A heat wave passing by, what better time than that to take out the barbeque for the first time this year and best of all to top the days off with a Jackie Chan marathon on television during the weekend as once more it’s May-month Movie-month on Veronica.

The past couple of days have been extremely warm, over 25 degrees in the afternoon at least. Then to imagine that about 6 weeks ago it was still hailing at times and near freezing point, how quickly the weather decides to change at times. Not too great for the temperatures in my room but it’s lovely outside!

Both today and yesterday as mentioned we barbequed, the weather was absolutely awesome for it. Not too warm and a slight breeze, so could sit outside for quite some time without getting sunburned or getting a headache from the heat.

In the evening both yesterday and today three Jackie Chan movies are aired. You know, that weird Asian guy which basically broke every bone in his body as he does all his own stunts, hehe. Currently Shanghai noon is on and soon Shanghai Knights is about to start within half an hour.

Those two are definitely amongst the best of the Jackie Chan movies, you just got to love his work together with Owen Wilson. They simply form the perfect duo in a movie filled with action combined with comedy, probably one of the best film duo’s ever.

Several hours of just devoting time into a project and instantly getting to see the results, that’s what we all like to see right? Well so far the work I’ve been doing on the upcoming design is doing exactly that for me!

I’ve managed to jump quite ahead of what even I planned myself at first and have a very nice foundation ready at hand to be developed further. A nice teaser was at hand I thought so I made a quick mockup which shows something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. Heck, it’s like getting married, hehe.

Nothing is definite as of yet but as you can see the aim of the upcoming design is completely different from what we have now. A lot more whitespace has been added, it makes it all look just so more stylized and clean. But some of the old touches definitely haven’t been forgotten, the header which can be seen above the entry has been reused from the old design and processed to fit the overall layout.

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Many people take out loans these days for practically everything, but in many occasions this can still be quite a hassle with having to send in documents and taking several days before you have the money available. Now wouldn’t you want something a little more convenient? Something which would be like an advance on your paycheck which you could instantly use?

Thanks to payday loans the days of hassle are over and you can instantly have access to the money you require. You simply borrow the money and the moment of your payday you pay back your debts plus £25 per £100 borrowed instantly through your debit card.

Has it ever been this easy to gain access to the cash you need up front? I don’t think so right. Of course it’s not available to everybody; there are certain requirements you have to meet:

• Be over 18 years old
• Be employed fulltime
• Take home more than £750 per month
• Have a bank account with a valid debit card

After you meet those requirements you can instantly apply and make use of the service, so in case your refrigerator gave up on you or you simply ran low on cash this gives you the opportunity to get things going again.

Relatively quiet, I suppose that’s the best way to describe my posting activity on Slevi lately. To be quite frank not much has been happening on here, but it’s definitely not being forgotten! To tell the truth lately I’ve just been spending quite a bit of time playing around with various things of which one does involve Slevi.

About nine months ago was a glorious day for this blog, breaking lose from that horrific previous design being green, plain and terribly dull. I was really pleased with the way I headed but now nine months later I have to say there are some points which definitely could require some attention.

Slowly these points went piling up and I decided to do something about it, time for a change! I know it’s relatively quick and definitely sooner than expected for me to be working on a new design for my blog as I expected it to last till late 2008 but fate apparently had a different idea in mind.

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Of course as one of the millions who enjoys Stargate and an avid fan of MMO games I simply couldn’t have missed out on Stargate Worlds, first come across the concept of the game in early 2006 as IGN announced it and recently signed up for potential beta participation.

With over 75k beta registrations and still counting though the chances are of course looking slim on getting in but of course we can always keep our hopes up right? Perhaps due to some stroke of luck I might actually get into it.

When exactly the beta is off for a start though, only god knows I suppose. So far no date has been given for neither closed nor open beta, also no information has been disclosed on how many positions we shall be seeing for the closed beta.

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Last Friday I decided to drop back to the store because the second DVI port on my MSI 9600 GT appeared to be faulty, it gave a weird yellow fade on the side of the screen along with a yellow drop shadow on certain elements. Of course it’s quite obvious that that’s not the way it’s supposed to be and as nothing what I could do myself helped the slightest on resolving the issue I returned to the store with it.

