Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Angels look better in blue


(thought for the day)
I really must stop re-rom'ing my Blue Angel. Its changed so much these days. What started off as a Windows 2003 SE pda with basic B.A default(PDA2K) options and progies has become VERY different. I'm getting really hooked on updating it.

At this moment I am just backing up the present rom image including the patches and am about to go for a Helmi Blueangel (XDAIIs, PH20B) AKU3.5 vanilla ver. Wish me luck world......"I'm going in"

BaUpgradeUt...................

Anyone got a patch for the wifi problem...dream on.
(listen to myself, I have been spending tooooo long on the patching forums me thinks....he he)

:-)


BRAND NEW LYRICS

"Mix Tape"

I got a twenty-dollar bill that says no one's ever seen you without makeup.
You're always made up.
And I'm sick of your tattoos,
and the way you always criticize the Smiths... and Morrissey.
And I know that you're a sucker for anything acoustic.
But when I say let's keep in touch,
I really mean I wish that you'd grow up.
This is the first song for your mixtape.
It's short just like your temper,
but somewhat golden like the afternoons we used to spend before you got to cool...

I got a twenty-dollar bill that says no one's ever seen you without makeup.
You're always made up.
And I'm sick of your tattoos, and the way you don't appreciate Brand New or me
And I know that you're a sucker for anything acoustic.
But when I say let's keep in touch,
I hope you know I mean I wish that you'd grow up.
This is the first song for your mixtape.
It's short just like your temper,
but somewhat golden like the afternoons we used to spend before you got to cool...

(yeah, but I wish you were my shadow.) [repeat]

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

New Year...New Beginings....New world Order

Captains log....stardate...blah blah blah


Its now 346am on a Monday Morning.
Im sitting here having woken up suddenly (thanks cat for jumping on the bed whilst I was happily sleeping)

I've just realised that its been quite a while since I last wrote something on here...Sept last year in fact. The cat was so much younger then and Very ill. When we got her, Freddie was close to the edge and the vet told us straight that we'd bought home once heck of a poorly cat.
But she pulled through and we love her to bits. Shes a wonderful cat.

If theres a few spelling mistaminas (obviously spelt wrong for the irony...or not?) then pleez forgive as it IS early in the morning.

Well, whats been happening around here......??

I've signed up to the Friends Reunited website. I think it should be law that everyone in UK signs up....LOL
Its really "cool" (dare I use that word) reading what some of those at school the same time as I was as up to these days. God knows life has gone by so quickly in my life. Am I the only one who feels really old?

I start my last and final year of the degree course at the begining of next month. It only seems like yesterday that I began.
Just wish I could have the previous ten years back of my life and do them over but a little different. Not because of regrets of whats been, but because I forgot to live enough.
I am off now. Tooooo tired. At least I have written some words on the blog at last. I was going to upload some pics from my old but well loved xda (awful camera rez but I still run my life off of it) but its got an attitude problem and wont turn on. Think it needs a sleep too.

Good nite world/

Oh....I have stopped smoking at last.....but exactly WHEN after these three and a bit non smoking months do I start to feel better???? I still feel grumpy in the morning......lol

END of TRANS....

Friday, November 10, 2006

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Saturday, August 26, 2006

I wonder where I'll be in..... :-)

Well. It's a little over two weeks now until the enrollment process begins for the final time (for me anyway)
This will be my final year, and by the end of the second semester I'll be weighed down a little more with some added pride, self satisfaction, cockiness (but not too much), job prospects...
But then again , if all goes the way in which I think it might, I may well be taking another route. I have a yearning to get into teaching. Never really thought I'd be able to realise such an opportunity, but seeing as how far I have come these past two years or so, it's made me see that we are quite literally our own fate makers whichever way we choose to look at it.
So, perhaps at some point I will end up teaching. Who knows.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Goodnight world






Todays 'thought for the day' (was).....

Sometimes a little effort in the right direction goes a long long way.


