Ramble of Boris as he feels he wants to say thanks

in a very long way about Glandular fever finally some sense of under control

The past two or three days of my life have been what I call feeling 100%, where you are switched on mentally and physically to a point where you feel good. For a lot of people this is a general feeling that they feel everyday and occasionally have a crap day or are genuinely sick.

Since possibly year 11 or at least year 12 mid year I started to feel stretched and worn out, I belted myself up mentally saying its just from all the study. That feeling eventually become more of a lethargic feeling that would not go away. Only once that I can recollect feeling 100% throughout the duration of a normal day. Plenty of times I had felt great but not for a whole day. I lived with that feeling until 3 days ago.

Four or five days ago I thought I’d try find some more information on Glandular fever which I was diagnosed with after a blood test maybe a year ago which gave a medical tag for my lethargic feeling, but no real answer of what can be done to help other than sleep; which can sometimes make me feel more lethargic, make sense of that.

Well I did find a logical explanation from a herbalists article on lack of vitamin B12 which to my understanding helps your body break down foods intro energy and make you less stressed. I can tell you it’s made one massive difference to my life for the past 3 days!

It was an amazing sensation today as it was a little experiment I had tea a tad later / did not snack throughout the day. I felt a tad lethargic so I cooked up tea and ate it. Within say 20 min I was feeling great again, what I consider to be a normal experience. Whereas pre-taking B12 tablets eating food would not do bugger all, so it looks as if being mentally drained and physically for the past few years could potentially be caused by self created stress over VCE even though on the front I was not stressing but a lot of things happened in that year. Draining of mental capacity over beating self up to perform more in class, friends having personal issues that were beyond my capability of helping and a friend passing away.

If your curious give his article a read, makes sense to me after reading it.

Understanding Glandular fever by Robert McDowell’s Herbal Treatments

Fitness Achievement Status

• 38.5% of the way to 1,000 pressusp
• 70.1% of the way to 1,000 crunches
• 14.4% of the way to 1,000km’s cycling (new tires arrived from UK nice and thin to get me there faster)
• 10% of the way to 30km worth of swimming (tad unfit in the water at the moment)

Also am doing Ultimate Frisbee most Wednesdays so far so that’s getting my legs fairly fit.

Learning Achievement Status

• Fitness Website Tracker is getting there.
• A couple of other sites nearly finished
• iPhone Application started programming in Cocoa for OS X (Beginning to understand language)

My role as a mentor so far has been amazing, I have been having a ball with all the other mentors training so far. Looking forward to start my third year of Uni. I reckon this year is going to be one of the best in my life.

Personal Goals for the year

• Fitness and ability to track this via a web application
  • 1,000 Press ups
  • 1,000 Crunches
  • 1,000km Cycling
  • 30km Swimming
• Apple iPhone Application: Using Central Database
• Web Development: Put 3 Projects into Production (General Use/Public)
• Become more professional through my role at University of Ballarat as a Mentor

None of these goals are out of reach nor even extreme, they are a guide for me to ensure that I stay on track and on top of the things I enjoy doing in life. If you think I missed something on this list let me know!

Topics: Adelaide, Music, Projects, Jobs (IBM)

One of the reasons for not being able to get stuck into projects/music is because I have practically two jobs now. I am working up at the IBM University Site and down at the call center on the corner of Geelong Road and University Drive. Both jobs are interesting, I can see allot of potential in both sectors but customer service gets to you after being in the same role for too long

That’s right, I exist again!

     Many people in my life recently have commented lately that I am smiling a lot! I have had comments from people that I don’t really have much to do with and they say I have changed, I am not afraid to say “Hello” anymore. This enlightens me and I feel pretty bloody awesome about it especially because they are third party people, I have a sense of being again. I have my individuality and decision making back, confidence!

Sacrifice

New Relationship?

The Future is full of limitless possibilities

Bring on life’s challenges!

Introduction
Here is a response to an article I read on Microsoft Windows 7.

Windows 7 Beta 1
I have loaded Windows 7 onto my fathers workstation and my laptop.

Laptop:
Running noticeably faster than Windows Vista and equivalent to Windows XP if not faster which is one hell of an improvement.
The affects graphics wise and functionality is improved nothing feels like
it has been reduced from XP or Vista’s functionality and the response
of these features is great! All drivers were found on install and the
Windows 7 Update feature works allot more in my favor of not annoying
me and letting me customize easily how I am notified of new updates.

Desktop:
I got my father to do an upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7, all was
well for a little while now he is getting a blue screen of death
(BSOAD) a fair bit, done some research appears to be drivers issues or
Anti-Virus programs incompatible with Windows 7. That’s fine there not
generic programs they are meant to be built accustomed to the operating
system so there are some workarounds on the net so all should be fine.
I think its to be expected to having BSOAD’s at this point in
development as its the testing phase for Microsoft. I’d rather have
these problems now than on release day!

Thoughts:
The reason the performance is so good in Windows 7 I believe is that the
account team is not in control of the programmers deadlines!
Windows
Vista was only released due to the account team, the engineers knew it
was not ready and said so in some news reports but yet it was still
released and all the bugs fixed after release.

This time feels different, the team have released a public Beta of an
operating system, has that ever been done in Microsoft’s books before?

Having this OS out to so many people for free is one hell of a testing
tool, any issues that people have and sent that annoying error report
will actually be looked at and updates made readily available and
implemented before release. I like that, that means I dont have to wait
for 1 year for a service pack to fix bugs that should have been fixed
in testing phase.

Well done to Microsoft I say, Windows 7 is the best OS to date that I
have used for sure and it won’t be the last as every OS update/upgrade
is building on the strengths of the past operating systems. I do hope
the Open Source community give Microsoft a run for there money at some
stage as they have the community power to develop faster than Microsoft
but have not quite got how to harness that power yet. When the day
comes competition will be very interesting.