Chris Worfolk's Blog

I finally did it – after Beonex crapped out on me again (occasionally it loses all my settings) I decided to set Firefox as the default browser. There are some things I am not happy about though. So I decided to hop along to Nerd Federation and have a moan about them – oh when will the perfect browser come along?

So anyway first of all, I don’t have my little task bar icon to open up windows anymore. Therefore I had to enable quicklaunch and delete everything on it so now all I have is show desktop and Firefox. My task bar space is valuable though, I often end up with a scroll bar on the task bar if I am not careful and that just gets annoying.

Anyway as for Firefox, my impression is that it is a lot more like Internet Explorer than Beonex. The rich text editor used for message posting and editing here on Nerd Federation works in Firefox which I am pleased about although as I type the horizonal scroll bar keeps extending for some reason. Still at least I don’t have to switch back to Internet Explorer to post messages.

Hopefully also this will rid me of the problem where I keep getting signed out. Although if it is a problem on all browsers then I will be out of luck there. Back on about how Firefox is more similar to Internet Explorer than Beonex anyway I noticed that Firefox uses the system default font, in my case Times New Roman which sucked as Beonex used Arial as the default font which was great.

Also the forms in Firefox are like the new Windows XP ones. Beonex had the classic styled ones which I really liked. I think browsers should make it switchable and they should also make the default font switchable. I am sure I will have more revolations as time goes on – I haven’t tried favourite icons yet but I am hoping Firefox picks them up from the meta tag as I really liked that with Beonex.

Hmm, I have quite a bit to talk about tommorow – and by quite a bit I mean one post about my new website. But until then I will leave you wondering. As what I really want to talk about here is what I class as my favourite songs of all time. I would post lyrics links too but that would take too much effort. It is easier to just plug Lyrics Burger here.

For a long time now, my favourite song has been Lagwagon – Kids in America. A song that has been covered many times. Lagwagon’s version actually being one of the covers. But anyway that still holds true. There are several other songs that I really like though.

Offspring – Gone Away is a fantastic song. There are some that have never left my playlist and Gone Away is one of them along with Kids in America and also Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonaise. All the other Smashing Pumpkins songs are too upbeat – the band is suppose to be down and depressing and they do upbeat songs, what is wrong with them?

Alien Ant Farm are also a cool band and I have addicited to Glow for quite a while although my favourite list pick from Alien Ant Farm has to be Smooth Criminal. Yep, it’s yet another cover for my list but they really did some cool stuff for the video. I was also thinking about Nickelback but I couldn’t name one song I really like – they are all awesome!

Ok, so here is my list:

1. Lagwagon – Kids in America
2. Offspring – Gone Awy
3. Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonaise
4. Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
5. Metallica – Nothing Else Matters

Bah, I typed out a huge blog, well actually not that long but anyway because this site keeps logging me out, everything was lost! It really sucks. Now I have to type everything out again and I have half forgotten what I was on about earlier. Most of the originality and flair from the text will be lost for this post – providing this post makes it at all.

So anyway, Iron Cheesecake has a new movie! After over 7 months of waiting, the Iron Cheesecake machine is back in production, rolling out some new movies. Or even if I do not make any more for a while after this one – one movie. Still it’s worth the enjoyment providing your part of the ‘in’ crowd. If not then simply know that Carl, who is a member of Nerd Federation although yet to post, is really an android built by myself.

While we are on the subject of Carl, it’s worth nothing that he nicknamed him 4 megs earlier this month. That is because of the way that computer memory (ram) works is that it has several layers. The bottom one which loads the operating system is called conventional memory which all computers have around 500k of. But when I built Carl, I designed him to have 4 megs of conventional memory – hence the nickname 4 megs :D.

As for Iron Cheesecake it is still pulling in traffic from search engines as well as getting regularly crawled. I looked up loads of statistics earler but they are now lost which again sucks. But anyway, in conclusion – there is a new movie on Iron Cheesecake so be happy :).

