Pointless Ramblings

Back in the UK

Political Monster — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:59:38 +0000

And where’s the flag, where’s our proud, wonderful British flag? Where is the patriotism? I arrive at Gatwick airport, like all airports, it’s not a ‘nice’ place, but unlike the American airports, there’s no flag, there’s no patriotic symbols, there is absolutely nothing telling me I’m actually back in England.

Is Britain not proud of its own heritage? No. That sucks.

Upon completing Crysis

Political Monster — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:58:35 +0000

I’m dissapointed. After you kill the beast thing that sinks your ship, I thought I had completed Act 1 or similar, but no, the whole game? That and the fact that there is no real conclusion, the aliens still remain alive. Perfect sequel line-up ending which ruins the first game for me.

Resource Pile

Political Monster — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:12:36 +0000

Kerplunc has just launched a new website - Resource Pile, a blog dedicated to posting about all sorts of excellent resources including the classic icon sets, photoshop brushes, textures & etc. All wrapped in a design by me :): Check out Resource Pile!

Viacom should just piss off

Political Monster — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:37:40 +0000

Leave Google/Youtube alone Viacom, you can’t defeat the pirates! Youtube removes the videos, the users simply re-upload, you cannot win. Even worse is the fact some moronic court judge decided to force Youtube to hand over all user data to Viacom, so Viacom can personally sue every.single.user who’s watched any of their thousands of copyrighted clips. This will mean uproar in the pirate community.

The fact of the matter is, people on Youtube aren’t really pirates, Bittorrent users are, Limewire users are. Is Viacom going to succeed against them? No. Will they succeed against Youtube users? No. The entire media community needs to stop fighting the masses and flow with them, explore the advantages of mass user viewing.

Viacom = fail.

From the Sunshine State

Political Monster — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:01:23 +0000

It’s all overcast. Here I am for two weeks by the beachside, boiling in the lovely warm (super-insanely-hot) sun and humid atmosphere. A time to forget the world at home and relax. And, of course, use the free wifi for coding and design development by the beach!

Obsessed.

Political Monster — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:16:25 +0000

I am completely obsessed with space. Not like the average 5-yr old boy playing with his toy space shuttle, I mean obsessed, mentally obsessed. When I look into the sky, I think space, when I look into the night, I think space, when I sleep, I think space. It won’t leave!

More specifically than space, it’s the relativity of the whole “thing” (the universe & whatnot). If there are as many starts as grains of sand, and each star has some planets, then what the hell is the human race doing killing ourselves? Fighting over oil and land? Why aren’t we getting out there, because other lifeforms must exist, somewhere there is a planet containing lifeforms. The problem is distance, we simply can’t travel fast enough. All I think of is how insignificant we are, the tiniest little blip in the universe, what’s out there? The desire for knowledge which I can never get is going to kill my brain. I have to know.

It’s strange though, while I do physics and maths at A-Level, I won’t be continuing down that path, I’m going the more creative route. Anyway, I guess becoming an astronaut is pointless if (at least, in my lifetime, and yours, and the next generations, and possibly beyond) the human race will never get anywhere beyond the Solar System (heck, they haven’t even done that yet). I may as well give up, but my brain wont let me.

I’m obsessed.

Improving the blog

Political Monster — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:29:28 +0000

Finally, yes, finally I have added some stuff to that sidebar (categories, archives, tags). Finally, I might actually get round to posting some stuff and *finally* I might get some visitors

Why?

Because exams are over, and college only has a week left!

Woot.

Firefox has outdone itself

Political Monster — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:59:03 +0000

Surprise, surprise (well, not really), Firefox has reached and surpassed it’s 5-million download goal, with 8-million downloads! Thats about 83,000GB (83TB) of data, which is an insane amount.

More importantly, Firefox 3 immediately as gained a 4% market share, right on day one (source: TechCrunch). Perhaps this could be the exciting end to IE, and finally Firefox will begin to increase in proportion to IE, and then finally, Firefox will take over as the most popular browser. Silly IE.

Featured.

Political Monster — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:25:11 +0000

I’ve just been told that the design of this site has been featured over at the excellent Web Designer Wall

Update: twice! At Smashing Magazine too: here.

1337 haxxor

Political Monster — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:20:07 +0000

That’s what I am! Just managed to work out how to (finally) get .exe files running on the college network. Annoyingly, Firefox (much wanted, because the “real” option is IE7), has to be reinstalled every time, and it also involves the physical removal of the network cable (and replacement). Here’s what I did:

Login as usual
As “personal settings” are loading, yank the network cable
WIndows loads as normal, but no network drives appear (also, C:/ drive is not there, as normal [we're not allowed it!])
However, because normally My Documents links to the file on the network drive, but this time there is no network drive, it gives a form of acess to the C:/ drive, where there is no .exe file ban (like the network drives)
Plug network cable back in, connect, download Firefox, install in My Docs and go!

An annoying proceedure, but when you get an entire moning with -not one- lesson, you have to think of something!