http://www.darfuria.com Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:44:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Instead of updating my previous post I thought I would post a new one as I have an iphone now, and am actually using the wordpress application to write this entry. I'm not going to spend ages writing a review; I'm just going to say one thing: it is awesome. ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/iphone I realise I haven't written in my blog for a while. I don't think I've had a lot to write about; well, nothing funny at least. I could have updated it every day with ranting and raving about the ongoings during employed life, but then it'd turn into something more ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/in-pursuit-of-an-iphone Well, I finally got myself a job. It's nothing fantastic - I'm just working at a company called Sitel (who I believe used to be called, or now have something to do with Client Logic). It's basically a tech support call centre. They outsource support for various companies, such as ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/work You cuddle up to that special person in the warmth of your soft bed. You drift deep into a sleep after a long day, and let dreams flow through your mind. You awake to find yourself kicking in water. It's dark. You can see the depths of a swimming pool surrounding you through the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/imagine It has been quite a while since I went browsing for fonts, but a website I have been developing recently brought on the need to have a look around. It has always bewildered me, the various names that fonts have. Whilst looking through a free font website, I found two ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/font-browsing It's tiny, but that bed deck is so awesome! http://exeter.gumtree.com/exeter/86/26166086.html http://www.darfuria.com/blog/awesome-apartment It has been a little while since I have posted anything, and an even longer while since I have posted anything worth reading, so I thought I'd have a bit of a rant about the things that are getting to me right now. Idioms. I fucking hate idioms. Even the definition ... http://www.darfuria.com/rants/big-pile-of-hate For a long time dogs have always been regarded as "man's best friend", I've never really understood why. Due to various complications, my cat has been taken back to the old house, and it's with this that I have come to understand why that is said. When I was 9 years old ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/mans-best-friend This week is starting to get interesting. On Tuesday the 8th I had a call from an agency about a web developer position at a company called Toucan Design. I said that I was interested, and 30 minutes later, they had hooked me up with an interview for Tuesday 15th. I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/interviews It has all been rather quiet around here recently, which is a shame. I had the dying hope that some of you readers would actually backtrack through some of my posts (well, as many as you could until I fix the archive pages) and leave me some comments, but alas ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/hello-world Last weekend Mum, Tallis and I moved out of the house that I have been living in for too many years, and moved to a bigger house closer to town, and civilisation. It was all rather unexpected and quite sudden, but we managed to get it all sorted, and now ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/moving-house Earlier this year I bought tickets for myself and Tallis to go to Download festival. I'd never been to a festival before, and had heard that whilst Reading has the better line up, Download has a much nicer, friendlier atmosphere. Reading tickets were sold out anyway, so instead of searching ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/download-festival-08 Isn't it odd, the way good things come in blocks? 6 years ago, I think, I moved to the house I live in now with my Mum. I didn't want to move here. Hell, I don't think she wanted to move here, but we had no choice, we needed a house. ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/chunky-joy You know when you get really fucking angry and you wish you could actually do some sort of crazy Dragonball-Z adrenaline-type thing, and practically explode with spiky blond hair and destroy a fucking city? Yeah, that's how I feel after using Vista. The developers of the world's most pathetic operating ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/vista-die Yesterday I returned to Exeter from the camping trip I went on, on Tuesday. Tallis and I packed up our stuff and set out for Moretonhampstead - a village not far from Exeter - to head to the Spirit of Music, a small music-appreciation festival that is hosted twice per ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/spirit-of-music The latest release of WordPress, version 2.5, introduced a pretty big redesign of the dashboard. A few new features were thrown in as well, such as the option to upload multiple images to a post and then display all images attached to the post simply by typing gallery (in square ... http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/wordpress-gallery-shortcode Popular retail website Play has recently been redesigned. I don't exactly know why, the website functioned pretty decently, and it looked quite nice. Regardless, some idiot has gotten their hands on it, and look at what has happened! Aside from the various spelling errors around, such as "By 3 classic PC ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/play-dot-com-find-dot-where The weekend just gone was rather a good one for gigs. Having seen Pendulum on Sunday, Tallis and I also went to see Skindred on Sunday. They were supported by a few local bands, all of which are working their way up, so it was great to see some friends ... http://www.darfuria.com/audiovideo/skindred Last night Tallis and I went to the great hall, a venue on the Exeter University campus, to see Pendulum. They were performing as a band, rather than DJing their music, which I was a bit hesitant about seeing - but after the support DJs cleared the stage and they ... http://www.darfuria.com/audiovideo/pendulum It's rare that I will blog about my life at home. Sure, I'll write about what has been going on, but I won't really go into detail about what its like to live in this house; some things are just better left unwritten. This weekend just gone I spent in Luton, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/back-to-the-hate A short while the wall broke my mobile phone, which was the result of a lapse of momentary rage; it happens. Due to the lack of money to afford an iPhone, I had to go on a bit of a hunt for a cheap phone. Part of me was tempted ... http://www.darfuria.com/rants/nokia-2760 As some of you may know, GTAIV was released a few days ago - something I have been looking forward to for a while. I pre-ordered the game on Play the day before it was due for release. I