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Moving

2010-02-21T19:59:00.000Z

http://bloggerawksmore.livejournal.com/

Plan C MKII

2010-02-20T10:02:00.001Z

So, umm, I guess it looks like I'm moving to Birmingham sometime during August, should everything go to plan.Yes, I've been saying it for a while, but I've just applied for a teacher-training course in ol' Birmingham that starts in September! Should that fall through, the plan is just move down there and find a job, really -- until Rob gets sick of me crashing at his or someone convinces me that

w-ogrE

2009-12-02T09:52:00.002Z

Sweet Jesus, OGRE3D has really improved since I last looked at it...Sure most of those gallery shots show what incredible artists have worked with the graphics engine -- but the recent calibre of developers that have worked on it show it must have matured to quite an exceptional level. ...colour me re-interested.

neuPOST

2009-11-25T11:13:00.004Z

I'm slightly over-due in this whole 'pact' thing. I'm also slightly older, although I'm still not quite used to being so...well, maybe not until the weekend when I see my mates and they'll rib me for being the eldest. ...like they do every year...Onwards! I'll start with a quick addition to my last entry: after a quick LAN session, I found that Valve have removed some server options for Left 4

PACK'd

2009-11-13T09:45:00.002Z

As in 'pact', but spelt like a spacker. I said I'd form a mini-pact with my darling to post at least one Blog entry a week, as we've both slipped a bit in posting in these here Web 2.0 thingyies -- but that might be due to being busy being with each other. And gaming. And that's what my first babble-sphere of thought will look towards: gaming. Specifically, PC gaming...as, see, it's changing

yo boi i liek ur flavour

2009-10-27T11:24:00.003Z

I kinda got a little time yesterday at work to almost finish the CSS update to my Blog -- noticed in Chrome that the title of each post looks shit and it annoyed me.In real news, I've had nearly two weeks off work, which was not only nice, but meant I got to spend some proper time with my girly. Proper, non-pressured 'OMG WE'VE ONLY GOT A SHORT TIME TOGETHER BEFORE WE'RE APART FOR NEARLY TWO

lick MAH thingY

2009-10-07T11:44:00.003+01:00

First of all, I'm glad I've never bought an iPod before now. Sure, I've always wanted to have my entire music collection in my pocket for quite some time, but if I'd bought one before now I wouldn't have got such a funky model -- me and Rhiannon just recently bagged ourselves some of the new September '09 line. My Classic...'tis wonderful. I had to do some more fiddling to my ayeayeTunes

out FOR deliverY

2009-10-01T09:40:00.003+01:00

Ohhhhhhhhhh yeah.Went out for food with a load of mates the other day; quite a few photos taken. Funny thing though -- in every picture of me, I seem to be holding an 'air' steering wheel...! Good job I had the actual wheel with me (which I sat with in the passenger seat on Andy's car) -- and I converted pretty much everyone to my new little religion.Do you know how much of an utter

hhh

2009-09-26T02:39:00.001+01:00

...decided to sort my rather large VGM folder out at a later date -- just doing the final touches to my MP3 library, then I'm gonna leave ayeayeTunes importing them all over night. ...all 110GB of it. ...then it'll grab all the album art and mash it into the sexytimesTunes META file.Sounds too sexy to be true.Speaking of too sexy to be true, Rhiannon will soon be in the north; a meer forty-five

kkk

2009-09-22T23:57:00.002+01:00

Artists -- tagged.Soundtracks -- tagged.Misc -- tagged.VGM -- next, and last.

RIGHT 4 THEn left 6 DON't cut

2009-09-21T11:27:00.005+01:00

There are some things a man shouldn't have to live with, which diminish their 'male authority' in a sexist world like ours. The name Ceri. Dwarfism. A high-pitched voice. A lack of strength that yields the inability to do useful things like lift their own weight, and, more importantly, their partners weight in certain...situations?While at 5'8" I do suffer from a minor twinge of dwarfism for

spotTed riCHarD

2009-09-17T15:14:00.004+01:00

First of all: Valve. If you're gonna make this as-good-as-it-gets-but-still-DRM'd-system and want us to love it, you're gonna have to make sure certain things work. I mean, the internal browser is terrible, but, fair enough, hard to implement and it's just a nice bonus feature. ...but when it comes to your statistics-logging and achievement system, d'you not think it would be nice to have it,

runnING aROunD aGAiN

2009-09-15T15:20:00.003+01:00

Fuck my arse I'm bored.I should be working, but man, all the 'fun' has drained after nearly two years...The weekend was bloody good stuff. I apparently gave an incredible speech that people were still talking about days later, I managed to meet and get on rather well with most of Mark's family and I think I did my sister proud, which is the important bit....strangely popular with females of an

little sister (with cowbell)

