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Yes, as promised, I have a wordpress account up and running, this will be the third iteration of this website, the previous two are/will stay running for a while, to keep up appearances, but for all intents and purposes the new website will be located at blog.gcawood.com, in a month or so I will get gcawood.com to redirect there. I’m still busy adapting the chosen theme, and then I’ll start copying all the content across, don’t want to lose that.

ciao

Also I’m on holiday, oh and threw this little start page together for myself.

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I decided it was time to transfer to WordPress. Why? Not a hundred percent sure, but I think it’s better from a Googling point of view, and it’s also got pretty graphs which give a nice indication of individual articles viewed etc.

At the moment only the website is up, I still need to transfer all the data from the previous Joomla install, which is staying right where it is for a month or two, although I will link profusely to this website.

First off it’s exam time, thus me posting now, instead of studying. secondly I have a new home for next year. A lovely little home right opposite the faculty I get to share with 7 other people. 7 people who I only recently met for the first time.

They don’t appear to be crazy, but we’ll obviously see that next year. Meeting up with them again next week to try and sort out rooms. Thirdly, I have a skripsie! Yay! And coincidently it was my first choice. “Two axis camera control system”. Will post more about it later, but for now I’m happy, lecturer seems pretty cool too, involved with Stellenbosch’s Media Lab.

In any case, I had pledged to post at least once a month. That didn’t happen. I have however decided to explore WordPress a bit. So may end up redoing this website. Will give it a nicer look too. I also need work for the holidays. Anyone randomly reading this some how who wants to offer a 3rd Mechatronic Engineer some work for 4 weeks let me know :)

My biannual week of torture is upon us. Next week Saturday I write my first of 5 tests within a 7 day period. Yay! Or not. Either way it means long hours and little sleep, well less than I am currently getting. With a pile of reports, practicals and home work to be completed till next week Friday, it seems there isn’t much time to study for Saturday’s Control Systems test, but time will have to be made.

Either way, it’s a break from classes, 5 tests later I’ll be off to Durban to go visit my sister for the week, and then it’s back to the grindstone for the last long haul before november exams and the oh so long December vacation. 4 weeks of which I’m required to work. I’ve applied for a job at the Mercedes-Benz factory in East London on a friend’s recomendation, but don’t know when I’ll hear back from them, so may end up going back to work for Silas Valley who I worked for in June and where I learnt a fair amount. Either way it will be good to do some work again.

I’m now also officially on the lookout for an XBox 360, still need to decide whether to pickup and old one second hand, buy a new old model or wait for the new 360s to come out in October. We’ll have to wait and see. Also need to get my Truck Driver’s licence done at some stage, hmm…