Chaos-23

OK, I’ve been slack again. It seems whenever I actually do anything, I don’t have time to write in a blog. It isn’t ironic, it’s annoying.

Sooo… my iPod turned up I love it! I love it! I LOVE IT! Time on the Hexercyle flies by now I can listen to random stuff on full blast.

Gogol Bordello was AWESOME. We missed Disco Ensemble, but Danko Jones & Bedouin Soundclash were pretty good too. My feet were killing me as I’d been standing up in silly shoes for what seemed like hours (well, it was hours). Met quack from the bit forums :o) Sadly because Chris refuses to believe me when I say we need to go, we missed the last train back to Wokingham from Waterloo and had to go via Paddington and get a taxi back to mine from Reading. Gah! I also got called a “fucking Cossack” in Stockwell tube station by an Australian… not everyday that happens…

After much bitching around with Solio, I finally found out they’d had problems with their payment system. Which is apparently why they thought they’d shipped it to me in September when in fact they’d just taken my money & not sent me anything or any e-mails… When they deleted my last e-mail without it being read I sent them the snotty e-mail saying I would never buy from them again. Then I got an apology & a refund. Woo! So, because no-one else makes anything as cool as a Solio, I bought a black (I wanted hot pink) Solio from the Apple store. It got delivered the same day & I am now the proud owner of a solar charger that is carbon neutral & fucking rocks. I currently only have the iPod charger tip (cos I got it from Apple), so now I’ve put all the tips I want on my WishList just hoping I get them for Xmas.

Talking of my WishList, I finally got around to sorting it out a bit. I’ve added lightbox to it, makes it slightly more interesting than just a list of links. I’ve embedded all the lighbox stuff into the main xoops templates so I’ll probably use it in more of the modules now.

I also got the Ross Noble Randomist DVD delivered last week. Oh… My… God! It’s almost 10 hours long. TEN HOURS! It’s pretty awesome. The Mighty Boosh Live DVD comes out on Monday too. I have soooo much stuff to watch :oD

I tried to resist, Uplink sucked my life away like pretty much nothing else (OK, AC comes close, but I can carry that around with me so can at least still go out whilst playing). I have just downloaded the demo of Defcon (the website might be down for a bit) from Introversion.

I can see myself getting way too addicted to this. probably just as well I have lots of Annual Leave to use up then :o)

Review at bit-tech.

Nothing like a bit of Global Thermonuclear War to cheer you up on a dull, rainy day.

Even though I am a bit of an iPod girl, this does look good:

http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2006/07/05/Sandisk_Sansa_e620/

Really should have updated ages ago, but my phone line is being an arse :o(

Reading Festival was a good laugh again. Didn’t see a huge amount of bands, but Lemon Jelly Satanic Bingo was the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages, even when no-one won for a very long time! Queens of the Stone Age were quality as usual. Kings of Leon were superb. Met up with Fly from bit-tech again on the Sunday, albeit briefly (again) cos he’s a lightweight and scared of Marilyn Manson fans ;op Bumped into Scott and Leigh heading in to the site on the Sunday too which was a bit mental. Scott has bumfluff on his chin… what’s that about eh? Jeffers did have some fine Whisky in his hipflask. Although my hipflask was way better and contained Amaretto… so clearly superior ;o)

I am now full of cold and off work ill. I was going to try & remote in (I got on the VPN trials - no more RAS \o/) but my phone line is so poo it’s not worth it. Shame… hehe.

This bloody rocks, although I wouldn’t want it on all the time as you can imagine it hogs resources and would be bloody annoying, still cool though :oD

HypnoToad Konfabulator Widget

Wheeee! acrim got into the latest b3ta newsletter with his Ross Kemp site:

http://www.rosskemp.co.uk/

*grins*

>> Ross Kemp <<
One for our UK readers here. Acrim & Oz write,
“We made a loop of Ross Kemp’s face from a
documentary he was in and couldn’t stop
laughing at it for about an hour after.”
What can we say? At 3 O clock this morning
this seemed the funniest thing the world.

Still no flippin’ knife *grrrr* Not happy with those people, not happy at all.

I have no energy, it’s like it’s all been sapped away.

It seems Konfabulator has been scooped up by Yahoo!… great news for them, I hope it keeps on being the best widgetything out there.

*yawn*

When I get a free moment I really must sort out my website and get my Back Pack It stuff on there. <3 Back Pack It right now. It’s keeping everything sorted for little Virgo me: Wish Lists, Present Ideas, To Do Lists, Reminders…

I also want to try and work on something that can have my IRC bot keeping track of problem users. Ideally I’d like the other ops to be able to mark certain users down with a sort of yellow/red card system, add them to a database people can check, and where possible put a symbol in front of their nick in their client - easily done on ViRC). So if someone steps out of line (but isn’t bad enough for a full ban) it’s easy to see if they’re a problem user. This might need to go on hold until I can resurrect my download PC and stick something decent on it (ie not Windows). I expect I won’t ever get around to it though…

Here’s a mod you might likey:

http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2005/01/26/hellraiser_puzzlebox/1

Put a SocNet bot in an IRC channel and watch how people start using each other’s names all the time… it’s like being on Supermarket Sweep!

It looks like I’ll have a new site to play with soon :oD

I figured having this lovely new camera, I really should take some pics with it. Sooo, then hit upon the whole running out of web-space on my other site, I could just use DeviantArt, but nah, I want to own this thing.

After a chat with Yo-DUH_87 on #bit-tech, I’ve registered the domain and he will host it. Little pimp for him: OffBeat Hosting. Will make a really nice change to have hosting with someone that I actually know and can get hold of if needs be.

Oooooh finally gallery is up. Yummy!

HyperCube Part 3.