This design… September 27, 2008
…is really not fitting to the content. Short posts do not deserve big titles, and I don’t have time anymore to make longer posts. Nor do I have time to re-design. Oh, I still like the design too. Hmmm.
iPhone vs Google, iPhone vs google, iPhone vs google September 25, 2008
Stop it! Stop the billions of o-so-similar posts! When Chrome came out, digg(/tech) was almost exclusively about it, now it’s almost exclusively about Google Android.
You see, I think this is the problem with digg, it’s either full of shit, or overly dominated by something potentially interesting. Problem is, it’s only interesting once, not over and over again.
Not a good day… September 24, 2008
Today, me and my computer just cannot get along.
- 3 bluescreens in 20 minutes, bittorrent is broken again (after somehow fixing it just last week)
- Just bought Crisis Warhead, but steam can’t connect, because as I’m browsing the internet and talking on MSN, I am, of course, offline.
- Oh wait, now I’m offline, then I’m online, then off, then on.
- My netgear adaptor says I’m “offline”, but windows insists I’m connected to the wireless.
Not a good day.
Fuck you steam, fuck you microsoft, fuck you pc.
Epic Fail September 5, 2008
The new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Had infinite potential, and they screwed it up. Anyway, I’ll probably get it when some good mods come out (and I’m sure some good mods which make it better will, like Oblivion Lost did for the original [actually, I prefer the original over Oblivion Lost which was buggy, but it proves its possible]).
And… the blog-o-sphere is swamped September 3, 2008
Although it’s probably very hipocritical of me to say this, but all I can see on digg/tech and all the internet blogs is Google fuck*ng Chrome. It’s quite annoying really, the first few posts were fine (including mine :P) but after a day, everyone knows, all the “new” posts seem to say the same as the first posts. The fact of the matter is, it’s over, we all have played around with it (assuming you have a PC) and we all love it, but hate the bugs/missing features. It’s a beta, deal with it. And, while you’re dealing with it, shut up.
Returning to hell… August 27, 2008
OK, hell is probably a little extreme, but still, school is horrible. About 99% of the people are super-snobby (private school sucks) and/or super rich. There’s only a small group of what I’d consider “decent” people. I hate the learning, I hate homework, I hate wasting my days in a classroom learning a subject I’ll never put to use (I’m looking at you maths & physics). Even the art is a chore, because “no inspiration” isn’t an excuse for lack of summer work, despite it being true (and I’ve been busy coding instead, which is far more important).
So, when the A-Levels are done, am I going to do something I enjoy at University, nope, off to do architechture which will be OK-ish, despite the fact I’ll never work as an architecht. Its the only design related course that’s at a “good” university, and I’m not allowed to go to the “worse” university. Still, gap year and life outside of work at university will be good.
What happened? August 26, 2008
Yea, the blog went down for a few days, then (much to my surprise) appeared back up. Why? Well, BlueHost (don’t ever know why I chose them) hosted this domain a long time ago, and this year, they basically forgot to warn me the domain was about to expire (oh, how useful).
Anyway, I logged in once I saw the site was down and discovered it had expired 3 days ago yet only just went down. I tried to renew, but they wanted a $80 fee on top of the $10 registration for “redemption”. So I contacted BlueHost’s sister company, FastDomain via livechat to work out what to do. They told me the domain was in auction. I asked where and they said they’d have their domain manager find out and email me. Surprisingly he did! He told me it wasn’t in auction, and it was going to be 90 days or the $80 fine. So I replied with an angry email about the lack of notification, as well as asking what the 90 days is actually for.
So I log on yesterday and the site is up! I go to my BlueHost account and, despite it being expired, I can renew for $10. Of course, not a chance of that, so I’ve moved pointlessramblings.com to namecheap now, whom are amazing.
Did the domain come back by error, by default or by kind act of BlueHost? Who knows…
Way too busy… August 19, 2008
Agh, blog neglection again, my time is completely consumed by my A-Level work and by more important things like web-projects. New WordPress themes, a new site, articles on another, content to another, updates to them all, argh! So much to do, so little time.
Next week is the return to my final year of College, I’m beginning to get seriously sick/bored of college because it’s boring, the subjects (with the exception of art) are mundane and it’s just not fun. Can’t wait to escape for a gap year followed by years of being a Uni student, it’s going to be awesome!
Google have ruined feedburner August 14, 2008
A once great service, I’ve been noticing recently many more errors from feedburner. I see sites with one day, 2000 subscribers, the next N/A (0) subscribers. Kerplunc’s sites subscriber counts are bouncing up and down every day, and sometimes vanish all together.
Get it sorted!
Results day August 14, 2008
It’s AS-Level results day today.
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Hey! I'm Nick Barrett and this is Pointless Ramblings. I work as a freelance web design/developer, student and co-founder of Kerplunc. Read more »
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