Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

There is a running battle with whether external hyperlinks should open in new windows. The answer is no. I’m not here to explain why, any article concerning usability can do that. I’m here to explain why even you’re own logic is flawed. When I say you, I’m refering to webmasters who open external links in new windows, I don’t know that you reading this now do.

Ok, so looking at it purely from a money grabbing webmaster’s point of view, the case of forcing users to open links in new windows is that they stay on your site. but if they want to leave, they will just close your window down and leave. However chances are they will go back to your site and when they go back fresh adverts are loaded up. More ads displayed. Any webmaster can see that’s a good thing (I know it could well be often cached depending on how you serve your ads but I think the point still holds).

Hmm, so yeah it’s Monday. As if you didn’t know. That said, the actual day isn’t offered on the timestamp unless you’re on the post’s seperate page so if you aren’t reading this today that could well be new information for you. Of course I could be lying to you but you are just going to have to trust me on this one.

I came in for my tutorial this morning, just. I set my alarm for 8:00 to get up and get some stuff done before I went to uni. When it woke me up I thought, hmm, no. Set it for 8:20. That woke me up and I thought, I’m not even going to do that and reset it for 8:30 for breakfast. Couldn’t be bothered to set it for breakfast and set it for 9:00. I don’t really need to be up that early if I rush, set it for 9:10. Finally got up at around 9:15, missed the 9:30 bus and got to my tutorial at about 10:07. Therefollowed a 15 minute tutorial with a guest appearance by Jimmy (the real Jimmy that is supposed to be in my group). That was a lot of effort to get up for.

Good weekend though. I think that is evident by my lack of blogging – I only made 6 posts during Friday, Saturday, Sunday! Ok, for a normal person that would be a lot of posts but I have some kind of addiction to telling the world about my entire life in intricate and no doubt often tedious detail.

And yet it does apparently have some interest, even if only limited. For instance I’m aware that Michelle and Fran were reading over it to see what I had written about them. To that end, Michelle and Fran are great, I really like them!

Anyway so yeah I was concluding the weekends activities. I rushed out to Moorish after blogging yesterday to listen to the live music – the one that starts at 8 and you need to be there at 7 to get a seat. 9 pm, the music starts and half the seats are still available. But it was still cool, they do great wraps and we tried an apple flavoured shisha pipe (as upossed to strawberry on our first visit). So that is a second time. The currupting hand of Sarann strikes again.

Mental 24 hours. Went to The Wendy House last night with Sarann, Michelle, Fran, Fonze, Lunn and John. Awesome night although Fonze got absolutely wasted and ended up throwing up everywhere, I lost my coat, Fran lost of wallet (though both were arguably stolen) and we missed the bus. But until then it was great :D.

It actually was a good night. I crashed at Michelle’s (there actually was another bus but Metro denied it’s existence in both their timetables and their “real-time tracking services” you can text) due to missing the bus and in the forming we went into town and met Sarann at Wokmania for lunch. I think that’s a valid move considering I missed my meal at Bod although I’m never going to eat all those microchips now :p.

Few major website networks abuse search engines like CNet. Classic example. I need to get hold of some sample MP3’s so I run a search across Google for “free mp3 downloads.” The top 2 results are CNet’s MP3.com and CNet’s Download.com. Neither of which actually offer MP3 downloads! What they do offer is some free audio streams. Which are of no use to me.

Luckily Amazon to the rescue listed down in 9th, they actually do offer free MP3 downloads. Go Amazon!

Product information that give you good sensible advice. It makes a chance to see them in this modern world of ours.

While browsing Socalite’s Life I came across this which is quite amusing.

What a witty and relevant title huh? :p.

Anyway so yeah, we spent tonight at Sarann’s. It’s St. Patrick’s Day as I mentioned earlier and you probably know already but yeah, the buses were mental so it took forever to get everyone on.

I met Fran who is great, it’s good to know that there is someone else who doesn’t appreciate their parents taking them on holiday :D.

Myself and Michelle went shopping on Thursday and bought loads of alcohol and fruit juice of which we didn’t actually get through much. I think there may have been a slight over-estimation on how much we would drink though Graham, Maths Chris, George and Anne were all on the maybe list so it could have been double the size.

I’ve solved the problem! Why the insert is showing up on the list and yet not actually working. It’s because you need to cmmit the changes before it will save anything. That is so annoying, it took me forever to figure that one out. Well, I say forever, it’s taken me like 30 minutes but that’s a long time when this project needs to be finished in a week’s time.

It’s only the start of St. Patrick’s Day and already I have some interesting memories (admittedly from last Tuesday / Wednesday).

Fran is coming! To go off on a slightly random tangent. While I’m not massively excited myself due to the fact I have never met Fran, Michelle is very excited in her “I’m still a big kid inside” way (it’s quite an impressive skill to retain through the depressing teenage years that break most of our spirits).

We’re going to get a load of Python done today hopefully. I’m not just going to go home and play my guitar. As long as I keep telling myself that I should be fine.

Tonight is my night off which I’m glad I have in my timetable as I have lots of work to catch up on after taking the whole of yesterday off. I’ve now finished everything I should have done yesterday! Now all I have to do is do the work that I need to do today lol.

My Python project is quite a concern at the moment as we are quickly running out of time. It’s coming together slowly though, we have the basic form for an interface now and although there is still plenty of work to do I’m quite up for the challenge.

Ok, so it’s been ages since I’ve blogged. Well, like 36 hours but that is a long time considering the usual frequency of my posts and also considering that a lot has happened in that time. Last time I posted was before the big St. Patrick’s Day party (don’t ask me why we held it on the Tuesday, nobody really knows).

So yeah, I went down and got slightly drunk. And by slightly drink I mean I got absolutely wasted. It was a good night although major sufferage yesterday. I’ve never been anywhere near that hungover and ended up throwing up three times the next morning so not the greatest day I’ve had. I just barely made it in for my 5 o’clock and that was mission.

I had to go in for that though, it was the film making society AGM. Of which as I’ve previously mentioned I was running for secretary. I won, running unopposed but still a victory none of the less! :p. Steph got president as expected, Tom beat Benjamin to treasurer, Rosey (who was filming with us last Saturday when Steph tried to kill us (thinking about it Tom was as well)) got social secretary and the two open seats were taken by Louise and Stefan.

Tom and Rosey seem to be relative newcomers although that said, I’ve only been with the society since September. Still, they rock so I’m confident we have a strong committee. Matt also made a rare appearance and ran for an open seat although considering this is the first meeting he’s been to in ages I can see why the results came out the way they did.

Finally I spent last night at the Battle of the Bands thing at the union. It was a pretty cool night although I was still feeling lousy from my hangover so I left at about 11:30 so that I could get back to Bod with some hope of making it in for my 9:00 am start this morning (which I made).

So tonight I have quite a bit of work to do as a literally did nothing yesterday. The only time I was on my computer was just to print off the notes I made for my film making society election speech dealie so I probably have a few hundred emails waiting for me to sort out. Should be fun.