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In the UK this month lots of potential students will soon be receiving their a-level results, and a good number of them will not be thinking about university because they have been led to believe that they are going to end up with debts of £20000 or more.

Will somebody please explained to me what calculations these guys that release these figures to the press are doing to come up with numbers like this?

I’m in university now, tuition fees are £3,250 which is paid of by a student loan so a 3 year course makes that 9750 and 13000 for 4 years.

Then we add the optional maintainance loan to cover the living costs which is almost the same as tuition fees or higher if you decide to go to university in london (you can’t complain if you chose to go to a university in london). Making it around 9000 for a 3 year course, or 12000 for a 4 year course.

Now in total that a minimum of approx £18750 student loan debt. If it was any higher than 25k then there’s a 80% chance that it was by choice your university studies will cost you any more.

Also don’t forget that there is not much interest is to be paid on student loans except to match the rise with inflation. So you go to university, work hard, get a graduate job and you will be wondering why you ever got worried in the first place.

For the last couple of months I’ve always been intrigued into why my facebook friend count NEVER stays the same over a period of 24 hours, that is no exaggeration.

At 1pm it will be 1095, by 6pm it will be 1099 then at 12 midnight it will be 1093, this without adding any new friends or manually removing anyone. It got to me so much I thought this would be my perrfect “first” application to create using the facebook toolkit

Well let me cut to the chase, the application works like this

1. First time the user logs onto the app, it will take a snapshot of the users current friend list.
2. Second time the user logs onto the app, it will compare the current friend list with the previous snap shot, at this point the user will be given the option to “save” the friend list to create a new snap shot, or leave the old snap shot intact.
3. If the user has indeed been deleted by someone, the application will provide a link to the profile of the user, if the link fails and redirects to the facebook homepage then the user actually de-activated their account.

Try for yourself here

Okay so anyone that knows me knows im into web development etc etc, ive created a few wordpress plugins when ive looked (googled) everywhere for a type of plugin and it hasn’t been made, i get to making it. This google wave in my eyes will change the way people communicate and im looking to be part of that change by creating a wordpress plugin that will do the following:

• Create a “wave” linked to a new post/page
• Display that wave beneath the wordpress post (where comments would usually be)

With googles brilliant API’s and Robot tools this is definately possible , just intime for uni

Wikipedia on Google Wave

Google Wave is designed as the “next generation” of Internet communication. Instead of sending a message and its entirethread of previous messages or requiring all responses to be stored in each user’s inbox for context, objects known as “waves” contain a complete thread of multimedia messages (blips) and are located on a central server. Waves are shared and collaborators can be added or removed at any point during a wave’s existence.

So you may know im startin uni this September (finally…i know) and I will be studying web development of course but it has come to my attention that i have 1 month or more precisly 25 days of freedom until; 2009 Q3-Q4 begins.

Heres when you say. What? What does that mean?

Well the turn of Q3-Q4 is mark of a special season, no not winter sir, its the season of a whole load of new game releases! and these are the ones i look forward to the most.

• Fifa 10 – Xbox 360
• Forza Motorsport 3 – Xbox 360(Oh Gosh!!!)
• Assasins Creed II – Xbox 360 (Altho the 1st one was very repetitive the excitment factor lasted a good 2 months atleast)
• Call Of Duty MW: 2 – Xbox 360
• EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis – Xbox 360 – Could be interesting
• FOOTBALL MANAGER 2010 – PC – It hasnt been announced BUT WE KNOW ITS COMING!
• APB (All Points Bulletin) – PC – This is hopefully out in January and its my 2nd most anticipated game, 1st being football manager of course

Or I could be a good boy, rarely play games and get my head down to studying? Whatdoyathink?