(thanks for the pic Beatrice hope you didn't mind me copying it)

One step closer....








At long last...I managed to sucessfully create an autorun projector file using Macromedia Director MX. I dare not shout about the amount of wasted discs I went through, before I found out that the speed of my USB2 CDR burner drive which I was using for playback, was unable to cache the temp files quickly enough. (Crazy but true) It wasn't until I eventually tried one of the finalised CD-Rs in the desktop CD drive that I realised the problem...and hey presto.Good old HP's website. There was a forum post which had nothing whatsoever to do with this problem but for some reason triggered the idea of cache speed etc.
Alas....we live and learn. I AM 1 STEP CLOSER TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN....YIPPEE :-)

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Ramblings of a would be garden....

Well, it's taken me a few days hard work, but the new garden is well and trully underway. I planted the second set of borderline bushes this afternoon, and I am whacked out. One bottle of Pepsi Max and a few good tunes pumping through my earphones saw me through an otherwise difficult time digging.

Never thought I would get to see the first part done (bordered off) but what with the new mini fence etc I am pretty chuffed with myself.
My daughter loves playing in the garden too which makes it all the more worthwhile.


Anyway....(changing the subject for a moment).
... I've always loved Aerosmiths music such as thier 1980's Love In An Elevator, and the collaboration with RUN DMC with WALK THIS WAY, and especially DREAM ON (from the film staring Bruce Willis and Aerosmiths lead singer Steves Tylers own daughter Liv Tyler **Armageddon 1998) but I happened on a track the other day by accident called DREAM ON, and after hearing it I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It's the original music track that EMINEM sampled for his SING FOR THE MOMENT released in 2003. Credit where credit is due...BOTH rock big time.

Final Year



One more year to go and I'll have my degree. It seems like yesterday when I started my college course.
I've been thinking long and hard about exactly what I want to do when I'm qualified. Its going to be freelance for certain.
I had planned (and hope ) to work for a local or national newspaper and who knows perhaps aim for my own column. But now I've had another offer of work next year from someone who happened upon my website and somehow (must be fate) remembered me from when I was a great deal younger. The offer is for my working from home still, but along different lines. I won't go into it as I don't want to screw up fate.
Who knows.....
Anyway. The point being, there is always something good out there for those who try and do the best they can, no matter what crops up along the way.
I also intend to take up another offer of my writing my memoirs next year as two different people with clout have asked me if I would be willing to write about my experiences from the past three years. So that will no doubt be something I will be looking forward to.
I digress.
My thoughts at the moment are constantly on the subject of the latest taped interview thatAljezeera has released. It was on the news this morning dubbed into English. It shows an interview between one of the Hezbollah fighters who was captured recently by Israel troops.
In the interview he explains about various points he's asks in particular on the fact that he admits to being trained by Iran in one of their camps along with others.
I don't want to get political but I am not happy with the way U.S aircraft carrying ammunition for the Israeli forces are landing half in England to refuel. It is wrong.
How can the the US government along with certain other countries scream how wrong it is that Iran may (MAY) be helping Hezbollah when the States themselves are helping Isreal..something doesn't add up here DOES IT !!!!

Monday, June 12, 2006

ONE BIG BRIGHT FLUFFY & HAPPY DAY

What a fantastic day.....

I big wet passionate kiss goes out to the lady at Orange who worked so hard and dealt with my problem so fast.
I would be so lost without my PDA phone as I live with it side by side for mail, web, study, detailed journal..you name it. Heck, even
my little one would have been none too pleased either if I would have had to go down the ladder and buy some default normal camera phone. You see She loves playing a specific game called Mr.Boo which is a re-hash of the old arcade classic "MR.DOO"

Anyway...I phoned Orange, explained what had happened (dropped the phone whilst getting out of the car) and as promiced I recieved a call this morning telling me a replacement is on its way.

THANKS YOU ORANGE YOU HAVE ONCE AGAIN BEEN WONDERFUL.