2009-09-11T14:19:00.002+01:00

Hair cut.Beard trimmed.Suit ready.Speech thought of.Stunning weather.Beer to be drunk.Guests arriving tonight.Twenty four hours to go.

schee-eye't

2009-09-07T10:42:00.003+01:00

I've got a terrible memory. It's true, y'know -- I can't remember dates, 'phone-numbers or what I did two days ago without straining....but I find it weird (and a bit unnerving) that I can remember all my credit card details, every password I use online (and I use a fair few permutations of two unique, long and strong passwords made up of multiple languages, symbols and numbers) and a fair

EveR danced wiTH tEH devil

2009-09-04T10:13:00.007+01:00

In reference to the last entry: with the exception of a few tracks, I've started a new album a-fresh. If I can concentrate on Focus for a good year, I should be able to do the same for something else...hopefully...Also, Chrimbo gaming season is upon us...fortunately and unfortunately. With the recent price-hike, I can see a lot of decent games being missed due to expense -- not just by me, but

hold oN to yOUR balLs

2009-09-02T15:17:00.002+01:00

I've got a cunning plan....and it involves my music....and yes, it's more cunning than a cunning fox yadda yadda.

ack

2009-09-01T10:26:00.002+01:00

It doesn't matter what you do.It doesn't matter how much you try.It doesn't even matter if you think everything is right....if there's a drity, great big sodding flood about a two-year-olds height in a dip in the road, you ain't gonna expect it.They took me there to fail me...I knowz it.In two weeks time, if that flood is still there, I'm gonna bend it over a banister and make it my damned bitch.

# Posting # Settings # Layout # Monetise

2009-08-29T23:34:00.004+01:00

I've had nearly 50GB of music to re-encode and re-tag building up for about two years...The re-encoding should be finished in twenty minutes, after a total of ten hours! Thankfully that was using both CPU cores on the laptop, so has been doing two tracks at once! ...the re-tagging/album-art grabbing is going to take a while though. ...I do dislike unorganised music...Still, once it's done, I

feels DIRTy

2009-08-28T09:50:00.007+01:00

Okay, bear with me...this is difficult...iTunes is an over-bloated, slow and annoying-to-navigate little program, which tries it's damned hardest to rule over every single piece of media on your system -- and pretends to be the ultimate one-stop destination for buying and playing media when it's master of none, cramming its utter smugness down your neck whenever it can....however...WinAMP, which

I MaED A PO5T w1TH iTUN3Z!!shift+1

2009-08-26T21:02:00.006+01:00

...good Lord, why did I get iTunes to add my entire music collection...?! It's gonna take it an age to chew through everything; it's just reached 'B' after ten minutes...Figured out last.fm will quite happily track what music you listen to on your iPod -- if you've sync'd it with ayeayeTunes. Figured 'what the Hell' (especially since my usual iTunes-bypass hack doesn't seem to work on Windows 7

I MAED A PO5T W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1

2009-08-26T00:31:00.004+01:00

Seriously considering buying this XNA game. Trust me -- watch it for two minutes! The music, the background effects...perfect.

[updated] welkoM

2009-08-25T10:18:00.020+01:00

THE DWP LOVE ME! NEW PEOPLE! SLIGHTLY MORE MONEY! JOB PROSPECTS! ABILITY TO MOVE INTO OTHER GOVERNMENTAL JOB ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY! MAYBE START A 'V' LIKE ANARCHY REVOLT FROM INSIDE!Fuck life, eh? Man, there's a lot of buggered people on there...I mean: "Today, I saw my ex-boyfriend at the mall, kissing another man. His partner got up and went to the bathroom, so I went up to my ex. I

PK'n'FK

2009-08-11T10:25:00.004+01:00

Thinking about it, when my website is up and charging forwards through time itself, would I really want my personal blog on there? I'd be demonstrating my abilities, Focus, a portfolio, etc. -- and I don't think the content of my blog would gel with that too well. It'd use a blog-system for any form of news-related posts, but not a full-blown proper blog.In other words, this is staying....and,

ScRap that FOR noW

2009-08-10T23:34:00.004+01:00

Yes, I'm scrapping the 'my own Blog' idea for now -- unfortunately I've expanded Focus (that's the name of the code-base I've built) in many directions since I've started, and it's actually being used in several websites professionally...so I've not had time to develop the Blog functionality of it yet!...and I kinda felt like Blogging. I think. I actually want to play Gender Wars, Syndicate

