Air Mass Zero

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-16

Xander — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:59:59 +0000

Didn’t win an ebay bidding for a Volcom Top by 11p, not amused. #
Call me a geek, but the Star Trek trailer looks fricking awesome. #
Away from my PS3 ;_; #
Doing the washing. Very important, you know. #
ENOUGH of the real-life Photoshop advert, see it posted everywhere multiple times a day. It’s old news already… #
Am still awake, but at least I’m tired enough to go to bed at 1am, rather than 3am which has been the norm for the last two weeks. #
Need a haircut… #
w00t New YuGiOh Abridged episode! #
Happy 25th Birthday to Windows! #
Day off yaaaaaay #
Well thank f00k that day is over. 2 weeks of stress-free bliss. Ahhh. #
Quiet you. :[ I’ve been ill all weekend, literally went to bed at 7:30 last night which lost me a shite load of time. Yep, in the library. #
Almost done my essay, just in time too. #

Zero Punctuation: Fable II

Xander — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:57:21 +0000

I generally try and avoid writing posts like this with high-popularity videos in them as well, everyone’s seen them already, but just as a one off I thought I’d put up Yahtzee’s latest as it made me chortle quite a lot.

Edit: Turns out that The Escapist’s video embed code sucks, so I’m going to just link to it. Lame!

New Stuffs for my Front Room

Xander — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:43:36 +0000

Got a 160gb PS3, got MGS4, got Fallout 3, got a new Panasonic 5.1 surround system. You won’t be seeing me for a while. :]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-09

Xander — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:59:59 +0000

Heard about this: http://ocarina.smule.com/ and bought it in the same minute. Soooo awesome. #
Hasn’t twittered in a while… #
OH EE AY TAILSPIN! OH EE OH TAILSPIN! #
Loan is through w000000t #
Just poked myself in the eye. OW #
“We are and always will be the United States of America…because of what we did this day, change has come to America.” #
Barack Obama won, and I look forward to an amazing 4 years. #
OBAAAAAAAMAAAA WINNNNS YEEEEAAAAHHHH :D :D #
http://superobamaworld.com/ Awesome #
Last minute anti-McCain fun: http://tinyurl.com/4jlmd6 #
Watching The West Wing episode where Bartlett announces he’s going to run for President again. Apt or what? Oh yes. #
I just voted for Obama in #TwitVote — http://twitvote.twitmarks.com/ #
Boooo no more Mac updates until January. Oh well, GO VOTE. #
Just had a letter through from Nominet saying that I owe them money to renew a domain name I haven’t used in over 2 years. Wtf #
Lol. http://fotos.subefotos.com/a984babe3db3feffe4e295c5e18197cfo.gif #

WP 2.7 Beta 2

Xander — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:56 +0000

Just updated to the latest Wordpress 2.7 beta, which is very exciting. Figured I’d wait a bit as I’d be using it on my primary blog- don’t want the thing crashing on me while I’m mid-sent…

The obvious first difference is the new Dashboard, which has a much nicer sidebar layout rather than a Nav-bar at the top. All the sections can be closed/opened when needed to save space which is nice. Very Mac. I like. Also looks like Carrington and my various Plugins all work nicely, although it would be nice to have the Delete Cache link that WP-Cache puts at the top back…

The new “QuickPress” posting box on the Dashboard (which is what I’m writing from at the moment to test) is very neat- it’s limited to the source view (no wysiwyg here) but I guess that’s fine if you’re just doing quick updates. Might be added in the final version, who knows. Seems that adding Images via it is a bit broken (it put it at the bottom rather than where my cursor is) but again, I expect those are minor trivial problems. All fun anyway.

The Ajax Universe + The Presentation Randomiser

Xander — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:48:43 +0000

This is partly for my own bookmarking benefit, but thought I’d share with the rest of the class. Ajaxian put up a video from a 2006 (seems so long ago…) WWDC presentation from Adobe. A thoroughly interesting talk in itself, but the fun part is their “Presentation Randomiser” which prompts them to change over who’s talking at random intervals between 10 seconds and 2 minutes. Despite being highly amusing at first it actually breaks up the talk very nicely and allows them both to chip into the same point without having to go into general banter, which can be a bit tedious at times if there are too many in-jokes.

We Won

Xander — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:27:38 +0000

“We are and always will be the United States of America…because of what we did this day, change has come to America.”

Oh yes. Yes yes yes.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2008-11-02

Xander — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:59:59 +0000

Was watching F1 a bit delayed, just saw Lewis Hamilton win the championship in one of the most crazy races of the year… OH YEAH #
Just had two guys walk onto the bus, can’t decide whether they’re fashion queens or vampires. #
Currently on the roof of a Kingston block of flats with a 360• View of the fireworks. Awesome. #
Can’t get off work next week, le sigh. Stupid economic meltdown. #
Was asked to come to work early to set a few ps3s up, regretting that decision as I didn’t get much sleep last night… #
I feel naff. Want pie now. #
Happy Halloween I guess, have a safe evening. #
Ebaying for a Gamecube, had the urge to play F-Zero again last week. #
Going painting shortly… #
For all you Gaming Mac Users, CrossOver is free today so snap it up. #
Using 12 plug sockets and three extension leads for my computer setup, but that’s still not enough. :[ #
Boxee Alpha is pretty nifty. Might be a worthwhile replacement for Apple’s Frontrow… when it’s finished anyway. #
had my new Hard Drive finally arrive, total storage space now up to 2.8tb. #

The Political Viewpoints of WoW

Xander — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:58:46 +0000

Quite an interesting video from the guys over at machinima.com, looking at the political opinion of the populous. To be honest I wasn’t massively surprised to see Obama having a high percentage. Amusingly they looked at not just Alliance vs Horde but also the different races, which probably means nothing whatsoever but fun to see all the same.

Via [Kotaku]

Poor Translation

Xander — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:24:07 +0000

Liking this translation blunder in Swansea, Wales- obviously no-one proof read it as it says “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” The sign’s now been removed (see the via link), but the fail deed is done…

[Via BBC News]