Chris Worfolk's Blog

No I’m not talking about how much my friends check out a certain site of mine. I am actually on about the drama that is currently showing on Channel 4. From what I gather it is the first of two parts each of them around 2 hours long so they go on for a bit. The last time I watched a serious style powerful drama the Hamburg Cell which was on a few weeks to a month ago I think.

That was a pretty good drama. It took 3 years for it to come out but that is a whole different story that I talked about back yonder, well last month (it will be in the archives somwhere) and so on to the matter at hand. It would start going into details about it but then again this is a family blog or well at least we try to think it is.

Watching it actually came at the expense of Horizon but don’t go as far to think I missed it because there should be laws against missing Horizon. I actually video taped it seen as it was one or the other and I had an hour free on my video now that I have finished with the latest episode of One Tree Hill which was totally kick ass by the way.

Anyway I’m waffling and I need to save that for the remaining time I have on my law essay tommorow so I will spin out this paragraph and then flee. I didn’t really have a central point to this post, well I did, the drama, but all I really wanted to do is make sure that I had some kind of post for day on Nerd Fed. Anyway to quickly round it up, Maze Star, up to 91 articles!

Episode 2 and I have it paused a few minutes in – I thought I best head off to blog the fact that Paris Hilton is about to put a pan inside a microwave! I mean not knowing how to cook is one thing but microwaves are designed for people who are too lazy to cook like Paris. Of course it’s quite a broad range I usually microwave rather than cook – then again I know the first rule of using a microwave is not to put a pan inside.

Lesson two – when metal sparks begin to jump around your microwave, press the stop button! Don’t think that it needs another few minutes and turn the thing back on again. Well that is one lesson learned the hard way I guess. Anyway there are other things to talk about so I will move on and add in some random comments when they come up in the episode.

So anyway the process of scrolling down to this section has left me without memory of what I was going to write about. There is the final of three presidential debates on tonight which I was tempted to stay up and watch but considering it is at 2 in the morning I have opted to video it so myself and Ceon can do a running commentary for it for Maze Radio.

Also I have spent quite a qhile working on CassieNet News which has now indexed over 3,000 news stories and articles from various RSS feeds around the web. It’s quite fun experimenting with all the crazy ideas with the news display modes such as using iframes and dynamic JavaScript. Once it’s finished a may do a whole hey, how cool is this. Lol, anyway, I leave you as Paris and Nicole give a 7 year old or something a make over. It’s insane!

After explaining what I thought in short on the second presidential debate, I introduce the crazy new look of phpMyAdmin…

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Quick note before I go into my main post – I am currently watching Friends on Channel 4, it is the episode where Joey and Phoebe go for a road trip in the cab and Joey sleeps all the way through the journey and Phoebe tells him to sing as punishment. The song be begins to sing is Rock & Roll All Night by Kiss!

Anyway for the main post – there has been a serious Simpons drout ever since it left BBC2. It was awesome when they started to show it every day at 6 which was like for a year or two which was great for watching it during dinner. But then it disappeared and Sky One was the only source of Simpsons.

As I mentioned in the title though this will not be true forever though. It was last night during Father Ted when I first got the news. Straight after the break for the middle of the show began with a second or two mosaic of Mr Burns and I instantly knew that a new age was dawning with the Simpsons arriving on Channel 4.

Of course this is mainstream television and we don’t have to think – as at the end of the advert break there was SImpons footage and a big stamp saying the Simpsons on Channel 4. So I think generally yay, it is good news!

It is now a tradition – every year myself and several others randomly turn up at our school’s open evening armed with a camcorder to see what is going on. This year saw myself go with fellow Nerd Federation authors rawpulse and ceon for some footage including the video I edited together for the schools main presentation. Who knows I may even encode that for Nerd Fed one day. Anyway, check it out:

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Though I am well aware of all the problems there are with people
stealing everyone elses domains, last summer when a domain expired that
I was connected to, and it was left to expire without being picked up
my confidence was renewed in the domain registration system. I though,
well sure they are taking up the good domains but at least the rest of
us can rest in peace.

However my confidence has been once again shaken. Upon searching for
another domain which expired last summer which I knew about I found
that, that one had been snapped up by one of these. The assholes behind
this registration had been Kentech, Inc. My problem therefore is what to do with the domains that I am considering I let expire.

