Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

With PHP, Java, etc one of the most basic mistakes you can make is to do a comparission with one equals sign.

x = true

That is always going to equal true because these languages are too lazy to distinquish between assignment and comparission so if you don’t tell it to do a comparission using == it will do an assignment and therfore always come out true.

I really need to finish more old projects. But I got started on a new one last night that I like to think has some quite substancial potential. More details will emerge once I work out what is happening and how I am going to do everything.

My coursework weekend ended up suprisingly like last week’s coursework weekend. I could really use one where I actually get some coursework done, that would be rather useful.

Everytime I do it makes me laugh.

Well, it may do for Chad Kroger. But look at this photograph. Seriously, I look like a mutant!

Is it the greatest script ever created? Because it seems to be by the amount of people using it. It’s like every directory I want to submit to is using it. Which is a downer as I’m skipping all the ones that are as they take too much time to fill out.

After flicking round the NameCheap I am fairly happy with the site and it seems to enjoy pretty much the best reputation on NamePros so I have decided to migrate my domains over to NameCheap. I’ve put in a bunch of transfer requests and over the next year or so will move all my domains over there.

RegisterFly is giving me even more aggro as domains seem to be missing from my account. I need to stay on top of my domains more.

The new AudioSenate.net is live! It’s been re-designed from it’s previous life as I’ve previously mentioned. It’s now a music information library. Each artist has all their albums listed and reviews for each album are categorised into positive and negative to give it a percentage score.

It has very few reviews in at the moment (only a few dozen) but I’m hoping people will start submitting them as it has a whole easy submission process, moderation panel, the whole lot.

The compatibility with Internet Explorer isn’t great but it’s only a few slight CSS problems, other than that it is fine and it won’t disturb the user’s use of the site. Plus I’m not giving up my awesome tab style CSS links just because IE won’t display them right :p.

Sarann’s timing is awful. She was aiming to be there for 10, she got in at 11:20! Still it was a wicked night, we even had Fonze dancing by the end of it. Also Friday Flock is back! It doesn’t actually return until April but there is hope for it yet.

Tonight is the 3rd Saturday of the month which can mean several things, one of which is that it’s The Wendy House at the Union. It’s the biggest alternative night in the north with alternative meaning goth ;). Although to be fair some none goths do turn up and the rooms are divided into 80’s, hardcore gothic type stuff and indie so it really is more of an alternative night that just happens to attract many a goth.

I’m meeting Fonze in 15 minutes and we’re going to spent much, much time shooting pool and waiting for Sarann to turn up. She is planning to get there for 10 but it’s Sarann so the chances of her making it on time are pretty slim :p. Michelle has left for the weekend to go to Cardiff and Oli is out of money but I was determined that nothing would distrupt the plan. Because I like plans. Plans are good.

I actually got thinking about planning and such earlier. I can’t work out whether I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to movies and events and stuff. I mean I take control and don’t like my vision distrupted but I hate producing and organising stuff it’s so stressful. And with events, it’s just nobody else really seems to take control and get things organised. I like organisation, taxomony, etc, although the state of my room doesn’t really reflect that. But my filing system on my computer does. I guess I’m just a man of many contradictions.

I just read the Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing review (and watched the video review too) again. It’s one of the funiest things you could well ever read :p.

Wow, I got through the night and haven’t given up on AudioSenate.net :D. I’ve been doing some more work on it this morning. The user’s can now submit reviews for moderation so I just need to finish off the moderation panel, add in some way to notify me when a review is submitted and some way of telling users they can email me to request a new artist and we are sorted.

I want to get it done as I’m trying to get all my sites going a bit. Owning loads of domains is actually a valid option as long as all of them are generating some traffic and money so I’m trying to troubleshoot the sites that are underperforming and not using much bandwidth to try and get some all doing something even if it isn’t much.