Geeky Humour

Posted: Mon 8 May, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Geeky | 1 Comment »

I just saw this on another site, and it made me laugh…

while (!sleep){
sheep++;
}

I really need to get out more, don’t I?

PSP-TV

Posted: Sat 29 April, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Geeky, Travel | Leave a comment »

Now this sounds cool – if probably bloody expensive. Being able to download (from anywhere) TV programmes onto my PSP, and then watch them while travelling etc. – definitely a Good Thing to develop.

I’ll be keeping an eye out for this becoming available, you can be sure…

Kudos?

Posted: Sat 22 April, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Geeky, Thoughts, Work-related | 3 Comments »

One of Arsehole Boss’s “Great Ideas” (excuse me while I piss myself laughing) is to market the code we’ve been developing (U-Turns and all) over the last year as “Open Source”. As such, he’s created a project on SourceForge for the stuff I/we’ve written.

Bear in mind, Arsehole Boss hasn’t actually written any of this stuff himself, and as the last week or so has ably demonstrated, he also has absolutely no bloody clue how it works, why it works the way it does, or even what the real general concept of it all is. But all the same, it’s got to be “Open Source”, and then at some point we now need to re-write it (a-fuckin’-gain) to become the modular “click’n’drool” thing that he has now decided it should be. Hmm, that’ll be full rewrite number 7, then.

Anyway, he’s also insisted that I list myself as one of the “founders” of this project on SourceForge. Supposedly this will be “cool”, and get me lots of “respect”. (As you can tell, this kind of thing is really what I work for – hence why I’ve linked to it so many times etc.) Personally, I suspect that this is more about the things that motivate AB, or at least make him feel important – and as such, it’s kind of interesting.

All the same, in the eyes of other people (and admittedly, only really in the eyes of other geeks) is it a good thing to be a co-founder of a registered Open Source project?

Final Decisions

Posted: Thu 20 April, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Geeky, Getting Organised, Own Business, Thinking About..., Web Development, Work-related | 2 Comments »

Well, I’ve decided.

As of Monday, [the site which has currently not been revealed] will no longer be unrevealed.

In other words, this weekend I’m going to be putting some finishing touches to it, fixing a couple of things, and hopefully sorting out a couple of other bits that really should be done, but I was thinking might not be immediately. However, leaving the launch ’til Monday should give me the necessary time to do so.

Obviously it’s still really going to only be Version 1.0 , and there’ll be improvements, additions, fixes and so on along the way from there, but it’ll be good to have it at least out there, and usable. Although I’m kind of edgy too about getting feedback and so on. But I’m sure I’ll figure it all out, one way or another. Should be fun, anyway…

Bluetooth Headsets

Posted: Sat 15 April, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Geeky, Thoughts, Weirdness | 3 Comments »

What is it that makes people (Mainly men) think they look cool by wandering around with a bluetooth headset/hands-free kit hanging off their ears? I’m not against the devices in the right place (i.e. when driving) but the number of people you see walking around with a bluetooth earpiece is amazing.

I just don’t see the point of them. If you’re wandering around, you’re obviously able to answer the phone properly rather than use the earpiece. (and, by the way, look like an utter twunt while walking around talking ‘to yourself’) Maybe people think they look all cool and techie by using them, or maybe it fuels the fantasies of being James Bond / Captain Kirk / whoever else used a fucking headset. I don’t know. And it does seem to be primarily BMW drivers who use them all the time like that.

What I do know, though, is that to me, people wandering around wearing them just look like dickheads.

Busy busy busy

Posted: Fri 7 April, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky | 2 Comments »

I’ve just done a quick’n’ropy webstats analysis, which came out with the following figures…

  • Successful requests: 8,004,234
  • Average successful requests per day: 5,353
  • Successful requests for pages: 3,474,208
  • Average successful requests for pages per day: 2,323
  • Distinct files requested: 32,961
  • Distinct hosts served: 176,044
  • Data transferred: 46.11 gigabytes (432.60 megabytes)

Yes, that means that sometime yesterday d4d™ had it’s eight millionth hit. And just under 3.5 million page impressions. Not bad at all…

.htaccess

Posted: Wed 29 March, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Geeky | Leave a comment »

Excessively geeky, but I’m really quite pleased with myself for having finally got round to using some mod_rewrite rules for [site that is being developed at the moment] which make a lot of stuff far easier to use than it has any right to be.

Yesterday I was having huge problems with the entire thing, but this morning (and isn’t this always the way) I took one look at it and thought “Ah, that’s what the problem was“, fixed it, and lo, it works.

So yes, I’m fairly chuffed, all things considered.

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