Jocelyn & S'phiwo's Wedding

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Originally uploaded by Jonnyboy2005.

Photos for my holiday to South Africa are now up, with a seperate set of photos for Jocelyn's wedding.

Pete and Rachel Campbell

Pete and Rachel Campbell (#2)
Originally uploaded by Jonnyboy2005.

The happy couple after the wedding in the "coffee and cake" slot of the day :o)

Bay View Systems: Site Up

Hello

Finally, the Bay View Systems (Ltd) site has been opened up for everyone to browse and plan how they're going to employ me :o)

Business will start formally on the Monday 2nd October. I've been accepted into the Digital Technium on the Swansea University campus, which is going to be great!

Feedback on the site would be appreciated. For those of you for whom I have an email address, i'll be sending you an email announcing the launch of the company, together with a services brochure sometime in the next week or so.

It's a nice day for a... white wedding...

Well, I had the option of going back into uni today, but because i had a meeting with an accountant at 10am (which blew my mind!) and then the wedding of two friends, Jaime Alexander and Lora Morgan at 12noon, I decided it would be best to wait and be refreshed and ready to go tomorrow.


It was a lovely service, held at Mount Pleasant (on the Kingsway, Swansea)- we sang some great hymns, the message Steve Levy gave was clear and accessible. It was also wonderful to see so many old friends together in one place!

Jaime and Lora: I pray you would know the Lord's blessing throughout your lives in your future together.

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Two weeks off!

Well, as of today, I have 2 weeks off from university! Woo! :o)

Unfortunately, this doesn't quite mean the rest I would like it to, but never mind, hopefully a change will do me just as good.

This week, although out of the lab, i'll be devoting time to my up-and-coming company projects. Hopefully I'll be able to break the back of them, so that the remainder of my development time (before the end of September) can be spent optimising, testing and documenting! My company, Bay View Systems (Ltd) will have multiple streams of income when it formally kicks off on October 2nd. Initially, these will be for contracting work (development and system support) - of which i have a few contracts lined up already - but hopefully, as the company grows and its reputation is established, the income from ongoing product services will overtake that from contracting work. (That's the long term plan, but its a good way off at the moment!)

The second week I have off will be spent in Aberystwyth, Mid-Wales, at the Evangelical Movement of Wales (EMW) conference there. I've not been properly for several years now, but am looking forward to it. I'll be staying with friends there, the meetings look good, but i may just end up sleeping off the last 6 months or so of stress! This will be my last "actual holiday" until december when I'm out in Mseleni, South Africa for Jocelyn's wedding (approx. nine days).

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On a side note, I was at the Wales Eisteddfod festival-thing yesterday (see photo of the main tent, above) to help with the Swansea uni stand. things were going great until we arrived and found that our huge touch-screen display's touch-screen capabilities didn't work! (Oh, and the machine plugged into it had been password-protected by the owner!) D'oh! Anyway, we managed to find a video to play on it, but it meant we have to show off the new calculator software using tablet PCs and a touch-screen MAC.

The day was good; there was a nice, friendly relaxed atmostphere, although I didn't understand much (almost everything is in welsh), and there was also some weird stuff going on with people in gowns with crowns and thrones and sceptres etc.. hmm..

Bay View Systems Ltd.

This is the logo of my new company, Bay View Systems (Ltd). The company was registered a week and a half ago, and will begin trading formally in September.

The website may be found here:

www.bayviewsystems.co.uk

Quotes of the day

"Am I not supposed to have what I want? What I need? What am I supposed to do?"

"...Sometimes, to do what's right, we have to be steady and give up the thing we want the most..."

- Spiderman 2, 2004

Rugby Lessons: Start early

Rugby Lessons: Start early
Originally uploaded by Jonnyboy2005.

This and several new photos have been added to my Flickr page... if anyones interested... http://www.flickr.com/jharvey197/

Grasses in the Wind

Grasses in the Wind
Originally uploaded by Jonnyboy2005.

This picture was taken earlier today on a walk to Mumbles. These grasses are by the (Clyne?) river at Blackpill, which joins the sea. It was an accident that it was taken in B/W -- i'd left my camera in that mode! -- however, i think it makes the picture more ominous and imposing -- it was actually quite a plesent day!

Sunset through the trees

Sunset through the trees
Originally uploaded by Jonnyboy2005.

Thought that as there are no Mseleni photos on Flickr, I should add one :o)

Crab-apples

Crab-apples
Originally uploaded by Jonnyboy2005.

One of the many new pictures i took this christmas. Check them out at my Flickr page (see link).

Photos being added to blog

Well, I've decided to start blogging some pictures, just because it'll make it look as if this is an active blog ;o)