Open Mic Night will be every 1st and 3rd Wednesday from July at The Fawcett Inn, Fawcett Road, Portsmouth, UK!
Ah so you apparently didnt like some comments I left on some site or another many moons ago (I cant even remember which site it was so long ago). Next time, try spelling properly - although I see you're intelligent enough to at least use Firefox. Oh well, get over it and next time leave a reply address so I dont have to stalk you. Ive got a stalker! Woo! Ive made the internet big time now. I mustn't let this new status go to my head though, this is after all just the internet and not real life.
Mint 2 is out today. Unfortunately I cannot get into the account centre to download a fresh version, it won't accept my password and won't send me a reminder. Grrr. UPDATE: Im in now - cheers Shaun.
Looks like Mint 2 is due soon.
Oh wow, my god, how did I miss this? Seems it's time to avoid upgrading WordPress again as it has managed to reach the heady heights of 2.1 without really progressing since 1.5. I am (as of writing this) on 2.0.5, a full 0.0.2 versions behind the previous bleeding edge of 2.0.7, the latest version before they rolled it on to 2.1. I'm sure it's not just me who can't stand the rigmarole of upgrading WordPress and having to fish in the folders on your server making sure you don't replace some sort of important file. Roll on Habari. PS. I see there is no longer a WP 2.0.7 upgrade downloadable so it seems my next step has to be 2.1 (luckily it seems fine on my localhost).
This new theme from the ground up game is harder than it looks. I currently have the home page sorted (though Im looking at ways of spicing it up a bit) and Im working on the single post page. It's certainly interesting and pretty frustrating too - I'm torn between getting it done and sticking it up or taking my time to get it right and test it thoroughly, fix as much css/html as I can and ensure I have all the feature I want before activating it. Im trying to force myself into the later. Possibly Interesting to note too that I'm seriously considering releasing this new theme (or maybe a simplified, tweaked version) as a publicly available theme. The final theme will be far to complicated to release but a paired down one should be ok. If anyone wants the current theme or any of my previous ones released to the 'as is' then contact me via the About page and Ill think about it.
It's all going off in the Big Brother house. Their big mistake was putting Jade in. A previous contestant (winner? I forget) of Big Brother - she already has a big enough ego for all the ' celebrities' in there, sticking her in Celebrity Big Brother is just asking for trouble.
Im currently working on a new, simpler layout called "Blanc". It's a radical move away from the current layout and as such It may or may not see the light of day, but I like what Ive done on it so far. BTW, This is all but a rewrite from the ground up, all new css and all the template pages freshly created. As such it may take a while and may well collapse in on it's self when I activate it.
Not mentioned at Job's keynote was Apple's new AirPort Extreme router has a natty new plug-n-play NAS feature - "Instant drive sharing. New to AirPort Extreme, AirPort Disk turns almost any external USB hard drive into a shared drive. Simply connect the drive to the USB port on the back of your AirPort Extreme". This is great.
Singularity - A free audio book from podiobooks.com and read by it’s writer Bill DeSmedt is a fasctinating story based on the theory that the Tunguska Event was caused by a micro black hole.
June 30th, 1908 - In the remote Tunguska region of Siberia, the most violent cosmic collision in recorded history flattened ancient forests over an area half the size of Rhode Island. Yet after a hundred years of international scientific research the cause of this impact remains a mystery. #
Intrigue, high tech gadgets, a black hole, science theory, a Russian industrialist, time travel, all the usual sci-fi suspects - it’s well worth a listen to if you’re a sci-fi fan.
Singularity - audiobook
1 year, 5 months old - Thursday, January 11th, 2007 late afternoon
Tags: billdesmedt, blackhole, book, Books, Entertainment, microblackhole, physics, podcast, singularity, tunguska
Suddenly today I have a Google Page Rank of 0! What up Google? Don't like me dropping your ads? Back to 7 phew.
I’m sure all MacFanatics are well aware what’s going on today.
It is of course ‘His Steveness” keynote speech at Apple’s MacWorld Expo 2007
More news on the iTV? Will the much rumoured formerly-known-as-iPhone surface? What of the much vaunted but recently ignored full-screen touch-screen iPod? New iLife? New iWorks? Updated iTunes?
How about “one more thing”?
Either way, keep up to date at MacRumors, Engadget or World of Apple Live (and a list here). Also remember to keep an eye out for the Apple keynote stream some time after the event. Watch the keynote here.
So basically it’s iPhone, Apple TV and new Airport base station. Whilst the iPhone does look great, its not due out here in the UK until year end and will be prohibitively expensive (for me). The Apple TV also looks like a great piece of equipment and something I would most surely be interested in at some point (Xbox 360 first maybe). Im not in the market for the Airport base station, but stack a Mac Mini and an Apple TV on to of it and .. oh wow!
I wonder, will the Apple TV play my AVI files?
Disappointments - no iPod of course. I can see the iPhone being the form-factor for a new iPod though and whilst it’s unlikely will be Apple announcing one at MacWorld there’s always “special events”. No Mac updates at all, odd. No .mac or software updates at all. No Leopard information!
All these lack of updates leads me to guess that they devoted this keynote not iPhone and Apple TV and will be having another show some time later.
Oh yes, and it’s no longer Apple Computer, Inc - it’s just Apple, Inc. I wonder how that went down in discussions with Apple Corps.
One of my favourite features for a while now on Flickr has been the picture meta/EXIF data page, whereby if the image has been saved with it’s EXIF you can see exactly which camera was used and how it was set up when the picture was taken.
I’m not sure when, but at some point Flickr introduced a section dedicated to this camera data. You can see all pictures taken with my Sony T5, even my Sony W800i camera phone, or our work Nikon 5700 or my friend El’s brand spanking new Canon EOS 30D.
There’s graphs of usage, reviews, prices (US$), you can browse the images.
I find all this really interesting and of course very useful when looking for an appropriate camera as I’d like a digital SLR but really cannot afford one yet. At least if I find cheap one I can check out the quality before buying.
Looking for a new camera?
1 year, 6 months old - Friday, January 5th, 2007 mid-afternoon
Tags: camera, flickr, Static Images, Technology, w800i
Does anyone know of any decent web design podcasts? I m looking at the technical stuff (php, css, web 2.0, ajax, photoshop, etc) and also the theories of web design such as layout, navigation, SEO, etc. I like the conversational style of the Twit podcasts, so something like that would be great. I have had a look through iTunes and downloaded (but not yet listened to) Boagworld, Engines of Creation and Practical Web Design. I would love to hear some good suggestions, maybe Leo could add a web design podcast to his Twit network.