Ludwig @ April 12, 2007 I really have been neglecting my blog, and I am very sorry. It’s just that (yes here come the excuses) over the past few weeks I have been extremely busy!
Camping
Over the past four or five weeks I have been camping 4 times.
First I went to Mt. Manganui with my family. It took an entire weekend and meant I had to catch up on homework. Doh!
Then, since I was elected as Lead Student, I had to go camping with the Year Nines (the youngest students at high-school.) This took 4 days out of my week, meant I had to catch up on a lot of work (in class work and homework) but it was a lot of fun. Upon returning from this camp I was greeted with a bunch of tests - Grr.
My third camp was leadership camp which as you probably can tell is also because I was e;ected as a Lead Student. This camp was the best out of all four. It was with all my friends (we are all in the leadership realm at school - because we are really the only bunch of people who care) and it was very exciting! I loved this camp and wouldn’t think twice about another.
My last camp was with my family again, at Mt. Managanui, over the Easter weeekend. This wasn’t that fun, mainly because Zak was meant to come but a couple of days before we left he said that he couldn’t go anymore because he had to go to Rotorua with his mum. Ah well.
So, I’m all camped out. Well kinda, I was meant to go camping again today withy all my friends (similar to the leadership camp) but too many people ended up not being able to (or wanting to) at the last minute and organisation was just hell.
Hockey
Yes, hockey trials came and went. I attended them and unfortuneately almost half our seasoned players decided not to play again. I belive their is about 5 senior players left. That means I have a pretty good chance of getting into the team but it also means that my team will suck, compared to the senior teams we will play against.
O, this also showed me how unfit I was and that I need to get a fitness regime.
Driver’s Licence
Yes, I am finally getting my driver’s licence, after putting it off for almost a year and a half. I’m going next week (fingers crossed - I have yet to make a booking) but I am very excited and kind of afraid. Mixed feelings about this. Will tell more when more comes up.
A new website
That’s right I am finally doing it, coding a new website for this place. I have almost finished coding the blog part of it (just some Akismet integration and tagging to go) and then I will tackle the portfolio and lifestream parts. The design is done and a few people have seen it and given their opinions. I am pretty pleased with it.
I decided against doing it in Rails, the learning curve is too steep and the ease of developing in it (in my opinion) is severely over-hyped. I want the new website done relatively quickly so I have done it in PHP. I prefer PHP because I am almost seasoned in it now, only needing to browse for methods of doing things in it for obscure cases. I still hate reg-ex.
Anyway,InstantRailss is still on my machine and withencouragement I will learn Rails - maybe even Django too.
NCEATracker
I still have that random bug and updating the standards have not furthered at all - Zak has been on holiday. To be honest that random bug is not a priority fix for me right now - I’ve decided to make that a Beta feature, available for Firefox users but not IE. Why? Well we have no users yet (apart from ourselves and our friends) and unless we start getting people interested and using it I don’t want to spend time fixing an optional feature. (It’s just a quick way of adding a mark, the normal way works for all browsers so they aren’t losing any functionality.)
Zak’s job is to get the standards in (atleast for Level 1 and 2) and when that is done we’ll approach our school.
As always you can follow me on twitter to get a ’round the clock idea of what I am up to 
Looking forward to seeing the new design, and seeing the NCEA tracker launch.
Comment by Ben Lilley — April 16, 2007 @ 5:15 am