Category Archives: Geekiness

Paddling down the (Life)stream

Wow, I certainly have been out-doing myself on updates to this site recently! I’ve now (after a lot of tweaking around) installed a Lifestream on my site, courtesy of Chris Davis. Who knows, maybe I’ll start making interesting blog posts soon too?! You can find my Lifestream at the /lifestream URL, unsurprisingly! James

Stolen my Virginity!

Well, not quite, I’ve actually been playing with my Virgin Radio Now Playing ticker back from my Windoze.biz days (you oldskoolers will remember that!). It’s now been converted into a plugin and forms what you see to the right of this post on the main index. I quite like it. I hope you do too. [...]

Site Layout Tweaked

Well, thanks to the Firefox Developer Toolbar, I’ve finally sorted out the little bits of my layout that have been bugging me since I got it set up. Like not using all of the page for the sidebar and the main content. You may not notice the difference much, but seeing as I’m probably the [...]

Stuck in an infinite loop…

Well I’ve been using [[wikipedia:OpenDNS]] for nearly 24 hours now, and although it’s one hell of a free service, it’s quite susceptible to DDoS attacks it seems. As their site is down, and DNS queries aren’t resolved very well at the moment. The most amusing thing was when trying to load their site. What happens [...]

Sony Nintendo DS?

Weiran and I went to the GAME shop at Maidstone yesterday, to get his Nintendo DS Lite fixed as the microphone had died on it. He managed to collar one of the guys that worked there, and the conversation went something like this: Weiran: Hi, I bought this DS Lite a few months ago and [...]