Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

I’ve been talking about the new version of Particle Blogger over on the Particle Soft blog over the course of about a week now although I haven’t really made much in the way of a statement of progress beyond it is going fairly well and could be available fairly soon.

Well, I still don’t want to make any official announcements but I think on my personal blog I can go into more detail without worrying about that.

It’s basically finished. Tomorrow we’re going to upgrade our official blog and do some final testing and if everything works fine it will be released very soon. And it’s going to be a good release too. The admin panel has been major changed to be almost unrecognisable from the old one, save maybe a faint hint of the same colour scheme but it is massively better! Things like error messages, general look and layout, navigation just blow the old system away.

I accidentally made a call of my mobile by sitting on it (I think it was locked though as it said SOS call). Have I become one of those idiots who costs lives because they accidentally call the emergency services? Hmm, don’t think I’ve gone that far given I did lock my phone. But it does show that it’s a bad idea for them to allow emergency calls to be made while a phone is locked.

But yeah I heard my monitor go wierd as the phone signal passed through it and so I pulled my phone out of my pocket in preparation to answer the incoming call to find it was actually an outgoing call which I quickly cancelled.

Kieran pointed me in the direction of a few interesting blogs, one of which was Girl with a one-track mind which has a lot on about sex and relationships and such. I’ve been reading through it today and it provides quite an interesting read.

Here is something I thought up a few weeks back but never got round to writing. It’s a guide to how to spot when something is wrong…

• I haven’t posted on a forum in 72 hours
• I haven’t updated one of my websites in 60 hours
• I haven’t messaged you back on Facebook in 48 hours
• I haven’t responded to your email in 36 hours
• I haven’t blogged in 24 hours

So yeah, we were drinking in the Quilted Lama from 2 until 8. They weren’t serving food as the chef was off as were the two guys that could cover for him but given the situation they let us bring our own food in so I had a chicken tikka wrap about 3. We then headed off to Sarann’s via DEC-10 (to check emails and write blog posts) and arrived sometime before 9.

It took us a while in DEC-10 as we got into a debate about whether it was the moral thing to do to steal thousands of pounds. Matt seemed to think it was.

Anyway, we had a whole pizza night at Sarann’s involving lots of pizza and more drinking too. Michelle got nicely drunk as was B. B actually came to the Quilted Lama later and left there before the rest of us because she was wasted. Which shows quite an impressive performance on Kieran and Matt’s part as they had been drinking gin all day and were still relatively sober at the end of the day (they got through a bottle when we got back to Sarann’s also).

So yeah (a phrase I probably overuse) that was last night then this afternoon I went to see X-Men 3: The Last Stand, which was a pretty kick ass movie. And now I’m in for a night of finally trying to sort my e-mails out. How am I so busy when I don’t have anything to do (as in, for uni, I obviously do have things to do)?

Ok, it’s 2 so I probably should be up by now but I didn’t get to bed till 3 am. Anyway this blog post needs to be put on hold as I’ve just had a phone call from Claire inviting me to see X-Men 3. So I said yeah that sounds good, when? 2:30! I can be on a bus if I rush at 2:10 but it’s still not going to get me there on time. So yeah, to be continued.

Had my maths exam this morning which went pretty well, I passed (I’m pretty sure, I obviously can’t be 100%) then after a quick trip back to Bod I headed to the Quilted Lama and have been drinking via 2. Next plan, to head off to Sarann’s and drink more. What can I say, it’s the student life. Seriously, that place is being kept alive by us, today is was really, really busy compared to normal and that is because there were two other groups of about 4-6 people in there and at one point there was another guy as well. Although most of the time we were the only ones in there.

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Something I want to re-visit quickly is last night’s activities. While over at the revision session we were walking about sleeping with each other (as you do) and Phil told B they couldn’t sleep together as he has a rule of not sleeping with anyone he is living with.

I asked Sarann if that’s why she wouldn’t sleep with me to which she replied yes. While she quickly changed her mind, her initial thought is clearly the one she believes which shows two things:

• That she accepts that the house is partly mine
• That she does secretly (or not as the case may be) want to sleep with me

I apparently want to sleep with her too. I suggested she sleep with Jimmy so that he would be more friendly to her and yet I somehow typed me rather than Jimmy. Is my subconscience trying to tell me something?

Wooooooooh! Hold on a minute, they are making changes to The Wendy House? This I do not like! This is scary! Ok, let me calm you down and myself too. It is staying at the union.

Ok, there are two main changes, I’m going to talk about them in turn.

Summer changes
Wendy House is still going over the summer and thankfully it’s going to be staying at the union accross the summer too so it means the union hopefully won’t be closed for that long (as it’s a cool place to hang out, I’m presuming The Terrace will be open at least for some time).

However the union are refurbishing so that means that in July it will be two rooms (Bar Coda being closed) and in August Stylus will be closed. I’m glad they are re-doing Bar Coda as the venue itself sucks, anywhere that is indie never gets a nice place (except Tunnel Club and Indie Rox at Halo, those are the only exceptions, possibly in the world). It’s going to be well crowded with Stylus closed in August though!

September changes
The union are kicking Wendy House out of Mine! There is a whole different event going to be run which means that they will only have two rooms on a regular basis and Mine is a big room so they are still going to be a little short on space (well, they have loads of space compared to Fruity but I like clubs at 50% capacity (of which the Wendy House is more than that) because that’s still fairly crowded but has enough room to dance in (at 100% you absolutely can’t move)).

However on the Wendy House community they said…

Mutate room will be moved into the much larger and much improved “Bar Coda” room

Which implies to me that when they refurbish Bar Coda they are going to make it bigger as it’s capacity is only half the size of Mine at the moment. I don’t know how they plan to expand it as it’s surrounded by Mine and Stylus, albeit above them I think but that’s apparently the plan so maybe they are making it way bigger.

Conclusion
It’s going to be an interesting summer. I guess there won’t be as many people at Wendy House as normal anyway as a lot of the students will be gone although that sucks because I prefer students to locals and percentage wise it means there will be way more locals there.

I look forward to seeing the new Bar Coda but with the changes and Mutate taking priority when there are only two rooms in means that June will be the last time Hot Potatoes is run!