Chris Worfolk's Blog

Well now, I am currently beginning to start the university applications process so I have a lot of moaning about the system. I’m just getting started but some people had their applications off almost four weeks ago. In fact the university could have already decided to take them – don’t believe them when they tell you it isn’t first come first served.

Second of course is that the first year for a-levels is just to mess around. And yet it is these grades and your predicted grades which will get you into the universities that you are applying for – so most of us are doomed from the start. Although luckily they will be getting round to changing that.

To continue
the moan, I don’t know what I really want to do now.

Anyway this
is like a two day thing lol. I wrote half it on Wednesday and it is now
Saturday. I went to the Leeds Met open day today which was a bit of a bust to
begin with but the multimedia course looks quite good.

Anyway as I’m
not really sure what I was moaning about (not because there isn’t anything to
moan about but because there is so much it could have been so many things) I am
going to go ahead and end it here. My tip of the day – get a job ;).

It’s Friday night, I have emails to check, customers to answer, websites to update, other work to do and all I can think about it crawling into a little ball and waking up around Christmas time.

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"Beauty is fleeting, but a rent-controlled
apartment overlooking the park is forever." If your tired of regular poletics why not vote for Carrie from Sex and the City. Check out VoteCarrie.org. Also, Chris’s video blog commentary on it:

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Ever wondered what a 60 second tour of the new Rawpulse looks like? Grabbing a computer, Chris and Carl bring it to life.

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Well now it’s time for the first ever video blog so let’s get this funky thing underway. For the first video blog, the first one we didn’t video over anyway, Chris and Carl randomly discuss stuff in a starewell.

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Lol it only seems like moments ago that I was posting about how the video blog would be around eventually. Well as so often happens, once things get going they get going fast and I found myself with encoded video on it’s way, uploading to the Nerd Federation server. Soon you will be able to watch the video in all it’s glory.

Of course posts are likely to be limited. It is still much more of a effort to make a video entry than it is to do a classic written entry, also we need arranging and such as rawpulse and ceon don’t have a digital camera (or so they say lol). Still it should be a pretty cool addition to Nerd Federatation.

As I mentioned in the previous post, the video has been encoded in Windows Media video format (version 8 I beleive). I need to stop playing right into Microsoft’s hands but it is just so easy.

Anyway it is multistream so no matter what connection you have you should hbe handed over a connection speed that suits. That said, I have never really tested a multistream on a Linux server so I am just guessing it will work ;).

Well now, after many problems we may have a solution after all. As I think I mentioned before, I was looking into doing a video blog but was held back by not being able to upload video from my camcorder. But this morning, I got my new firecable (sent via Airmail and everything) so I can now upload video again.

As it happens, I actually have uploaded the first two posts. Well the second and third actually as I accidentually videoed over my original post so I will just pretend that never happened and begin with the two that me and Carl did the first time I brought my camcorder in once we decided to video blog. Well I say we.

Anyway as the moment I am downloading, or was downloading Windows Media Encoder. I have the Windows Media plugin for Adobe Premiere but I wanted something that would batch encode all my files so that I could do them all at once as there could be a lot of video files.

As for the technical on the site, I will probably just create a second category along with the general that will hold the video blogs. Although I am also tempted to create a new blog or even develop a custom script so who knows what the future will bring.

I swear, one day I will find an official artists site (from a record label so the term official is debatable in my opinion) where you can enter without getting blasted by music. I did find out but I’m sure sure where it was, after all there are so many that do. And every single one of them is built in flash.

I will get to the meat of my post in the next paragraph but I will use this one to mention that the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is coming back for a third series! Yes, Douglas Adams is dead but Dirk Maggs is alive and copies of Douglas’s books still exist so between them, there is enough to form new radio shows, so yay!

Anyway so I have been struck by domain fever again – at certain times, it seems to come randomly I get a sudden urge to buy more domains. I know I shouldn’t, I tell myself I have enough but I just need more! I have new ideas for new websites that could do really well and I just need that extra .com.

My alternative is to go with a .info which are currently on sale at $1. However they will probably go up again and its hard to build a big site on much but a .com. My will power to resist a .com can only hold out for so long anyway so many I should concentrate on raising funds instead.

Well from today I can proudly say that crippling teenage depression no longer rules my life! Yes, it is now in a power sharing agreement with crippling loneliness. I really miss the days when I spent all night on Audio Senate chatting away to Michelle, those were good memories you know. I even considered shelling out for an ALICE siver subscription.

Still I have the perfect solution to solve this problem – I need a Aibo robot dog form Sony. They are awesome, they can find their own power source, have their own personality, communicate wirelessly and loads mroe, it’s awesome! The only problem is that it comes with a 1,400 prize tag. I mean, I could get a years care insurance for that. Although I would use that reasoning the other way round.

Although I do have a rather large birthday coming up, I don’t think it will stretch that far lol. I had a look round on eBay for anything though they are still looking at around 500 and if I am going to spend loads on a robotic dog I want to get the latest version with all the wireless technology and such.

Still I can spend some quality time chatting to people on Maze Forums. The problem is though that chatting to real humans is just not the same.

Coincidence I was thinking about the song Waiting by Green Day this morning? I think not. Government conspiracy! But anyway, I actually arrived at the title while meditating on how many things I could be considered waiting on. Some would call it wasting your life but I like to think of it as shut up as they are doing it just as the rest of us even if they try and deny it.

Anyway, phpMyAdmin finally got fixed on the Rawice server although I was too depressed to finish off what I wanted to do. I am still waiting on my databases to get sorted. Mech Hosting has a shiny new look, I’m not sure whether thats a good thing or a bad thing though I am told that they are going to be getting a proper support system which should be cool.

I am also waiting upon several emails although they may be here now I’m just not sure that my computer has enough processing power to open Outlook Express as it must have been running for a good 12 hours or so now. Well, it probably could but I am not waiting around for those kind of load times ;).

One thing I haven’t done in a while is check the Nerd Federation stats. We could by now have millions of readers that I am unaware of. Although the posts here did begin to slow down (we are still waiting on rawpulse’s weekly post) I think Nerd Fed is still going to strong. Especially if we get our video blog up too.