April 2008
14 posts
4od
just started using chanel4 on demand ….. awesome stuff, great free legal tv! Now catching up on all the stuff i loved to watch when i had a tv hooked up ….. startign to think i should invest in sky for my new TV tho.
Diet
no more snacks, no more over-sized portions and take every opportunity to get out of the house ….. I have to do this for so many reasons
labyrinthitis
so as with all my plans, the one to write regularly on this tubmlr went a bit off course…. Im recovering from labyrinthitis at the moment. Last wednesday I started feeling dizzy which then turned into two days of extreme dizzyness and finding it hard not to vomit. Not nice. It subsided and i was left with a cold straight after, but im still getting dizzy occasionaly / some deafness as well....
Google AppEngine
Being a c#, php, and mysql developer mainly I thought AppEngine would be a nice change to try out …. the guess paid off. The obvious downside to AppEngine is being restricted, but I see this as an upside… for someone who hasnt done that much python before its a great way to get into things. Ive got admit it, im liking python… im a greate believer in readable code (indenting...
US Elections
Right, let me state first that I dont actually care too much about the US elections as im Welsh and it doesnt affect me personally and directly. Is it just me or are the elections this time round more bitchy? It could be to do with me now being more aware of everything going on, it might be the speed at which news is aggregated now, but ones things clear - it seems more and more of a slinging...
more machines
I find myself thursting more computing power …. but not for one machine. 1 machine for work, 1 for home, 1 laptop for social media but is that enough? I find myself looking for something to really play with - something i can trash on a regular basis …. format to test OS’s. Which also leads me to an Apple …. test Mac OS, and obviously unlike a few years ago a host of other...
Mozilla Labs Prism
I would get the link but googling this post’s title will find it …. Well worth a look, spent an hour or so tonight sorting out my laptop, trying to find ways to minimize memory usage. The first step on this was to stop having so many tabs open on frifox - i usually have 15-20 contantly open. The quick fix here was to put constantly visited links onto one page and setting that as one...
The weekend quiet
One thing i noticed this weekend is that I got quiet during it … so im not officially looking at a better phone …. one that doesnt suck for web use and wont become obsolete quickly … sorry apple!
Grand National
Well, i dont bet much but the odd time I do is the grand national and everytime the lottery gets insanely huge…. Anyway … i won … not a lot though, £20 worth of bets - £46 back… better than a kick in thehind tho eh?
GV.com →
Gary is one of the bext people i know for positivity - Damn Good Person
> 1000 on flickr
Very glad i upgraded my flickr to pro - just gone passed my 1000th photo - it was one of my very cute neice Lydia.
Last.fm rules
Just found myself looking over all the data last.fm has collected about my listening habits … amazing how even with a practically 9 month empty gap ive listened to over 22k songs in just under 2 years …. admitedly though - 2000 are in the last 4 weeks … since working from home im listening to music most of the time (loudly). Still looking at what else i can do with this thing...
Another day, here comes comments
So this tumblr thing interests me but i felt it was missing comments … so now all posts have Disqus on (not that its going to get used much!) … cant guarentee it’ll stay - depends how the site performs - trying to get features and performance. On another note - this is my first post from tumbleweed.
March 2008
2 posts
hrefs big up →
another url shortening service - made by me because i got bored … it lacks a lot but i might develop it futher…. hosted @ fasthosts at the moment - some database slowness so might move it soon….
Insomniaaa
I haz it …. well not really … but welcome to phase one of mattrandles.com …. this is just a place for me to post about the random goings on i find interesting … also … if i get round to recording my music - it’ll appear here first!