23.04.2008 Happy St Georges Day!
Today is St Georges day here in rainy england (and most of the rest of the world as well). For those of you who don’t know, Saint George is the patron saint of England and shares his celebratory day with England’s ‘national day’.
On the subject of England, I came across the DotEng campaign for an english domain yesterday. Basically it’s a campaign to get England it’s very own country specific top level domain. To be fair, it would be pretty cool if England could have it’s own domain - we are a country after all, and everyone else has them. Why should we have to use boring old .co.uk domains anyway?
So… I signed the petition and added a link to my side bar - you guys should too!
08.04.2008 Google… Seriously, What the Hell?
I had forgotton my password for an old Google account I use at work today and had to use their reset password feature, where I was presented with this CAPTCHA to verify I was human:
Seriously… Google. What the hell were you thinking? Who in their right mind is going to know what that says? What really bugged me was I had to refresh the CAPTCHA THREE FRIGGING TIMES before I found one that was legible! Have you never heard of letter spacing? Jesus!
Oh… and don’t bother playing the audio for disabled users either, that just plays a gibberish message of total crap that you can’t make sense of either - I listened to it on the off chance I could make sense of the image and it gave me over 20 letters and numbers as well as a whole bunch of crappy background noise.
Come on Google - we know you can do better than that - get your finger out!
07.04.2008 I’m Getting Naked!
It’s nearly CSS naked day, so don’t be surprised if you see a severe lack of style around here soon… (but lots of content!). [pic by omnia_mutantur]
02.04.2008 What Happened to Computer Games?
What the hell happened to computer games? I remember when computer games had a stick and one button - nothing else mattered nowadays games have buttons, multiple analog sticks, d-pads and button combinations. When did everything get so complicated?
Today I considered jumping back on Skate for a blast after a few months away, but then remembered how complicated the controls were and how long it took me to work it out in the first place. So rather than spend hours just sucking while I got my head around it all again, I just dropped it and decided to play burnout instead which is considerably less hassle to pick up and play.
I wish games could be simple again, graphically stunning but easy to play. Those were the days!
Crap… I’ve just realised, I’m showing my age - big time!
31.03.2008 6.20? WTF!
Can anyone explain to me what the hell the BBC were thinking when they decided to put the new series on at 6.20pm? I can only assume that it’s because they’re trying to get more kids watching, rather than appealing to the hardcore adult fanbase… still, at least the adults have Torchwood! 
NB. The pic is me at the Dr Who exhibition in Cardiff Bay - I went last weekend!
30.03.2008 Web-cam-stop-motion-thing
I just found this awesome website that lets you make funky ten frame stop motion animations using your webcam. I made a couple, which you’ll see below, however I had to fiddle with my flash settings in order to make it find the webcam build into my macbook.
If you use an Apple Laptop such as a macbook or macbook pro, you’ll need to select “usb video class video” as your camera type before it’ll work (it’s likely the same on iMacs as well!).
Anyway… here’s my thing - enjoy (and don’t forget to link to yours!).
Update: Dammit - the digg effect killed it just as I was saving my second attempt!
29.03.2008 Sleep Tight Little Dude
Well… I knew all this good news was too much to be true. Sadly, my second pet hamster Maxx died peacefully in his sleep sometime today. Maxx has been hanging around far longer than most hamsters usually do, he was three and a half when he died, and sadly starting to go grey and loose his hair.
As much as I loved my other pets, Maxx has always sort of been my favourite, mostly because he was so friendly and easy to handle compared to my other hamsters. I’m sad to see him go.
Rest in peace little dude.
29.03.2008 WordPress 2.5 Released - Upgraded!
I’ve just upgraded Wordpress to the latest version and so far, I’m pretty impressed!
I think the think that shocked me most was the new almost-automatic plugin upgrade feature which allows you to upgrade any plugin to the latest version with one click! You can’t get easier than that, and now I have no excuse for out of date plugins!
I’m going to keep playing and I’ll update this post with any interesting tidbits that I find!
Update: Ooooh… built in gallery support as standard.
Update: Doesn’t seem to be any problems with my theme so far. Thank god for that!
Update: I’m not especially fond of this new admin theme, it’s too… errrm… different. I’m sure I’ll get used to it in time.
Update: I just realised, I never bothered styling the comments - I should probably fix that at some point.
29.03.2008 1 Month To Go!
Yay - only one month until Grand Theft Auto 4 is released! Naturally, being the ubergeek that I am, I have it on pre-order (and have done for a couple of months!).
I’ve been waiting for GTAIV ever since I finished San-Andreas back on my Playstation 2, but the recent news that the new game will also include multiplayer content pretty much finished me off. GTA4 is released on April 31st, If Game are as good as they have been in the past, I may recieve it on the 30th!
I am, quite literally counting the days!