FINAL POST

2008-10-01T13:18:00.002+01:00

Seriously, this could be the last proper post on here. Main reason? I'm half-way through the Blog code my own website needs to work. ...so I'll be moving. It's all PHP/AJAX powered and stuff. ...and cleaner-looking. ...as much as I like this design, I'm not sure I should keep it. ...or should I? Answers on a postcard.Anyway, it's my birthday soon...and it's soon Christmas. And people are

Geak poest

2008-09-17T16:18:00.003+01:00

When you're a prat, like my good self, you often do silly little things that are amusing at the time...which is lovely.However, sometimes, especially with code, they come back to you and smack you in the cock. Like a correctly-thrown-yet-forgotten boomerang, or Genetial Herpes.For instance (and this is pure dribble; feel free to ignore) when I'm at work creating awesome websites, I create the

GANG*

2008-09-04T11:48:00.004+01:00

I'll tell you how you're supposed to breathe with no air: Move into an area with air.If it's possible to force air into the area you are in, maybe by breaking a window, do so.If you've got access to equipment that can provide air, such as an oxygen mask, use them.Are you sure you've tried breathing normally? You may have forgotten you can where you are currently. Try breathing.If you are

DEZ R MI FUKIN KRISPZ

2008-08-31T01:22:00.003+01:00

Jesus Christ.After signing out of my Hotmail account I decided to check what news items MSN wanted me to look at. It appears they're running a 'Greatest Stealth Game Ever' vote. Currently Metal Gear Solid (and it's kin) is winning -- and I can kinda accept that, as there is certainly an emphasis (well, if you ever actually encountered an enemy...) on stealth. However, the next nearest

McDead

2008-08-28T16:14:00.003+01:00

One hundred right, six!One fifty long left, four!Fifty left, one widens on to tarmac!...I don't update this often enough. Apparently. It's not that I've nothing to write about - it's more that inbetween all the Maize Maze adventures, seeing Steve, Rock Banding, listening to old people get overly excited about the '69' Bingo ball, learning to drive, learning to drum and random bouts of drinking

heREs a PRomIZ

2008-07-23T12:28:00.003+01:00

Here's a promise -- once I get 'round to buying two new RJ45 cables so my lovely Xbox can stay online (rather than continuously fighting with the BT Vision box, and upsetting the poor thing) I'll grab myself an Xbox Live Vision Camera and Messaging Kit....I'll actually be on MSN once again.With the entirely social-orientated sideways shunt of the Dashboard in the next few months, it makes sense

OHMYGUDGODD

2008-07-22T15:28:00.002+01:00

I'M GONNA BURN THIS WHOLE WORLD DOWN! I was happy drumming to March of the Pigs on Rock Band. I really was. It made me quite happy....now you're telling me I've got Last and Capital G to smack plastic pads to?...next you'll tell me I can beat the shit out of Burn too... BURRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNN!

my MaRs Is IN ProgrAde

2008-07-16T14:49:00.004+01:00

marrr-mar-mar-mars is (eh eh ae)...okay, so it doesn't sound as cool...E3. Still awesome.In other news, bar learning to drum and learning to drive, I've managed to bash about with some music too. ...you know, when XBL isn't demanding my time. ...and I'm not talking to/texting/seeing Steve. Steve rules.I'm firing on (most) cylinders.Currently listening to whilst blogging:"Bloc Party -

POST!

2008-07-02T10:11:00.004+01:00

the worlds on fire, man...The cybernetic implants I gave you were simply tooooyyyyssss...NEIN! (*)Anyway, enough of this banter. An update then, if you will.So. Yes. It's been a little while. Fantastic. Miss me? Nah? Well then get the sodding Hell off my Blog.Anyway:I've been daaaaaa'n saaaaa'pf. I've been to Spain. ...okay, not Spain, but Torquay. It was lovely and sunny. ...and cold.

RURD BURD

2008-06-02T10:59:00.003+01:00

ALL!THE!GIRLS!STANDING!IN!THE!LINE!FOR!THE!BATHROOM!...yeah, they're out of order. Sorry. Currently missing:Drumming on Rock Band, and an official model of mine *.(*: currently available for your viewing pleasure in various places around Devon, including the local paper)

BAND YOUR ROCK TOGETHER

2008-05-20T16:39:00.003+01:00

To: Mr ?????(acidic.spunk@gmail.com)Your order for Rock Band: Band In A Box (Instruments Edition) has been posted.Please note PLAY.COM will show on your statement.Please allow 3-5 days delivery.