knew I wouldn't be getting a copy anytime soon, but I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/being-friendly-money-money It's funny how, in one thing not happening, a whole other stream of things occur, which eventually conclude in a given period of time later. I'm taking Tallis and myself to Download festival this year. I hadn't yet booked the train tickets, until today. I would have booked them on Saturday, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/raileasy-dot-co-dot-uk After giving up with Tiscali, who have been our ISP for a few years, we made the change to Sky Broadband. It's a funny story actually. I contacted Tiscali in March some time, requesting a connection upgrade. We were paying £15/month for an unlimited 1Mb connection. I noticed they were no ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/new-connection Recently I have begun to embark upon a quest to obtain minimalism in my life. I have set about this by ridding myself of any physical property that I no longer need, or can otherwise be replaced. For example, I recently sold a lot of my PC games, and a ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/becoming-a-minimalist T-shirts are a really interesting method of memorising events. When ever you go to an event such as a concert or a festival, merchandise such as t-shirts and hoodies will be on sale, and it is obviously rather popular to purchase such a thing. I've not been to a huge amount ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/t-shirt-collecting I have tried ignoring this, really I have. I have tried putting it to one side and just convincing myself that I'm a very observant person, and that it actually happens to everybody; they just don't notice it, but it is beginning to get stupid now. About a year ago, I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/coincidence-haunts-me I was originally going to go for a website theme that had boxes that were a random colour, but I couldn't find a colour scheme that I liked to do it with, so instead I've gone with this. As you can see, it's not completed, but it is finished enough ... http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/fallen-leaves I am currently sat in a dark room, my eyes beginning to hurt because there is no lightbulb in here, and my lamp recently broke, and my 24" TFT emits an absurd amount of light. I'm feeling quite depressed. There's nothing wrong, really, I'm just so incredibly fed up and ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/nice Erik Mongrain is a Canadian composer who plays the guitar using the lap-tapping technique. The guitar is tuned down, and the technique produces some fantastic sounds that you don't get from standard guitar playing. His album, Fates, was released last year and is a truly beautiful piece of work. Purely for ... http://www.darfuria.com/audiovideo/erik-mongrain-fates Have you ever wanted to fill in one of those boxes on MySpace with all of the music you listen to, or simply show off your MP3 collection to a friend without screenshotting? I wanted to list all of the artists in my MP3 folder today, so I did a ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/a-list-of-files April Fool's day is one of my favourite celebratory days of the year, because it's quite different from the others. Instead of buying gifts for each other, or telling people we love them, we search the deepest depths of our bastard selves to try and come up with something cunning, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/april-fools-2 I was walking home at about 2am this morning, after quite a heavy night out. Naturally, I bought a horrible burger from the food van on the way home; I'm not entirely sure why. When I had finished it, I threw the napkin on the floor. I was at the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/drunken-proverbs IS YOUR BAND LOOKING FOR SOMETHING BETTER THAN MYSPACE? That is what is going to be written in big letters across the poster that I will eventually get around to designing. I'm going to stick said poster in the windows of places such as Mansons guitar shop, and various other places, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/is-your-band-looking-for-something-more-professional-than-myspace I haven't had much to write about of late, hence the lack of posting. I've always wanted something to instantly send me to sleep, which didn't have any side effects. Tallis suggested a simple button that sent you to sleep, which I think is a fantastic idea. When ever I get into ... http://www.darfuria.com/inventions/sleep-button Have you ever just been sat, minding your own, drifting through the ether of life, waiting for something to happen, when a flood of self-realisation and understanding just fills your mind, and you are left with the sickening taste of wishful thinking being washed away by prolonged depression? It's sort ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/snap It's very rare that I blog about music or video, which is odd, as I spend a lot of my time listening to music and watching movies and series. Radiohead's latest album, In Rainbows, is fantastic. It's very different to their normal work, but very samey at the same time. Generally ... http://www.darfuria.com/audiovideo/radiohead-in-rainbows I believe very strongly that physical punishment should return to schools. I think it would do students so many favours, if they were threatened to be hit by someone with a metal weapon if they stepped out of line. However, things like this make me wish that capital punishment was ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/capital-punishment I finally gave in to my Mother's constant hassling and made a claim for job seeker's allowance. I have been quite stubborn, as I haven't been working since September, and haven't been contributing much to any of the household finances, but I had my own reasons for not wanting to ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/goodbye-sanity Just a quick update. I haven't heard anything from the agency that took me through to the interview with the SEO company, and that was over a week ago now. They're actually being completely useless, as I've tried to contact the guy who was dealing with it countless times by ... http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/i-am-the-guitar-hero In fact, I wish I could just sit down and learn Java, .Net and everything else really quickly. They're so dull, but the salary for the jobs requiring them is fantastic. http://www.darfuria.com/blog/thats-it-im-learning-java Can't even think of a post title for this. The last few days have been rather hectic, in a rather bizarre way. I had an interview in Torquay on Monday. I was feeling quite confident about the job, working for an SEO company. I had a map sorted, and directions, I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/just-yeah Since I made my last template, I have used WordPress a lot more, and have learnt a lot of new things. Because of this, I have decided to make my very own template from scratch, and put the new things I can do to use. Here is a screenshot of the ... http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/new-template-2 I love it when witty people promote their excellence by adding small bits of text in unexpected places. For example, Tallis and I went to a café a little while ago, and found these sugar packets, which I think are brilliant. Kudos to the person/people who came up with these. ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/sugar-packets Nemphtis, the leader of EDGE UK decided to go for a re-design a while back. We went through the throws of designing templates for the new website, which was planned to go live with a new name, but didn't like anything we came up with. Eventually Nemphtis decided to settle ... http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/zetzio When I was a lot younger I had a dog. My Mum and I would often take him on walks near one of the university campuses which was close to the house we were living in at the time. Sometimes, if we went in the evening, we would see a ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/basking-in-the-sunrise-of-my-memories The title for this post was actually going to be "Where's the [word]", but I couldn't think of a word that quite describes what I have clearly lost, or at least not found. I seem to be slipping further into apathy and lethargy lately, and no matter how much desire I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/where The few of you who read my blog on a regular basis may well know that I write for RewiredMind. It has recently been re-designed, and has a slightly new focus. Due to this, I have removed my reviews category. You can find my RewiredMind author profile here, which links ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/rewiredmind-re-designed-catching-up It has been a long, long time since I got any chain mail. I'm not sure if this is because my spam filter is picking it all up, or people have actually become so stupid that they no longer know how to click the forward button, and thus can't send ... http://www.darfuria.com/chain-mail/2008-chain-mail I finally upgraded to WordPress 2.3 and I put a somewhat minimalist theme together. I'll make a few changes, but I quite like the simplicity of it. http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/template-upgrade Has it ever occurred to you that cats are entirely incapable of imagining that there is nothing interesting behind a closed door? It's as if they believe that if a door is closed, somebody is hiding something interesting from them, and from that moment onwards they make it their soul ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/cat-speak My friend TigerDX pointed me to this website, which basically translates the text you input back and fourth from English through 5 different languages. It displays the result of each translation so that you can see the stages. The results are very, very funny. Here are some of mine: Original English Text: If ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/lost-in-translation Interjections generally have no grammatical purpose, and are just used to express emotion, yet when you speak to someone online, typically the word "lol" is uttered more time than you'd imagine the participants of a conversation to be able to laugh. Therefore, I am going to (attempt to) abstain from using ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/lol-abstinence A few weeks ago I bought Guitar Hero 3 off of a friend. I've never really played it much, but when I got it playing through it on Medium wasn't overly challenging, though there were a few struggle moments. However, I did get a weird RSI that I have never ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/is-guitar-hero-harder-for-guitarists Why do people see it necessary to walk around, and get everyone else to walk around, as if they just spent the night stretching their cheeks across their face in an attempt to win the annual freak teeth-exposure competition? I'm not fucking depressed, okay?  I just don't see the need to ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/smile As many of you know I went for an interview and got the job working as a Copy Processor at the local newspaper office. I started on Monday. The office is huge, and I mean huge. It reminded me of the typical American offices you see in movies, only without the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/my-first-day I had to take a few typing speed tests recently, but coincidentally my friend Nemphtis linked me to this one, which I haven't seen before. Here is my result (first go): People are often surprised by my typing speed. I suppose some of the speed and dexterity come from playing the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/typing-speed As you may or may not know, I have been floating around in the unemployed world for the past few months. It hasn't been all bad, but unfortunately there aren't many companies that want to employ an 18 year old that is aspiring to be a journalist/website developer without the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/new-jobbie Tallis and I watched the new Disney movie, Enchanted, earlier. It was basically a congolmeration of Snow White, Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella, mixed with some of The Grinch, with some of its own sickeningly cheesy traits. Don't get me wrong, I love Disney. The Jungle Book was fantastic, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/film-producers-seem-to-be-shitting-ribbons I have often remarked on how I really hate people who are spontaneously violent for absolutely no reason. People who would rather hit you first and ask questions later. People like that don't deserve to walk on this planet, and I hope that if there is an afterlife, they spend ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/pointless-violence This is just a test post to see if the two new plugins I have installed are working. MySpace Crossposter posts a link to my blog entries everytime I post here. Wordbook does pretty much the same thing, but on my Facebook profile. Hopefully this will bring some more people my way. http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/two-new-plugins I really fucking hate it when people use excessive amounts of deep slang, especially as adjectives and interjections. Not only does sound completely stupid, but it actually makes no sense at all. I was reading through a forum not so long ago, and there is a thread where people are discussing ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/slang I have been blogging for two years now. Hurray! http://www.darfuria.com/blog/2-years The January sales are a bit cruel, I think. People go out and spend lots of money on friends and family, only to see items they purchased not two weeks ago for half the price. Regardless, being quite the hardware and technology enthusiast, I'm always wanting to purchase something new. I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/i-like-stuff I just wanted to take the time to reflect on the