Category: Snippet

*snippet* Make mental note: If, when I finish work, I decide to go to the pub – do a few things before hand. Catch bus or taxi into town instead of walking and ensure pub is open. If it’s closed down (as happened in my case), catch bus or taxi back home – do not decide to walk home alongside the canal and then realise you aren’t 100% sure why the canal footpath leads. Over 2.5hours walking, in the dark (as there were hardly any streetlights until I got to the last 3 miles towards home) and my feet and legs ache A LOT: it’s the most walking I’ve done all year and I regret it already!

Oh – bang went my idea of “going out” for the first time this year. And I dunno where I’m going to go in the future – I quite liked Karaoke at the pub as well 🙁

*snippet* There’s a new Leicestershire blogger on the scene and Sensiti of Sensitive Light is going to be aiming to get it about photography and he’s already got a picture of a cute cat snack or two on his site – go and give him a shock with the influx of visitors on his third day.

I wonder if “Richy C blogged” could become synonymous with “Slashdotted“: somehow I doubt it 🙁

*snippet* Yeah, I know – there hasn’t been much original content (bar the Guess That Movie competition) as of late. I’ve been extremely tired lately (last Friday/Saturday I would guess I was only operating at 40-50% efficiency, I’m now back up to around 90-95%) and when I have been awake and able to concentrate, I’ve been working on a number of things I’ve got on the back burner. As well as my “personal” websites (“Guess That Movie” – has still got to be launched as a separate site, another 1 has got a redesign pending and the third/main site needs fixing in some aspects and new features adding), I’ve had to bring my self up to speed with some of the technologies we are using at work. My big mouth doesn’t help in this aspect – “oh boss, what do you think of the idea of perhaps offering feature X or somehow combining Y and Z?” and him replying “make it so” (paraphrasing).

Of course, we could do it all manually – but if it takes us an hour to “activate” each new feature everytime and they do take off, then the time spent planning and spec’ing everything now is well spent. But to get it to work “nicely”, it’s all got to be integrated with our current systems: which I’m still learning about (it doesn’t help with a couple of them being “closed-sourced commercial” systems with very little techy documentation and I only have access to the live servers: hence no ‘learn by experimenting’ option!).

Hopefully by the weekend, I’ll be back to my normal blogging self: I’ve still got this weeks weekly wrapup to do (which is particularly relevant to me lately – but you’ll see what I mean when I do it).

Ciao!

*snippet* I’d just like to say Happy 18th Birthday to my youngest sister – it’s all downhill from now on 😉 Hope you like the presents and it was an very enjoyable meal (that my parents paid for: £160 for a total of six of us!). My two sisters talked more at that single 3.5hour meal (I’m not kidding!) than I think I’ve talked with all my co-workers since getting my new job: combination of my sisters being a pair of noisy bints (meant in a nice way of course) and my work colleagues being slightly more restrained (as in not needing a continues stream of conversation).

Couple of highlights… But I’ll blog about them tomorrow hopefully once a) my computer is running properly (it’s limping along somehow), b) I’ve had some sleep (I’ve eaten more in the last 24 hours than I have done in the previous week and I’m worn out), c) I’ve cleared my backlog of things to blog about (yep, I haven’t forgotten the next round of Guess That Movie – but if my computer crashes every time a moving image is shown: be it a copy of a VHS tape, a DVD or even a Flash animation – you can understand my problem).

Plus, I’ve got a few things to think about. I discussed my “new power generator” idea with my father yesterday and he couldn’t see a fault with it – now I’ve got to confirm that it is potentially viable and how much a prototype would cost to build (bearing in mind that if it works I can say goodbye to the electricity company, but if it fails – while, logically, it has to do – that’s money down the drain). I also need to think about a dream I had Friday or Saturday night – I try not to “read” too much into my dreams (mainly because if one hundredth of them came true, I’ll be scared), but this one’s just sticking with me for some reason. I’m not going into details as “a friend of a friend” could be reading this and hence it may get back to someone else – I know what I mean 😉

Night!

*snippet* Extremely quick summary: Woke up at 10am after around 6hrs sleep, went shopping with parents, had large breakfast, came back, went to parents house (around 3 or 4pm). Had large amount of Single Malt Whisky (two reasonable sized glasses), had large dinner (jacket spud with beans and cheese), had pudding (pie with custard), had peach drink (mixed with remains of malt whisky), had Burger King Super Cheeseburger. Got home, fell asleep (set alarm just in case I did), woke up at 11pm to turn everything off (lights etc) – have headache: possibly hangover – stomach doesn’t feel too good. Going to sister’s 18th birthday dinner tomorrow night.

Needless to say, no “major” blogging for me until after the meal tomorrow – hopefully in the morning I’ll be able to string together more coherent sentences and write stuff sense make that.

[add: and my main computer is still suffering major technical problems-aargh 🙁 ]