I will be heading to Chicago at the end of this month to visit a good friend of mine. But until then I will be open for any freelance web design work. I hope to make as much money as i can this month, head to chicago and when i come back, focus on setting up our business, Tamooka.

I have a shelf full of dusty books that are waiting to be read. Including PHP, Ruby on Rails and much more. So I hope to devour all those books in the coming weeks and sharpen my skillset. If all goes to plan we will have our business up and running by late august or mid september. Which we will build up as we are in college, provided I get the course I have chosen.

Along with all of that, I will be trying to devote my free time to the other open source projects I am involved in. So lets see what happens.

I attended the festival about three years ago. Everything seemed fine on the first day. But then everything went downhill from there on. Toilets began overflowing, food stalls were ripping people off with their stingy breakfast rolls, tents were being lit on fire and myself and a friend even managed to get burnt by the explosion of a tent. Sound like fun to you? Well if you’re drunk it probably is. But for the price of the ticket, It has got to be the worst organised event that has ever taken place on the face of the earth.

MCD, the organisers of the event failed to provide the sufficient security. That year most of the security staff left after it began to rain, since they were ordinary people being paid. Which left the campsite full of thousands of people seeking fun. It was humorous to watch the groups of security run from fire to fire as they struggled to get everything in time.

To my knowledge last year was even worse, even tho MCD managed to close down their discussion boards, practically sue boards.ie and threaten others over the discussion that took place on behalf of their own failure to organise the event and thereby give Oxegen a bad reputation. I have no intention of going there this year and It has already become quite evident that many others have changed their mind too. Tickets are being sold at less than half price, ebay is bursting with oxegen ticket sales. Rant over.

If you want a proper festival, head to hurricane.

The right choice

Scraping the skies

Evening sky

Sunset stage

Towards the light

Destination Unknown

Leave your mark

Forgotten faces

Phone booth

Photos are currently only available in full size here until the gallery is back online

Wallpaper 1 - 1920 x 1200

Wallpaper 2 - 1920 x 1200

Wallpaper 3 - 1920 x 1200

But until then I will be away in Germany until the 27th

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So basically, after waiting a week, being told that my support ticket was lost and that i should re-send the thing, they are telling me that I should avoid calling them? Well I’ve had it.

I will be moving my domain away from Register365 and their pathetic service.

So far I have completed Maths, English, Irish and Business. I now have two days before my German exam so its time for a lot of sleep and more learning. Along with all of this stress, I’ve been logging like crazy over at leaving-cert.net and had some pieces published in the Irish Times. Its an interesting scene. Boards.ie have been buzzing with students and our website has seen a huge increase in traffic and turned out to be quite the success that we’d hope it would be.

This of course means that we have a lot planned for the website and the future of leaving-cert.net. Currently I am trying to find some bit of work in July to get my mind off of things here in Ireland. I have a lot of trips planned and a lot to do in such little time.

So down with the exam stress and on with the summer stress!

Intense flow

Unknown faces

Trickle of water

Into the Wild

However, now I am being told that Register365 never completed the registration of my domain to begin with. And this is primarly the reason why IEDR are notifying me of domain renewal.

If things don’t improve with Register365 and their new owners, then I will be looking for a new registration company.