Archive for July, 2004

Well thanks to Temple Moor getting shunned by the last Offsted report as a cultural blackhole, we were forced into a day of dance today. Teachers kept bragged we got to do this while everyone else had normal lessons but the thing they didn’t seem to realise is that we would have prefered to do normal lessons that all this dancing. Especially as I only have three lessons on a Monday.

The super learning days are not over yet thought, there is another two to go – a trip to Leeds Met tommorow and interform sporting activities on Wednesday. Wow, it is going to be a long week. I did manage to get some photos from today though.

As a trivia point, this is post 15 – after this one posts will be getting pushed off the homepage. But anyway – the photos:

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Above is street dancing and below is tango:

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Well it’s Monday morning and I am pretty tired considering I got up at 7, left the house at half seven and walked all the way to Carl’s and back before arriving at school and eight thirty. Still at least there is only three days of school left. Today is the day of dance – more on that later including photos, horror stories and twisted ankles.

But anyway the real subject of this post is summer plans. It was going to be filming – lots of filming. But lack of scripts have put us back.

Also I was hoping I would have a car by now as Craig takes two hours to get here on the bus. Even though he says he can get here in thirty minutes. Maybe though script writing should be factored into our production time. We also have storage problems considering how much space video takes up but I am sure we will figure something out. And by figure something out I mean sleep through summer. Sounds like a plan.

Although it has been around for ages, Maze Radio was not officially launched – that is until now. The homepage now offers links, the streaming audio works and plans are being put into, well actually, more plans are being drawn up. Whatever, it gives the overall effect that Maze Radio is now once again in motion. It’s it just so exciting!

You can now listen online. There is also information about the radio station and a forum. It’s still phpBB subSilver at the moment there is no integration or customisation at all. But it will come with time. There is also a link to Nerd Federation as many of our Maze Radio hosts are also part of Nerd Federation so we are using this as our official blog base :).

What’s with the re-activation of Maze Radio. Well it’s mainly down to my new found facination with Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. As well as the fact I am totally addicted to the game I just love Pressing Issues on Vice City Public Radio. I found myself just leaving the game running on my laptop so I could listen to the show. Then two things occured to me – one we should have a cool talk radio show like that. Two I happen to operate a talk radio station.

And so I decided to try and breathe new life into Maze Radio. We need listeners so get everyone you know and many more people who you don’t know listening to the show. If you have any ideas for topics too, feel free to post them in the comments section below.

I said I would eventually get the stuff together and thanks to some quality nagging I have actually done it. Last Friday myself, JD and Andy put together our new rivial for the Dot Net Show on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/) hosted by the almighty Robert Hess. I think once you watch it though (not that we are going to be putting it online though lol) you will see its the best show ever.

Today is Sunday so only two days gap I don’t think is bad for me. Out of interest, today is Hooton’s birthday (I think) so happy b-day Hooton. Your now older than JD for exactly a month. Anyway so back to the subject, we did manage to get a picture of the crew…

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From left to right – myself with the trademark headphones, Andy at the back and JD on the right.

We also plan to bring you a host of new shows including Who show Carl S? and the Carlman show.

Perhaps the thing about Robert Hess and involving pictures and stuff is a pipe stream. I plan to do it tommorow but seen as tommorow is like 12 minutes away as I write I mean tommorow tommorow not just tommorow literally. Still, I may just be telling myself that I will do it tommorow and never actually get round to hit. Who can say what the future will bring?

I have spent most of the night trying to get an ASP.net url rewriting thing to work. Why oh why it couldn’t be simple like Apache’s mod_rewrite I will never know although I couldn’t get that working and resorted to using forcetype instead at the end so not much of a starter really. I tried to use the demos out of the box as it were though too with no success.

Anyway for those crazy enough to follow in my footsteps here are some useful web links:

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/URLRewriter.asp?select=867132&df=100&forumid=4228&exp=0
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/030522.htm
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020417.htm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/community/authors/scottmitchell/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/urlrewriting.asp

Hope you have more sucess than I did, if so, email me your code! 😉

I was just watching the episode of the Simpsons where Homer gets chucked out of Moe’s and Marge is scared of flying. I managed to get a quality photo of Homer’s exact double :). That will provide some nice entertainment when I am next flicking through what is contained on my compact flash card. Out of interest they are bringing out a 2GB one soon!

I did have point for this post previously but I can’t rememer now – it was a few days ago that I had the idea and I wanted to space it out between the Antitrust. Ah well, how about writing about writing about how Craig disappeared – there is a topic for you rawpulse. Anyway I like these posts to have a point that can be found on a search engine lol so today’s problem is when we were trying to log in on the Chain of Addiction forum we got page cannot be displayed error.

The solution? Yeah I knew you would come clicking. Anyway the problem was in the configuration of the board. To solve it, go into the admin panel and click on configuration and check the domain and folder path. Hope it works!

Antitrust maybe many things, the one I am refering to is the movie. For those of us in the UK it was on Channel 5 last Thursday. It was quite a good movie too. The basic plot was Milo is brought into NERV, a huge computer software company that everybody hates and is getting hit with antitrust lawsuits. Anyway the point is, to complete Synapse their latest project which will link every device in the world together they need really good code.

Milo is brought into the company to  help although the only real way they can do it is to kill the worlds best coders, make it look like a themed attack such as racial, etc and then steal the developers code. It is working pretty well until Milo stumbles onto the plan and makes the source code publically available.

The point is though that this movie came out in 2001 and was likely to have been writen in 2000. And what have Microsoft done between then and now. Unveiled, the Dot Net initiative, an XML platform which allows every device to communicate with each other. Seeing the connection?

Well who would have thought we could sustain interest for more than 24 hours? Ah well we have like an hour to spill out in ICT although we could do to get some law revision done. Anyway I have loads to post but have stuff to do now. Back later.

Although officially I hate PHP, date() is pretty cool. The thing is that PHP uses a different timestamp format to the standard MySQL timestamp. Therefore the majority of timestamps stored in MySQL are actually stored as intergers. Or at least this is how phpBB do it. And that is how my latest site does it. But enough about quick plugs. What’s happening here?

Ah right, the thing about MySQL timestamp is that it updates to the current time everytime you update the column. Therefore when I had to make a change to the database to set a post to a different user, it updated the timestamp and moved the post to the top. Hmm, I posted this, maybe it evens it out or at least dislodges it from the top.

So, Malcolm in the Middle has just ended. Ok, here I am just trying to fill out space. Here’s a picture of Fonze again:

Hu, I lasted about 20 minutes. Not unexpected though really. I am still exploring the features of the site. On the left of the main page you can see a link called albums at the bottom, below the about link. This offers you the chance to see all our albums (well currently 1) and all the photos within these albums (again, 1). Enjoy!

I can add resources to posts apparently too, so if you go on the full link or permalink or whatever it’s called you should be able to see the full resource.

Or, if you are already on this page, you should be able to see it below ;):