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updating looks
Ok, so I re-skinned this little ol bit of me on the web again… I prefer it light…
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development
I’ve done a lot of research this week. I’ve been thinking about optimization to reduce costs of hosting. In the past I’ve always been write once, refactor a gazillion times. For my current idea/project I’ve been thinking about optimization before starting, researching technologies to get an idea or where to start…
Anyway…. very quiet on here lately as a result of the amount of reading i’m doing. Also been wondering about the random nature of my blogging, thinking maybe I could write down the tips i come across in one place, if only to act as a giant notepad for myself..
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slypoll
Yeah, been a heck of a long time since I did something good and showed it off a bit. Soon will be time, I’m working on (as a project) slypoll.com. I’ve just taken the existing site offline (keeping existing polls up till I finish playing).
There’s still a fair way to go, and this will be hosted on new hosting, so there’s that to sort as well. I might preview some bits on here or via twitter/twitpic from time to time before it goes live as well.
Why? Because I want to? Its mainly a test on how good a site I can make on a bootstrappers budget…
Anyway… another short post… keep watching this space (and @slypoll and @wehttam)
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new blog theme
So, i got bored of the old one, tell the truth I’m bored of this one before I’m finished. It will be changing again without a doubt, I just wanted to move to a xhtml/css only theme, no images to host etc. Everything is now served from tumblr.
Looking to change a lot of things regarding web soon, I’d like to share more of the things I come across and the ideas I have.
In other news its only like 10 weeks until my holiday to South Africa. Really excited, and next month will probably look into new camera lenses and such as well. I’m in need of a wide angle, decent aperture (or IS) Canon DSLR lens … but i’m too tight to just but one considering im new to all this!
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Time For Change →
I’ve been logging what i eat since new year over at eatlog.co.uk, its time to make some changes in my life regarding weight etc - read the scoop on my other site!
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Crazy Craig’s List Applicant
drew:
I recently posted an ad on Craig’s List under “Computer Gigs”, and the responses I got make me want to write a book on how not to apply for a job.
One guy in particular has been emailing me for two days with such great comedy I had to post it. This is taken from multiple emails after I told him I was Mac focused and not interested he KEPT EMAILING me. Can you believe this?
“honestly am not nor was I really ever interested in working with you„ like I said I am successful and can buy and sell you 5 times over.. dont need the money„ you made one critical mistake that many people have made with me„ you underestimated my ability and knowledge..
I will match my tech knowlege and computer and software and hardware to anything you have or use…run a dual QUAD core, thats 8 cores„ with 8 gigs ram, a few terabytes of DISK space, the latest SLI nvidia cards with 1 GIG video memory on windows 7 and VISTA, on dual boot.. with twin 10 MB fiber lines for DSL redundancy
oh yeah and on twin 28” LCD monitors at 1080p with HD recorders in real time care to do a 3d rendering test on your computer to compare speed, or how about a database search test„ maybe photoshop speed test? lol you have a fuking PO box for an address, for your business btw drive a 100k mercedes.. and was doing this when you were playing in the sandbox lol weting your pants.. where is your technology you use? lol, some google gimmick..with voicemail, and a craptastic mac, that is slow as shit, not a real workstation, emulating 64 bit likeOS X does layered on 32 bit with a 64 bit shell„ ( opps you didnt know that )? GOOGLE is dying ,dude the stock in 1/2 and their venture captical investors who I know 2 are running away, it was all hype, MS is eating their share slowly but surely let me guess you voted for OBAMA too, lol and you drive a green electric car…the leftie, socialist losers„ who are anti american, want to socialize everything for the losers that dont want to work and all use MACS, that figures…was not trying to impress you at all. cause you dont impress me to be honest, was never planning on working with you,that is the funny part.think about it, why would I have dissed the MAC in our early conversations if I wanted a job„ lol that would not have been smart? I knew the minuite you were a mac zealot and MACANUT as they all are, and a liberal, that I was never going to work with you..
