My new laptop

Although it'll show that my last post was merely on Thursday, it was actually written two weeks before that due to uploading issues with blogger. Anyway that's all sorted now and since my last post my Dell Inspiron 6000 died. Firstly as you already know the 'enter' key had fallen off (yes it broke again), the hard drive was way too small, and the final straw was the screen shaking all over the place making the display unreadable. After much research and listening to much advice given from many friends, I decided to go for the Lenovo Thinkpad X61 Tablet. There were many reasons for this, the main one being its portable factor. It weighs half of what my Dell did, and is extremely practical being a Tablet. Also for some reason I had the urge to get a Tablet, and I must say I haven't regretted it!

Here are the specs:

• 2GB Ram
  
• 1.7GHz Dual Core Intel Processor
  
• 160GB Hard Drive
  
• Wi-Fi
  
• Bluetooth
  
• Touch Screen
  
• Interactive screen (ie use for the digitiser pen)
  
• SoundMAX Digital HD Audio
  
• Windows Vista Business
  

Ok, it has Vista. However I think it's really good for Tablet PCs, there is always an on screen keyboard handy when you need it, and the handwriting recognition is almost perfect. It's a decent upgrade from my Dell and should serve well through the next three years of school.

It's now the end of school incidentally, and Youth Project starts on Sunday! I'm looking forward to it and it'll stop my parents complaining at how I 'don't do anything throughout the summer'.

Anyway I'm getting tired now so I'm going to stop writing!

George.

RE Lesson

I am sitting in a cover lesson for RE at the moment, and am having to sit next to Harry :@ For some reason none of the teachers are in school today so we are constantly having cover lessons from the history department, and Harry is correcting all my spelling mistakes even though Microsoft Office Word 2007 has its own built in spell checker :O

Anyway this means that I can no longer hand in my RE re-write to Mr Gleeson! Oh well I'm sure he'll get over it to be honest because he probably doesn't really care about his subject in the first place. Harry is now warning me that I should not disclose this information with you due to the improbable event of Mr Gleeson actually typing into Google 'George Barrett's Blog', but I'll just ignore him.

It's funny because I've finished way before everyone else because I insist that the use of my laptop in RE will help me more during class. And no before you ask I don't do this in any other lesson and it is really just an excuse to basically go to sleep for the rest of the lesson. I've written about 1,000 words in RE today and most other people will only have written about 200 so I think I win from that point of view. YEAH HARRY!

Ok now there is a bit of a time gap because I am now sat in an English lesson listening to people's speeches about 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. Mr Cowburn has already shouted at the class and we've just started! I won't be doing my speech in ages so I just generally type anything he says and hope that I may be able to write a good essay or something.

Now there's another time gap because I am now on Gallery (backstage) finishing off my lunch and generally hanging out and listening to music through the gallery monitors. The music can get annoying at times because there are a few arrogant members of the team here and are constantly changing the song half way through between them. Not only that but they just can't help changing the Folio settings individually as if it makes them more important or knowledgeable or something!

Anyway I'd better stop writing now because this is starting to get a bit long for a blog entry!

 

George.