So today was Party in the Park Leeds. I was tempted to go in at one point and everything but I refused to pay for the free tickets. Thats irony, not somebody trying to sell me one lol. I did get some pictures especially for Nerd Federation though and I will upload them – erm, eventually. Also, having a wave of a brain, or a brainwave in other words, there is a chance the Nerd Federation forums will return!

But anyway onto another unrelated topic. I was flicking through some sites and one of them had news that Britney Spears was sueing a tabloid newspaper because it said she had a cocaine addiction. I was tempted to post it on Worfolk News but decided not to as the article was dated end of March I think. BTW, do you think she is actually involved or her lawyers just did it in her name?

Anyway (again), we are not talking about Britney’s addictions, we are talking about mine. Let’s start with the domain buying – today makes it 15 days without me buying a domain but I can’t really go on like this – I have to buy another one! I am hopefully going to get one tonight for a new site I am working on – more details of the project will follow in a later post.

Addiction number two would be ice pops. I have had half a dozen today or so already and these are the 18" long ones. But they keep calling to me, I here them calling my name! As you can imagine this is pretty much freaking me out but I am sure a good ice pop will calm me down. Humm, I wonder if there is something in these ice pops, I must be tripping.

Finally my addiction to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I had another cool shoot out today, I went to one of the gang buildings on prawn island, nestled myself on the roof and shot people, 1 star, cop cars, 2 stars, swat van, 3 stars, undercover Cops, 4 stars, FBI, 5 stars, more of pretty much everything finally won me another 6th star. Then two tanks came which I took out. I eventually got bored of waiting as nothing else appeared to be coming and stole a tank, driving down Washington Beach and hiding out in my hotel room. Fun day.

Yup, I am still addicted to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I had many random small points to make but I think I have forgotten most of them now. The main point of this one is to ramble on about my gaming experiances. Ya see, earlier today I discovered that I know have a chopper on my roof so instead of going round trashing myself on a PBJ 600 bike, I can now do it in a helicoper :).

Anyway I was trying to do that street race as I own the car dealership but it doesn’t make any money. They keep ramming me and spinning me though so when the race started I reversed, parked my car accross the road, pulled out that huge rail gun thing and waited. When the arrived I opened fire but they kept going. Nuts to that plan then, even though it was just a great idea. I presume they are indestructable to gunfire in the race at least.

Anyway so thats the background to my run. I wasn’t happy so I started killing stuff and got about 2 stars. I went inside the airport and looked for a way onto the planes area but couldn’t find anything so eventually I headed outside and killed a few more cops earning more a star or two more. So I jack a police car as it’s the only one around, now with 4 stars and set off to find a way onto the airport runway.

I get as far as the tunnel as I am constantly being rammed by cop cars so I get out and start shooting them all. 5 stars after I have killed some undercover dudes and then I kill some FBI too, for the first time earning myself a 6th star! So now this tank roles up and the army guy gets out. Naturally I shoot him down and jack the tank. I set off towards my estate and try to blow up some other thanks after me on the way – we seem to be indestructable to eacho ther.

On my run I am not really challenged that much though there is the noice of a helicopter and plenty of cops with stingers – they only ever seem to go for the tanks. End result I get back to the mansion after a few cop cars try to ram me in the island. I drive it up the steps to the front door and head inside. Disappointed to find cops in my mansion I run into my room to take shelter but people dive throught he window so after dispatching them I take a lighter gun and make a run to the roof.

Here I get into the chopper and head off to the main island. I begin looking for a tall building where I can land and make a stand against everything with that huge rail gun type thing. I am almost there when the LAPD helicoper arrives and sets me on fire. The chopper explodes before I can make it to the ground and I am wasted – but what a run! And they still say these types of games don’t incoruage violence.

I’ve just booked my driving theory test. I’m not too knowledgeable on it but I have three weeks so that should be plenty of time to get everything learnt, especially with a summer of nothing to do but learn. Well that and bits of coursework, projects, getting a job, most of which I will simply sweep under the rug and forget about.

But anyway, onto the real subject. I am getting a DVD Rewriter! Yep, seen as my family are all heading off to France and I am going to be stuck here, although lol the most ironic thing is I choose to stay, my parents have said they will put a £100 towards my DVD Rewriter. So I am hoping it isn’t too much over £100 as I am pretty much broke lol.