Changing the subject for a mo....I have to admit that I am starting to miss those ugly faces (mine included of course tee hee LOL) from my class of 2006.

So hello to one and all....even the ones who think I am from another planet...

Bought a wisked t-shirt yesterday online which I have been after for eons and eons. It's a black dyed cotton with a wonderful and bright pacman logo on it running across the front. My daughter loves it and thought it was for her so I now have to track down a company who'll print up one in her size.....(what a lovely parent I AM.. :-)



She may only be 3 and a little bit, but every day she astounds me with her interlectual abilities. It's not just me either, so many of my friends and family are amazed at how much she can pick up and at the speed in which she learns. She knows most of the garden birds by breed. She can follow a pattern on the piano up to about 6 notes a time which is pretty damn good considering her age.
Oh, and she can type her name on her pre school laptop too. Wonderful. It's only when you have a child or children of your own that you really begin to understand what life is really about..."THEM!!!"

Oh, well. That's my lot for today. Got to be up early as lots happening tomorrow.

Goodnite blog

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

BLISS STATION (america is blind to real talent)


7:04am Tuesday 6th June 2006

(just putting a specific album on that I have gotto into recently)



Got an email back yesterday from Gary at Bliss Station. Tells me he's moved from the usa to Israel. I hope Isreal appreciates his fantastic talent.



IMO the Bliss Station should have been signed up whilst in America. All tracks from their album are completely and in full available to hear at http://www.bliss-station.com/mp3s.htm
Just make sure you select and listen to "FLOWERS" a couple of times as the middle 8th is brilliant and very VERY Depeche Mode oriented.

Changing the subject somewhat....I went to bed last night really bugged about one or two aspects of the website. Something tells me I need some flash involvement or interaction in my menu on the right hand side. The sketch and quick designs I did before I redit the site the other week look only 50% the same. Point is that I didnt manage to accomplish all the updates and extras that were on the images. I guess I will have to look at my flash again and work something out. If I can get right what I intend to then the site will rock.

Subject change again...

Woke up and at 6am..And got right too it. I was rebuilding my xda (PDA-PHONE updated) with a new PCB and keypad layout which I bought from ebay some time ago. I accidently broke the internal sprung volume switch last night as I was in too much of a hurry.
I'd been talking on the phone to a "friend" :-) about how hooking up the pc interface box I lent her so she could make music with Sony AP directly.Anyway..I broke the phones volume whilst not giving 100% to the project so it was my own fault. Lucky for me that when patience and a moderate amount or solder are needed...I can usually get myself out of an electronics tight spot/jam.
So now I have once again a rebuilt and pwo XDA once again but better as I have at last got the phone to except the new rom upgrade I was sent last week which boasts a much better audio pickup when recording either video or audio direct to SD card.
I tested it out a few days ago. I managed to enhance via PC software (obviously) a 2mb wav file of a conversation I had with some friends. It is crystal clear even though we were at least 4 or more feet away from the unit. Incidently, my pals on the whole swear by their nasty yucky 02 or TMob phones which happened to be Sony audio mp3 versions. And I hate them as they look like something that was designed way back when....you get the point.

Well I'm off as I have a three items waiting to be shipped out today and its important they go otherwhise no ones going to hear the music i've finished are they.

bye bye for now

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Time goes by so quickly when you are having fun.

Good luck Pete....!!! :-)
[ the only one in the Big Brother House that's worth watching]


Flipping heck...I hadn't realised how long it's been since I last wrote something down on here...
"OOPS"

I'm going to try and start keeping up to date from now on or else I'll forget when it comes time to reflect just how wonderful and exciting my super duper life really is...(yeah..whatever..LOL)

Ok...here's a good place to start. Question????...."which absolute plonker but DIESEL in someones PETROL tank at the garage today and had to call out the troops to come get the car and drain it"
I'll leave that one hanging in the air as it's better left that way. And no! I havent said it was me...

