http://www.ady.net/blog Adrian Harper, born in the Isle of Man, currently in Switzerland working as an IT Manager and trying to learn guitar!.</br>IT Manager, Husband and Student = A very busy man! Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:38:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a long slog I finally have every single CD I own ripped and into iTunes along with artwork on every item :) Anal I know, but hey I like CoverFlow! http://www.ady.net/blog/2008/06/28/10-hours-well-spent/ After the initial freebie lesson I've now had my first hour session. I'm very comfortable with my teacher and happy to practice at home etc but I am still not sure if I am going to actually be any good at what I am learning. The main comments and findings from ... http://www.ady.net/blog/2008/06/26/lesson-notes/ Finally after six years of owning a guitar I have found a teacher and am actually learning to play properly. Today was really just a trial lesson, a free 30 minutes where I could decide if I liked the teacher enough to attend ok a regular basis and pay 94 bucks ... http://www.ady.net/blog/2008/06/19/first-lesson-down-and-ive-already-signed-up-for-another-10/ Wow, nearly three months gone in the blink of an eye and a lot has happened in that short period. One of the better things is that we have finally found and bought a house and it is not that far away from where we are living now. The next ... http://www.ady.net/blog/2008/03/15/time-flies/ Thanks to everyone who has been writing with encouragement and offers of information and assistance for my dissertation work. Towards the end of 2007 I took on quite a large project at the office (actually I had no choice, it was urgent and needed and therefore had to be completed within ... http://www.ady.net/blog/2008/01/02/new-year-new-start/ Last weekend saw the completion of the research methods training. By my calculation I should receive an overall A grade for the module which is great considering it makes up 10% of the overall dissertation grade. The last couple of weeks saw me slacking on the proposal document, partly because I've ... http://www.ady.net/blog/2007/09/12/dissertation-update/ Jobs pulled the rabbit out of the hat with the new iPod Touch at today's presentation and I have to admit I've been clicking the Swiss Apple store ever since :) The store came online a few minutes ago and I managed to get an order in (it was dog ... http://www.ady.net/blog/2007/09/05/ipod-touch/ Spend a few minutes this evening upgrading from Wordpress 1.5 to the latest version 2.2, all went well with no issues what so ever with plugins or themes. The most surprising thing was the volume of spam comments that had been previously sitting in the database and hidden on the ... http://www.ady.net/blog/2007/09/04/wordpress-22/ Since finishing off the modules for my MSc ISM more an more people have been coming to read back through past blog entries. Generally I get asked about module content and additional reading, hence the book list. Sometimes I get asked about the time needed for study and the ... http://www.ady.net/blog/2007/08/30/essential-applications-for-online-masters-students/ What a hectic couple of weeks, whoever it was that said to me 'Oh your at the dissertation component, it is easy sailing from here' should be shot. A friend asked me to compare the dissertation process to the modules a couple of weeks ago, the best comparison I could come ... http://www.ady.net/blog/2007/08/30/weeks-2345/