An Update! Mein Gott!
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As you’ve hopefully noticed, I updated the site design – I hope you like! On a personal note, I am certainly getting more work (albeit so far unpaid) to do with design, and I am getting out as often as I can to improve my photography.
A lot of the newer stuff still has to be added to the site, but as part of my projects for university I have to produce a couple of portfolios, so I should be adding some stuff as part of that. That should be in the next week or so, and once I’m happy with it I’ll point it out to you all here and tell the world. With regards blogging, I realise Twitter is a distraction. Who’d have thought it was so easy to say things in such a short format? But I have ideas for what I could write about here, and I certainly know what people like and what I want to deliver on the blog. I don’t intend this blog to be dead any time soon. So check back with you all soon. For now, g’night. x |
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
Finding the perfect Mac Diary Application
I used to have a diary, a paper book to take notes left for a future version of me to peruse at some later date, but the thing was it was never always there, so if you were ever to look into my diaries you would see huge gaps where I hadn’t written for the few months it was stuck under the bed.
So the natural question is whether to blog it? I spend a lot of time on the computer, obviously. Now while it can work (there have been several entries before here where I have tried, most days really aren’t that interesting, and to be honest there are some things I’d like to write in private without the constant fear of some unintended member of the audience reading something about them or their friends. (Purely negative, obviously)
So I often wondered if there was a way to keep a diary on the computer without having to publish it somewhere. Turns out there is.
A quick Google research brings up several ‘free’ diary applications which upon thorough inspection were no longer free, and ironically by the time you read this it may also be true of the application I am touting… Sorry!
The application I found is called Journler, and it’s surprisingly awesome…
It has lots of additional capabilities, like recording video audio and taking photos and it is certainly an amazing application, grab the free 2.5 (.4 for Leopard) version while you still can, if not 2.6 is a shareware application for about £18 ($35…) or if you’re a student (like me) it’s just £10.13 ($19.95). I love the exchange rate hehe.
Anyway it’s free for a few more days, so don’t miss out!! Download Journler
Mark’s brand new website!
My good friend Mark, who is training to be a music technician at an unspecified location in the United Kingdom, has just launched a brand new site! The site tells you more about this man and his character than I could ever hope to in a single post, so I’ll just link to the site… marktobitt.co.uk it’s worth a look!
Every time you buy a Dell, a baby seal dies.
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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
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?
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?
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.