Rhis prom tomoz, just got back from buying 2 shirts and a tie. £9 for the lot, cant fault that… shame the suit im wearing cost me £129 but hey, shes worth it all and i can use the suit for jobs as well. Hope tomoz goes well, im nervious that i’ll upset Rhi somehow or embarrass her. I tried to check the hotel rooms were sorted but i gotta call up the central bookings people… a crappy system if i do say so. “Sorry sir, we only have todays booking on our system”… rubbish. Yeah, so anyways, i spent AGES trying to find a shirt that fitted me, in the end i got a 16.5 inch short sleeve, and

For all the blog fans out there
Ive written a plugin for WordPress, its the Listening To thing on the side of my page. Its not stricktly Word press only which is handy, but it was designed with WP in mind.
You need a few things to use it

An audioscrobbler account to watch
A blog of some sort, preferably WP
Change the php file provided to suit your needs
Setup of writable cache folder for use by the script

To use: place the file into the WP plugins folder and activate it from the WP Admin page. If you are not using WP then use an include(”file.php”) somewhere instead.

To place the script where u want it, simply add the following html/php snippet:

<h2>< ?php _e(’Listening to:’); ?></h2>
<div

Howdy people,
I got my exam results today, passed everything woo, dont know the exact marks yet, but i have no resits to do at all. hurrah. Rhi’s last exams are tomoz, dbl chem (eeep) *good luck babes* once thats done thou shes freeeee. going to her prom on friday, that shud be fun. Staying the night in a hotel and everyfin… gonna try and do summin romantic, but cant say much here cos rhi might read it
Bought myself a suit for the occasion, £130 it cost me. Black and very nice. Gotta go and buy a tie and clean my shoes yet thou. Oh well, shes worth it Gonna check the rooms are ok, i booked them

Handy feature of photoshop, the render clouds method is actually quite clever, its algorithm to make clouds allows you to sneakily make it tilable,
Make a square canvas with dimensions of 2^n on both sides, eg, 16×16, 128×128, 512×512, 2048×2048 etc
then select a the colours you want to use in the foreground/background box and finally Filter>>Render>>Clouds.
Ei Voila, instant tilable clouds.

How handy is that?

Good day to you all.
Todays lesson will be how to create a funky looking brick pattern a few simple steps.
Heres an example of what we’re aiming for:

This effect is incredibly simple to do, simple do the following:

Create a new layer or canvas
Select foreground and background colours which con trast nicely
Render some clouds using Filter >> Render >> Clouds
Make a patchwork using Filter >> Texture >> Patchwork
Think.. wow, how simple

Changing the values of the Patchwork filter will yield some cool results, it depends on the size of your graphic, but a Square size around 3 and relief around 14 is good for small pics

Heres an example of what you can do with the brickpattern.

Instant Brickwall

Hey all,
sorry the blogs been offline recently, the CS domain went down and i just had to wait it out. I think they’re playing with the servers again. tis the best time of year really.
Anyhow, now i back i shalt blog once more.
Since ive been gone (good song that) ive been mostly playing around with photoshop and imageready to make a pair of animated graphics, one for Rhi as she is so lovely, and one for angharad cos she pestered me for it
take a peeky:

How its done:
Open ur fav pic in photoshop
Make an action which does the following:

Duplicate Current Layer
Shift image hue by +20

Set the action to a keyboard shortcut (mine was F2) and

Survey
Just to find out what people think of me. Do the survey on myspace or here, i dont mind
Toby

Heya,
just got back from Rhi’s, she was quite stressy yesterday which was a shame but we had a nice LOOONNGGG walk in the forest together while walking the doggies. We got quite quite lost and spent around 2 hours in there, was nice thou. Tis good to get some real air compared to this city crap im used to. We made a really nice chiken salad thing when we got back and were watching TV, was lovely, rhi made crutons which were slightly overcooked but were still yummy Had a bottle of lovely wine from her uncle john, was bootiful stuff, horribly expensive i suspect. Gotta find out where he gets it all from…
Before i went to Rhi’s

We all went out on an 8 pub pub crawl, drunkenness, baths and poolballs were obtained, we all went home drunk, james was a girl, crox was plastered and luke was forceful.
Toby

(By popular request for a shorted version of the Mighty Crawl Post)

Sorted,
6 exams down, none to go. End of Exams for the semester
the Maths exam wasnt as bad as i was expecting, hopefully scrabed a decent pass, but im not sure about the Software Engineering exam, i suspect i failed badly on that, unless my blagging technique pulls me through.
As a celebratory celebration we went on an 8 pub pub crawl starting around 4pm from our house. We invited various people, alun and luke turned up with their housemates alex, and tickles with chris turning up later on in the procedings. All of these housemates i’d never met before but got on really well with so that was nice it was strange to see similarities between alex and the way