Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Well it’s Thursday again which means another 9 am lecture. It’s hard to believe how much I want to be in bed right now. But I’m not too bad for sleep though, I got to bed at like 11:30 last night (although the first 15-20 minutes were watching Going Cold Turkey on Channel 4). I just don’t like this whole getting up thing.

I have to hand in my SY coursework before 9 which could well be the first piece of coursework that I actually fail. Probably not a good sign but nobody really understands SY at the moment right?

So anyway yeah I was watching that Going Cold Turkey thing which is about some heroine addicts that are getting rehab. It’s brutal though. That’s the kind of stuff they should show in schools. Rather than tell us “drugs are bad” because I don’t really feel school has put me off drugs, they just say it’s bad without much evidence to support it. Not that I’m considering doing heroine but there are plenty of kids who would be that I think a show like that would put off.

My parents dropped by last night which was cool because they brought lots of money from various people. They are on their whole half term schieve at the moment.

Oh and I had a film making society meeting yesterday. Fergus and Trev were away so Korok took it though I think the regular members were outnumbered by new ones. There were 4 people from Communications wanting to help them with a module for their masters degree and there were these 4 indie rock chicks (well, not that I know their personality so it’s purely superficial and it’s not like it’s a bad thing but in terms of looks they couldn’t be more sterotyped).

Ben’s Space Opera 3000 is shaping up to have lots of potential and that is something I plan on getting involved with as it has the potential to be a really good movie while being simple enough to pull off really effectively.

I spent tonight (well, technically last night now) at a Rock Soc gig. But first a little rewind to earlier. I was scheduled to do an interview at Michel’s Bakery in Hyde Park but the guy who was supposed to be helping me pulled out and I couldn’t get the equipment so that was a bit of a collapse.

So I got the bus home and got as far as Headingly when Korok called me and said he was up for doing it now (he abandoned his lecture to try to sort it out) and so I cought a bus back and we went back to the union and interviewed some students there about their views for the LUCI documentary project (which is what pretty much everything going on at the moment is for).

I got back about 6:30 for dinner and then at 7:10 Sarann informed me that the Rock Soc gig that we were going to started at 7 :D. Michelle is ill so she wasn’t coming and I don’t know what Graham was doing but he didn’t answer his phone. Unless he called be back later, my battery died so I’ve been phoneless for the past few hours and will probably sleep through my lecture tomorrow as I don’t have an alarm :p.

So I dashed out and got the 7:20 bus down into town and met Sarann and Liz at The Cockpit for the whole Rock Soc thing which had three bands playing including The Attic project who were cool, they were like a proper punk band – baggy clothing, trousers half way down their ass, that’s how punk should be. Although the music wasn’t massively punk, it was good. I got a CD, at £1.50 you can’t go wrong.

That finished at like 9:30 and then we got free entrance to The Cockpit’s weekly Slam Dunk thing although it was in the same place so it’s not like a massive bonus getting free entry. What were they going to do, move us all out into the street? We stayed for some of that but Sarann has a 9:00 start tomorrow and Liz needs to be in at 8:30 so staying there all night probably wouldn’t have been the smart thing to do. It would have been the student thing to do but then Liz is a postgrad so she is exempt from those rules :p.

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.