Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Well, I’ve got credit for signing up to an offer. As long as I cancel it within the next few weeks I don’t pay anything so I’m pretty sorted there I think. Now I just need all you guys to sign up :p. The friend I mentioned before actually has his PSP now so I have some faith in the system. As I said before it’s still a pyramid scheme when it comes down to it but it’s one that actually works.

Ok, so I just got nto uni like 25 minutes early and headed down to the main School of Computing lab, DEC-10. I walked in and it’s just empty. Not metaphorically empty but like de-void of all human life. There is nobody here! It’s well freaky, there is always someone in DEC-10.

That’s pretty impressive. Sure there are plenty of places that have bigger memberships but we are talking about the seriously big sites here – GamSpot, Gaia Online, etc. The only other webmaster related site that I can think of that holds that kind of membership base is Web Hosting Talk.

Of course Big-Boards.com had to come along and name loads (phpBB.com, DevShed, vBulletin.com to name a few) but it’s besides the point. I remember when the SitePoint Forums where only 30,000 members strong. I’m sure many members remember way before that.

A few weeks ago I aquired a new online property in a quite sale and since then the site is gradually being turned round into something I can launch. It’s progressing quite well so far although there are a few bumps I need to get over before it will be ready. Watch this space though. And feel free to try and guess what it is :p.

I woke up this morning and I couldn’t believe how life had got so crazy after one day of the second semester. My to do list…

• Sort out Tramey’s audio clip
• Record some new VNUs
• Update xmeltrut.com and the blogs
• Sort out World Domination Soc
• Do some uni work

I’m sure I have a load more stuff to do that I have forgotten too.

Been flicking around for some SMF skins. Found these…

• Sapphire
• SMFone
• Chat Bubbles

Just watching the Prison Break show on Channel 5. Here’s what Radio Times said about it…

Prison Break looks and sounds terrific – snappily edited with lots of groovy music – with what seems to be an intriguing story at its core.

They do know it’s on Channel 5 right? Still….

Look a little closer, however, and you’ll come to realise that it’s empty nonsense.

Yep. And it is. But I’m almost hucked.

I’ve had a long day today. I got to bed at midnight last night as I needed to be up at 8:45 for breakfast but I couldn’t get to sleep until like 2:30. Got into uni for 10 and had stuff through till 4. Though we need have a nice long lunch break. Myself, Graham, Sarann, Michelle and Jimmy spent most of it sitting round discussing various issues in Game On.

After uni was done I meet up with Fonze, Deni and Carl for some pool. Fonze won more games than anyone I think, mainly because in the whole of the nights activities I prematurely potted the black three times. We did that till about 6 then went to get some food and Deni and Carl went home.

After food me and Fonze headed back and played yet more pool :p. Pool is fun. I really want a pool table. Also tomorrow I don’t have to be in until 1 pm which is awesome as last semester it was between 9 and 11 starts everday. Databases seems an ok new module, as does algorithms and data structures plus the SE12 project will be cool as me and Michelle got our partners to agree to work together so we can work together and we can do anything pretty much as long as it’s written in Python.

I’m not sure I’m going to buy any of the recommended text books this semester. I won’t say I didn’t get use out of the £200 I spent on text books last semester but I didn’t feel like I got my money’s worth. Still I might go get one for learning Python as I’m hoping I know a good one (I have one for PHP which is good and I think they do a Python one but I’m not 100%).

Nick Wilsdon has written an interesting article on what Google could be doing as a domain registrar, you can read it here.

So apparently your favicon doesn’t have to be an icon. I should have seen that really but then I don’t know if it’s just something that browsers support or whether it’s a standard or what. But RadioTimes.com have an animated gif as their favicon which is cool. It will get annoying soon but cool. Anyway, the code…

<link rel=”icon” href=”http://www.radiotimes.com/favicon.gif” type=”image/gif” />

Simple enough. Just the regular code (although I would rel it as a shortcut icon) but with a type attribute as well.

BTW, what’s the deal with WordPress’s code tag? It doesn’t seem to do anything.