Monthly Archive for April, 2008

Blarg.

Published on April 22, 2008 in The Blog. 0 Comments

Ugh. I’m tired like crazy. Granted, tomorrow is today and today is yesterday, but normally I’m awake until 2am. It’s probably all that hanging around in the morning hours (8am onwards) waiting for a parcel that didn’t arrive.

Yeah, that’s right. My laptop hasn’t arrived today, and probably won’t arrive until next week. See, in the UK we’re majorly susceptible to Customs fees and VAT. Even on gifts. Yeah, for stuff that’s been sent to us from certain places, we still have to pay in order to get access to it. Something which I have long been against, but that’s besides the point. THe money that I got for fixing Jamie’s PC is probably going to end up right back in the taxman’s pockets, and I am powerless to do anything about it.

What’s odd, is that the laptop is in this country, but the money still hasn’t come out of my bank account. I’m not sure what’s going on; Paypal have said that the transaction is completed, but at the same time the money is still loitering around, earning interest in my Natwest account. Not that I have a problem with keeping hold of my money for longer, I just wish that it would get out so I don’t have to keep thinking ‘I need to keep this much money back for when the transaction goes through’.

Did the GameOnYou podcast today, and despite the fact that I did all I could to make sure that it didn’t skip, it still did in places. Although, that was to be expected really. I’m going to have to find out what is causing that and deal with it, because it’s going to end up being to my detriment when I start podcasting by myself. Meh. There’s a guide hanging around somewhere on the net for optimising your computer so it’s good for podcasting and doesn’t skip etc, so I’ll need to find out where that is again.

On completely unrelated notes:

  • Apparently it’s about 100Mb for me to send the audio I have in 128kbps. WTF?
  • Why didn’t Flock just use Eco Edition as a platform for the 1.2 release, to get more people interested?
  • Why can’t Microsoft stick to their own deadlines, and not shaft us UK gamers with their maintenances?
  • Why can’t Harmony get on at a decent hour (for me)?
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Wow. Not posted in a while.

Published on April 18, 2008 in The Blog. 0 Comments

…At least, on here anyway.

I’ve been really busy on 4str4stam, including a new, better look and ploughing through the posts. I think I only missed one day without a piece of news or an article/feature, and even then I explained why. But alas, things have changed.

I now write for GameOnYou UK as well, which was something I was glad to accept; the group as a whole really get along well, and despite the fact that I failed on my first attempt at joining in a podcast, it was fun, and they seemed to be impressed at my typing skills, despite the fact that I don’t really touch-type the way you are supposed to. Ah well. So, I’ll be in the podcast next week (I hope), and I’m aiming to write two articles a day for Evad and the lads. Although my Soul Calibur one is way overdue.

Things haven’t changed much on the homefront. I’m still working, although not nearly as much as I could (I had to laugh when Dave ridiculed my job [He's at uni, I think]), and I’m still trying to pull myself out of the red. But somewhere along the line, my parents decided to give me the money for a new laptop. But I have to pay it back at a minimum of £75 a month. They gave me £300, so that’s four months. BUT, with my PSP finally going to be sold on May 1st (for £110 incl. all the stuff), and Jamie’s computer finally having the hardware that I need to sort out his operating system problems (I need to get that sorted sometime tomorrow, and find a blank CD or something.), I should have just about £85 left to pay after one fixed payment and chucking the rest of the money their way. Which is good. :3

That’s it. Not much else to say, other than I play Call of Duty 4 way too much, and should ration my time on it. And chances are my laptop will be here by this Wednesday coming. Yay!

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WTF IS GOING ON?!

Published on April 8, 2008 in Site-Based. 0 Comments

Don’t worry. All is still alive. Re: http://naked.dustindiaz.com/

Excerpt from the site:

Where did my Design go?

The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your <body>.

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