year that has passed, and generally have a bit of a Christmas rant before I completely lose all opportunity to do so. I'm not a huge Christmas person anymore. I've transcended beyond the age where it is a really exciting ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/auld-lang-sigh To start on a complete tangent, and remark on something completely unrelated to the title of this post, I frequently sit in the #WordPress chatroom. It's quite a popular room, and 95% of the people there have their own blogs and such. Just checking out blogs that other people run ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/valuable-lessons I didn't think I would be returning to this topic so soon, but oh my GOD! Social networking websites are just annoying me even more right now, and I feel like fucking ranting about it, okay!? Yes, I swear a lot. Lack of vocabulary? I think not! This is a little ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/social-netfucking-2 I reinstalled Windows on my desktop machine during the early hours of this morning. It was about time for me to do it. Annoyingly when I was moving things to backup from my C: drive to my E: drive, I copied my htdocs folder across, which contains all of the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/oops Well, having already written this post once and then receiving an error saying that my IP address is blacklisted due to being involved in malicious or illegal activity. The error forwarded me to a website that helpfully gave me directions to email my web admin (me) if I couldn't fix ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/swamped The title of the next version of the Darfuria website. If you're not aware, this one is called "a life without dreams is mind-numbingly monotonous", which is pretty obvious considering it's in the header. The new version will bring a new design to the website. A design by myself, instead of ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/real-life-is-for-people-with-nothing-better-to-do Social networking websites have grown over the past few years. Gone are the days where we give people our phone numbers, and instead we give them a link to our MySpace profile. Fantastic. I'm sure you've seen MySpace. Personally I don't think that I've never seen such a collection of beauty. ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/social-netfucking Through my entire blogging life, I don't think I have ever posted about how annoying I find the immaturity of people in their late-teens who act like they are still in high school. This has to be one of the most irritating things that frustrates every single nerve cell in ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/dartopia I want a little chef that will make me a little sandwich in a little kitchen. He will take the little bag of little bread out of a little cupboard and put it on the little work top. Then he will take a little slice of little bread out of ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/little-chef I don't really have anything to say, I'm just typing for the sake of moving my fingers so that I don't drift into a coma of emotionless detachment. Is it 'into' or 'in to'? I guess 'into' would be 'I turned him into a frog', and 'in to' would be ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/a-load-of-intangible-nonsense Right now I'm feeling kind of weird. Weird aside from the odd feeling I get whenever I use my laptop, which I really don't understand. Tallis told me yesterday that tomorrow (today) will be the first day since the day we met that we won't see each other. She is ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/a-numb-stinging-sensation I used to watch the news every day when I ate dinner, but now I rarely catch it all. I was actually told by someone in Ireland that we had a new Prime Minister. However, some news I do catch. Thanks to the brilliance of Google, my home page displays ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/news-stories Tallis and I joined a few friends to go to a private Birthday party at The Bishop Blaize last night. I've never taken photos of fireworks before, and unfortunately we were a bit too close to the display to be able to take photographs easily. Some of them turned out nicely, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/the-bishop-blaize-fireworks It has come to that time of year again. The time of year where so many families buy those shitty party boxes of fireworks. I live at the edge of Exeter, quite high up, so I have an excellent view of a horizon that could be littered with gorgeous explosions. ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/remember-remember I have been looking for a job for a while now, as, contrary to common belief, I do actually want to be employed. A little while back I applied for a position reviewing and writing guides for instant messaging applications at about.com. I forgot all about the fact that I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/the-job-hunt I've mentioned countless times that travelling on the bus without my MP3 player is a fantastic way to provoke a game of "ruthlessly stab the passengers" in my head. However, I really don't think I've quite emphasised enough how much the general high-pitched rhetorical condescension that spews from the parent's ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/moar-ranting I've added a nice WYSIWYG editor to the comments so that you can do crazy things like format your text. Yay! http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/tinymce-comments This post is going to be a bit of a diary entry, but nevermind. Ever since I was about 11 years old, I can remember my body completely negleting the standard sleeping pattern. I would be able to sleep normally, although for my whole life I have been terrible with mornings, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/insomnia I hate figures of speech. They are the verbal bullet wounds that plague this world with their rhetorical inconsistency. They annoy me. I was on the bus earlier and the idiots behind me were talking about what they had bought at the shop recently. One of them said: "I bought 3 DVDs ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/figures-of-speech Well, another action-packed weekend is behind me, and I don't really have much to rant about. Well nothing besides the fact that my camera seems to give the impression that everyone is horribly stoned. We're not really. The lighting in most of the pictures was simply terrible, and hey, I'm ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/red-eye You know that feeling you get when you just come back from a holiday. You know, when you walk into the house and it's almost as if the entire place seems so alien. You forget where things are and everything seems to be so grey and boring, and all you ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/boredom-wishes It has come to my attention that I haven't had a good rant for a long time. This obviously isn't a good thing, because the internet clearly isn't