Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
A voyage into the unknown awaits you, as the feds discover the physical location of your MP3 server and you have to escape into the nearby mountains.From BBSpot
And someone came to my site on a search for countup+php+months, I’m thinking maybe I should get my ass in gear, write a little readme type thing and get my script out there… it seems to be working fine for me!
Reading an interesting article on burning birds site about blogging popularity got me to thinking about the popularity of my site, which isn’t all that great.
Not that I’m complaining, not in the slightest. When I first started out (yep all 2 months ago) I went on a bit of a rampage getting my blog on all the pinging lists and whatnot… however, now that I’ve calmed down from the initial excitement I must admit that I’d rather get my content to a level of quality that I’m happy with before shouting from the rooftops again. (and yes that includes my spelling mistakes)
There have been some interesting comments about link exchanging on blog sites and I generally have this attitude:
I’ll link to what I think is good, and I expect others to do the same, being linked to on someones site ‘just because I’m linking them’ seems really stupid to me.
Which is why I’ve yet to inform the blogs that I link to about my existance. Like I said before, I’d rather get the quality and identity of this blog sorted out before telling people about it.
Life’s not always a popularity contest, and if it is then being popular for the ‘right’ reasons will always give you a better feeling and stronger friendships/relationships.
… wow I feel a bit like a cheesy childrens cartoon ending with a good moral comment like that 😀
Things are no different, although I am a bit tired after about five days of celebration and maddness, culminating today in tiding the house…. yeah ok maybe not your average birthday celebration but we’ve got an inspection by the landlord tomorrow so it had to be done.
It was definately great to see everyone again, I think this has been the biggest gathering of my friends for any of my birthdays (since people started gathering for that kind of thing) the DVD player that my parents ordered me arrived via the Sam/Jim courier service which made up for comet delivering to the wrong address. And that works fine although I did have a bit of a moment when I had to look at the manual… I’d foolishly set the video output mode to one that the TV here can’t handle, thus giving a blank screen, thankfully there was a simple way of reseting it.
Well I think I’m going to settle down and watch a really cheesy film on the TV now, just what the doctor ordered to recover and relax 😉
Yesterday I went to Earls court London to go to the Plasa 2004 exhibition. I was there specifically to look at DJ gear. Not that I need any new kit or anything, the stuff I have is pretty much top of the range and perfectly fine for home use.
I suppose getting to see the uk premier of the Technics SL-DZ1200 digital CDJ turntable and recorded an excusive video of them being demonstrated AND getting to have a go on one of the six working prototypes at the time… yeah getting to do and see that last year gave me good incentive to go again.
I didn’t stay for long, but I saw and had a go on some damn cool stuff.
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The fine tipped pens designed for labeling CD’s are perfect for signing credit cards. In the past I have followed the instructions and used a ballpoint but quite frankly the results in these situations reminded me why I rarely follow or even look at instructions.
(If you haven’t caught on they were terrible)
I went shopping yesterday, for some clothes and a new pair of trainers. I was in Smiths looking for stationary of sorts (didn’t find what I wanted) and I saw these three women that look really rather over dressed considering, well they were in a shop. I did happen to overhear some of their conversation thought:
Overfashioned #1:What do you need pencils for?
Overfashioned #2:Oh I’m doing art.
Overfashioned #1:You’re doing art?
Overfashioned #2:Yeah, art GCSE
…..GCSE!! I felt like I should do penance or something, I mean I knew they looked a bit young but geez that would make them about 14 or 15 !! I moved away from the quickly after that.
There was also an incident which illiustrates why you should make sure you heard correctly:
Me:How much are these shoes?
Shop assistant:Let me check…. they’re thirty-four ninety-nine.
Me:[Thinks]Well thats much cheaper than that other pair, I can’t go wrong
…I go to pay
Shop assistant:That’ll be fourty-nine ninety-nine please.
Damn, at least that was still a fair bit cheaper than that other pair I was looking at. They are kinda cool shoes that I would wear most of the time, instead of trainer. I did overlook one point though. I still need new trainers now, seeing as my old ones are rather knackered and I still need a pair for the gym and for dancing and the like.
We’ve all heard the saying ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’ which of course is all very nice, it even rhymes. But with all the fun a capers of rhyming saying, do we actually know how good apples are for us?
I’m my quest for randomness this question cropped up so I’ve done some research. The short answer is that they are supprisingly very good for you, much like bananas, but thats a different story.
Here are some little know facts about the health benifits of apples:
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Its strange, I can look at a website (and I look at a fair few), and I can see when a design is good or when its bad, if I take a bit of time I can usually also decide if the layout flows nicely or the colours go together.
But for some reason I don’t seem to be able to ‘do’ these things, admittedly I’ve not put a huge amount of effort into the design of this site. Quite probably for the simple reason that if I did it wouldn’t look all that much better.
I’d like to think that these things get better with practice, and perhaps they do. Until that time though, I think I will just stick with stealing ideas from other people (without shame) and using my trusty colour wheel program to help pick colours that actually go with each other.
Which reminds me I need to take a screenshot of this design, so hopefully in two years time I can look back and say ‘geez was a really that poor at designing back then?’
I can hope 🙂
Although it is a LOT better than some sites out there 🙂
I mentioned, not so long ago that I was having a big think about my life direction and that I’d made some decisions. Well I was a bit secretive about it simply because I was blogging during my lunch break at work, and I felt it would be a bit rude to write about wanting to find a new job.
Which is what I’m hoping to do, and if things work in my favour it will be much closer to home so that I don’t have to commute.
I’ve been meaning to blog about this from home earlier but I felt that actions speak louder than words, and unfortunately up until this evening my words have been saying ‘start look for a new job’ but my actions have been saying ‘watch TV’.
I had a good plan of attack, get my CV upto date by this weekend and then take it down to a recruitment agency on saturday. Unfortunately I don’t have a printer.
I thought of using the printer at work. I will have to let my boss know about the plan at some point, its only polite. Plus he’ll be one of my references. 🙂
Also it seems that my CV may need more work than I first thought, if I want it to be as impressive as possible. Without lying of course, I’ve never lied trying for a job and I don’t intend to start now!
Will keep the whole situation posted 😉
Today I decided to monitor the amount of water that I get through while at work. The reason for this randomness was a conversation with my cousins over dinner last week. They informed me that if you drink too much water you can stretch your kidneys! I don’t really know what that means but it sounds pretty painful, and also apparently it will mean you can’t drink alcohol or coffee or any other foodstuffs that make your kidneys go through a bit of effort.
So I’m currently up to my sixth glass, each glass being roughly half a pint makes three pints of water (so far) at work… considering its advised to have eight glasses a day, I think I’ll be ok 🙂
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