Archive for October, 2005

Comsciki

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

Once again, the Cardiff University Computer Science Wiki is running and online, this time however its offsite and thus we have more control over it. Be aware that the copyright issues we encountered with running it in dept. are still around, ie Lecturer notes etc are technically either copyright to the lecturer or some other organisation and have been used educationally. As such we might need to think about reguiring a valid student number or something and limiting access, possibly proxy an auth routine via dept or summin. But never the less, its online and groovy, all the old data is still there, the styles arent back yet but its not too different. The

You Owe Us - $0.00

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

So let me tell you a little story…

In March 1992 a man living in Newton near Boston Massachusetts received a bill for his as yet unused credit card stating that he owed $0.00, being that kinda guy, he neatly filed it away. In April he received another bill for… $0.00, once more he filed it away and thought nothing of it.
The following month the credit card company sent him a stern reminder stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn’t send them $0.00 by return of post. He called them, talked to them, they said it was a computer error and told him they’d take care of it. The next day he

Transformers - Robots In Your Eyes

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

So i had dinner, all was going nicely, then charlie decided that he was gonna watch Transformers. Now this seemed lke a good idea at the time, untill around half way throu when we noticed a strangly vivid imagary which can only be described as Robophilia. It was painful when we realised how many small innocent children have seen this and then i realised why our own Charlie was such a screwed up individual :D
Click the link at the bottom of the page for a brief view of the horrors held deep within the show, and bare in mind you cant hear the words “I think you might have clogged your engine” which adds to

Omg That Mario is so Super

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

A hapless wander through the isles of the Information SuperMarket has me tempted by “Low Cost Motor Insturance”, Used Wee from ebay[G] and much much more. But in the “Reduced” Section are the gems of the interweb, the dented cans, the three day old warm milk and the 9 string bassist playing Super Mario… oh yes… click here for some seriously crazy bass action: Link, and if you want to see the bass in more detail clicky here

Update: Found some linkys to some crazy oriental piano type fellows, be aware they might be quite slow to load, but the Stand up one is cool, does half of it blindfolded
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Server Movement

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

You might notice that the blog address has changed, ive moved my website to our Web Dragon account and i’ve decided to scrap my old website and use my blog as primary presence. However, ive found a few problems already and i’m working on them at the moment, hopefully by the time anyone reads this it’ll be fixed and nothing to worry about :)
*Crossing Fingers*

Theme Completed

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Righty, so after around 24 hours of work ive got a fully working theme which matches my original site quite nicely. Im sure there’ll be inconsistancies with it all, but i’ll work on it.
I’m desperate for an idea of what to do wiht the main body of text, especially for something to split each blog apart nicely, any help would be appreciated. :)
I want to keep it simple, so individual boxes/frames wouldnt really work.
Let me know what you think please, and any feedback on how rubbish u think would also be good so i know what to change to make it all that little bit better :)
Cheers
Mr T

Blog Theme Update

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

The next few days will probably see my blog change style quite horribly, im going to try and shift from the old view into a theme which matches the main page itself. But we’ll have to see how well it goes.

Red Hawks Game

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

A game originialy set to be Red Hawks A vs Warwick B became a Red Hawks Vs Red Hawks game on sunday after Warwick needed to pull out. The teams were split up semi randomly, A and B teams mixed up. Charlie and Griff ended up on opposite teams, i went down with Mike and met Steph there a short time after. I brought my camera for the first time in ages. Keep forgetting to charge batteries grrr, not today thought :D
I took quite a few shots ~100, they’re all yellow which is a bugger, summin to do with White Ballance aparently, but no worries, made myself an Action which can fix it all

Zee Noo Mini Coopier

Monday, October 24th, 2005

And so, bloggery time once again, three in half hour, not bad at all, even by my standards. This time I’m sharing with you the new Mini Concept from Japan, its brilliantly quirky and i hope it does well just to show that cars REALLY dont have to be aerodynamic at all and can just be fun sometimes too. However, if anyones got €450,000 hanging around, please please buy me one of these, most powerful road car in zee world, (official) but i digress… Mini cooopiers gone wild… check out this guys blog after he went to the Frankfurt Mini show
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Tapes

Monday, October 24th, 2005

So yeah, tapes… casettes, why the hell not? Just as a demonstration on how wide and varied the ol’ internet can be sometimes i thought i’d share with you the website i found on my merry travels on the information super highway… Basically, its a bazilion (estimate) pictures of old school casettes, ranging from commadore programming tapes, to demagnetising electrical filled clevernesses.
I hope you enjoy them as much as i wonder why they are even there…

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