What wheel? I can't find it Sep 5, 2005 No Comments
Posted in: Tech
I guess this kind of relates to this entry, but that's not the point, I still feel like another on the subject. I am searching for a nice gallery script to use for websites/general image storage/photo's etc and I have been looking through all the free/opensource ones (not that there is a huge option on the latter part when it comes to php scripts). Now as pretty as they all look and as many functions as they have, they still don't do what I want. Now this is not because the feature I want is so advanced or so obscure that most people don't see a need for it. Oh no, it's far simpler than that. The feature I am so desperately looking for is simplicity itself. I want something that shows pictures, on pages and has an admin section to add them with, and that's it. It however seems that to have something with just this is impossible. The people making these things want to be known for having the most features filled, advanced script on the web, not for making one that does what people want it to. It seems that they have re-invented the wheel so many times that they are no longer left with just a wheel. The problem is, I want the wheel, nothing more. Just something that rolls. I am now at the point where I am looking at building my own wheel (and from having hunted around on the web a bit, everyone else how has looked for a wheel has ended up building one too). Onwards dear friends, for now we must make it roll....
This is a carefuly planned post Aug 29, 2005 No Comments
I say it's carefully planned because it is most certainly not random. Where ever I go in the internet I am always seeing the word random.For example, on my regular forum (www.golivewire.com) I regularly see topics starting off by saying something like "whats your favourite number?!?!?!?!?!?!?! WOW IM SO RANDOM" NO YOU'RE FUCKING NOT! ARGH. You are a 15 year old who thinks they are cool on the internet. Or the other one that really bugs me is the personal site (something that should really be culled) that starts of with some cheesy intro saying "hi, welcome to my new site. Its not really finished yet, its just full of loads of random stuff, hope you like it, sign my guestbook!!!!!!!!!!". What is it with you people? Its not random, its just stuff that you thought was either funny or interesting, that is all. I did a Google fight to see quite how bad the damage to the beloved internet was....its worse than I could have possible imagined....
Just look what happened.
I would now like to see a £10 charge every time the word random is used on a website when whatever it is referring to is not truly random. All funds collected should go to OpenOffice as the new beta looks rather cool.
Let the mass cull beginith Aug 25, 2005 No Comments
I would like to see an end to all free hosting with adverts. That means no more tripod, no more freewebs, no more lycos, no more angelfire, no more msn spaces ....nothing. It could then act like a mass cull of all the sites online that do nothing more than create money for people in advertising (who deserve nothing from this earth), allow so many people (mainly in their teens) to think they can do web design (frontpage has had a similar effect on the world) and just generally slow the whole place down. Google searches would become faster and more up-to-date (as less content would be there to index). The web as we know it was intended as a means for research material to be shared for global collaboration on projects etc. Just look at what it has become though as you stare out into a sea of trolls, pointless information, webcam shots and adverts. If people really want to have a personal site online, fine, I have no problem with that, but we should make them use proper hosting. That way that will stop millions of people who would just put shit up doing so.Typo after typo afyer typo Jul 17, 2005 No Comments
Argh, my typo's are pissing me off at the moment. Every time I look through my LJ I notice not miss spelt words, but just the wrong words. For e.g in the entry below this one I put "and" as apposed to "an". I HATE doing that. It just makes people think I can't talk/type and I don't understand my own bloody language!</rant>
Right, now for more entry worthy err, entries. Having been hosting 7 sites for people over the last few months and having built a few, I am finally realising my mini dream! To actually have the reason for my journal title and my username online!
These two rather odd things have spurred for the name of the website I am now finally building. So of all the sites I have built, this is actually the first for me.
For those who care (which isn't many) it is here Now I agree that it is just an "under construction" picture, but this is never-the-less a big step as this site has been planned for almost 2 years!
While I'm in a typing mood, I was listening to some Christians complaining about the shops being open through more and more Christian "events" such as Christmas and Easter. Now as I though about this, I don't ever remember a shop being closed for any holidays of other religions...isn't this just the country being a built more even handed about things. Now its fair to say that if they were to close for all holidays then the shops would never be open much, so the only other way to deal with this is to treat each day as any other.
Hmm, I paused just there for 10 minutes and now I really cant be bothered to get back in to "entry mode" so that will have to do it for now. I'm sure I was just at the rambling stage anyway.
WHY WON'T YOU LET ME IN Jun 23, 2005 No Comments
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ARGH!This is doing my head in....my favourite forum <advert>golivewire</advert>) isn't working for me...i have tried everything. If i use its address, i just get firefox telling me it cant find that address. I get the same for all the other domain names the forum owns (used for getting passed school blocks). Then if i try to look it up to get the IP, i get nothing...
Now as my hosting is on their server (they do hosting too) i took a few shots and guessed their IP...so i got into the site...only problem is if i try and post (which happens to be something i do quite a bit on the forum..) i just get the page back in and html view...for no good reason. My best guess it that some DNS server round me is fucked....and the forums scripts aren't designed to work when you go in through the IP, not the url....argh...just one of those days.
On a lighter note, the new 17inch TFT monitor for the downstairs machine came today...very cool and not a single dead pixel dares show its face...all good. The other item that arrived was the long, round IDE cable so i have now managed to fit the other hard drive. Although its only 40gig, every little helps....
*keeps plodding on*