N!Y!P!D! L!A!P!D! S!F!P!D!

2008-05-17T21:30:00.001+01:00

...riding with me is my MC home-boy; knowing the rules ain't part of his program... You know what, Ricky Gervais? As I sat watching you on TV, in some run-down apartment I happened to be laying low in, I sniggered a little -- not because you were funny, but because I thought it was amusing that a comedian by trade seemed utterly flat and boring in comparison to the shit-funny humour of the game

31,556,926 seConds

2008-05-10T13:35:00.002+01:00

It's been (roughly) that many seconds since I left Lancaster -- feels like much longer. It's also Jennnnahhhs birthday. It's also 86,400 seconds (roughly) off a month worth of ZOMGSHE'SSOFARAWAYGODDAMNIT.Time.

HAPPY BLOgg

2008-05-07T11:11:00.002+01:00

To all those that I really care about: do me a favour...don't die.At least wait until I'm gone, or something.

funK iTT up

2008-05-05T00:17:00.002+01:00

I'd kill for music like this to be played 'out' more often around here....clubs kinda like this.

dEE poWerR ovv Dee InteeEnetZZ

2008-04-25T10:41:00.002+01:00

Pretty much just a note for myself...but there's been a track on Radio 1 that I've sodding loved for the last few weeks...but never caught what it was or even who it was by..."L.E.S Artistes - Santogold"

The SUn wiLL rIse...

2008-04-18T12:17:00.008+01:00

...eV n if you happen to there......eV n if you haPpen bE th---......eVen iF-you haPPEN to there......even if you don't happen to be there......eight weeks?! Dire, Dire Docks infernal.Small Dynamic. I had a quick look on Sourceforge -- it appears that projects have to undergo a 'review' before submission. ...when it's finished, that'll be quite exciting!I couldn't

roooow. booottt.

2008-04-17T13:42:00.003+01:00

roooooo--booooot.... I always thought I was okay at the coding of a website...It's been around six months that I've been a 'professional' web-designer now, and by Hell I've improved. I'm completely comfortable with XHTML/CSS2, with as-close-to 100% standards-compliance between Internet Explorer and Firefox -- and I can crap out custom Joomla templates for poops and giggles. The 's are

get yoUR gunN

2008-04-14T23:52:00.002+01:00

Ah well, i will put [DOOM co-op] on a list of things to do one day if we ever meet.That's one box ticked.

goT thAt FeelIng

2008-04-02T14:00:00.003+01:00

luck is just a little of it... You know that feeling when you integrate a IFrame bound, PHP-based RSS-feed retriever into your own website CMS development system...and it just works?Good, in'it?Small Dynamic v1 will be awesome -- be sure of that.

the blogS camE 2by2 wHO-Rahh

2008-03-23T15:59:00.002Z

Good God damn, I used to post a lot more than I do now.I said I'd put the archives up at some point. I'll actually put a link somewhere properly when I get 'round to it.

blargle

2008-03-19T14:34:00.001Z

dub come save me

Schwazzle

2008-03-17T16:07:00.002Z

Damn my lack of single friends who'd like nothing more than to go out and get trashed....also, why d'you waste more of your time when you're single? Bar occasionally climbing, and occasionally getting out the house to eat massive pizzas, I ain't really doing all that much. Hell, I can't be arsed updating this all that often...if you could tell at all......well, except play Call Of Duty 4

instrumENTal

2008-03-05T21:53:00.002Z

If I said that Trent Reznor had just released a 36 track double-album, consisting of instrumental music covering a wide range of styles, mostly tending towards what I'd consider video game music -- and he's released Mr Self Destruct as an instrumental (amongst most of the Downward Spiral and other great tracks) -- do you think I'd be pleased?

haVe a GlAss oF MilKShaKE...

2008-02-29T14:59:00.003Z

DRAAAAAAINAGE!...you can razzle-dazzle my fantas-mah gazzle, 'cos I'll do as I lizzle.

X-Nay

2008-02-24T19:46:00.003Z

That midget door in Scrooges? Not actually a midget door.Not only is it a true full-size door, but it leads to a flat. ...with a load of red boxes with numbers on the front....that's right: the Deal Or No Deal Banker lives there!Drunken findings aside, I've taken it upon myself to ignore my own objections to doing any .NET and XNA programming, and I'm fiddling about with some code. I've got

takE iT to tHe brIdgE

2008-02-21T14:14:00.003Z

you ready? 01253 406336. No longer exists. So there's no sense in ringing it any more.The Nolan/Norman/Dawson household. Now fully wireless. ...bar electricity...obviously.Number of 'phones in front-room. Two. ...annoyingly.My hours are better than most jobs, to be sure. I get paid better than most jobs, to be true. I'm doing something I'm good at, to be honest....why am I not 100% happy

...aaAAaaand thEn?

