Archive for February, 2006

Here is an interesting querk. FirefoxFlicks.com, a site officially setup by Mozilla for a film making competition to premote Firefox, doesn’t actually work in Firefox :p.

The footer is aligned way over on the right, out of line with the main content and causing horizontal scrolling.

Still, it looks even worse in IE.

Ok, they are talking about BitTorrent and how it’s helping terrorism. Why? Because ISP’s are restricting BitTorrent data, so people have to encrypt their data so the listening stations cannot listen in.

Ok, point one, they shouldn’t be listening in! They just admitted on BBC2 that they do listen in to our emails and the information we send and receive over the internet.

Secondly, don’t blame the BitTorrent users, BitTorrent has lots of legitimate uses, Blizzard use it so send World of Warcraft patches. Blame the ISP’s for locking users down.

I want to migrate everything over to NameCheap. I’m just having too many problems. Here is a support ticket I’ve just had to submit to RegisterFly.

Hi,

Could I please have antichav.com pushed back to my account so I can renew it?

Also I’ve paid for the renewal of angeldrive.com but it’s still saying that it’s expired.

Also hotminibikinis.com and tradeconfederacy.com are missing from my account and I am not trying to transfer them.

Trying to keep on top of all my domains is a massive hassle normally, let alone when I get these problems.

Ok so it’s Thursday, that means maths tutorial which means I was in at 9. Actually before then to try and get my SY12 coursework in on time – didn’t work. Had lectures all morning and did some Python coding in the afternoon then I went with Michelle to the doctors.

I had an interview with Michel’s bakery for film making society at 4 and on the way back we bumped into Korok who was running around trying to film more stuff for the LUCI documentary. So I ended up at this Marx talk in the arc conference room with Benjamin to get some more footage. Korok had taken off but without his bag which begins the next saga of my day.

I took it to take back to him as he is at Oxley which is just down the road from Bodington so I got off at Oxley and Korok met me (after some difficultly, his phone died before we could communicate so he had to ring me from a landline) and while there he showed by the film making society headquarters – someone just gave us an entire house at Oxley, complete with kitchen, bathroom, everything so you could camp out over the weekend and just edit solid.

I got back at like 6:30 to grab some dinner and finished about 7 when Michelle arrived as she was coming down to collect some movies she wanted to borrow. We ended up spending five hours sitting around talking and after missing the 12:08 bus got a few games of Mariokart in too :p.

So all in all it’s been a really long day and I’m planning to get up in like 7 hours (well slightly more) for this morning’s breakfast. Should be fun :D.

Apparently, this has all come at me really fast. The videos of myself in Nightmare 90210 and other movies seem to have leaked round my department by somebody checking out my websites (after all they are nerds) and soon loads of people had seen it. It then spread round my house and now loads of people from there have seen it. Not that I don’t want them to see it, it’s just spreading really fast.

Then today when I got off the bus a girl came up to me and said “you’re hair looks better messy” which is a question I asked on one of my video news updates. It’s great the way stuff can spread round the internet so fast :p.

Before I get into my whole I’m a celebrity rant I want to talk about the bus this morning.

Ok, so I got on the 95. That is the bus that runs directly from my halls of residence. So as you can imagine it’s packed with Leeds Uni students as there are over 1,000 of us there. On the way it goes through Headingly and Hyde Park and picks up more students then when it stops outside Leeds Uni the bus just empties there ar like a handful of people left on at most.

But today’s bus driver didn’t stop for some reason. I don’t know if the button wasn’t pressed or not, someone usually does press it but even if they didn’t I think it is rather irrelevant. People had got up to get off and still, even if you ignore that fact, it’s a bus that drives right into the biggest halls of residence Leeds Uni has, someone is bound to want to get off at the uni. It’s just common sense to stop there.

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.