25th August.

25 August 20 09:01
Nice sunny morning, no clouds to be seen, I had to go to shop for papers and found out shopkeeper is short staffed, did for a split second think of volunteering to help him out, dangerous thoughts.
Must have been a decent kip last night, aches and pains have lessened and stiff left arm and shoulder feel much better.
Today should see end of first learning module.
Sneezing like a good ‘un, hope not coming down with a cold!
Keep getting a rolling of text in module heading contact your tutor, stops when I left forward click, similar to instability. Brought on by trying to click and scroll page.
Rt. Click forward and use drag bars.
I was working on doc. And wanted to save etc. and for the first time in my life I actually looked for the keyboard shortcuts, and used them.
10:57 AM
Old man phones, telling me him and ma have just had 3-day break in Blackpool, good friendly digs and fine weather.
He certainly has been lucky with the weather this year. I wish I could have done that,
Just fucked off last week.
That’s the type of thing I should do, I meet enough characters in the clubs and in the boarding house to supply quite a lot of writing.
It did say in the writer’s guides to socialise for material.
I have to learn to see material in even the mundane lives, some worse than mine, no doubt!
The post arrives and I take the chance to exercise, washing up is done while kettle boils and tea brews while I wander downstairs to collect letter.
From the top of the stairs I can see that there is only one letter and I take a guess at it being a bank statement.
I was right.
A statement telling me how much this computer has cost me. I’ve budgeted successfully to cover the expense and am not perturbed.
Next to the p.c.’s entry is one for £23.82 for music download site. I guessed that MP3DOWNLOADHQ-COM was a site and I investigated, it turns out to be a one off payment for downloads and I must have subscribed but cannot for the life of me remember!
Will investigate further.
Included in the post was, as requested a month’s supply of roach board, in the shape of Mortgage and Loan offers.
Once again I pause to contemplate the thought of using a USB memory device for writing. Convincing myself.
Read enough about it now is the time to, as I’m doing thinking of storage and moving solutions, which are financially beneficial.
Using a DVD RW to copy everything to will provide a database of work which is separated from fallibilities of H/D.

Idea of diary on a stick is appealing takes place of floppy disc.
Of which I had surprisingly few to dispose off!
DVD 4.5G. CD 750Kb. USB research. 2G sufficient.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-memory.htm
a memory chip is an integrated circuit (IC)
a transistor and a capacitor are paired to create a memory cell, which represents a single bit of data.
The capacitor holds the bit of information -- a 0 or a 1 (see How Bits and Bytes Work for information on bits).
The transistor acts as a switch that lets the control circuitry on the memory chip read the capacitor or change its state.
Have found what could be a little earner, more than enough material to make this course more interesting to the average adult.
The course is o.k. but needs a bit of beef on the bones to keep anyone inquisitive satisfied. Could be added on as optional reading.

How do you figure out what the value of the binary number 1011 is? you use a base of 2 instead of a base of 10. So:
(1 * 2^3) + (0 * 2^2) + (1 * 2^1) + (1 * 2^0) = 8 + 0 + 2 + 1 = 11
1011
Becomes,
One thousand, = 1*2 to the power of three, 2*2*2=8*1=8.
No hundreds, = 0 becomes 0*2 to the power of two, 2*2=4*0=0?
One ten = 1 becomes one ten, 1*2*1=1
One zero. = 1 becomes one zero, 1*2*0=1


10011
Becomes 10 thousand, 10*2^3, 80020?
No hundreds, 0*2^2
One ten, 1*2^1
One zero, 1*2^0
Maths has once again let me down, its probably simple but not today
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03:25 PM
I’ve been all over, even on a site where a guy posts daily pics of his dog taking a dump!
Have learnt that the course merely scratches the surface as far as giving out information,
Its tailored to the average Joe.
I learn in a staccato method so am used to days like this, it has ended up being planned but initially was just going to be a revision day.
Have had an enjoyable day.

My Tutor is on holiday so I may as well take all the time in the world, I can’t progress until have sat a test so just have to put some meat on the bones.