Amara Emerson

So I'd just like publicise another artist on youtube, this time it's an 11 year old boy who is quite masterful with a guitar.

There's a huge range of covers he does, mostly arranged for the guitar by himself which is extremely impressive.

View his channel

I can't really pick a song as a sample, there's just so many quality pieces. Look and listen for yourself. :)

The site was down for a week or two recently when an attempt to upgrade to Drupal 6.4 was botched and I subsequently gave up on it, leaving it in offline mode for a long time. I've just tackled it again and managed to fix it, so all is good.

That's all for now.

It's the 14th of August and this morning I went with friends to college to pick up our final A Level results. After two years I got:

• Computing - A
• Mathematics - A
• Physics - A

and also an A in General Studies as well.

Very pleased since I got into Manchester University to study computer science for a masters degree. Off for celebrations tonight. :)

I have to share the work of this great pianist and cover artist on YouTube.

He does exclusively piano covers of modern songs, and below is probably one of my favourite ones.

Coldplay's "The Scientist" was covered here, done completely by ear. If you look at his other work, he's also done a cover of their other song Fix You as well as Clocks which are also worth looks.

Yesterday I had my last day of college before we broke up for study leave. I only have 7 exams, one of which is a resit for a module that I have an A in, and the other is an optional exam that I got put in for that won't affect my A Levels at all.

Tonight's also the night of the leaver's ball at the Reebok stadium, will now have to get ready. Bye!

I'm currently migrating the site over to the new version of Drupal, 6.2. I've been quite behind with the releases, with the latest 5.x release being 5.7, I had 5.2 installed.

Note to self: when next migrating content over, don't accidentally delete the directory that has content file attachments.

Unfortunately the previous greeny theme that I liked hasn't been ported to 6.2 yet, so I'm using the default Bluemarine theme for now.