Jun
24
Sharepoint and other things
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So what a weekend its been. Supposedly its summer but there’s been no signs of that in the weather. I guess I should start by mentioning Glastonbury the worlds greatest music festival – I want to be there (maybe next year), I’ve been making the most of the BBC’s excellent coverage which explains why I was so knackered yesterday having not gone to bed till 2.15am.
Anyway when I did get up, I had all intentions of getting up and being productive, my first task was going to be washing my car, unfortunately the council were relaying the footpath on the street with tarmac so I couldn’t park my car outside to wash it. Never mind I thought, I’ll do it later. But later the rain began. I was in need of another task, so decided to setup a Sharepoint server, I found some instructions and set to it, it took hours, but finally the server was complete. The only problem now is that I’m not sure what to do with it. When you look for any Sharepoint documentation, its all very complex. Although I configured a server its only because theinstructions told me to, not because I know why I did it. I think I might need to do some more reading. Another problem is that my Sharepoint server is actually running on a Virtual Machine. The actual host PC is actually quite slow so my VM is unbelievably slow.
Thats about it for yesterday, I never did get my car washed, but did go to the gym then settled in for the night to watch Glastonbury.
Today I went to help Scott move a shed, washed my car, ordered a 500gb external HDD, went for another run and am just about to have my tea.
(PS. My new blog theme makes use of tags for each post, I’m having terrible problems working out what to tag entries with, should I just have a few predefined tags, or should I set up new ones for each post. Also how indepth do I get with my tagging. In this post I mention tv, running, technology stuff and Glastonbury the greatest gig ever. But does it really qualify for 4 different tags?)
Jun
23
A time for action
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So for a while now I’ve been saying that I was going to do the Darlington 10km road race. It never went any further. Well it takes place on Sunday 12th August which is only 49 days away. I therefore decided that today was a day to take action, my membership form is complete, the cheque is filled in and its all been placed in an envelope. To celebrate I went for a run, I don’t think I’ll be breaking any records, but if I can do it in around 50 mins I’ll be happy.
If your interested in taking part then applications are available from the Dolphin Centre, or online here.
Jun
22
The Newcastle manager flies to Baghdad to watch a young Iraqi play football and is suitably impressed and arranges him to come over to Newcastle.
Two weeks later Newcastle are 4-0 down to Man Utd with only 20 minutes left. The manager gives the young Iraqi striker the nod and on he goes. The lad is a sensation, scores 5 goals in 20 minutes and wins the game for Newcastle.
The fans are delighted, the players and coaches are delighted and the media love the new star. When the player comes off the pitch he phones his mum to tell her about his first day in English football.
“Hello mum, I played for 20 minutes today, we were 4-0 down but I scored 5 and we won. Everybody loves me, the fans, the media, they all love me.”
“Wonderful,” says his mum, “Let me tell you about my day. Your father got shot in the street and was robbed, your sister and I were ambushed, gang raped and beaten and your brother has joined a gang of looters, and all while you were having such great time.”
The young lad is very upset, “What can I say mum, but I’m so sorry.”
“Sorry?!!! Sorry?!!!” says his mum, “It’s your bloody fault we moved to Newcastle in the first place!”
Jun
17
Muse
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Well I’ve just returned from a weekend down south where I went to Wembley to see Muse. It was possibly the best gig ever. I’ll be uploading my photos later, but here is something to whet your appetite. And how about this too.
Jun
11
An Apple a day!
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The World Wide Developers Conference is currently taking place, this is always an exciting time and results of lots of nice announcements. The most interesting so far is the release of Safari for Windows. Enjoy.
Jun
10
The Weekend
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Well its been a good weekend. It started with an excellent bowls victory on Friday night and a few celebratory drinks. I decided that tea was overrated and so just drank beer instead, the outcome was a quite drunk Andy.
As a result of the previous night I got up quite late on Saturday and wasn’t really up to much, I washed my car and was exhausted. After a little rest I did manage to write some php for a message management system I’m writing for work. Its not really my job to write it and we are so short staffed at work that I don’t get enough piece and quiet to do it there. Also the fact that I don’t yet have a Mac at work and all my favourite programming tools are mac based means that its easier to write at home.
You may have noticed that I’ve switched my theme over, its not yet perfect, I think that some of the colours need tweaking, and that is something that I will hopefully do shortly.
Yesterday I decided to fully embrace the power of Facebook. MySpace is so last year. While with MySpace you can customise the look of your page, so what because most people don’t know what their doing and end up with something which looks really crap. With Facebook you can’t alter the style, but you can install applications, which means that I’ve been able to import my flickr photos, this very blog and my twitter status into my Facebook page. Its very good.
And so we come to today. Since I’d done all I needed yesterday today was slightly surplus to requirements, I therefore decided that the time was right to get my bike out so my dad and I went for a bit of a cruise round the country. It was interesting, I’ve seen rabbits, a chicken, lots of sheep and had to navigate through a field of cows. At one point we went about 4 miles down a narrow single track road to discover it just led to a farm. We had to turn around. It was good I didn’t crash.
Now I’m gonna make some more tweaks to my wordpress theme and then I think it will be time for bed. Next weekend I’m off to see Muse at Wembley, I can’t bloody wait!
Jun
9
Canadian Idiot!
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As you may know I went to Canada earlier in the year, it rocked. So much so that I refuse to go anywhere else (well New Zealand, New York, Las Vegas and Australia would be nice). Anyway getting back to the point I just found this parody of Green Days American Idiot and it made me chuckle.
Jun
7
3 Brazillian
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Just got this, its very funny.
