesome it did mean I had to set certain things up. Gas, water, electric and all the less important things were easy. But the most important thing of all, the internet, took about 2 weeks just to get installed!
So it’s not out of choice that I haven’t been replying to emails, checking forums and being on MSN.
However, in my time offline I have done a little work on the much anticipated (ha shoutboxes.
So much work that it's almost in a stable and usable state, see here for a demo:

As you can see, it's still nowhere near feature complete, let alone finalised. But it is at least working based on the underlying code I've done. So hopefully things left to do on my 100+ item ToDo list will be easier to code and everything should go a bit smoother now.

Other than shoutboxes I haven’t got much to report, general first week of university activities kept me busy.
I do plan on doing either some fancier image things or perhaps update the CPU emulator if I get chance soon. And I’ll hopefully be starting the new Palmnet soon because the current version with it's masses of non-centralised and segregated projects is starting to get in the way of progression. So updates are badly needed.

But uni work this year is far more than before, with two group projects, one lasting all year, and I have to find a job too as I'll hopefully be on a placement year. That coupled with normal work and day to day house/uni/society things I never seem to have much time to myself to sit down and code. But I'll try and make time. Mostly because Kevin will tell me off otherwise!