What else have I been up to...(mmm thinks)
Well, I have been working on some bits for college earlier and actually managed to find the time to redisign and upload the new template for my portfolio website for college. I hope it looks as good as I feel it does in comparison to how it DID before.
I've changed the graphics and logo and changed the colour template. I really enjoy using Dreamweaver. I certainly wouldn't be lost if I had to write the site with HTML but it wouldnt be as straight forward or as well designed.

Been fidling around with the video camera today too. I sent off for the correct lens hood (square version) as the new Sony one was really naff and didnt work well at all. This one really makes for a better captured image especially when its outside and shooting direct stills. I didnt thing I would notice much difference in light capture but you really can see a difference between the old round rubber cheapy and this new one.
So many people have said how good it is. The write up I read went on about how the clearence between lens and hood kept the odd small shower of rain off of the lens too. Should be interesting if it does.

Excuse pleeeez the photie quality...took them on an XDA....say no more.





Changing the subject matter somewhat for a mo.....
Nice to see that spculation is hotting up in the press and on tv regarding Mr.Wayne Roony.
My sympathies are with him big time. I have no interest in football usually, but seeing his face on the news at the time he had the "incident" one couldnt help but feel sorry for him having his prospect of playing in the world cup instantly shattered. He's been working so hard apparently that it just isn't fair. I hope by some miracle he is able to play at some point during the WCup even if he which is likely misses the Vers Germany game.



I'm off as I've had my fill of Tuesday 30th May 2006.

Monday, April 17, 2006

HAPPINESS, CHOCOLATE (TOO MUCH), MOUNTAIN BIKE...SUMMMERTIME

Ok...
Woke up this morning with the same thought as I crashed out with...."I need to loose some weight"
In all honesty, I've been thinking about it alot lately...although I've never actually stopped by the roadside of introspection and pondered to the point of actually doing something about it. Change (wanting too anyway) has got to be the keyword now, and not just wishing.
I like my food tooooo much and although I have more or less cut out smoking...(I have a secret cigarette some nights when I'm watching the box) theres a great deal of other things I will have to start concentrating on. I bought rather a neat mountain bike that cost (no comment).£*** early this year and since I last used it its been gathering cobwebs and the odd bit of rust ever since. So todays mission (not) impossible is to WALK to ones mothers and go get me my bike.
Got a million and one mtv vids and tracks on PDA file so I can listen and start peddling...LOL and start the health ball rolling.
Right now I am sitting infront of the keyboard having been jamming some melody I heard on internet radio last last. Look out side....WOWZERS... THE sky is blue this morning and bright sun light is hitting every corner of my room. It can only mean one thing..........aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh
ITS SUMMER TIME....YIPPEEEEEE.
:-)

cu

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

DAY 7



DAY 7 (WEEK ONE)
I never thought that quiting smoking and actually being consciously SERIOUS about giving up for good, would be so damn hard.
Ok so its only been one week. But I still crave a cigarette like you wouldnt believe. Not all the time I grant you, but when the boredom bug kicks in that's when it gets difficult to switch off.
I have given up smoking so I can restart my like and loose the cought, go back to kick boxing (and stay there this time...LOL), carry my daughter who loves daddy to chauffer her around like a human taxi, start running, go fo long cycle rides on the expensive mountain bike thats been in limbo for a long time now.
Most importantly...I want to live as long as possible so I can meet my grandchildren should my daughter grow up and have kids of her own.
At the moment, the mornings are noticably easier, I do however get the odd headache first thing before I have the first nescafe goldblend of the day, but the cough has gone and I can breath freely without any wheezing that most get after a while from smoking.
I know I wont go back to it, but its just finding something to occupy the moments of bordom when that craving kicks in like a long lost friend knocking on the door.
I digress.
bye bye

