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Somehow or other I seem to be about to run off the end of my modern languages degree and have started to think about what I’ll do next.

I’m not quite sure how I got to this point as all I really wanted to do was to be able to speak French better and six years down the line it looks like I’m on the home run with the modern languages degree.

Anyway, I’ve been thinking about several different plans as to what I might do after this one is out of the way of which the major options are

1. sit back and relax (there’s a lot to be said for this option!);
2. get going on German (out of curiosity as to whether a Germanic language would be easier to learn than the Romance ones);
3. do the creative writing course (always useful for blogging!);
4. carry on with the English courses and do the degree in English (not too keen on the literature choices with this though);
5. get going on the science degree that I always meant to get around to.

I really don’t know which one I’ll go for at the moment. Technically, I am already signed up for both the English and science degrees at the moment in that I’ve already done one course for each but there’s not commitment to complete either. The creative writing option seems quite scary to be honest and as it’s a full credit course it would be awkward to schedule in with the graduation ceremony as indeed would other full credit English course options. There’s a half credit science course which would do quite nicely though and the German would be a relatively easy fit too.

My thinking at the moment is that perhaps the science half credit course would be an idea as it would give me a fairly easy year and let me choose a full credit option in either English or science the following year.

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It’s taken three days and in the end I had to send an e-mail to their sales department saying that I wanted to cancel the hosting account to get any action. Now they’re saying that they are expediting the work on it.

It’s still not working though and, supposedly, they’ve now been working on it for around half a day.

I’m persisting with the cancellation as I’m wondering how long it will take them to get around to getting the account fully operational (I’m assuming that I’ll find more things that they’ve not set up properly).

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I thought that I’d run with powweb as our main hosting platform in America on the basis that Brooke uses it and she always seems to know what she’s doing computer-wise.

Not a good move as it turned out.

Uploading the databases and HTML was very easy and much faster than expected. But nothing worked… it took them a day to find out that they’d not installed the PHP software for me.

Then things seemed to work. In fact, everything worked fine ’til I tried some pages that use encoded characters (for the French e-acute etc.) and none of them worked. That was two days ago and they’ve still not worked out how to fix the problem so I’m now in the process of cancelling the account with them.

Why the different experience? Well, Brooke has been with them for years and up to April 2006 they were one of the best places around so any teething troubles that she may have had were sorted out under the old regime. In 2006 they were taken over by Endurance and from then on the support had rapidly become worse. That’s not reflected (yet) in most of the review sites as they generally take account of all reviews so, of course, most of them predate the 2006 takeover.

Anyway, I’m off to try another place over there now.

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