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The danger is in real life.

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Today while reading articles hidden deep in Google reader when I should have been polishing my CV or doing something more productive, I came across the girl who cried webmaster. The difference with this story is ‘the danger came from real life and salvation came from the online world‘. I stumbled upon the link within a coding horror article, and was pleasantly surprised, I generally don’t bother to follow those sorts of anecdotal links.

Entering the fiction world for a few moments, one of my favourite authors passed away just a few days ago. David Eddings wrote some brilliant fiction, including my favourite trilogy ‘The Elenium’ (the following trilogy tagging along shortly after). The Elenium follows Sparhawk and Aphrael two of my favourite characters exploits in a interesting world where some gods take a bigger role in peoples lives.

Living conditions

Friday, August 8th, 2008

If you’ve been paying attention in #kh (on swiftirc) or other channels you might share with me, you’re probably aware that for the most part of the year I live in student accommodation. While I’m living at university all of my belongings in the family home get put inside a cupboard in what was my old room. The room now is occupied by my brother, and as such when I return although most the time we arrange to have him sleep in the old bedroom, the fact it no longer is my room is something of a hindrance. There is a smaller box room where my brother used to sleep but its not big enough to accommodate a computer or even the belongings I bring back with me.

A few people I’ve discussed this with offered suggestions and a few didn’t believe what I said about the box room so I took a few images.

Left Boxroom

Left Boxroom


Another image of the Boxroom

Another thing I mentioned lately was my ’suitcase’ of books, and since the topic of books came up a bit lately I decided to find my copies of Artemis Fowl. Since I had the suitcase unpacked I thought I might as well snap a few images off at the same time.

Bed of Books

Bed of Books

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Sitting here.

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

At this minute I’m sitting in front of Firefox, writing this post in a Firefox add-on called ‘performancing‘ it’s a little extension which makes a bar pop up at the bottom of the window to allow you to write something on your blog without stopping what your doing normally, although I suppose its better than the normal Firefox thing anyway.

Anyway, I just found an artical on digg and went to the website and not only read the article but the one two before it, I’m not sure what it is but even though it doesn’t apply to me in almost any shape or form (yet anyway) it seems to have hit me a little harder than I expected.

The first article and the seccond article are on a website called violentacres.com which seems to fit the theme perfectly. Anyway, if you are a digg member, hit the digg this link which I have pointed to the original digg post.

My 18th

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Guess what, it’s now my birthday, and I just hit 18, I know most people will now be expecting a mature adult, but the people who know me should really have more reasonable expectations.

Exam results

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Well the results are back, I got a B in ICT (it appears I did quite crap in the general exams), a B in Maths (quite proud of that), a C in Physics (I flunked a paper and will probably retake it to bump this to a B) and finally I got a C in Business Studies. I’m not sure whether I’m impressed with BS or not, it was the first time I took the subject and was never really that interested in it. I’m also planning on dropping it next year, so I don’t think it’s worth taking again. Oh and for all it’s worth i got a C in General Studies, which isn’t bad as I never took the lessons.

Holiday

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Finished school, waiting for my exam results. That pretty much sums up the academic front most things. My parents went on holiday for the last week of term and are due back on tomorrow. It for the most part has been a fairly uneventful couple of weeks, Nat stayed over in the second week for a handful of days, we had fun trying to cook a few different things and it was interesting living with my GF for almost a week. It kinda opened my eyes to a little.

Other news, I stumbled upon pennradio.com which is by the same guy who stars in Penn & Teller: Bullshit, he chats on about different things, I’ll be sticking it on my ipod for a laugh at least.

Myspace the truth is out…

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

I was trying to do my homework, some of the work I’ve got left over from not doing very much over the half term, when someone throws a link to this article on digg this is something I’m quite glad I decided to look up from my work for. An article on:

Why MySpace is a waste of humanity

Using the power of Google searches, it’s possible to prove why Myspace.com is a failure of humanity and swamp of degenerate youth. A depressing study of a hilarious problem.

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Edit: Oh also between homework I stumbled on this link | digg story

Always loved this guy….

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

I was just waking up checking my chat channels to see what was up, make sure there wasn’t any problems or anything I needed to deal with, and to set my nick as away instead of asleep, that was when I found a nice snippet from Kami a post from CAD. Its a great comic and I’ve read it for years, but as quickly found out he has a nice rant on their that I firstly agree with and also find remarkably funny. He also has a good idea

I’d like to announce that I just signed a multi-million dollar contract with a private firm to open the first of many CAD Hotels…The rooms won’t contain a bed, a bathroom, or those stupid little desks that nobody uses. Instead, one entire wall will be comprised of a projection video screen, and all of the latest games will be available for play for only $2.95 a minute.

Only if :D ! Even if you don’t follow the comics, you should be able to relate with the rant anyway, oh the attached comic can be found here.