I have been eyeing a few up, I really like on the ones Lacie do:
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/range.htm?id=10014

Lacie make my external harddrive so I know they are pretty good. I could do with a USB hub too with the amout of devices I have lol. I will keep you all posted on the situation as it’s looking up. Now if there was some way to work more domains into this too ;).

I was in town today collecting a few random items. Anyway I was walking accross Briggate when I saw some hippy protestors.  The ‘socialist worker’ or some paper, I think it was with big pictures of Blair and Bush subtitled "World’s number 1 terrorist." I had my camera so it’s a shame I wasn’t in a rush or I would have got a picture and everything.

Apparently they have a website and everything – http://www.socialistworker.co.uk. Personally though I think we have bigger issues to worry about than the war in Iraq, especially as power has now been handed back to the Iraqi interim government.
And by other issues I mainly mean the British National Party as they pretend it is called. As I am sure many of your saw, the BBC recently broadcast the documentary on the BNP showing countless events of insighting racial hatered and people admiting to assualt and battery, etc. This included the head of the party Nick Griffin! Erm, shouldn’t we be doing something about this?

Last post of the night I think. I have now drained all my ideas into Nerd Federation, and also it’s getting late and I am getting tired. There are several other reasons including TV listings, things to do, etc but I am not going to go into them right now. In fact probably not ever. But anyway I should stop this paragraph before it turns into total waffle.

So anyway I need more domains! I really think I have a problem as I am unable to stay still – all I want to do is buy a new domains! With good reason though I want to create a niche website such as a celebrity fan site or something I just cannot decide what to do it on. So use the comments system to send be feedback of what I should do it on. Claims I am crazy and shouldn’t buy more domains should be ignored ;).

I was thinking of doing a new movie site but I don’t think there is a market for it unless I can really put into it, do loads of reviews, etc. A tech site would also be good but I think if I am going to get a new domain it should be a niche site with regular updated and see how well it can do. I am even interested in selling a few sites to make some cash and everything.

My main idea is to do a Michelle Branch fansite though I am not sure she is going to be big enough. I love Michelle Branch and her music but lets face it, she is no Britney yet anyway and I am not sure she ever will be. Any other ideas or even reassurance Michelle Branch would be a good choice. I want your opinions!

Yay, after an hour or so of more work on trying to get the ASP.net rewrite engine demo that I got working I finally managed to sort it. There are a few problems that I am not too happy about though. For a start any URL you want to rewrite has to end in .aspx so that the aspx engine kicks in. I guess I should have seen that coming.

I have a few other problems, one of which I emailed my web host about. I am waiting for them to get back to me as I write this. Hopefully some rewriting will be possible soon though in a site that I will actually make use of it.

I was also looking into alternatives though. The best seems to be ISAPI Rewrite http://www.isapirewrite.com which looks really good and lets you use regular expressions which I began to train myself up on. However at a $70 price tag I don’t think my webhost will be installing it unless I pay for it and the free lite version only supports entire server configurations which would not be usable for me.

Still, pick your battles, I managed to get the basic rewrite engine working so hurray!

Hmm, I managed to insert the last resource without any problems. From my years of computer experiance though is never to think the problem has gone away as it’s sodds luck that as soon as you do, the problem will return. Anyway the end result is I managed to get the screenshot into my last post about Rawpulse getting indexed by Google.

I do have a point to make that I keep forgetting though – Nerd Federation now has an archive. Until recently we didn’t have more than 15 posts therefore everything could be seen from the homepage. However this will be the 19th posts which means that the first four will no longer be visible on the homepage once this post is made.

Of course the material is still available. If you check the archives, you can see all the posts for this month, in this case July 2004, by clicking the link which sas July 2004 – it’s pretty much self explanitory ;). Eventually this list should increase as each month we should get a new listing I think, ie August 2004, September 2004 and so on.

The truth is though I have never used this script before so I don’t really know. There are some demos in the site though so I might have a look and see what it is like. It will be a good system although the links might get a bit long after a few years – if we are still around after a few years of course lol.