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In which Robert realises he has only 24 hours to save the world

// June 29th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

There is almost certainly too much for me to do at the moment. The breakdown looks a little like this:

Work Stuff

The BIG project which has been going for 18 months (and sometimes feels like it’ll go for 18 more)
The little projects – 3 of them last count
The internal projects – 2 of them, both pretty sizeable

Personal Work Stuff

Jersey Mencap – this has already slipped by lord knows how much
St Endellion conversion and CMS – only 40% done
Blog designs – 3 of them, 1 of them started (about 60% done) the other two filed well and truly under creative block
Little projects – 2 of them
Project Bertie (more on this when I have chance)

Other Stuff

Petanque games – once a week for 2.5 – 3 hours
Learning to drive a car
Personal Development

No wonder I feel tired all the time.

Go get yourself a survey

// June 29th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

I did!

HELP!!! Anybody got a version of MT2.63?

// June 28th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

Bugger it. I need a copy of a specific version of MT (2.63) and can’t find it in my archives … can anybody help out?

Update: Never mind … I found one!

If they ain’t perforated you’re doing something wrong

// June 24th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

I’m sure I’ve spoken of this before but thought I’d revisit since I’ve been doing some tidying up in the ole iTunes library today and came across a few beauteous songs.

For what it’s worth I’ve never been big into perfect quality speakers but I do insist on decent headphones. I listen to all sorts of music both on the computer and on the shuffle as well as playing games and watching movies and tend to do most of it through my headphones. I’ve always liked a decent frequency range and my current cans of choice handle an amazing 6 – 23000 Hz.

So I was plugged in this morning having a tidy when a couple of Chemical Brother’s tracks hit the party shuffle. I habitually change my mixer settings depending on the genre and thought I’d tweak the bass a little … just a little …

Because I like it loud!!!

Heh! The best bit is the headphones seem to be not at all bothered with the level of bass being forced out through them and all my dance stuff now has a fantastic nightclub feel to it … boom boom boom. There are a couple of tracks I simply can’t enjoy at this level though “Breathe” being one of them

Sometimes I wonder how I made it this far

// June 24th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

Friday today – which is a good thing
Saturday tomorrow – which is normally the way it goes

Had planned to pop into town to pick up a new mobile this afternoon, needed to arrange to meet my father because of the crappy way in which Jersey Telecom deal with their customers and because I used my annual upgrade offer to get a new mobile for my mum … sounds complicated? Believe me it is.

Was about to leave to meet dad when suddenly remembered to remember my wallet … which is at home

Cue 15 minutes of cussin and banging about the place – sometimes I hate being me. Sometimes I’d really like to be the guy who never forgets anything and is uber organised about every tiny fraction of his life … then I remember that I hate those people and their anal retentive attention to detail and go for a ciggy instead.

Google – bad boys and good girls

// June 23rd, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

Well thanks for the resounding response to my call for help

It seems that Google had modified the URL pattern used by Gmail thus breaking the notifier. One update later and I’m back on track. It also meant I finally got round to upgrading to FireFox 1.4.

Any grr factor towards Google is more than offset by the discovery (rather late I know) of Google’s publicly accessible code repository, specifically the release of Ajaxslt. This is the first release from the very cool JavaScript technology that powers Google Maps and Google Suggest.

Now all I need to do is find a project I can use it in.

Bloody weather … widgets

// June 23rd, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

I don’t know about Konfabulator but the Mac OS X Dashboard’s weather widget has decided that the Channel Islands no longer warrant a live feed. Bit of a pain in the ass that as I’d gotten used to quickly checking the weather before leaving the house or office in order to ascertain whether I needed to wear waterproofs or not.

This means I’m back to the Jersey Met’s website … which is yucky. So now I’m thinking, how hard could it be to scrape the source of that page and stick it in a widget of my very own. I have no idea how easy this is going to be as, typically enough, the Jersey Met site isn’t XHTML compliant so I can’t just use XSL to get the data out. I’m thinking PHP and a load of string manipulation. If I get it working you’ll be the first to know about it.