- I’ve got soul but i’m not a soldering iron. #
- Would you expect an off license to be open early because it’s valentines day? I’d rather prefer it to be shut. #
- All I had growing up was my RE teacher telling me I was a right hand man. Oh how different it would’ve been with this http://bit.ly/d32cWf #
- Anyone watching the superbowl – come on favre!!! #
- I think therefore i wish i wouldn’t. #
- My own Radio1 road trip? In a car, going nowhere in particular listening to Driving with the brakes on by Del Amitri. #
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Updated to WordPress 2.9
Well today I awoke to find news of the latest release of WordPress. A quick read-through of the changes sure brought a smile to my face. I’ve been a little out of the WP loop (pun… slightly intended), and had just started using my installation as the be all and end all of my site, the reliable and durable blog/cms I could safely keep coming back to. Instead of viewing it, as I do most other scripts I use and tinker with (often from opensourcecms.com), as a new chance to stretch my coding muscles – my eyes, fingers and brain I suppose!
Making Vista and Linux get along
As I said in my previous post I’ve recently got a nice shiny new laptop. It came with Vista and so far I’ve left it on there. I have a few games which I don’t yet dare try and get running in Linux so a multiboot system will suffice for now.
Unfortunately, Windows Update doesn’t like this, specifically when it comes to installing service packs. I actually want service pack 2 for my laptop as it brings in better support for my BlueRay drive. What I need is to find a way to make my Linux and Windows installations more cosy with one another.
The way to do this is to give the Windows partition the boot flag, booting its manager and
selecting either Windows or Linux from there. Otherwise when the Vista update scans the boot manager it finds grub and gets, quite rightly I suppose, a little confused.
To setup your multiboot computer to get around this, read my tutorial.
Gone but not for long
Please bear with me, I’d hoped the transition between my old host and my new one would be smoother than this but due to unforeseen circumstances some aspects have taken longer than they ought to have done. Bendavis.me will be back on soon.
In addition, my apologies for the lack of posts lately. Amongst other things I’ve really not been well, a recent bout with kidney stones has laid me low but I feel it’s time now to get back on top… so to speak. I have new toys too (laptop and phone), time I did something with them! Soon as I get Ubuntu set up of course. It spent last night defragging that pesky NTFS partition so today I can resize and free some hard drive space. I’m biting my nails when it comes to graphics support (I’ve always used nvidia in the past, this laptop has a Radeon 3450) but I’m sure it will handle things immaculately.
One thing this HP Laptop
That’s all for now, you should see this site return to it’s former state over the next few days. In the mean time I apologise for missing links – sorry!
EDIT
Ok, so I’ve finished moving bendavis.me to my new domain manager and host so the site is back! All I need to do is change the theme. It’s not autumn any more… time for a new look. Expect my style’s to be in flux for a while as I jangle about in the back (metaphorically) trying to plug the Christmas lights in.
Tweeted this week 2009-12-06
- RT: @isohunt Leave piracy to the pros, woman. </sarcasm> http://bit.ly/7ytI2B #
- People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. #
Tweeted this week 2009-11-15
- What a taste of my childhood: A cheese and pickle sandwich! #
Channel 4 goes 3D :: get those sexy specs out
Coming this November – old school 3D on Channel 4.
If you’ve not yet seen the adverts Channel 4 will be featuring 3d specific programs; the highlight of which is set to be Derren Brown’s 3D Spectacular.
In addition programs a “whole heap of 3D films” will be broadcast too.
Also, C4 are after your 3D films and video clips! Even if you don’t have a 3D camera (can’t remember ever putting one on my christmas list..) there’s a really helpful video showing you how to make a 3d video. If you want to see the creations of other buddy movie-makers add this string to a youtube search to show you only 3d clips: yt3d:enable=true
If you’re interested more in just watching 3D you can pick up the needed glasses in participating Sainsburys shops sometime soon. For more information, check out the links below at the C4 website.
Channel 4 – Programs – 3D week
Autumn 2009 Press and Publicity.
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