2008-02-18T11:38:00.005Z

per'feck'shun...haha...watch me work it; i'm wor'ff it... Reheated Sweet and Sour Chicken Cantonese style reminds me of university....speaking of nostalgic things, it's a small world, in'it? ...ohhhhhhhh, then welcome -- yes welcome, oh sweet chinchilla of newquay -- to the first word-barf post of the year! More a note for myself for when I get home: sounded cool i'll always be there, oh oh, my

lack of creative title

2008-02-15T14:05:00.002Z

i weeeeeesh it was meeeee y'awd chow'zi weeeeeesh it was meeeee y'awd chow'z I think I've forgotten what MSN is. ...which, considering I'm never on my computer any more, ain't all that suprising.However, many torrid images of C++ code came dripping at me in the night, and I've got that programming itch again. ...back to my engine when I next can...Me and Andrew had a magical night together

arSEARsein's BloG

2008-02-13T09:37:00.003Z

I got that free iPod Shuffle the other day from Tesco DVD Rental thingy.Now, it's not a secret that I damned hate Apple...and the only way it wasn't going to become a rather nice present for someone's birthday was if I could use it without using iTunes.I'd heard that even if you could get around using iTunes, you still had to at least initialise the iPod using iTunes before it would work -- that

IF u R WaTT U saY u r...

2008-02-05T13:32:00.000Z

GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! I know I'm late to the Halo game (and, hell, playing FPSs on a console competitively) but there are some well practiced people out there!Still...Seems I've run into one major problem with my music website. Transcoding.Seems Flash can be a little weird about certain types of MP3s, specifically with frequencies. ...so uploading a 22KHz MP3 will more-than-likely result in the

AVert ThINe Eyes!!1

2008-02-03T22:47:00.000Z

I feel dirty. * loads Halo 3 and plays online *

v1.0 > v1.1

2008-01-29T12:10:00.000Z

what are you waiting for...?i'm not running from you... I've pretty much finished my groovy website builder / editor, so I'm gonna release it. To the world. For free. ...because I believe in that Freedom of Information shit.Bye bye Blueyonder / NTL: Telewest / VirginMedia -- hello BT Total Broadband stuff.Advance Wars: Dark Conflict is still awesome. I don't even miss the Neotanks any more.

yay

2008-01-24T14:17:00.000Z

Today is a Day of Ruin...as Dark Conflict arrived a full twenty-four hours early! And I pebble-dash you with poo not -- it's BETTER than Advance Wars DS so far! It's like a subtle blend of AW:DS and Fire Emblem, with enough game-play differences for all three to stand on their own!...I've only played a few missions so far. I'm liking but disliking the new way COs are handled -- yay for

Qk

2008-01-21T23:00:00.000Z

I'm making this quick.I've started a 'bumper 2007' post.I've got a Flash-based music player WORKING with the DiGiTAL SEDiTiON database! Fuck yeah.The gym hurts, but weekend birthday-party fun helps.I'm actually coping with the first few sections on Guitar Hero 3 on Expert.I'm not photogenic.

QuIz

2008-01-17T15:22:00.000Z

OH COME ON I HAVEN'T DONE ONE IN QUITE A WHILE SHUT YOUR FACE BUGGER OFF COME CLOSER DON'T LEAVE I LOVE YOU 1] Who ended your last relationship?I'd say we both did, at different points. Don't ask, I don't quite understand the decline myself. ...actually I'm not sure who ended the previous one either. The mind boggles.2] When is the last time you shaved your legs?Never.3] What were you doing

thAT's A WRaP!

2008-01-16T00:27:00.000Z

* doesn't think anyone who reads this will be able to link the title to the content ** dusts off Advance Wars: DS in preparation for one weeks time ** remembers how much he loves this damned game ** triggers Black Hole Super Power / Tag Power music *Hatchi is a bit over-powered though really, in'ee? The crazy old fool....come on Wiifii online turn-based madness fun...come on......damned music...

Refresh : RenEW : RejoIce

2008-01-09T11:35:00.000Z

hate is a strong word I hate the song I've decided to put at the top-bottom bit...but it's on the radio, blocking out every decent lyric I could think of... Anyway, yes, I've ripped the old posts down. Time to start again, and all that. It was a shit year anyway -- and looking through the posts while deleting them, my head was certainly in a billion places at once. ...LOLOCAUST, AMIRITE?...