As usual it was a bit of a wait again, but eventually as it was my turn the issue was quickly found. A pin within the port apparently was bent, those bloody minuscule things. They did take it back for a while in an attempt to fix it but it didn’t help much, all what changed was that the shadow was no longer yellow but became blue, far from the desired result of course.

After having been there for about an hour they decided to simply exchange the card and give me along a new one, upon opening the box in the car apparently I got the double slot version of the card with the MSI cooler. It appears that once more I had an exchange in my favor, have to love those moments. It keeps the temperature on the card several degrees lower so way to go me!

It took some days till after my birthday seeing as to how it had to be delivered and all but it’s there now. This morning it arrived at about 9, the Samsung LE26R81. A nice replacement for my ancient about 10 year old philips television which practically could be considered as a handheld judging by the size of that thing.

The installation was as easy as it gets, plug and play went through the main settings and set the channels even though that wasn’t totally needed as I use a digital receiver anyway on the external source.

Also as display for my PC it functions perfectly, the quality is amazingly sharp and thanks to PiP you can still watch television along if you desire. Actually I’m doing so right now! Of course it blocks a bit of your screen but you can place it in all 4 of the corners, it works perfectly.

A couple of days of rest definitely does me well, it wasn’t till like 1 PM before I finally woke up yesterday even though I didn’t go to sleep that late at all, in the end I think I must have slept about 12 hours if not more. After studying for my exam day in day out for over a week practically every free hour of the day into the evening I simply was exhausted. I definitely hope the studying will have paid off but I have a good feeling about it, let’s hope I’m right on that.

Usually though when my feeling is right on how I made an exam I will have passed it, so better not let me down this time either! I’m hoping on keeping some summer holidays this year, not shorten it in till the point of non-existence again.

On the same day it was also exactly two years since me and my girlfriend got together, such a long time it’s been already although in some way it still feels like it’s been just yesterday. Last year I wrote I hope I could still say I loved her as much as that first day when we met, and yes I do, I love her more than ever. We might have our little quarrels at times but I wouldn’t want to spend a day without her.

Last year I also wrote about the nice weather we had back then I saw… well I must say it’s quite chilly today, where’s global warming when you need it!

Twenty-one… damn I’m getting old, lol. It’s just a matter of time before my skin will begin to wrinkle, my hair will turn gray and my teeth will fall out! Yeh, I’ve got it coming, it can happen any minute now…

Back to reality, I must say I didn’t even really put too much thought to it myself that it was my birthday today, it’s that others reminded me of it but if it wasn’t for that I’d simply have forgotten about it completely as I have been spending the past days with my nose buried deep into the books.

I have already cashed in some birthday money though, hehe, I’ll be rich! And I’m also going to be getting a new television from my parents, couldn’t arrive today but next week it should be heading my way. Finally can I get rid of my little 27cm screen which I got for my 10th birthday I believe? Replacing it with a brand new flat screen television, living large :).

Unfortunately I’m going to have to spend the most of my birthday studying though, seeing as to how I didn’t pass my previous exam I’m definitely wanting to score extra well on this one!

Well, well, it appears the cloudy days might finally be coming to an end? As I was heading for today’s classes the weather was actually sunny, no cold wind and not a single cloud in the sky. It’s been a while since I’ve seen that sort of weather, especially as about 2 weeks ago it was cold, dark, rainy and even hailing at times!

Of course as the weather is getting better it comes as no surprise that I’ll be having an exam soon as well, for some reason it’s been like that every year; as if you’re not allowed to enjoy the change of weather as a student. The exam comes pretty quick after the previous one, just 4 weeks of classes and with that the “smallest” exam of the year.

It feels a bit awkward though that it’s that soon already, as if it just started yet there it’s already about to end. When studying that always makes things a bit extra difficult because you easily begin to fear whether this is truly “all” what you have to learn? It can’t be right, there has to be more to it right? Well let’s hope that I’ll manage to pass the exam though, it’s just a handful of subjects so it definitely shouldn’t be impossible I’d say.