populated with enough consumers with accounts on third party websites babbling on about their lives. Obviously. Before the rant I haven't actually done much ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/this-is-my-rant-face One of the things that really annoys me about Windows XP - and don't even get me started on Vista - is the default system folders, and folders applications create which can't be moved. Take, for example, the My Documents folder. The path to this folder is usually something along the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/windows-organisation Well, WordPress 2.3 is out soon, which means inevitably I am going to have to update lots of installations of WordPress.I've got 5 installations of WordPress running on my server - on different domain names - so this could take a while. Times like these I wish I had that ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/update-time I'm tired of my life at the moment. In fact, I'm going to list the things I'm tired of, in no parfuckingticular order. Life Programming Attempting to design things Having a mental block on things to write Where I live My room My broken keyboard My right wrist keeps clicking My shitty internet connection Video games with very annoying AI How ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/tired Whilst making toast this morning, I suddenly got an idea for a new type of cutting board. Basically you have a rubber cutting board with a rotating shaft at one end. On this you can place a roll of clingfilm or whatever you fancy. The general idea would enable you to ... http://www.darfuria.com/inventions/next-generation-cutting-board Well, I wasn't too fond of the Gallery I was using, and Flickr sucks, so I've moved to Picasa Web (because Google is way better than Flickr). So, you can check my new gallery here: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/darfuria Also, if you have a Google account you can comment on the pictures and such. You know, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/new-image-gallery The picture says it all. http://www.darfuria.com/blog/packaging I finally made it to the bank this afternoon, after however many days I spent trying to get this whole thing sorted. I didn't actually update my last post to say that I went into town on Saturday (early afternoon) to put the money in the bank, but it was ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/finally People are the reason that everything in life, simple or otherwise, is so fucking complicated. People go around killing each other, raping each other, stealing posessions and generally being intrusive, annoying, offensive, stupid, careless, violent cunts. If you think about the amount of people there are in the world, and ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/people I went to Halfords last thursday and ordered a new bike. I wanted to buy it straight away but they needed to get it from the warehouse and build it in the shop. They said it would be ready by Monday. On Monday I went into the shop to collect ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/new-bike Inspired by http://www.bash.org/, I have made my very own quotes website (hence the quotes page disappearing). The system is functional, but still requires a bit of development for comments and moderation. Anyway, check it out: http://www.thequotesite.net/ http://www.darfuria.com/blog/the-quote-site When we enclose things in punctuation such as brackets or inverted commas, any punctuation we use inside applies to the content between the punctuation, not the content outside of it. Therefore, if I was writing a sentence, and I wrote a sentence in brackets which ended with a full stop, would ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/a-question-of-english For some bizarre reason, lots of things came flooding to me today, and I have no reason why. However, in my mind they all make sense, and right now that means one hell of a lot to me. So, I've now got a plan of what I'm going to try ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/my-plan A nice bit of CSS knowledge for Internet Explorer http://www.webdevout.net/css-hacks http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/conditional-comments I have moved my blog from the old address to darfuria.com, thus removing my website. I have done this because my blog is the only part of my website that gets any visitors, really. The website is just used as a portal to get here. So, as I have moved, it's ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/moved I don't like comics that much. I rarely find them funny. However, I found one of my favourites today after a little while of digging. It's not that funny, but it hits the spot. And I wish this were true And I wish I'd thought of this response when I was 10 ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/favourite-comic So cruel. So funny. http://www.darfuria.com/blog/slide-of-doom Although Pete posted this on his blog, I thought I would post it on mine too. I emailed him earlier saying "Lift home please?" and attached an image of a heart. After that I emailed him again saying "I know how you know I'm gay because I sent a heart in ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/crossing-the-line Another really, really useful bit of code that I have been using is in CSS. CSS have default values, and often programmers will list all of the page elements to clear these values right at the beginning of the stylesheet, like so: html, body, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, ... http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/clear-css-defaults I'm going to begin and use my Web Development category for things I find useful, things I learn and discover and simply a place to note things down for future reference. I'm not attempting to teach people how to program. The above works nicely when you're working on a server with ... http://www.darfuria.com/webdevelopment/server-document-root-solution Huzzah, my blog is now on Blog Interviewer. You can view it here. Give me a thumbs up, please :) http://www.darfuria.com/blog/blog-interviewer I am sat here with my index finger wrapped in tissue, under my bum. Not for any sort of pleasure, as you might think. I just had the most painful dinner I've ever had. Mum called me downstairs because dinner was ready. I went down to get it, and she handed ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/cuts-and-bruises This is an amusing joke that Pete sent me. A man in a hot air balloon realised he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/business-joke I made a post a little while back about the number 13. As today is Friday the 13th, and has slightly lived up to its so-called reptuation, I thought I would blog about it. Today was actually quite a weird day, and I didn't really tie the weirdness of it down ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/friday-the-13th Okay, so this is the full post about my visit to Ireland. In honesty, I don't think I'll be able to describe how amazing my trip was. I