Archive for January, 2006

One thing I just remembered while I was in the shower. One of the questions for my introduction to systems development exam was…

What is YHMAN? Who founded it? When? How big is it?

Looking back on it putting

There’s no such thing according to Wikipedia

Was probably not the best answer I could have given :p. I put that in my practice questions and I’m sure there was a reason that made it sound like a good idea when I put it in the actual exam too.

I don’t think I emphasised this point enough last night. My exams are over! I have no more, at least until the end of next semester which is ages away anyway. I have lectures starting again on Monday but this gives me three days in which I don’t have to feel guilty about doing no work because I simply have absolutely nothing to do.

Finished my exams today so I was in a partying mood. It was Claudia’s birthday so we were all heading down to Bar Risa. Although when I got there half of them had gone to Oceana. Still there was enough of us there to make a night of it.

Tonight was pretty mental. Started off around 9:30 in the Bod Bar, got a few drinks in with Jed, Kev, Sean and two of the Daves then got the bus down to Bar Risa which is now staging Indie Rox (rumour has it that Halo has been closed down which sucks if it has though it would explain the change of venue).

We left about 1:40 or something, Precious was absolutely wasted and he and Chris ended up falling on the floor in a pile-up. Next thing we know there are 7 police around us wearing armoured jackets and the lot. Anyway we got on the bus and they were chanting until 3 more police got on the bus ;). We managed to get them quiter then although not silent.

Arriving home there was only one thing to do – watch Back to the Future :p.

One plus about Bar Risa is that the bar staff are really hot but the downside is they are really blonde ;). It was like 1:20 or something and as I’d finished drinking (I was warmed up by then so I wind down after that to keep my head clear) I ordered a coke and so she gives me a glass filed with ice and then starts serving someone else! Ah well, at least it was incredibly amusing :D.

I think it’s 3, I loose count. Also I didn’t count the problems with the photos I took at my school and there is something else I didn’t count but yeah anyway, so, it happened again. I think it’s worth noting that this kind of talk gets thrown around a lot of the net though and most of it is BS. But that’s not saying you don’t have to be careful.

I got an email from the editor of the Dev Shed network concerning CassieNet News which if your not familar with is kind of like the Internet Archive for RSS feeds. However Dev Shed weren’t happy about their content being included. They didn’t mention this on their site or RSS feed though, neither of which have terms of use attached. But it’s not a major problem as they emailed me and I took it down for them, I was happy to do so.

Never the less the original email did contain the phrase:

before we have to resort to legal measures

Also when I responded I got an email from Spam Arrest saying I needed to go to their site to confirm this wasn’t spam before the e-mail would be passed along. Ironically the e-mail telling me to do this got caught my my spam filter. Luckily I checked it for false-positives and saw it as I may just have deleted it and he would never have got my response. It’s a joke that Spam Arrest can’t keep their own emails out of the spam traps though.

The other thing I don’t like about Spam Arrest is that you have to agree to a bunch of terms and conditions that involves paying huge fines if you do sent commerical e-mails. Not that I would ever do that or plan to do that, but what if I didn’t want to agree to the terms? It’s like the government spying on you and saying “well if you’re not doing anything illegal what do you have to worry about?” It still doesn’t make it ok.

Yes, it’s true, Worfolk Shopping now has some actual content. I’ve had the domain since 2004 and never actually done anything with it, at least now it has something on, even if it is only an Amazon powered site. It’s a start at least.

I just added a closing date field to the database for the history of sites and noticed that Old M World was launched in April of 2001. That’s almost 5 years old! That’s amazing, I didn’t realise that it was such a long time ago since the site was launched.

Yes, it’s sad. Old M World has finally been taken offline now that Boltblue have taken all the Cable and Wireless servers. It was up for many a year before they took it down recently but that’s life. I had the insight to make a backup of the site before it went (that was like a year or two ago I think) although it’s just a HTTP copier tool so it probably didn’t get all the files.

Still, it has most of what was there so I am happy enough. It’s now been removed from the Worfolk Online database, I think it could well be the first ever to be. Well it’s actually now in the history section but it’s no longer listed on the site nor is any information accessable at the moment as that hasn’t been implimented yet nor do I have any plans to do it in the near future.

On the plus side though, a new site, Britney Beats is now online.

I’ve never been a fan of the place because they spell it Oceana yet pronounce it Oceania. But Oli invited me out so I thought I would go for an hour or so. We got there about 9:40-9:45 or something and got straight in. Word to the wise, if you do go there, get there before 10 as they have plenty of bars to hang out in before you go on to the club and the queues just get mental.

But anyway yeah, it sucks. It’s just a bunch of rooms which are in theory themed (ok some of the rooms are different but several of them are very samey). Also First Port which is like the first bar as you go in has an aweful alchol pop choice. Is it really that hard to stock Reef? It’s not that cheap either.

Bottom line is, it’s going on the list. It’s a trendy place. On the plus side the girls are really hot but it’s like Gatecrasher, it’s an ultra-trendy place that happens to let students in and I don’t like those places. Oh and Lindsay Lohan is not appropriate music to play in there.

Had another exam today, human computer interaction. I think I got through that without too many problems which is cool. I have my final one tomorrow so going out would probably be a bad idea tonight. So yeah, I’m going to Oceana tonight ;). Not staying long though, getting up early to get some revision done tomorrow.

The video news updates for xmeltrut.com have been scoring some serious viewing on Google Video. Well not serious but more than I had expected. I pulled up the report to find a few 10-20 page views and realised that was the report for yesterday!

So I pulled up the report for December and the two Hilary Duff videos that I had both got over 1,000 page views. This is all through search, I’m not linking to them. But maybe I should be if it’s taking serious bandwidth from my sites.

In the latest 7 days Britney Spears has two videos with around 300 views and Hilary has one too. Avril Lavigne tops it though with a 339.