Reading Fred's earlier post made me remember a bag acehole found warning potential users about the dangers of suffocation.
What do you know, I still have a blog, despite not posting to it in a little under a year. Since the last post I moved to London, got a job, and became British.
Currently I am living with acehole and fred. fred lives in the living room, but it's OK as he moved in with an xbox, Rock Band, and a sizable amount of alcohols, many of which have already been consumed. He also brought the entire Next Generation with him. Energize!
In a week I am going to go to Ukraine to see the family.
Also I'm just starting the process of getting a new computer.
Now that I remember about this blog again, I plan to post to it more in the coming weeks. Yay.
It's been a while since my last post, and the last 24 hours have been eventful enough to justify a post.
Last night I went up to London to see Converge. It was very much a last minute thing, and I would not say their style is quite up my street, but seeing them live was still very enjoyable, and I even got out without any long term injuries. Kerrang gave their Brighton performance KKKKK, and showed a picture of the singer topless with the fans. Electric Ballroom had barriers (which they did apologise for, but nevertheless), so that was not really possible. Perhaps the Brighton people are more receptive ;-) . Towards the end I ended up closer to the speakers than I intended, which resulted in ringy ears.
This morning found me still in London, so I went to see the new Harry Potter movie, Order of the Phoenix. As far as Harry Potter movies go it did not disappoint. The biggest thing I found wrong with it was the age of the actors - they were supposed to be in their GCSE year, but appeared to be of university-going age. The length of the film is over 130min, but it felt slightly too short. As with the last film it seems the Order of the Phoenix assumes everyone watching has read the book, and so skips over much of the background story, concentrating on main events. Overall I give this film 7/10.
From the cinema I took Waterloo and City line to Waterloo, and wandered around the Millennium Bridge and St. Paul's area. I saw something that resembled synchronous scaffolding climbing: about ten people clinging onto some scaffolding, climbing around to form various patterns. Very random.
Finally I went to see some soapboxes, arranged in a maze, with lots of threads and comments on them. It looked as if someone took an on-line forum, tore it out of cyberspace, and placed it into a large room. It seems the aim was to encourage sensible discussion of interesting topics: there were many thought provoking questions dotted around the place. Most of the responses however did not rise above the average level you would expect from a web forum. One that is unmoderated.
Reading Fred's earlier post made me remember a bag acehole found warning potential users about the dangers of suffocation.
Writing about BBC article about a possible coke strike
This is a heads-up to all fellow coke users, you know who you are. Stocking up on coke is probably still a bit premature, but there is a slight chance that you will have to switch to Pepsi unless you do.
On the other side of the coin this may present itself as an opportunity
to try out other colas. I will not risk Tesco Value cola, but that
classic cola they sell at Costcutters is quite drinkable IME.
Have any of you tried other colas? How did you find them?
It has been a long time coming, but I finally got myself yet another blog. My last two blogs got 2 and 1 posts respectively, so I am not holding out too much hope for this one. All things considered, both previous blog attempts were made before the term "blog" was coined, so this might just work out after all. Since I don't really read other people's blogs I have very little idea as to what sort of thing to put here... Help?
I heard blogging about blogs is something people who have blogs do, so here we go! A little about this blog... For reasons outside my control there is no mod_php or MySQL on this web server at the moment, which restricts my choice of blogging engines. I went as far as wikipedia's list of blogging software to search for something that did not rely on PHP or MySQL to function. There I found a link to something called pyblosxom, which uses python run as a cgi script and flat-files to work. Yay! Its approach seems very minimalistic, and even things like comments and everything in that menu on the left are separate modules, downloaded and installed on their own.
The default look of the blog was erm... the word "dire" describes it pretty well. However it uses a flexible system of templates, and before long I had a clean and simple interface up and running. I linked it to some friends on my IM contact list, and got plenty of useful feedback, mostly along the lines of "WTF is a tag cloud?" and "It looks very plain... like something made back in 2000.". With that in mind I made a few changes to the CSS sheet, and behold, here is my Web 2.0 styled blog, complete with unsupported CSS3 extensions, menu transparency, and all that.
I will probably play with the layout and some other plugins over time.