Feb/100
PokerStars Daily £2000 UK Freeroll
I finished "in the money" in yesterdays UK Freeroll on PokerStars. Finished around 500-600th place and won about $1.50! Yeah! Then proceaded to loose a $1.15 Double or Nothing SitnGo!
PokerStars is doing this freeroll and another £250 one at 21.30 every day until March'ish time so if you have a PokerStars account and live in the UK you are missing out by not playing in it.
Feb/100
Snow in Hull this morning
It's always pleasant to wake up and everything be covered in white. Makes me want to go back to the alps and do some snowboarding. No hills in Hull. Had a 9.15 lecture, now time to do some work on my Poker Project.
Feb/100
CM-Group graduate recruiting at Hull Uni
Yesterday, Monday, CM group held a presentation at Hull Uni looking to recruit a graduate. One of their largest clients is Microsoft which is pretty cool. They create training material for Microsoft's newest technologies; books, labs, tutorials. Graduates can work towards a Microsoft certification and are paid around 20 grand. Not bad. Small company based in Bristol.
Feb/100
Updated WordPress to 2.9.1
WordPress has been updated to the latest version 2.9.1. I had to update it manually as the Dashboard method is not working. Some other things like seearching and downloading plugins from the dashboard. I can imagine it is something to do with my hosting (Free Hostia)
Feb/100
Installed Windows 7 on 6-7 year old Notebook
As I previously wrote, the 40GB HDD in my aging Dell Insipron 600m laptop died so I installed Ubuntu on a 16GB USB stick. That served me well for a good while but I just bought a cheap 40GB replacement drive off eBay for under 20 pounds and installed Windows 7 Professional on it. To my surprise it installed fine but was missing most drivers so I thought I'd have a proper mission to find some compatible Windows 7 drivers. Turns out though that all the XP ones from the Dell site work perfectly with Windows 7!
I got Windows 7 Pro for free from MSDN as I am a Computer Science student 
It runs surprisingly well considering the laptop only has 512MB ram. Writting this with Firefox open it is using 352MB. Visual Studio 2008 runs fine too. Aero wont enable as it has a Radeon 9000 graphics card which doesn't support DirectX 9. Tried the various hacks online but no joy.
I have set a side a 10GB partition where I plan to install Windows XP Pro SP3 because Windows 7 just like Vista still feels slower than good ole' XP!
Amazed that the XP drivers worked though, seems strange.
Feb/100
Backing up 1.3TB to DVD-R!
I saw two x50 DVD-R Spindles sitting on my desk so I decided to (start) organising and backing up a few years of data and media.
I am using ImgBurn to do this.
http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
It's the best free burning software I have come across. It used to only burn images (isos, bins, etc) iirc but now it will burn anything it seams.