Ramblings of a Coder

Brainfarts of an idle mind.

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Downtime

Tuesday 21 November 2006 at 11:14 am

Really, lots of downtime lately from my PC. well as much as possible.

still working on a redesign of the site, came up with a few nice idea's im gonna try out.
not much else really that i'd blog about,

mmm need to fix it so i can embed video's from photobucket etc..

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Free Time Again

Tuesday 19 September 2006 at 2:33 pm

Lately, I've noticed i've let my hobbies slide a lot.

I Havnt really done any programming just for myself, I've done almost no electronic work at all. And most obvious i dont really blog that much anymore either. Its not that things dont happen because they do, i just dont feel a need to blog about them.

The Blog was great for getting stuff off my chest last year when everything was happening with my grandpa, but now i dont really post anything besides screenshots of WoW.

But thats going to change, With Kirsty out working now. And myself looking after Garion all day i find myself looking for stuff todo and my hobbies are all slowly coming back into the picture which is great cos i have some nice idea's on things i'd like to try-out. and still have the old idea's and goals i had before my hobbies started to slip on me.

Overall and basically it means that i think i'll redo the main section of my personal website, taking the focus away from it being solely a blog and expand it to include sections on my hobbies and stuff. Not totally sure yet.

Maybe i'll start with the plans i've drawn up for remaking both my computer space and also a little hobby/workspace i've designed for garion.  Also working on plans for redoing my Kitchen and living area of my house too.. so with the plans about perhaps that is a good start to refocusing my website, and will certainly give me more reason to blog too.

We Shall see, until later folks.

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Invisible Cow

Wednesday 26 July 2006 at 6:40 pm

Playing WoW the other day, and i logged into my PVP character, and was greeted by the strangest character select screen..



Which was kinda funny for a moment, then i logged in and was pleasantly suprised that the character select screen had been 100% correct






Which IMO is kinda funny, watching a hat and shoulder pats running around.

On other news, Waiting on the volvo i got coming back from the garage, its been in there 2 weeks coming on friday which is pretty disappointing but its just been delay after delay, but its all good.  Just hope i get it back before the really good weather goes away.

My Ford is sitting outside my house, havnt even started it up in like 3 or 4 weeks, just waiting on getting my volvo then i'll phone a scrap yard up to come drag it away.  Not that it was a bad car it run fine, didnt cost me much to keep on the road. and was there when i needed it, I just didnt like the "feel" or it.  And i cant be bothered to hold onto it to find a privare buyer, So its going to the scrap yard.

Anyway, Im off to melt some more in this blistering heat.

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RAG DOWN

Sunday 11 June 2006 at 07:10 am

last night, in WoW after many weeks of failing. my guild and the other guilds of our HLC alliance finally downed Rag



Very happy moment celebrated with some stupidity :) how it should be!

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Doo Doo (cant think of a title)

Tuesday 09 May 2006 at 5:23 pm

So whats been happening? Not a whole lot again, Got my pad out again and im making really crap sketches and my minds coming back to creating my own games, instead of playing others. But i wont say much more on that, people seem to expect something to look at when i talk about it.

lets see in WoW, i aint really played my Hunter Gindaeg in a while. Been playing my Druid Spekis a lot more. he's getting to see more stuff than Gin.





and course




Rag and Nef not bad for a lowly Druid really hehe, and course it wouldnt be a screenshot session without Ony


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Fun and Games

Tuesday 28 March 2006 at 09:03 am

Lots of.. well from people reading this's viewpoint nothing has happened :)

I caught some illness two weeks ago, which has me atm near deaf in my left ear, and my right ear constantly sounds like im listing to things from underwater.. its disconcerning, highly annoying but doesnt actually bother me that much in the wider sence.  Sure i miss things when people talk to me sometimes, but i did anyway lol. Im not the worlds best listener when it comes to someone talking to me. I often get distracted and bored when people dont just get to the point. Its not like a value my words and use them sparingly, its just i hate it when someone goes on and on and on without actually getting to the point.  Specially when there telling you a story about someone you dont even know, ya know what im talking about, and they go off on trying to explain who it is.. I HATE THAT, I DONT KNOW THEM. I PROBABLY DONT WANNA KNOW THEM, AND WELL GET TO THE POINT ALREADY.

pet hate there :) people who drone on and on...

Dunno how my dads doing, aint spoken with him in about 3 weeks. But well im sure someone will say if he aint well again. Back to life as usual on that front, He's there; Im here  We know where each other are if we wanna get in contact.

