Archive for the 'Geek Stuff' Category

Facebook

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

If you have a facebook account you should watch this movie. It raises interesting questions about just who it is that has access to the information you submit to the site. I’m not about to go out and buy a tin-foil hat just yet but it makes some interesting connections.

More Twitterings

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Check out TwitterVision, it’s amazing. Knowing that the messages you see are being written in real time by people all over the world, I find it strangely comforting.

New Site, New Links

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Yesterday evening I had a meeting with a new client which went really well. He’s a Photographer and I’ve got the job of designing a portfolio site for him. It makes a refreshing change to have a client who understands concepts like image resolution and has high quality images that I know he […]

Twitter

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

I read about twitter in an article on TUAW so I signed up to see how it works. The result is that there is yet another section in my sidebar and I’ve also created TP Live. Twitter is a status notification tool, you update one site with what you’re doing and then it […]

Continued Maintenance

Friday, December 8th, 2006

I continued tweaking my site today so apologies for any errors you may have received during the day as I was continually breaking things. I have now installed and customised Amazon Media Manager which lists books I’m currently reading and games I’m currently playing in the sidebar. I’m so impressed with php. […]

Site Maintenance

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Today I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.0.5 and installed Paul Goscicki’s Movie Ratings Plugin. Due to my total ignorance when it comes to php and mySQL it took longer than it should have done but now it’s all up and running and I’m pretty happy with it. The five most recently watched […]

A Beacon of Humour

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

I recently stumbled across xkcd.com after bouncing around the web and I think it’s brilliant. Some of my favourites are Words that end in gry, Boombox, Hamster Ball, Sandwich and Join MySpace.

Time to Get Serious

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

When I was at Photokina I was using quite a lot of high-end professional DSLRs and I was really impressed. A few nights ago I visited my parents and discovered about thirty films that I had to bin as they were out of date. I also picked up my camera, a Canon EOS […]

A long time coming

Friday, July 21st, 2006

I finally have an internet connection, it took a month from actually being activated and required one BT engineer but it finally works!

Irony (overcome)

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

I recently joined an online games rental site. I’ve been looking for somewhere for a while that I could rent Xbox games and then I discovered swapgame.com. The first of my games arrived this morning and I powered up the Xbox to play it and it didn’t come on, the Xbox was FRAGing […]