Monday, April 03, 2006

DAY 6


DAY 6
Left headphones on last night as I woke up from a really vivid dream. Space ships in the shape of blue crystalline stars with tiny revolving windows came down in multitudes and picked up everyone living in the street I lived in in the dream and took us all on a journey.
We were all ported to a destination of a simple cinema in some far off small town. We all sat unable to move watching in shock as the film began to roll. On the screen came up a title which I remember was far too tiny to read. When the film started, several silver non human like robots were seen zooming around, some flying, some walking and some upside down just staring at the camera. What happened next was weird. As one by one each row of us were released from whatever force was holding us from moving, a large group of terrorist like robots dressed strangely in USA military special forces garb came running down the ails.
We were forced to defend ourselves as they fired a lazier like weapon at us. No one was hurt by it but we attacked them with serious force and deemed them motionless and unable to compute like a bunch of spent batteries.
Soon after that, the main exit doors opened up at the front of the cinema and we all ran out to the what we thought was the bright light of the sunshine. As soon as the last few of us steps out, the doors slammed shut and the light was instantly switched off to reveal another space craft...Doors wide open...Two large human beings in appearance beckoning us all to enter the ship.
We saw on walking into the ship as we passed the two that they had no faces, just a tiny plastic mesh that lit up when they spoke. One kept calling the other mr.president, which seemed odd to us. Several of our group were growing increasingly angry at what was happening and wanted to go back home.
shortly after this we all found ourselves materialized in a car park somewhere in America. But unlike the America of reality, this america was full of arabian dressed people, all covered up from head to toe in black material. No one was distinguishable from the other. As several of us watched this bizzare vision from the overhang of the carpark wall, we heard a rush of air growing louder and louder accompanied by a flash of fire that went up and up into the air. The space craft had left us here and was gone as quick as it had first turned up in out street.
We waited chatting about, and I remember one lady who came over to me and sharing a pack of Marks and Spencer prawn cocktail sandwhitches with brown bread and asked me where I wished I was right now.
I looked at her and was captivated by her calmness and truthful glint eminating from her deep blue eyes. I answered home. She asked me if I was sure. So I said I wasnt sure.
At that moment another space craft appeared out of nowhere and planted inself literally inches away from the two of us.
The rest is lost as I woke up/
Anyway.....its day six of my non smoking new life. Its hard as hell even with patches to help but I am pretty confident that I will be able to move to the next stage in a week or two. Diet and nutrition complete change BIG TIME CHANGE and the kickboxing again where I left off, together with mountain biking once again. Or at least an early morning and early evening lost distance ride to both build up my out of sync body and build my fitness level again.
I digress' although the thought for the day is....I hope that smoking appearing in films and television programs will soon be a thing of the past. The reason being that watching a dvd yesterday brought strong feeling back of wanting a cigarette just from seeing a ficticious charactor smoking on screen
I digress.
cu

Sunday, April 02, 2006

DAY 5


Day five
Well, its now the start of day five. I woke up for the first time today not even feeling remotely like I need a cigarette which is a relief. Yesterday was a whole different ball games. I took my daughter for a day out and we both had a great time.
I cant remember a moment when she wasn't smiling or haoiily pointing things out like children do. It was only on the crazy golf course at a local seaside resort that I began to want a cigarette.
Luckily I managed to scoff down some sweets that we BOTH finished off....LOL and the craving had gone.
Night times seem to be the worst time of all and that I guess is down to boredom and getting accustomed to no longer having a little stick of tobacco rolled up in a piece of paper that I now have to deal with at times.
This is the first time I have done this without a sense of realizing that I might go back to smoking.
Health is the highest on the list to why this is now a committed decision for me to see it through.
I realize that there IS no turning back now and that is that.
I'm getting my mountain bike from out of storage later today. I intend to start phase two of my "5 point Personal health project". The next stage is diet, exercise and mentail wellbeing.
Oh well, I'm now being summoned by ones beautiful and wonderful daughter whose just awoken up so its off from the laptop and in to the kitchen for breakfast time.
Wish me luck. (don't actually need it as I have willpower enough to reach where I need to get too)
cue

Friday, March 31, 2006

DAY 1 to 4

Days one through four
....have just recieved my first metaphorical post card from my body having sent it on a first class non stop one a way tick to that place I've been wanting to send it to for so long
"EndOfsmokin City"

I've got to say that on this side of the fence the sun seems to shine a whole lot more, the air smells sweeert, mornings are brighter, AND WAKING UP WITH A YEARNING FOR NICOTINE is now fast becoming a distant tasteless memory.

