My new job… administrating the Debating Society website!

So I got my first proper “webmaster” job, really by accident, I’m now managing www.unds.org.uk which is the University of Northampton Debating Society. You may have seen my design for their logo on the graphics page so I’m now editing and posting on that site. So check it out if you like, and let me know if you think I could do anything else cool with it in the comments.

If there are no comments, I will assume I have done an awesome job. That’s fair, right? :p

Jan 21, 2009 | blog | Comments

Every time you buy a Dell, a baby seal dies.

That was a T-Shirt design by Fake Steve Jobs, (AKA Dan Lyons). I’m a great fan of his, and the past week he stole Christmas. Well, Christmas headlines at least, when he went out of character to show just how Apple isn’t always the goody two shoes company most fans take it for.

Apple recently paid Think Secret (an old Apple rumour site) good money to shut up and shut down, nobody much cared because (to quote RoughlyDrafted magazine) "ThinkSecret’s RSS feed has served as essentially a time delayed version of AppleInsider". Lyons, a wouldbe full time fiction author, only in journalism for the money, thought this would be a prime opportunity for him to jump out of character, and write a little drama for himself. Apple was going to shut him down.

Each of these were told as out of character, and fooled many news sites, or at least were covered, here are the posts in order of posting.

I’m weighing an offer from Apple

So now Apple is all pissed off

First Carrot, Now Stick

God bless you for your support and later…

I’m feeling a little bit better now 

Breakfast with an Apple Lawyer

Still the finest Christmas song ever

The first six of these are the story, and it’s refreshing to see someone take an entirely different point of view on the crisis, away from the usual comedy of FSJ, a heart tugging tale reminding us all that Apple, lawyers and Steve Jobs, can be pure evil sometimes too.

Dan Lyons, obviously as architect of the tale, comes out heroic, blasting Apple for using Ghandi when shutting down people’s freedom to speak, just isn’t what Ghandi would do.

Still it’s worth a read, and anything that caused the real Steve Jobs to email back to whining users, and me to make an image mocking it, has got to be worth it, right?

Unfortunately, as Dan wrote in his latest post. It’s not really a joke, is it?

Dec 24, 2007 | blog | Comments

One blog to rule them all?

Well, perhaps that’s an unfair statement, after all, the blog I’m about to write about isn’t only about travelling round cool places you may have seen in Lord of the Rings. What I’m talking about is my friend’s gap year blog, which you can find here.

My friend Naomi has decided to dedicate a year to exploring New Zealand, and in a very ingenious idea, is documenting her travels on a blog. (You know, like this one). By the looks of things it’s updated quite often, and I’m definitely going to subscribe.

Kinda inspirational, no?

New Zealand Trip 2007

Dec 21, 2007 | blog | Comments

Testing out Windows Live Writer

Now as you know, I’m a mac guy, but I thought over the winter, I might try out VMWare with XP, since Vista looks shit without its aero glass (oh and it’s getting the most awful rep from everyone who utters its name).

So I thought I might try out Windows Live Writer, it had been recomended on a podcast I listen to, and it’s incredibly cool looking, no ads like messenger, it’s got the wordpress logo seamlessly integrated into the design, and it’s just generally nice looking. Obviously this is my first post with it, so I don’t know if it will post yet, but hey, it looks nice.

Oh yeah, and you can change the colour! How awesome is that.

But as I said, I have a mac, I mean, do I really want to boot XP every time I have to express myself? No, I don’t but you know, it is pretty neat.

Dec 19, 2007 | blog | Comments

Without further ado…

It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the world that is gfxl, from this day forward I hope to bring you the works that have be promised and what you expect from me, I will use gfxl as a showcase for my work, and hopefully some of my friends.

Are you ready?

Because we sure are.

Mar 18, 2007 | blog | Comments

Hello!

Hello there. My name’s Darran. I’m very pleased to meet you.

I think I’ll start my “LJ” as it is so called, with a big one, a movie I am afraid to admit it is not my first movie review, but hopefully it will not be my last!

You look smashing today, by the way.

So, about, ooh, a week ago, I went to the cinema, I find it normally helps when you want to go see a movie, though apparently according to the film board, you can download an ilegal copy! – how convenient, and free! Marvelous, but I can’t really be bothered.

So which movie was it? My word, how can you not know!

I like those shoes.

No, that wasn’t the name of the movie, I was just saying, the film was: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. I thought it was a good film, though I can’t quite remember, as it went so fast that I think I lost the plot. Now I think Johnny Depp is a fantastic actor, and should be made king of England, but to be honest he wasn’t as good as he was in the first film, maybe he was and I just can’t remember.

I think this is one film I will have to see 12 times to process, very enjoyable.

Tomorrow, we’ll have a look at Superman Returns! See you then!
Tata!

Jul 18, 2006 | blog | Comments