Work front, yes i've been as lazy as possible. But does anyone expect anything else of me really? I do as little work as possible always, Its me. Get used to it if you aint already.  Im most likely never gonna be filthy rich cos well i refuse to work myself into the group to get there. Life's to short to spend to much time working to collect money. Live it :) dont need money to live yer life, just gotta know how much you can survive on happily.  I also hate that, recently had a long term good friend from my view get very lax on work front. not bad lax just like they've got other stuff on there mind and stuff involving me is an after thought. I dont mind being an afterthough but if im say meeting with people i do require a few days warning, Comeon i work from home. i spent time with my family i DO require that warning so we can prepair for me not being at home. I dont expect people to drop everything for me at a few hours notice, and i wouldnt do it for anyone else. Its really that plain and simple Work ALWAYS comes way down the line for me. i gotta prepair for meeting, getting the suit washed (probably been sitting in a heap in the suit bag since i last wore it) actually make sure my car is up to it (I hardly ever use the thing, battery was dead the other day when i went to start it, just cos it'd been sitting so long), Make sure K is gonna be available to watch the boy cos me being at home all the time makes me a prime candidate for being at home with my son. Things like that stop you being able to just drop everything. thats how i live my life, and how i enjoy living my life ;) i aint gonna change anytime soon.

Only other thing thats been getting on my nerves recently is my computer, that cool and quiet crap from AMD keeps switching itself on in my bios and slowing my CPU fan down to 1200RPM, which trips the bios alarm for low CPU fan.. highly annoying :) specially as the fan only usually runs about 2300RPM

Thats the stuff thats annoying me lately :) other than that life's actually quite good. I somehow got myself into a stupid sleeping pattern too which im gonna have to try and break but thats not annoying just a bit stupid.

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Long Time!

Tuesday 28 February 2006 at 06:52 am

yea its been a while now,

Aint that nothing has been happening, quite the opposite, but nothing that'd i'd blog about has been happening :)

Dad recovered from his brush with Death, He got to know me a bit more in the process and vice verse, so something good came outta it at least.

Been working away steadily on a new commercial project and could see the light at the end of the tunnel until about 30mins ago, when i noticed i'd made a huge mistake in the database design at the start of the project.... so im having to backtrack and i tried to correct my mistake but it was just to much of a mess, instead i've dumed part of the database structure and im re-designing the part which i fucked up, Hopefully catch up with myself in the next few days with it, So if you message me or something and i dont reply.. tis probably cos im off hiding on my laptop working away like a harbour whore the night the ships hit home port.

Also still dealing with the lawyer stuff from my grandpa got another appointment today, just wish we could put it to rest at this point and basically say goodbye correctly, instead its being dragged on for.. well no fucking reason at all sept greed. but they just cant get it, there's nothing else to give, they got it.

Been using a Small roll tracking addon in WoW for ages, added my own customisations to it over quite a bit of time now, and went to add a few more the other day, and actually noticed just how much i've changed the thing. So im gonna rewrite it completely from scratch and release it, means it'll be all my code and should be easier for me to update and add to in the future.

I'd like to say i'd post more, but well lots of stuff happening but you gotta keep part of yerself private aint ya.

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Throwing Shit

Tuesday 07 February 2006 at 7:36 pm

Yes. the past 12 months of so... life has decided to throw shit at me.. and it seems to stick

This morning i got a phone call from my dads wife, saying he'd been rushed into hospital last night. I didnt really get much info from her she was a little distraught. So i phoned up the rest of the family to let them know, telling them i'll contact em again when i know more etc then heading down to the hospital.

Got there, couldnt getting into the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) to start with, so i waited about for an hour or so, still not really knowing what the fuck was going on. Finally got in to see my dad, he's sitting there, more tubes that a rocket engine coming outta him, Turns out he got a kidney infection which he sorta ignored, so it got to the point where his kidney's and bowl etc basically stopped working, causing his body to go into some sort of shock. Dropping his blood pressure to dangerous levels, mixed with the shock and shit it was touch and go for him, And on top of that he's breathing faltered.. soo it was very close for him.

They spent the day giving him blood transfusions and fitting in a drain to his kidney's, he should come of the drugs and shit they have him on to make him breath tonight and hopefully by tomorrow or the next day he'll be moved outta the ICU..

See just shows ya though, can think you just have a wee bug then WHAM something like that happens.  Just another experiance for me for the past 12months though.. maybe life will stop throwing shit at me for a while ... maybe.. probably wont.

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Legal Rights

Sunday 22 January 2006 at 11:26 am

As anyone who has been reading my blog know, my grandfather passed away a few months ago. And we had problems with family members at the time. Well its now 6 months on and after a quiet period and basically everyone accepting the money and stuff. My three aunts, my mothers sisters,  Have decided they wish to claim there "legal right" to my grandpa's estate, So basically Will's aint worth any money in the UK so dont bother writing or paying for one.  Anyway there claiming there "Legal Right" to a 1/4 of the estate... even though they already got that amount. So its confusion and anger for me atm, confused cos i dont have a fucking clue what else they want, And anger because well 2 of them hadnt been near in over 20 years and the other in england refused to come up to scotland and help care for my grandpa when things started going wrong for him.  All of them are complete waste's of space and i know one of them has read from this very website, and if your reading now. I wish you a long and painful death. but before that happens i hope you get to watch your family waste away painfully and slowly like me, my family and my mother had to do with our grandpa while the three of you's sat back and did fuckall living your "important" life's. But hey now there's money involved so your father is now important.. nothing but greedy bastards.

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Stolen from Morduun's Blog

Thursday 12 January 2006 at 11:46 pm

Yes... well i stole the idea from shadee, who stole it from morduun :D

Southpark Specis

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