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It is now a fact that I do not like Java. Infact, I don’t think I like Sun Microsystems in general.

My uni-work in Java appears to have won its battle with me over errors and my mental state. These errors I’m getting shouldn’t even be there, and some friends who have seen my program say it should work. But, alas, no.

Sun Microsystems have been added to my hate-list of software companies. Microsoft, Apple, AOL, Yahoo!, Symantec… amongst others. Google’s going down this route too so beware bean-bag-loving hippies! I might just go and learn me Python or something!

Since I bought an Xbox 360, I have had experienced gaming heaven. Grand Theft Auto 4 has been my game of the year so far. It took me nearly 50 hours to complete it. Also, Guitar Hero 3 can be painful to play and simply amazing when you get it right. Forza 2, Assassin’s Creed, Virtua Tennis 3, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Bully and Ace Combat 6 have all proven good titles. But at a cost. And not only a financial one.

I have to redo some coursework for University and revise for an exam I have to do as well. But, ofcourse, games are a somewhat unwelcome distraction. The project I have to do isn’t exactly big, but I don’t enjoy it, don’t want to do it and I have no interest in it whatsoever. Even if you locked me in a room with only the program I needed to do it all, I’d probably just sleep.

My project is on Object Oriented and Event Driven Programming. This is to be done using the Java programming language. I’m not a fan of Java in any case, but the Object-Orientation in Java I just can’t get. Sun Microsystems seem to use different terms for things I know as something else in C for example. I’m not a big fan of programming when I don’t see the point of it. I like creating event driven programs because they are usually for an end-user or have a purpose. But making a program unnecessarily complicated I can’t understand. I know I have to learn the aspects (even though I don’t particularly want to… But I have to), but that doesn’t make it easier to do. Infact, it makes it harder because my curiosity would usually make me look at something and learn it for no real reason. But when its forced onto me, and I don’t enjoy it, it doesn’t even go in one ear and out the other; it just stops at the brick wall in front of me. Very annoying.

So, to sum up, games aren’t corrupting or disrupting me; its myself that just enjoys mowing down people on the sidewalk to get away from something I really, really, really do not enjoy.

But atleast I’m trying to do it as I write this blog post… Oh, the joys of procrastination.

It’s not until you realise how much work you actually have to do at University that you knuckle down and get to doing it! This doesn’t leave you with much time to blog about recent happenings, unfortunately!

Going back one post (A fair while ago now!), I was talking about small laptops. I found out soon after writing that post about the Elonex One. A laptop which beats even the Asus eee PC in terms of price. It is the first sub-£100 laptop in the UK. However, the price does affect the specification of the product obviously. It comes with a small 300mhz Processor and only 128mb of RAM; so runs a Linux OS. It does not seem feasible in any way to run Windows XP on this machine for those wanting something a bit more familiar. But, for £100, it seems a cheaper alternative for children to use as opposed to the Asus model.

I also decided to buy an Xbox 360 and I don’t regret it. Yet. The PS3 is getting stronger with every new game that comes out, and every new Blu-Ray movie too. Time will tell!