I've got to say, the feeling of being able to run and not walk places with a cigarette hanging out my mouth is simply wonderful. I still want one now and again and I guess I will for a few more days. But...I actually suprised myself today beyond words. I had a problem that really annoyed me, I wont go into the details but rest assured I sorted it out with a little relaxed reading of "The Flash MX Bibile"and took care of it before I allowed that little craving feeling which still echoes in my mind to become something harder to handle.
I am pretty happy right now. Several people lately have begun to take notice of what I have been through and achieved this past few year and have even called me to say so which pushes my self esteem well over the 10 out of 10 barrier that only usually hits when one gets a nice smile from a beautiful lady, or on a day when the scales are being kind...he he he

I'm off now to steal (borrow!!) one of my little ones easter egg stay that has been hidden away for easter.

cu

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

THESE ARE CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY...."CRAZY NIGHTS"

Having got home yesterday and fallen asleep for quite a while I awoke to get on with the task in hand that I had sticky noted in BIG LETTERS by my bed.
I have not even finished the task and it is now 9:37am the next day.

The task in question without wishing to go into to much detail involves my (legally) reincoding an episode of the comedy South Park.
It is for use with Adobe Premier at college and because of which and the silly way in which Premier (maybe not silly) exepts only avi raw. Now this is fine until you find that you video tape is no good and you have to reincode direct with out any encoders. This too is fine until you find that the finished file (by which time it is 1:34am in the morning) is over 3gb in total.
Now I gave this some thought and being tired I decided a quick burn to cd would do the trick. Well.....WRONG...as I dropped the external DVD/CD writer on the kitchen floor. Long story short and after much tired deliberation....I decided I needed to fix it AT GONE 1AM IN THE MORNING.
I did fix it having replaced a tiny transit motor from my old internal one from way back (thanks be to god for giving me the foresight to save it in the bottom draw.)

Now heres the even crazier part. I managed to sort it to disc in five disc or so I had thought. But 3 hours later and much coffee later at 3am or there abouts.....two of the discs had not worked. So running out of discs I decided to burn what I had and take it from there.

Next....computer crashes and had to do a restart into safe mode as something which I still dont know what stopped the whole thing from working.
In the end....I got four of the five discs recorded (just for one episode of South Park that would have otherwise been under 40mb!!!! AHHHHHHH)

And placed the last 600mb to a SD media card.

So right now I am about to get ready to go to the early editing session with my other two chums in our group....my bestest friend has lost her phone so I can not find anyway to let her know that I may be late burning this other emergency fall back DVD disc of the said episode.
The other never bothered to give me her number. Just an email address.

I just hope and pray that god has been watching me and the gates of heaven with be accompanied with lots of hugs and cuddles and my favorite chocolate bar when I go there at the end of this sometimes hard life as I feel undoubtably that I am a HELL OF A GOOD CHAP AND DO MORE THAN MY FAIR SHARE OF GOOD TURNS FOR PEOPLE EVEN THOUGH I ASK NOTHING IN RETURN.

Later on today I will re edit this blog with the photos I had the brains to record onto my phone as I kept thinking this morning in the early hours that NO ONE WILL EVER BELIEVE THE HASTLE AND BRAINACHE THIS MISSION HAS CAUSED ME AND HOW I HAVE STOOD BY AND DONE THE BEST I COULD WITH THE BEST OPTIONS AVAILBLE.....I DIGRESS.