Alright so the summer's hit us here in Australia.
I'm one of those people who gets really, REALLY agitated by the heat and since I spend a lot of time on my computer in my small bedroom, it feels like I'm inside a furnace.
By agitated I mean I get uncomfortable and moody, and in worst cases I get dizzy and faint, not a good thing...

The key problems I face here are that my room is small, it heats up really quickly which is awesome in the winter but not for summer.
It has direct exposure to sunlight through its only window from around 7am til 10am with only thin white vertical blinds stopping it.
I leave my computer on 24/7, a lot of us GW members do that so I don't want to hear any "just turn it off" posts because it's unnacceptable...

My computer's fan runs full blast through the summer to keep the inside of it cool, but it blows all the hot air into my room, however on a hot summer day like today my computer still overheated and switched off, this is annoying because turning my computer on (due to it crapping out and being a piece of shit), is a huge battle.

So far my only attempts at fixing all of this have been to peg a blanket up over my blinds to not only stop the light but some of the heat getting in, I'm getting an outdoor bamboo curtain hooked up ouside the window as well so that I don't need to keep the blanket up there.
I have a small desk fan that at least keeps my face cold but the rest of the room still feels hot.

I'm really running out of ideas here but to make this topic actually decent why don't you tell me how you handle the heat through the summer.
If you're anything like me who doesn't have air conditioning or a lot of room to move I'd like to hear your solutions, if any exist.

In the summertime here I get those unnatural blue ice-pack things and put them in my bed for a few hours before I hit the hay, cools my bed off and doesn't leak anywhere. I don't know how much this will help the actual room temperature though.



Honestly it's winter here, and I am so damn cold I can barely fathom ways to make a room colder...

Take off all non-essential clothes, eat ice-blocks (or put ice in your water, or put water in a jug in the fridge or something). I take it that you don't get a breeze through your windows at all, or I'd suggest that you open them (but leave your blinds closed). Leave your room's door open, maybe? Also, you might want to cool your computer with water-cooling (if it's not too expensive) to stop it from heating your room too much, because it sounds like that's one of your main problems.

Wow, I thought that shitty hot/random rain weather was only here in the tropics!

Wow, I thought that shitty hot/random rain weather was only here in the tropics!

It is, Pink is from the UK.

EDIT: PS Mongoloid I like your icy bed idea.

My computer's on constantly for downloading purposes so it's more of a necessity to have it on.
The room only gets really hot during the day which is usually fine because I'm at work, then I open a window and have the fan blowing to circulate the air of an evening time. When I leave in the morning, I place the desk fan facing the side of my computer case (side cover taken off of course), to get some extra air in there which helps a lot.

I guess it's only really a problem for me on my days off work, days when I don't have anything to do except browse the internet and so forth.

Mongoloid's method is pretty great though, heh...
I put an ice pack in a pillow and I'm sitting on it, then I have an ice pack in another pillow that I'm resting my feet on.

The sun  here literally fucking burns now. I'm usually one who can withstand the sun but jesus christ I can't take it!

Is it worse than the tropics, man? What's funny is that it's usually hot here but when I went to America last year, the heat was even more unbearable in some places. It was... a different kind of heat. A NASTY heat. Thought it was funny cuz closer to the polls, you're supposed to be colder, right?

nah due to the earth's tilt we get more direct exposure than the tropics during summer

all this talk about heat is making me miss summer in the middle of all this fucking snow

Y'know I've always wanted to try out one of those 'cooling collars' to see if they work; they attach to your neck, cooling the veins and arteries and eventually your whole body. At least that's how they're supposed to work. You might want to look into that.

Hahaha man if I ever find one of them I'm so taking a photo.