Mar 24, 2010 0
This time last week I was reading a couple of forum posts and ended up ordering a video camera from eBay. When it comes to new techy toys I’m way too easily manipulated. Anyway it was £13 so I figured that even if I barely ever use it I can just about justify it.
Mar 6, 2010 0
… or how I got lost in Fife.
I’m no stranger to driving from Edinburgh to Dundee and back having been doing it most weeks for the past 6 months. Today however was different and instead of just shooting along the motorway I was accompanied by the one we call Chimp.
Chimp not showing his face as if he's in the SAS.
He rather bravely decided to make his first long trip a visit to Edinburgh and I had decided to come to Dundee on Saturday so it made sense for us to stick together and take the more scenic route back.
Feb 21, 2010 0
A few people have asked my why my domain name is www.stompyrobot.net and the truth is that it was the first thing that entered my mind when needing to get some webspace to hold my coursework at uni. I think it all stems from a video project me and a two friends had to do for one of our modules.
Feb 3, 2010 0
I’ve just learnt that you can get a wordpress app on the Android Marketplace, that’s kind of cool. It won’t help me actually maintain this but I thought it was interesting anyway. :)
Jan 29, 2010 0
While it is still under some construction I have launched a website site for an Edinburgh wedding photographer, Jason Seymour. At the moment it is just a fairly simple site with a gallery based on jquery and lightwindow but I am going to be putting together a PHP and MySQL driven back-end to allow Jason to upload images and add galleries by himself.
The reason for doing it this way is to allow him to be able to start directing potential clients to his site and build a reputation while the rest of the development work is underway. Go have a look and let me know if I’ve broken anything.
Nov 1, 2009 0
So this week saw the 40th birthday of Arpanet, the foundations for the Internet that we all know today. This week also saw the doors closing on Geocities, the first introduction to web design.
Geocities was the best known of many quick WYSIWYG webpage creation sites and over time became synonymous with badly designed websites about nothing at all that were filled with animated backgrounds, lurid coloured text and blinking/scrolling paragraphs of pure joy.
I also remember there being other similar services such as Homestead and the flash based Moonfruit. Looking at them now it appears that both are still operating but for money instead of as hosting for advertising deals.
There is no doubt that Geocities was due to be put down for crimes against coding and design. It is also likely that few will miss it thanks to the rise of decent software and cheap hosting as well as social networks negating most people’s needs for personal web pages. Despite all of this I am thankful to it for giving me my first web space to play around in.
Jul 29, 2009 0
Britain's favourite airline...
As any of you who know me will know I was due to take a holiday to the Italian city of Rome. I had been looking forward to this trip for quite a few months having grafted together the money to pay for it. I figured that it was about time I wrote this down as a few days have passed and my unrelenting rage has subsided enough…
Jul 1, 2009 0
Chances are that anyone who reads this will already be aware of Swedish torrent tracking website, http://www.thepiratebay.org and most of you will already be aware that they are currently in talks about selling the site, http://thepiratebay.org/blog/164.
Interestingly this sale comes not too long after the guilty verdict against some of the men behind the eyepatch and the $3.6 million fine and prison sentences imposed on them (that is currently being appealed).
Below the cut is a nice big stream of thought for anyone who wants to read my opinion on the matter and related topics.
Apr 23, 2009 0
Right… here goes. Originally planned on writing this last weekend but work and sleep got in the way.
It all started with a text. My phone beeps and I am greeted with a message from Kev saying “Do you want to come on a day trip?”, nothing more and possibly less. The next detail is that I’ve to get to his flat for 12 noon. Me and Stu arrive at the flat and the suggestion of heading to a deer park is floated about, Stu decides he doesn’t fancy walking all day so the back up plan is for us to find some pedalos. It’s a good plan. Quick stop at Greggs for some food and donuts and off we went to collect the remainder of our adventuring troop… err I mean Gina. Gina saunters out to the car bearing some toast and pate and then we hit the road.
Now a pause for what will hopefully be a photo of Kev driving:
Kev driving.