Due to my previously renewed faith in the system, I had left two domains slide earlier this month which are currently waiting to be deleted and I fear that these two will now be taken up by the losers who try to profit off stealing others peoples traffic – because that is what you guys do, you are no better than the lawyers that destroy communities by getting everyone to sue each other (obviously the you was aimed at them).

I still have domains I was considering letting slide although the only difference I can see here, is that the first one was a .net whereas this one was a .com. Apart from that the .net was a much superior name but was not taken up. So I am left in quite a situation that I have a feeling is going to damage my bank balance in domain renewals to make sure they are not stolen. I’m not happy.

Well I’m just watching the first episode of the Simple Life 2 – the show where Paris Hilton (who’s second amatur porn video is soon to be released over the internet if recent break-in’s are anything to go by) and Nicole Richie try to live the simple life without credit cards, money and so forth. Sounds a truly terrible show right? Well I will talk about that later.

So for the simple life 2, they are going for a road trip from Florida to the west coast of America. Using a bright pink truck and a trailer. Other than the format is pretty much the same as the first seriwes with them doing random activites out in the country that they do with their usual less than competent effort.

I guess the question is then, why am I, a fan of QI, Horizon and
Frasier watching this type of show? Well it is more on the humour level
than on an entertainment level. The fact that Paris galloped off on a
horse without learning how to make it stop (even though she has been
riding for like ever) followed by being thrown from the horse. Then,
once she had get up and walked around, she was airlifted on a stretcher
to hispital.

The fact that they don’t know common terminology too makes the show
more comical. It brings me back to the Family Guy series 3 episode
"screwed to the pouch" when they arrive at a toll both and Bill Gates
asks "what’s a quarter?" I shall leave you on that note ;).

First to set the scene. Myself, Arron and AndyBob were working on editing together a video. When in walks Mark with a question: "how do you stop a house from flooding?" We all of course suggested the obvious, turn the water off but we soon came to our senses – by than I mean that myself and Arron grabbed our video cameras and headed round there.

The following is the pretty much unedited, unsensored video of what happened as witnessed from my camera. With some luck I might be able to get hold of Arron’s video of the events too. But anyway, this video is well worth a watch lol. Just in case there were any doubts about whether water really did run through the walls and if the wall really did fall off.

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I haven’t touched my camera in like a week. I had plenty to blog about if I really wanted to and I even considered doing a written one although that requires effort. For some reason I actually found it this morning though so here it is. Interesting story hu? Well that also and I have little else to do. Actually plenty to do but I don’t want to do any of it so I am trying to push it out of my mind.

Today I will be spending a considerable amount of the day editing together a video for the school’s opening evening. Thanks to their quality time management they told us they wanted to make this video about a week ago, oh and by the way guys, the opening evening is on Wednesday. Although if we can get it done today that leaves us with a whole 24 hours and there is nothing like having time to spare.

As for what else I have been doing recently, there have been a great many things going on in the land of domains. The first and most shocking change is that one of my domains is coming up for renewal – and I am not going to renew it! I’m making a lot of progress according to my sponser. Also Denison 365 expires around today so check it out before it’s gone.

The other thing that I did was to buy a new domain – CassieNet.com. Which although it looks bad is also a step forward. See as I build so many websites, I need domains for them all. So what I decided to do was buy this one, then I could set my new websites up on subdomains of it rather than buying new domains. It has already saved me from buying 2 domains and is also the new home of the one that is expiring.

Well well I was tempted to get my camera out but decided on a good old fashioned written blogs for two reasons. The first is that I don�t want to have to walk all the way over to my cupboard to get my camera out. The second and more important though is that I have a lot to talk about which I would just forget once I got in front of the camera.

So Google are thinking about launching a web browser � well basically it is all rumours based on a domain registration (gbrower.com) and hiring a bunch of people who used to work on Internet Explorer, Microsoft�s browser. Although rumour also had it says it will be a Mozilla base with a new skin and bringing the Google features together.

According to Mitch Radcliff this could just be market research though � now that the rumour is out they have hundreds of people blogging on the subject and expressing their opinions. Even CNet�s News.com are writing about it so Google pretty much have all the opinions they need to decide whether it�s a good idea.

Moving on, last night saw the first of three debates between George Bush and John Kerry. Due to the time difference it was on at 2 am here so I videoed it and watched it back along with Ceon this afternoon. It was quite entertaining although I didn�t watch through all the spin put on it after the debate.

This leads me onto my next subject however, that while it was on myself and Ceon did a running commentarwwwy over the top of it for Maze Radio of which now has two new shows available to listen online to so check that out.