14. 02

After a few years of being with an american company, powweb, I was starting to get a bit frustrated by a few things. Firstly, the speed of the site and especially any database access had been gradually slowing down over the last few years. Secondly, they were very slow to respond to new software releases and update their servers (When I left they were still using PHP 5.2.3).

So, I contacted my good friend Craig at Veloxserv, and moved my site to its new home. Everything went without a hitch, and I would definately recommend them to anyone.

Happy now, Craig?

I've also just setup a twitter plugin for the blog, which automagically tweets when I post a new entry. Pretty cool stuff!

q

My mood: impressed

13. 01

I've put some screenshots from the STO Beta on my Gallery.

Click Here.

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My mood: cold

16. 10

Hey all,

We're currently in the middle of our Refit at work, for our new Winning New Revenues store. Its shaping up pretty well, although the Tech Guys area could be a little bigger, and we have no stools! Still, have to make do with what you've got I guess.

Pics are here.

In other news, I also made a new website and forum for my WoW guild, using phpBB3 and the Wowhead Tooltips mod. You can find the site here. The top image on the news page has pics of some of the guild officers on it. I must remember to update it as people get new gear!

chow!

q

My mood: tired

10. 09

30 Free Fonts Which Are Perfect For Professional Logo Designs

Some very nice stuff. Thanks to Paul Battley. Check his site out, there's lots of useful things, and some great posts.

q

My mood: awake

26. 06

Greetings,

So it was Silverstone last weekend. I once again attended all 3 days, and had lots of (very exhausting) fun, and took quite a lot of photos. Shame Jenson couldn't win on home soil, but there's always next year (wherever it ends up being hosted!). Attended with my Dad on the Friday, and Chris from work on Sat/Sun.

A few days before, I figured I'd pop into town and see if I could get a GPS tagger for my photos. I had a look on Maplins website and they had one for £49.99, so I went in there and lo and behold, they had the model below on clearance for only £19.98 The only difference I can see is that the old one only holds 16,000 GPS coordinates as opposed to 65,000 on the new one. Well, for me thats plenty.

So, I purchased it (it turns out to be an i-gotu GT-100) and used it over the weekend - just turned it on in the morning, let it run all day and then used this lightroom plugin to tag all the pictures. The grandstands caused a bit of a problem with the location but overall I can't complain too much. Click to be taken to the gallery.



I'm having a few issues with the Google Maps gallery2 plugin picking up the GPS data in some of the EXIF tags, but a few of them show up on the map - I'll figure it out eventually. I've also been playing about with Lightroom a little bit - doing some cropping and colour adjustments.

Also I got Chris to take a new photo of me:



I quite like it, although I still think I prefer the one that was taken back in 2006(7?) that I still use as my twitter/facebook pic.

Well, thats enough ramblings for today! Unless I suddenly get inspired by something later!

Tata.

My mood: creative

05. 02

Hey hey,

Well, there's been a lot of snow about lately, and I figured I'd try to capture some of it with my camera.. here's a couple of shots. More can be found here.



Cool, eh?

q

27. 12

Hey all,

I’ve just setup the blog to use Windows Live Writer via the Serendipity XML-RPC interface plugin. Hopefully it’ll work ok, and it’ll make it easier to blog stuff. Which means more updates, woot.

Also it makes it easier for me to add some funny photos, like this…

Hehehehe.

q

25. 12

Hey all, Merry Christmas!

I've been meaning to update for a while, but I've been.. erm.. busy.

Anyway, I've been playing with the Picnic iPhone Theme for a while now, and I love it. I've even made some icons myself that I needed.. the forum thread contains everything you need to know! Here's a screenshot:



Also, I finally got around to upgrading the blog and gallery to the new versions. About 6 months after they came out.

q


My mood: drunk

15. 09

Hey,

This is my blog, according to Wordle.



Cool, huh?

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My mood: bored

23. 08

Hey all.

So, I've upgraded my PC a lil bit. Stuck an extra 2GB of RAM in there, and replaced my X1950 with a HD4850. So I updated my forum sig.



That is all.

q


My mood: impressed

12. 07

Hey hey,

Finally got my new NAS, a QNAP TS-409 to replace my old HP Mediavault. The MV only had 2 drive bays and I'd maxed it out with 1.25TB, so I needed something a little more expandable. The TS-409 has 4 Bays and officially supports 4TB, 1TB in each bay, although now Seagate has announced a 1.5TB HDD maybe this will rise to 6TB?

Pics here.

Oh, and I had a great time at the Grand Prix last weekend, and met up with some of my friends from the Super Aguri fan site. Pics are on the gallery too.

q

My mood: okay

02. 07

Today we had the climax of our F1 promotion at work. We've had a BMW Sauber car at the front of the store since last thursday, as part of an Intel promotion, and build up to the grand prix. Well, the grand finale was this afternoon, a chance to meet BMW Sauber test driver Christian Klien, have some photos taken, watch him being interviewed by the BBC's Holly Samos, and for one lucky customer, the chance to win two tickets to the Grand Prix if you post the fastest lap on the BMW "F1 Simulator" (basically a PC with rFactor!)

First Christian set a laptime, he did it in 1:30.xxx. The winner, a guy called Ben who I chatted to a little bit, managed to do it in 1:31.xxx. Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to enter (no employees!), but I had a quick go and on my first flying laptop I managed a 1:25.184! Damn those rules!

Anyway, I had a little chat with Holly, and got my picture taken with her. We had a chat about the BBC's TV coverage next year, and also a little about Super Aguri.

Here's some pics!

PC World Pole Position Promo - 2008


My mood: cheerful

30. 06

Erm.

Gallery is down, think I fooked it

q

edit ok, I had to start from scratch. It needed cleaning up anyway!
My mood: curious

18. 06

Ok, well I've just uploaded new pictures of our Media Center PC. It's running Vista now, and I upgraded the internals to my old Athlon 64 4400+ Dual Core with 2GB RAM, and a GeForce 7600GT graphics card.

Pics Here.

I love the new Toshiba TV (This one).

Good times!


My mood: refreshed

02. 05

Well,

I had no internet for 5 days this last couple of weeks, thanks to a huge screwup on BT's part. My ISP is taking part in the new BT 21CN network trial, and my exchange was upgraded last week. Unfortunately for me, BT screwed it up royally and left me with a nonsense IP address for 4 days.

Thankfully everyone at my ISP was helpful and friendly and I have no complaints about them, they kept me informed of progress, and now I'm connected at approx 3mb faster than before, so nothing to moan about there. I'll get the option to upgrade to 24mb soon, so I wonder what sort of speed I'll be getting then.

So, inpreparation for that, I got myself a new router. I've been looking for an ADSL modem/router with Gigabit LAN ports for a while, as I have bene using a Netgear DG834G and a Netgear Gigabit switch, but I wanted to replace them with one box. Unfortunately, the only gigabit routers around upto now havent had an integrated modem, so I would still be in the same situation with 2 boxes on my desk.

Step forward, Belkin...
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=450535

Bought it from work the other day, and actually even though it's a Belkin product I've been very impressed. WiFi speeds are excellent, and I'm getting faster transfer speeds across my network than I was with the Netgear switch!

Right, gotta go, have more downloading to do

q
My mood: thirsty