Coming home from Cyprus
September 2nd, 2007Well I didn’t realise I hadn’t written a post for quite as long as I had!
I have been really busy with work and other bits and pieces but am currently waiting to come back from Cyprus and get back to work.
Bon Jovi @ The O2 - 24th June 2007
June 25th, 2007What a briliant night - the O2 is an awesome venue with great acoustics and excellent views. The photos and videos from the night are being put on the net and I will post links to the majority of the videos here.
Test Post
June 18th, 2007Hello world. Test to confirm all OK after upgrading to WP 2.2
LoveHoney in toothbrush vibrator trademark rumpus
June 13th, 2007Online sex toy outfit LoveHoney has got itself into hot water over the promotion of its Brush Bunny Electric Toothbrush Rabbit Vibrator after deciding the best way to punt the product was to picture it beside the pleasure delivery platform of choice - an Oral-B electric toothbrush.
Facebook Friend Visualization
May 22nd, 2007I have been looking for a tool like this for a while. I even suggested it to FB to create such a feat but it never happened. But now you can see how all your friends interconnect.
You sit at the middle and then the tool uses the Facebook API to poll all your “Friends in Common” and create links between everyone in your friends list. The more common friends the bigger the node for that person.
I am running it through now to see how it goes - will screenshot the result and publish it later
Windows Vista Forces you to use UAC to Add a Printer
May 15th, 2007Vista has once again annoyed me. My post on how to turn off UAC is all well and good until you need to add a network printer…
You cannot add a network printer in Windows Vista unless you have UAC turned on, not even with the administrator account. And for more added fun, the error message does not tell you what the problem is, rather it gives you an ambiguous error message. That’s the reason I’m posting this, I was baffled until I found this article.
Blog and Gallery are reskinned
May 14th, 2007This evening I decided to update the software that ran my photo gallery and once that had gone through successfully I started to look at the themes available for it.
After trying, and rejecting, the Ocadia theme I looked at one which allowed me to change the colour and style. I liked the layout and feel of Andreas09 but I wanted to have a blue site and so after a bit of hacking about with the theme I have changed from the Water Drop theme to Andreas09 in blue. But I still wasn’t happy - people could change the colour scheme from my beloved Blue2 to some other crazy colour scheme that didn’t look nearly as good. So a small bit of code modification later and I have removed the combo box.
The final result can be seen by clicking on the Gallery link on the home page or by going to http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/gallery
Now that I had my gallery looking nice I decided that WordPress was looking rather dull and boring with its standard Kubrick theme and could do with a facelift. A quick stop at the site of the author of the gallery theme (http://andreasviklund.com) and I browsed through to find a similar theme that would fit my WordPress blog. I settled for Andreas 0.8 Version 1.0 which compliments the gallery and is a welcome change from the WP standard theme.
If you are reading this then you are likely to be looking at the theme right now but if you aren’t then by clicking on the Blog link from my home page or going to http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/index.php will let you see the theme in all its glory.
Names on Urban Dictionary
May 13th, 2007I have known for a long time that across the world different words mean different things depending on where you are when you use them - HSBC’s ad campaign has clearly sunk in. This combined with my love for the website urbandictionary.com which which is maintained by the general public to give insight into words and phrases and their alternate meanings.
In some of my spare time I have entered peoples names into the website to see what has come out and I thought I would share these with you.
*PLEASE NOTE the following content is not suitable for young children or anyone easily offended AND DOES NOT REPRESENT TRUE REFLECTION ON THE REAL PERSON*
Arman Zad - A person who likes inserting objects into his anus but also has a small penis
Kate Britton - Someone with an odd masturbation fetish
Mark Cini - A “Bro who likes riding his motor bike”
Nick Jenkin(s) - (I know its without the s but Jenkin isn’t defined this is as close as i could get) - A smelly homosexual geek
Rob “Crom” Cromarty - The Alpha & Omega gang member who takes orders from someone more important than him
Mitch Whitehead - Beating someone over the head with a coconut until it breaks whilst being a man bitch
David Mitchell - A man with an excessive penis
There are more but these are a few that I have collected in recent weeks
Install Vista without a CD key
May 3rd, 2007Daniel Petri comes up with another great tip and insight into the way Microsoft’s software can be manipulated to do things you want to do. In this case how to trial different versions of Windows Vista. Once the activation deadline is reached you must put your legal key in for the version you installed to continue but… it does let you try the different versions first!
Top 6 wall posts
May 3rd, 2007Have you ever ________ with your top SIX?
- First Six people on your wall.
- Fill the people in below!
- Answer the questions truthfully!
1. James Tate
2. Katie Shields
3. Gemma Watson
4. Alex Carruth
5. Roger Willis
6. Hannah Williams
1. Have you ever danced with number 3? On a number of occasions.
2. Where did you meet number 6? on my first ever day at uni.
3. Have you ever gotten drunk with number 4? Hell Yes.
4. Has 2 been to your house? No.
5. Has number 3 ever seen you naked? Yes.
6. Have you ever gone shopping with 1? lots of times for theatre stuff.
7. Have you ever seen 5 in a swimsuit? No, and themental image is hurting me.
8. Have you ever met 5’s family? Yes.
9. Do you know 4’s middle name? I’d hazard a guess at David.
10. Have you ever eaten anything in front of 6? most meals in college over 3 years.
11. Do you trust number 2? I have no reason not to
13. Have you ever fought with number 1? Not physically but possibly over some ideas.
14. Have you ever kissed number 6? No
15. Are any of your top 6 family? None of them.
17. Have you ever done something dangerous with number 6? I dont think so.
18. Have you ever slept in the same bed with 5? No. Argh. No. NEVER
19. Do you think 3 and 6 would make a good couple? It could be interesting but I doubt it would happen!
20. Would 3 do anything for you? I dont think so
21. Has 2 ever helped you out? No.
22. Have you ever slept with your number 1? Fuck No!
23. Which have you known the longest? 1, 2 and 5 equally
24. Who have you known the shortest? 2
25. Have you had a crush on 1 - 6? just one.
26. Have you ever done anything illegal with number 5? 24, the shield.
27. Will 1 - 6 repost this? I doubt it.