Chris Worfolk's Blog

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.

Though most of the posts here on Nerd Federation have now moved over to video blog entries there is the blind spot in the plan of being able to record video while out studying or at least pretending to as I don’t tend to take my camera with me (although its far from unknown for me). This is really one of the posts, designed to fill the void of time before I can get back home to grab my camera.

Today’s post, or at least this post has a central theme of long running projects – projects you start and rather than going crazy and working loads you start of slowly and work on it for a long time. There are several projects, which I have set in motion over the years designed to do this.

The original of these would probably have to be my magazine. Though it got a little delayed over summer (surprisingly considering I did nothing all summer) it’s not slowly coming back into a more regular pattern.

I have loads of websites also designed to do this. Maze Star is just getting started as a content site publishing at least once per day and there are many websites that I have moved more into regular content maintenance then building new ones.

I have also been searching for more, shall we say, well I’m not sure what the word is exactly. Like passive only it’s not. Anyway something like a game. My original target for this was Warhammer Online although that fell flat on it’s face and was abandoned about a month before it was due out. BBCi’s Celebdaq looks promising though.

What is the point of a long-term project that eats up your life constantly rather than just a solid two weeks? Well it probably offers more constant gratification although I think the main advantage is it isn’t just going to die after the initial period is over, if it’s done right it should keep going for a long time.

Instant messaging is never going to replace email, here are my short throughts on why.

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I’m sure I actually had a great opinionated post to make earlier but then again usually I can’t be bothered to type any of these ideas up anymore. Thanks to the video blog is typing thing just isn’t needed any more. Well it is seen, as the site needs some actual content but anyway to move on.

I was flicking around the random DVDs that are currently available on Play.com. I saw an advert last night for the special edition of the Shawshank Redemption but the film did go on and that’s without six hours of bonus material to watch. It’s a cool buy although it’s not that high on my list.

What is on my list of stuff to get though is one of the Donnie Darko DVDs. Originally I was going for the original which had loads of extras on (Rather than Prism edition which just sucks as it’s the normal DVD without any of the extras) although now there is a directors cut – I love directorial indulgence, I will post more about that later.

Anyway the Director’s Cut has a load of new extras on and the audio commentary has been redone for the directors cut edition so it looks like a pretty cool purchase. Resident Evil is also a nice purchase now that it has plenty of extras. That said it has had them for about a year lol.

You know I actually beleive that a Day of Chris could make the world a better place.

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Outside the front of my house there is a fountain of water spraying up from the water main. Best guess is they are letting it out to let the pressure out for work doing down the system at some point considering there is a a guy in a drainage company can parked near it reading a magazine. Anyway having nothing better to do I grabbed my camcorder.

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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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