Phil Benwell - Internet Student

Well this blog has pretty much died hasn’t it?

Thinks have been strange over the last few months, lots going on off the web and at work. I’ve also been looking to start a project that you can read about over at All Ninja, it basically involves chopping up an old games console and making it into a portable. Sounds good but me with a soldering ion and glue gun? I feel a trip the the hospital coming on.

Since completing the CIW 520 exam I have also been meaning to get stuck into the 525 material but I hit a stone wall when I got to chapter two - Internet Law, blah blah…..

Guess this is just a “Hi, I’m still alive”, if you stop buy leave a comment.

If you’ve ever found yourself staring at file type you just don’t recognize or know what to do with, then the File Extension Library might be able to help.

Have you ever been sat looking at a ctt file and wondering what the hell it was? Whether it was safe to delete or should you keep it? Now you can find out that the file in question is a Windows Live Messenger file, usually associated with contacts.

So whether it is a ctt file or you find yourself with a DJVU file (a raster image file), then you know to head on over to the file-extension-library.

Well, last week I was in Dudley at the Computeach Centre completing the final part of my 520 Website Designer.

I took the test on Friday after a few days cramming and passed the exam with 81%. Not too shabby but still feel I could have done better. The next stage the 525, looks at E-Commerce so hopefully when ths is out of the way, the workings of a shopping cart should be well in my grasp.

Talking of shopping carts, has anyone else seen “Shopping Cart Hero” its a very addictive flash game, check it out here:
http://www.hiddenninjagames.com/flash-arcade-game.php?gameid=219&gamename=Shopping%20Cart%20Hero

Its been a while since I’ve had time to blog here. I’ll put another update on soon. I just wanted to ask one question really,

Whats in a domain name?

I’ve been looking at ways to earn from domain names online and there seem to be some do’s and don’t, so here are some domains I am looking into getting:

AdminHunt.com
GreatestWhite.com
MyInternetSite.org
CheeseAndMe.net
DaffyRabbit.com
HomeBlogNews.info

What would you expect to see on them, and what are your other first impressions?

Well in the last 2 weeks of Uni I have managed to attend 1 session. Last Monday I attended the Elements of Computing class where we discussed some old operating systems and how they worked and some of the basic features they had, we also carried out a practical task of creating a bat file in MS DOS. All of this was great and I really enjoyed it but by the time Thursday rolled around I was in need to some time off so took the time to go home after work and spent it with the family.

Over the weekend I found out that the gig I was going to was on Monday (not Tuesday like I thought), so I missed Mondays session this week as I was in Manchester at a Kanye West concert. This Thursday I will really have to get to Uni as I haven’t been to the Photoshop class for 2 weeks. Which also means that my Photoshop blog hasn’t been updated. In fact a lot of my blogs haven’t been updated recently so I will have to try and make sure I visit each one this week.

I blame it all on Christmas shopping, lol.