I went around and said INTEL and WINDOWS will crush all of them and they will not be around in 10 years which is exactly what happened. same with google„ and I predicted that a year ago„ watch and get ready to cry, cause they are gonna take apple down with them„expecially when steven jobs croaks„ his crappy company will go with him.. Microsoft is going retail and opening many many stores to compete with apple, and like every time in the past will CRUSH themlike the bug they are. actually I can now see why you see the world so skewed and warped.. I am not nor was I really ever interested in working with you„ like I said I am successful and can buy and sell you 5 times over.. dont need the money„ I am just amazed how you liberal green mac users are always so wrong about technology„ GOOGLE is a flash in the pan, ann the tech guys who are real professsionals including all the trade mags, and publications say GOOGLE does only one thing wellSEARCH and they should stick with it.
all their other crap including their email, and little toy widgets are gimmicks„ and MS if you would bother to see the Live techonolgies, they havethe new accelerators that every company is adopting„ like UPS, FEDEX, YAHOO, GPS, INTEL, etc are developing for, and new technologies like SILVERLIGHT, for the web, for real time interactive 3d expierences„ it really makes you and your mac and google a joke… since wall street loved google so much and set the hype about GOOGLE people like you believed it why the stock went up to 800 then went down to 300„ lol since wall street’s record is so good lately are deceiving people , and look at the mess we are in„ the fact they hyped google says it all, really they dont know shit as far as getting around spam filters„ they are easy , if you know what the algorythems they use, what fonts they look for,what key words etc.. since you dont„ your clients suffer as you cannot properly then setup spam filters. lol also ATT YAHOO does not use the same spam filters as FREE YAHOO 2 totally different servers and services„ ATT YAHOO has the best spam filters money can buy, in fact you can setup 500 seperate custom filters, and they all learn dynamicallyATT YAHOO is a totally different email service than FREE YAHOO another classic mistake you make.your ego, like your spam filters is flawed, why you are all over the web, your ego undos you nuff said„ Im done, just some parting advice„ dont think your so smart„ and others are dumb„ with an IQ of 165, ex mensa, etc„you underestimated me totally.. ?” -
8bit goodness
I spent yesterday making 8bit sounding tracks via midi keyboard + synth settings … had some great fun. Nothing deffinate down yet I want to share with everybody, but certainly soon there might be a few tracks I’ll let you here.
Also been working on few designs for various project ideas I have… more on those in coming weeks!
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Long Forgotten Sons
Well well well, I’ve been falling behind in everything except work lately. I’ve been mad busy lately hence the no post for a few weeks.
Firstly, if I haven’t mentioned it already, I’ve been logging what I eat over at eatlog.co.uk - tell the truth i sometimes skip a cream egg…. but that’s mainly out of shame! I’m making a big plan of attack against my weight at the moment so stay tuned for more info.
Secondly, actually i… stop. Hammer time. No, in all seriousness I went to see Rise Against last Friday in Manchester. Loved every minute of the gig, to kick it all off the first support act was Flobots, not my kind of music but the violinist was awesome. Following them came Anti Flag, not heard that much of but they put on an amazing show which everyone loved and got into. Then the peak, Rise Against, with their political agenda, their raw sound and a brilliant set that kept everyone interested.
The whole thing was very political, anti-war, anti-discrimination etc… But it was awesome, the message wasnt to believe as they do but to believe what you do and stick to it, stand up be counted, even if its to oppose them.
Right, random rant over…
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holidays and ideas
So, I’ve had the last two weeks off from work and spent a week of that in Lanzarote. Got say I had a brilliantly relaxed time and come back brimming with ideas for projects, life, music etc etc.
Whilst away I did feel more cut off than I’d have liked but it gave me chance to just reflect on challenges from the last few months and how to move forward with them.
Looking forward I have some health ideas and plans, which will be documented on eatlog website and accompanying twitter account. I also have some personal geeky projects I want to prototype, and if I dont develop them I will document them here for the web to take freely if they so wish.
Music wise I will also post things here but might get a bit more brave, record things acoustic and slam them onto youtube.
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number crunchin
The past few weeks i’ve been watching @stephenfry’s follower number increase, then after his appearance on @wossy’s program on bbc1 (UK) I noticed the numbers shoot up. More interestingly I’ve noticed it compared to other top people on twitter see here. and I have to wonder where most of Stephen Fry’s followers come from. On the top list, if we ignore Obama(@BarackObama) and CNN(@cnnbrk) the only real competitor is @kevinrose. I can guess straight away the bulk of Kevin’s followers come from digg users and diggnation watchers, and maybe some people who know him more from his previous life on The Screen Savers (a show in the states). Stephen Fry however, to me as a British geek, is more of a comedian and knowledgeable bloke and I wonder if the bulk of his followers are also new-to-twitter users? If so, I think its brilliant, I had thought about creating a quick app which could spider the list and check follower post counts or similar and do some checks but straight away remembered the api limits and his current number of followers could mean it running for a month (when using max 100 requests per hour).
Anyway this post is a bit of a mish mash has no big point, just thought some things were worth noting.
