This Website’s Design

18 August, 2009 – 1:24am

I’ve been slowly working away at the current content, tweaking it how I like, planning ways I want the site to work.

I’m not going to have a month-based archive as it appears now, am simply going to have the ten most recent entries appearing at the top of the front page and then the full archive listed below that, title and date only, which will be links to the full text.

There will be no “page” structure as such (/page/2, /page/3 etc.), no explicit “archive”, just one front page, the “about” page, and then the search results, which will list the title, date and first paragraph.

Comments were enabled by default but I don’t want other people writing on my website, so I removed the ability to add new ones.  I may also remove the current ones but need to work out how to merge any important information with the entries themselves.

And then finally, after all that, then I’ll look at the font face, colours and layout I want to use.

The visual theme will come last.

UPDATE, 21st February 2010: I would also replace the few videos I currently have hosted on YouTube with self-hosted SublimeVideo content.  And the possibility of a maximum-width optimised for a certain 768x1024px resolution, for obvious reasons…

27th Birthday Pie

16 August, 2009 – 12:44pm

I had a quiet birthday this year;  Kitty came over bearing pie, we munched it up with the aid of my flatmate and then there was Carcassonne.  Here are some photos:

27th Birthday Pie Before

27th Birthday Pie Crust

27th Birthday Pie Spread

It was one delicious pie.

Mario Kart 999

10 August, 2009 – 9:37pm

Similar to how I did a while ago, I recently played the DS version of Mario Kart rather a lot in order to find out a very important thing; can the score go higher than 999?

Here is what things looked like after 99 races:

Mario Kart 990

And after the 100th:

Mario Kart 999

The numbers ticked up but then capped, no possibility of ever reaching 1000.  Oh well.

Cyclic

8 August, 2009 – 11:56am

Courtesy of The Brothers Brick.

Heat

2 July, 2009 – 8:32pm

When I was younger I hated the summer; it was too hot, I’d sweat profusely and feel uncomfortable the whole entire time.

This summer right now, I’ve been walking an hour a day for the last eight months, half an hour to work and half an hour back. And that’s maybe not much, there could be some more, but I’m now enjoying the heat.

I bake and sweat, feel my brain sizzling, but in the nicest possible way.

For the first time in years I’m no longer pasty; the sun stretches me tight.

Comic Book Library

2 July, 2009 – 12:54am

The comic books are still here.

Doctor Horrible Lyrics

16 July, 2008 – 12:42am

Here are the lyrics, as best as I can work them out, for the final song in Act I of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog:

~

P: Thank you Hammer Man, I don’t think I can
P: Explain how important it was that you stopped the van
D: CRUNCH
P: I would be splattered, I’d be crushed under debris
D: CRUNCH
P: Thank you sir for saving me

H: Don’t worry about it, a man’s gotta do what a

H: Man’s gotta do
P: You came from above

D: Are you kidding?
H: (It) seems destiny

H: Holds for me saving you
D: What heist were you watching?
P: I wonder what you’re captain of

D: Stop looking at her like that
H: When you’re the best

H: You can’t rest, what’s the use?
D: Did you notice that he threw you in the garbage?
P: My heart is beating like a drum

H: There’s ass needs kicking, some ticking bomb to defuse
D: I stopped the van

D: The remote control was in my hand
P: (I) must be in shock

H: So the doom that’s looming
P: Assuming I’m not

H: Is you loving me to death
P: Loving you to death

D: Whatever…

H: So please give me a sec to catch my breath
P: So please give me a sec to catch my breath

D: Balls

~

With thanks to Its_Only_Cody, ftloosenfanzfree and kindakrazy on the IMDb message board.

PS – Go watch this thing, it is pretty good.

PPS – A better source of lyrics for future acts will probably be this thread at whedonesque.org.

Xbox 360 Forbidden Characters , + ? /

28 June, 2008 – 2:49pm

For the last year or so I’ve been using Connect360 to stream video from my MacBook, whenever I wanted to watch it on the big screen via either Mike or Kitty’s Xbox 360s.

However, I keep all my films and TV shows on a 500GB external hard drive, that has both FireWire and USB 2.0 ports:

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Clock Radio

7 May, 2008 – 6:38pm

Back when I was tiny, I had an alarm clock next to my bed that had glowing red numbers and a radio built in too. Then, for many years, I did not.

Now it kind of almost returns!

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LEGO X-wing & Belafonte

21 March, 2008 – 7:50pm

As a delayed present from one of my sisters, I got the LEGO X-wing using the gift voucher she gave me for Christmas. It is a mighty set, doing all the kinds of things I tried to do in my own various interpretations of the craft, both when I was younger and even more recently.

This brings my total number of LEGO bricks to 13,301, with 7,925 in whole sets and 5,376 as loose parts.

Regarding my next big LEGO project, that I alluded to when writing of the Gay Deceiver, it shall be a LEGO-man-scale version of the Belafonte from The Life Aquatic.

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