For those of you who visit here once in a while I apologize for not making any new posts lately. To be honest I haven’t spent that much time at a computer over the past month or so (mainly just when I’m in university) so I’m a little behind with everything.

Yesterday I spent a few hours getting a couple of things done, one of which is the start to a FaceBook application. Although I’ve had a little play with FaceBook apps in the past I haven’t actually completed one so I thought why not give it a real attempt. The application which I am making is very simple - it will be used as a means to share text based data between users. This data could be a story or poem you’ve written, a piece of code, or perhaps just a couple lines about what you’ve been up to over the last few days.

It’s not a huge application so it’s not going to take me long. Hopefully I should have it finished in a week or so (I know, it’s a lot longer than it should take but I have other stuff to take care of first). Continue reading »

I made my decision to go to university before I started college, just like quite a few other people I suppose. I had a plan to get through college, get my degree and then go off into the ‘big world’ of computing. Well so far it’s going good! This year I completed my two year college course with the final grade of three distinctions (out of a possible three) and as of the 1st of October I will be studying at the University of Glamorgan.

The course is a BSC honors degree in software engineering which spans over the next three years. I enrolled on the 25th (a couple of days ago) and am just waiting now for my first day. All is going well but I am a little unsure about something - I’ve had a look at a list which had all the names of the people studing a computer based course along with their course title. From what I can see there is only me and two other people taking the software engineering course. This is fine but I’m just a little surprised that there is so few of us.

So that’s about it for now. Will keep you updated (if anyone is at all interested that is - which I kind of doubt :p)

In the last few years online social networks such as MySpace, Friendster etc have really kicked off and have become widely used all over the world. Currently there are a few hundred million users of social network sites (my guess based on member stats I have heard about leading sites) so it’s obviously a huge thing. But in the last month or two it has really amazed me as to how far these sites have spread and are really now becoming a part of our daily lives.

Here are just a few examples. To begin with about 8/9 weeks ago I was in Tesco picking up something to eat and whilst queuing at the counter I over heard a conversation. It was between two members of staff and they were talking about MySpace. Basically they were asking for each other user names so they could be friends online. I didn’t really take too much notice of this though so didn’t really think about it.

The second time was not long after, I think just a few days when my sister (who is not a big user when it comes to computers) asked me if I wanted to be her friend on MySpace Continue reading »

That’s right. I finally have a car!

Ive been waiting for this day for quite a while now and now that it’s here it’s great! The car is a Vauxhall Corsa, 99 plate (V reg), 3 door. I’ve been driving it around most of the day - going to places I don’t really need to be. The insurance for it is also considerably cheaper than what I had budgeted for which is great - more money to waste on other things.

For now I only have one photo of it but will try and add some more when and as I can. For updates keep an eye on the gallery.

Last night I went to go and see The Simpsons movie. Now I’ve been a fan (well I watch it occasionally) for quite a while now and have enjoyed many years of the cartoon, but to be honest the movie is a disappointment. Compared against a lot of the current major films I thought that it would be one of the best, but I was wrong. I wont ruin the storyline for those of you who haven’t seen it but my view is that it’s nowhere near as good as I expected it to be.

I have seen a heck of a lot of Simpsons episodes and quite a lot of them I think are better than the movie. Sure it had its funny parts but the story line in general could have been better.

I still recommend seeing it though - The Simpsons episodes were awesome so you should see the film just because of that.

Ive spent the last half hour or so adding a few little extras to the site. Although they aren’t crucial to the site I think that some of them compliment the sites content and work in quite nicely. Heres what I’ve done.

• Digg links
  - On the right hand side in the sidebar you will now find 5 links under the heading of “Digg”. This is simply a feed being pulled from Digg.com which is the most recent things I have dugg. You can see my Digg profile here.
• Subscriptions
  - You now have the option to subscribe to this blog. This means that you will be sent an email whenever something new is added. This includes new posts as well as any other news or content updates which we think you may be interested in. You can unsubscribe at any time and I promise to keep your email address private. If you are interested and would like to subscribe you can do so here - this page is accessible by clicking on the new “Subscribe” link in the right hand column.

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This made me quite confused but also made me laugh at the same time. I have just received an email, I wont say exactly who it was but it came from a record label company of some sort. The emails “to” address was someone else (which I’ve never heard of) and I received it as a carbon copy (CC). The message is as follows. I have replaced all names and URL’s to hide the identities.

Hi [NAME],
[NAME2] Here from [COMPANYNAME],

We have noticed you are hosting our album - [ALBUMNAME]

You have had not permission to upload this, please could you remove this right away, the direct link is:

[LINK TO SOME .RAR FILE]

Thank you

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I’ve been trying to get my self on track with regards to all my web design work over the past few weeks. In the past I have to say that I’ve been quite unorganized as far as my projects go and I’m doing my best to change it. What I mainly mean by this is the number of projects I take on but have never finished. I currently own 22 domain names yet I only have a couple of sites online. Then theres all the half-finished web sites just sitting there on my computer.

Well the time has come for me to really put in the effort and since its been a while since I launched a large site (largest site I owned was WebmasterPost (formerly Dev Dreams)) I really need to get my butt into gear. To keep you up to date with what I’m doing - Right now I’m working on a shopping based site for a client which should be going live within a week or two. I am also investing a lot of my time (the few hours I have left after my ‘real’ job and sending time with the girlfriend) into projects of my own, one of which is this blog. I also need to spend a bit of time on a new version of my companies site Python Designs - basically I don’t like it anymore Continue reading »