Is it just me, or is this message pointless?

I’d rather know if there is a problem, not that there was one that doesn’t exist anymore. Well done Spotify, well done.

While listening to a band on Last.fm via My Recommendations:

*skips track*

I found this on the web a couple of years ago, and I can’t remember where from. I posted it on my old blog, which has also since been deleted, so I figured that I would repost it for all to see… how true it is…

• If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
• When you don’t know what you’re doing, do it neatly.
• Experiments must be reproducible, they should fail the same way each time.
• First draw your curves, then plot your data.
• Always keep a record of your data. It indicates that you have been working.
• To do a lab really well, have your report done well in advance.
• If you can’t get the answer in the usual manner, start at the answer and derive the question.
• In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
• Do not believe in miracles – rely on them.
• Team work is essential, it allows you to blame someone else.
• All unmarked beakers contain fast-acting, extremely toxic poisons.
• No experiment is a complete failure. At least it can serve as a negative example.
• Any delicate and expensive piece of glassware will break before any use can be made of it.

You know, you have to hate horoscopes. I don’t pay any attention to them (I read them for a laugh occasionally), but I found today’s amusing (was found on the Horoscopes gadget of my.live.com for Cancer.)

If you have a person today who says yes when you asked the question, “will you go out with me?” then be careful, dear Cancer. You are apt to take the nature of this situation to the extremes. Saying “yes” doesn’t mean that you are suddenly in charge of his or her life. Nor are you responsible for anything that person does or how they feel. If you are still asking the question without getting any positive responses, don’t worry. Keep trying.

As if that is going to happen (sniggers loudly at the thought)

13 and a half hours to go until the final results of my degree are released. And I have nothing to do…

Why is it that time just drags and drags and drags in these situations???

It seems that I accidently deleted some posts on my site last night during website cleanup… including my latest post… which also had comments on it! Sorry about that Chris, you have a valid point, and in relation to your last comment, I honestly think you are right, you know I wouldn’t be derogatory against any person. Time will tell… time will tell…

I’ll post with a proper post soon! ‘Till next time!

I’m aware that I haven’t blogged for a while thanks to the large amounts of work that I am doing, and the other activities that I have been doing.

I went to a gig in Birmingham last week, to see Nightwish, a Finnish “symphonic metal” band, and they were awesome! It’s a pity they were only on for one and a half hours, they were really good. Anette and Marco were awesome singers, and really good with the crowd!!!

Also, iDeskbook development has been slow, thanks to work. But, I plan to have a coding blitz next weekend, try to get close to the first Alpha, and remove some blocking bugs in order to allow iDeskbook to run on Mono, and ultimately, MacOSX and Linux – hoping to get that in soon – it is proving difficult at the moment, but hopefully everything will fall into place soon!

Anyhow, I will hopefully have some more updates for you soon. ‘Till next time!

Status on Facebook from my house mate…

“Karl Reed thought dan had reached a new high by doing something stupid enough to shake the whole house up!!”

Gee, thanks. Apparently, this was his first thought during the earthquake… just goes to show what people think I get up to…

Many of you that went to St. Mary’s College will remember the site RE Sauce. Originally designed by Lewis Lynch (currently in Kuwait I believe), the site was the RE Department’s online portal for all to use. However, when Lewis left St. Mary’s in 2004, I got control of the site for the year.

I immediately rebuilt the site, keeping much of the same design, but cleaning it up, and turning the downloads into PDF files to make them more accessible (they were in Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats, but not everyone has them) I even spruced up the RE Sauce navigation with a "flash" navigation bar, where a "RE Sauce" bottle flew across the screen. Fantastic – I distinctly remember getting an e-mail one time telling me that they loved the flying RE Sauce bottle… in fact, everyone seemed to love it! I even mentioned on my UCAS personal statement that I did the site, and the Undergraduate Admissions Tutor for Chemistry at the University of Hull even said that he liked the site, with "good use of Flash"!

After I left, control went back to a staff member, and unfortunately, the site no longer was maintained as well, understandable, as the staff member had teaching to do as well. Combined with switching web host and such, RE Sauce (which was at resauce.org) disappeared from existence.

However, I notice that RE Sauce seems to now exist, yet unmaintained, at http://resauce.net – sad really. To think, what was the best and most used RE Secondary School resource site in the whole of the UK, is now a shell of it’s former glory. Still my design though, take a look! Mind you, my skills have really improved since then!

It really is a pity it is only that now… it should be so much better…

Just a quick blog to let you know I am still alive. I have just been so so busy, with exams and whatnot, to post. I’m hoping to post soon though – when I get a bit of time to write something!

Oh, in case you care, iDeskbook 1.0.8 is out now, and a new version of the MD5 Hash Generator is also out, if you use that as well.