Of Silence

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a sad day. My Toshiba Tecra M4 laptop has died. Please hold a minute's silence for it.

Thank you.

As to what happened... well I'm not sure. Was working fine one day, not booting the next. I hit the power switch, get a second of HDD activity then nothing. I don't get the Toshiba boot screen or a POST, just a black screen. I've had it apart and checked all connections. Disconnected and reconnected the the RTC battery. Made sure the power connections are ok. But it seems to have died a strange and mysterious death.

I can't even find any info on the intertubes on the problem or how I might fix it. And I refuse to pay stupid prices to get it repaired, just doesn't seem worth it for a two year old laptop that's completely outdated really now.

So it's laptop hunting time! If I'm honest I have my eyes on a MacBook Pro, but we'll see what we can find! If there are any suggestions for mid range laptops then please let me know. Needs to be more than capable of handling web design software, image editing software and some gaming once in a while. HL2 level.

Mmm MacBook...

Of Design Block and Stargates

Whoa, I'm on Season 8 of Stargate SG-1. Never watched all the way through before and it's soooooo good. Can't wait to watch Atlantis and the new films, The Art of Truth and Continuum. I guess by watching all this it does kinda prove that I am a geek. Still, I can live with that.

On other breaking news. I have a complete design block. I have several websites I need to come up with a design for, including my own, yet I can't find anything. I try and design and it just looks terrible. I look around for inspiration, and I'm finding some fantastic stuff, but no lightening blots are striking me with amazing ideas. And that just sucks! Ah well, I'll just keep trying and I'm sure I'll find something eventually. It's what happened with version 4 of WindFall, I went through several idea iterations before I found something that worked. Maybe it will happen again!

Of Websites

It's amazing. I start talking about setting up a web design company with a friend and all of a sudden I get a few offers given to me! I'm not complaining, just surprised! All fairly small ones, but then that's what we need at the moment until we are ready. We haven't even got a design of our own at the moment so we have a lot to work on.

So hopefully we can get these done and looking good and working well and then we have a few sites under our belt and something we can show then hopefully we can get some more to do and we can make some monies! Yays!

I'll update as and when with the progress of our company. I may even document what we go through to get up and running, what it costs etc. Might be interesting for anyone else who is thinking about setting up a company.

Who knows if it would be any use or not but I'll do it anyway and then I can just carry on getting ignored by the majority of the intertubes like I do anyway.

Yays.

Of Simply Noise

Today I read a post on LifeHacker about the website SimplyNoise. It's a white noise generator that you can listen to through you browser. At first I thought it would just be annoying and low and behold it was. However, after listening to it for a few minutes it's become quite soothing. It's really very strange that such a rough noise, you might call it, can actually become soothing and nice to listen to. I have some chill out music on in the back ground as well. Currently Caradmar - No More Sleep running of Last.fm so all in all, this morning isn't feeling that bad even with the shite weather outside!

Jump to: LifeHacker
Jump to: SimpleNoise

Of Many Things

I've been told to get my arse in gear and start posting again on here. I was going to do some quick photo posts the other day but phone (SE K850i) has died on me and is currently being repaired by small monkeys with large tools. And thus I haven't been able to do it. The phone I have been using is my old Nokia 3410! It's about 8 years old or so I think. I can't remember when I bought it!

Moving on though, the things I were going to photo-blog about are...

I have the new Final Fantasy! Crisis Core for the PSP. It's fantastic and I was going to take a couple of photos of it because I have the limited edition version which comes with a hardback artwork book. Fantastic game, completed it in 21.5 hours so not anywhere near the length of the full games, but it is for a hand held console. Still, it is amazing and I recommend playing it.

The second thing I was going to blog about is the new sculpture the university has erected in the library courtyard. It's... reflective. The entire thing is chromed up apart from a couple of stone looking touches. I will grab a couple of photos at some point and post them. I actually quite like it and it's better than the other lumps of rusty metal that are plonked on the front end of the university.

In other news I have been racking my brains for a new webdesign company name. As I blogged a little while ago, someone else is using WindFall Designs now so I'm having to change. A friend and I are going to team up as we are good at different things. He's a much better PHP, etc coder than I and I'd like to think I'm a better designer then he. So fingers crossed, working together we may actually get somewhere!

Now, I hope this satisfies my friend Richard (the one who told me to get my arse in gear) and if he doesn't comment then I shall break out my l33t hax0r skillz on his pasty white ass.

For now... bai!