Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Sites selling out to big corporations isn’t cool. MySpace is the classic example, they have all Fox’s money but the still is still so hidiously unreliable that it’s just a bad joke. If you’re going to sell out fine but at least use the money brought in to make it worthwhile.

My next example is iStockPhoto. I’m finding the site quite slow and unreliable at the moment so I went onto Google Blog Search so see if any other bloggers had been having problems. What I found were several posts about them selling out to Getty Images for $50 million.

Maybe I just caught the site at a bad time so I’m not going to judge too quickly but I think I’ll be checking back later.

Ok, in an attempt to get on top of my coursework, I’m working out what I need to do when.

• SE12: Report due in on Wednesday
• SE15: none at the moment!
• MA12: due in tomorrow, finished it
• CS12: March 6th deadline? Nobody really knows
• DB11: Due in March 2nd
• SY12: none at the moment!

Ok so my focus at the moment needs to be on my SE12 report and my DB11 coursework also needs some attention. CS12 can wait until next weekend I think, depending on how much time I have as that will still give me time to speak to my tutorial leader if I have any problems before it’s due in.

They responded to my orginal support ticket solving one of the three issues, so I’ve just replied with…

Hi,

I’ve renewed the domain but when I try updating the nameservers for AntiChav.com I get…

Error:
We were unable to update the DNS for this domain name. The errors returned were [error:NullPointerException]

Also AngelDrive.com is still listed as having an expiration date of 2006 in my account even though the whois records say 2007.

Also could you please confirm the status of TradeConfederacy.com and HotMiniBikinis.com as they are listed as renewed on the whois but are not listed in my account.

Their system is just so poor. I’ve just discovered an email saying one of my domains failed to renew but there is no way to edit my support ticket.

Michelle came over to return my DVDs today and ended up staying all day and having dinner at Bod. We decided to head into town but then she started coming up with wacky ideas such as going to the beach or going to a lake (apparently they don’t have lakes on Jersey – seriously), so we ended up calling for Fonze with a load of picnic stuff and going to Temple Newsam. That is soooo random!

Here is an interesting querk. FirefoxFlicks.com, a site officially setup by Mozilla for a film making competition to premote Firefox, doesn’t actually work in Firefox :p.

The footer is aligned way over on the right, out of line with the main content and causing horizontal scrolling.

Still, it looks even worse in IE.

Ok, they are talking about BitTorrent and how it’s helping terrorism. Why? Because ISP’s are restricting BitTorrent data, so people have to encrypt their data so the listening stations cannot listen in.

Ok, point one, they shouldn’t be listening in! They just admitted on BBC2 that they do listen in to our emails and the information we send and receive over the internet.

Secondly, don’t blame the BitTorrent users, BitTorrent has lots of legitimate uses, Blizzard use it so send World of Warcraft patches. Blame the ISP’s for locking users down.

I want to migrate everything over to NameCheap. I’m just having too many problems. Here is a support ticket I’ve just had to submit to RegisterFly.

Hi,

Could I please have antichav.com pushed back to my account so I can renew it?

Also I’ve paid for the renewal of angeldrive.com but it’s still saying that it’s expired.

Also hotminibikinis.com and tradeconfederacy.com are missing from my account and I am not trying to transfer them.

Trying to keep on top of all my domains is a massive hassle normally, let alone when I get these problems.

Ok so it’s Thursday, that means maths tutorial which means I was in at 9. Actually before then to try and get my SY12 coursework in on time – didn’t work. Had lectures all morning and did some Python coding in the afternoon then I went with Michelle to the doctors.

I had an interview with Michel’s bakery for film making society at 4 and on the way back we bumped into Korok who was running around trying to film more stuff for the LUCI documentary. So I ended up at this Marx talk in the arc conference room with Benjamin to get some more footage. Korok had taken off but without his bag which begins the next saga of my day.

I took it to take back to him as he is at Oxley which is just down the road from Bodington so I got off at Oxley and Korok met me (after some difficultly, his phone died before we could communicate so he had to ring me from a landline) and while there he showed by the film making society headquarters – someone just gave us an entire house at Oxley, complete with kitchen, bathroom, everything so you could camp out over the weekend and just edit solid.

I got back at like 6:30 to grab some dinner and finished about 7 when Michelle arrived as she was coming down to collect some movies she wanted to borrow. We ended up spending five hours sitting around talking and after missing the 12:08 bus got a few games of Mariokart in too :p.

So all in all it’s been a really long day and I’m planning to get up in like 7 hours (well slightly more) for this morning’s breakfast. Should be fun :D.

Apparently, this has all come at me really fast. The videos of myself in Nightmare 90210 and other movies seem to have leaked round my department by somebody checking out my websites (after all they are nerds) and soon loads of people had seen it. It then spread round my house and now loads of people from there have seen it. Not that I don’t want them to see it, it’s just spreading really fast.

Then today when I got off the bus a girl came up to me and said “you’re hair looks better messy” which is a question I asked on one of my video news updates. It’s great the way stuff can spread round the internet so fast :p.

Before I get into my whole I’m a celebrity rant I want to talk about the bus this morning.

Ok, so I got on the 95. That is the bus that runs directly from my halls of residence. So as you can imagine it’s packed with Leeds Uni students as there are over 1,000 of us there. On the way it goes through Headingly and Hyde Park and picks up more students then when it stops outside Leeds Uni the bus just empties there ar like a handful of people left on at most.

But today’s bus driver didn’t stop for some reason. I don’t know if the button wasn’t pressed or not, someone usually does press it but even if they didn’t I think it is rather irrelevant. People had got up to get off and still, even if you ignore that fact, it’s a bus that drives right into the biggest halls of residence Leeds Uni has, someone is bound to want to get off at the uni. It’s just common sense to stop there.