think it's just a feeling and experience which is personal to myself, and I doubt I'll ever re-live an experience like it ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/belonging-full Before my parents named me, my Dad wanted to call me Oscar Daniel Davies. Resulting from this, my initials would have been O.D.D, which obviously spell odd. Meeka's name is Marieke Anne (Francesca - her confirmation name) van der Putten. If we got married her name would be Marieke Anne Davies, and ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/an-amusing-thought I'll edit this post when I'm in any fit emotional state to write about my trip to Ireland. All I have to say right now is: Have you ever travelled to a location and been so content with your surroundings that you could call it home? http://www.darfuria.com/blog/belonging I have been reading a lot of written things lately, and I mean a lot. As a result of this, my current annoyance (which I have blogged about before, I'm sure) is excess punctuation. I mentioned before that I really like it when you see neat paragraphs of text ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/eloquence I have been toying with this idea in my mind for a week or so now, and finally decided to jump into it and register the domain name when I saw that it was available. As a video gamer, I am always interested in knowing what video games are being released, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/game-releases-dot-com Haven't had a lot of things to blog about recently. I missed my chance to take a picture of the packaging for the Zen Car Charger I ordered for my Mum's friend that said "Wireless Accessories" on it, when it clearly had a cable inside. Today's amusement, however, was quite funny: I went ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/todays-amusement The number thirteen is believed to be an unlucky number. I have never really been a follower of this common understanding, and I have never seen why people believe it to be unlucky. Perhaps it is because no matter what number you divide it by (2/3/4/5/6) there will be one ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/number-thirteen Well, after all of that messing around with passports and such, I have finally booked my flights from Exeter to Dublin, and leave on July the 2nd. Flybe charged me a bit more than I thought they would, the tickets setting me back a few pounds over £200, but nevermind; ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/flights-booked-css3 The past two years or so have been rather eventful in relation to the residents of this house. A good 6 or 7 years ago, I bought my cat (with my own £15!) Barney. He has moved with us from house to house and has never been any trouble, really. However, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/bo Well, everything has been quite eventful lately... Marieke finally got 'round to telling her Mum about me. She was very nervous about this, but it went really well, and I'm very proud of her. It's OK for me to go over and see her (so her parents don't think I'm some ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/awaiting-the-future I recently received a package in the post containing something I ordered on eBay (some awesome pyjamas, actually). The pyjamas were as I expected they would be, but the envelope was just pure awesome. It seems that the package went on its merry way around the world, starting in Thailand, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/awesome-envelope Well, after yesterday's arrival of the tricksy passport, my guess was correct. I got a text message from my Mum today saying "Your passport is here, unless it belongs to someone else...". Oh how ironic that would have been. Anyway, I got home and opened the envelope to see my shiny passport ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/passport-returned This past week or so has been quite weird. As you may or may not know, my website went down as I bought new hosting with DreamHost. I transfered the domain name to them, so the DNS had to change. I also had to unlock the domain so that DreamHost ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/wrisolation After a little bit of down time, which was a long time, but still shorter than it should have been, my website is back up. The reason it went down is because I transfered from GioUK, who has been great for the past few years, to DreamHost. I did this ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/and-im-back-2 Okay, my website'll be going down again. I'm not entirely sure for how long, though. Just bought webhosting with DreamHost to expand horisons and do some work with a friend of mine, which I'll no doubt be blogging about. Thought I might as well keep everything together, so I'll move this ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/down-time ... Batch files aren't. I have been working on a batch file at work recently. Its job is to take a named .csv file and either rename it and upload it, or upload and rename it. The main body of the file looks like this: for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%a in ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/code-is-poetry I've seen the word "passport" so many times now that it is beginning to look stupid. After countless visits to the Post Office, 3 check-throughs (only one of which they charged me for), my passport application has now been completed and sent off. Hopefully to return in 3-6 weeks. The person ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/passport-complete I've always been fascinated by language. I love vocabulary and the way that correctly-used words scintillate when you're reading. I love it when justified text aligns properly in neat blocks. I love paragraphs filled with words that roll off of the tongue and give the sense that the writer has ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/language No, not, as you might think, the back pocket on your jeans. A huge back pocket. I was heading into town today, and I had the forms for my passport (in their envelope). It was really nice and sunny today, so I wasn't wearing a coat or anything, however it occured ... http://www.darfuria.com/inventions/back-pocket On the third passport form now. And the third time that something has been done wrong. This time they tell me that some dates have to be the same, and one date can't be later than another date. Which all in all, is fair enough. However, had this been documented ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/more-passport-kerfuffle I've never much used Google Calendar, simply because it's a lot of effort to get there, and I like events to be right infront of me without having to remember to look for them. I don't have lots to put in a calendar, so it hasn't yet become a routine ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/personalised-home-calendar Recently I've been going through the process of filling in an application form to get a passport. I was previously on my Mum's, a few years ago, but haven't needed a passport since. I need one now to visit Meeka in Ireland, and generally to prove that I am 18. ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/getting-a-passport Okay. I've added a plugin which allows you to be notified of comments on a post you comment on. If you don't want to recieve notifcation either uncheck the box or don't enter your email address. Personally I quite like being notified when a post I commened on has a ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/subscribe-to-comments Decided I didn't like that last one, and wanted to try something different, so I've gone for a completely different one. This one is quite Mac inspired, but like Macs, it is very aesthetically sweet. The menus can be dragged and dropped, which is just showing off, really. Kudos go to ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/another-new-theme Okay, I've replaced my old theme (Rounded Blue) by another by the same artist (link at the bottom). I know that this one doesn't really flow with the design of my website (as my website colour scheme was based on my previous WordPress skin), but Rounded Blue had a fair ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/new-theme I have someone in mind that I want to get a cup that reads "SHUT THE FUCK UP". Do you think they'll like it? http://www.darfuria.com/blog/shut-the-fuck-up This image and news article pretty much sum up why cats kick ass. "Perhaps not since the Cowardly Lion has an animal's appearance been so at odds with its attitude. On June 4 a black bear wandered into a West Milford, New Jersey, back yard, was confronted by a 15-pound (7-kilogram) tabby ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/why-cats-kick-ass I've been thinking recently about the entire logic behind chronology, and how the implications of what we do determine outcomes for everything in eternity. A popular technology in sci-fi programs is the time machine - a device that allows one to go back in time (although in TV there's often ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/time-machines Wow, what a terrible year it has been for things breaking, or not working properly: Internet not working properly for months. New USB Flash drive breaking - lost data. USB port on back of laptop breaking. Zen charger breaking. Website going down (broken serv0rz). Mobile phone breaking. Anyway. I guess all of this will resolve: Tiscali emailed saying ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/and-im-back If you head to this page on my website, you'll see the image gallery I have set up on my website. I'll no doubt replace this when I can use Flip Gallery, however, for now it's pretty damn good. http://www.darfuria.com/blog/image-gallery A colleague at work, owner of flipflops.org, has just released his very own WordPress plugin, Flip-Gallery. It is an easy-to-use image gallery which is configurable through the WordPress dashboard. Version 0.2 is available to the public, and I'm sure he would like as many people as possible to download and ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/flip-gallery I was running a little late today (but thankfully made it into town today in time to catch the bus to work), and when I was sitting on the bus at the bottom of the hill, the driver was waiting until he was happy to leave and begin the route ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/obsession I've always enjoyed reading forums and posting on them. I feel that they're a good way of getting to know lots of information, and meeting lots of new people. They're an escape from instant messaging without escaping from communication. I'm a member of a fair few forums, and have left ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/goodbye-was-too-easy You will conform and comply, for we, Microsoft, are your God, and you are the ants of the hill of technology. We hold the magnifying glass, the sceptre of all that is right in the computing industry, and you, the crawling minions, will obey by our rules, or suffer. First the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/all-your-computers-are-belong-to-us I had to go to the dentist today for a fun checkup, which resulted in me finding out I need some dental work done. Oh the fun. Injections in the mouth aren't nice, but anyway, it's too sunny to think about that. After the dentist I had to wander up to ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/in-exeter Not really had a lot to write about recently. Life has been really good in some parts, and really shit in others. Anxious to do a lot of things this year, but I don't know whether I should wait for them to happen, or just do them; which puts me ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/anthropomorphism Snoofling, to snoofle. Yes, I have finally invented a word for that thing cats do when they push their head against and under your out-stretched arm, and that is snoofling. Quite why I came up with this word, I don't know, but it is now the definition of that action. http://www.darfuria.com/inventions/snoofling Recently my Zen stopped working on my Desktop PC. It wouldn't accept it as a device in any of the USB drives I plugged it into, although it was listed as unrecognised in device manager, which was very odd. I was able to charge it on my laptop, thankfully, but ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/annoying-bug I've recently just ventured into the lands of subscribing to RSS feeds using a very nice piece of open source software called Feedreader. It's an awesomely aesthetically minimal program which looks very nice, and works very nicely. But, what is the point in using it, you ask? Well, if you, like me, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/rss-feeds It's so comically annoying when you're talking to someone and they ask "Who?", as if to ask who you're talking about, or who was involved, when you know very well they won't even know who you're talking about. Most of the time when I'm asked this question I want to ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/who Ah, so this day has come about again, and once more I'm ontop of all the jokes. After posting mine on the forums of an Xbox clan, who's website I administrate and program, I went searching, and got linked, to many, many jokes and gags, and some of them are ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/april-fools I really, really love how customisable Google home is. I first started off with the email information, and then quote of the day and word of the day. It then moved on to the Wiki search box. I didn't investigate the various things you could add to it for a ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/google-home Well, not really explained, as this is a pretty pointless post, but it's something that I learned. I was reading through a stylesheet on a website to try and find the colour of something, and as opposed to using CSamp to find the colour my mouse is hovering over, I thought ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/hexadecimal-explained Yes, I did search the thesaurus for a word I could use in the title of this post. Today when I arrived at work, I was reminded (accidentally) that I agreed to attend a course held downstairs. Apparently its focus was on accessibility in gaming, so I seemed like the best ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/a-day-course-in-flapdoodle There are a few websites which we host for clients at work, which were developed by employees who were there a few years ago. When we have to make changes to these websites, it often involves searching through various chunks of code to do some editing, modify some variables, whatever. ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/horrible-programming Well, there are a few things that are really annoying me right now, both at home and elsewhere: My internet connection (probably the main thing) The distance between England and Ireland The constant smell of smoke, which I'm really sensitive to, at home The lack of yummy food My room (redecorate me!) The volume of the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/whats-annoying-me We all have to buy at least one card for someone during the course of a year. Often we will buy lots of cards, for varying different occasions. Mother's day, Father's day, Christmas, birthdays, get well soon, congratulations, etc. I was buying cards for Mother's day yesterday. One for my Mum, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/cards Well, due to not being able to sleep, and Meeka being online. We were bored: http://www.darfuria.com/blog/bored-at-night I went to the bathroom to have a shower, and noticed that the Argos catalogue (The Laminated Book of Dreams (Bill Bailey)) was on the side, next to the toilet. Obviously this brought me to the conclusion that somebody in the house (not me) had been reading it whilst sat ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/bathroom-reading Sometimes even the simplest things make you laugh endlessly until you're clutching your ribs. These things are the things I really appreciate. A freind of mine just linked me to the video below, and it kept me amused for a good five minutes. Note: Turn it up loud to get the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/simple-yet-funny Don't you just love those days when the weather is gorgeous? I mean, really, really gorgeous, like today was. I was lying with my eyes closed on the bus at stupid AM, heading to work. Sooner or later I am going to have a sun tan. I get to work in ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/those-days Thought I would make this post to remind myself of the damage that can be done when the electric goes, or there is a power cut. And also to make people who are obviously incapable of checking a little machine they've used for the last 18 years of their life, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/when-the-electric-goes "If you could have one super power, what would it be?" Pretty much everyone has been asked, and has answered, this question. Everyone dreams of being able to do something, or lots of things, which are currently beyond the power of humans. I'm sure everyone also lets themself drift into ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/super-power So, when Meeka told me that she was going to London to see Placebo, I thought I'd go ahead and buy a ticket. Then I found out it was in London. Whilst I'm not really bothered about travelling alone, I thought it would be nicer to go with a ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/placebo Well, to go with my uber computer of doom, I had to buy an uber mouse of doom. Well, the main reason I did this is because the left click on my oh-so-trusty £3 mouse was slowly wearing out, and it was irritating. So, the new mouse. It's a Razer DeathAdder. ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/razer-deathadder Quite possibly the more popular form of body art, and body modification, at least until recently, where piercings seem to be dominating. Anywho, there are various different styles of tattoos; from the really crazy, huge, arty ones, to the small, subtle, cute ones. Then, in a completely different category, there are ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/tattoos In reference to the latest antichrist, Britney Spears; the pop-star who wrote the number of the beast on her shaven head and proceeded to attempt suicide. Well, atleast she knows she is a fake. I mean, after all, acceptance is the first stage to recovery. Perhaps if more celebrities acted in this ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/antichrist-superstar ... Should quite honestly take a fucking running jump into the biggest ocean they can find. I mean, seriously, what isn't a bloody health and safety issue, amongst many other things, these days? Recently there have been a few big petitions on the internet, due to laws the government are trying to ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/our-government I've discovered that the / key makes up about 60% of my typos, simply because I type at a speed where I always miss the shift key when I go to type a question mark. Because of this, I have decided I am going to make my own keyboard, or at ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/my-own-keyboard Okay, thanks has to go to Natalie for making me think of this. ♥ We were actually talking about something which I said to someone earlier, the conversation went like this: Person: "Excuse me, could you tell me where Blah street is?" Me: "Sure. It's about two days south, as the turtle travels." Person: ... http://www.darfuria.com/inventions/laughing-shoes Been meaning to make this post for a little while, but have never gotten around to taking the pictures for it. There are some amusing signs in Ottery, but they are weird. Either that or just damn right stupid. You'll see what I mean. The sticker in the window It's funny. I only ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/ottery-is-weird You know when you're sat in an exam, and you're practically tearing your hair out, searching endlessly around you, looking at the people close to you to see if you can see how they are coming up with the answer to the question you haven't got a clue about. Either ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/genius-test-answers I'm not a horrible person. I speak my mind, whilst other people are so wound up on making good impressions and being nice all the time. Bollocks to that. If something has pissed you off, speak it. Why should we care what other people think about what we say? Humans ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/me Just added a quotes page to my list of pages. This page will just be updated when anything memorable is said. If you object to your name, or an appearance of your name, appearing there, leave me a message. http://www.darfuria.com/blog/quotes-page Well, I will be partaking in the 26 Things photography fun this month. The 26 Things we have to be inspired by when taking a picture are listed below. This will be a good chance to put my Thickbox gallery to use. Using this list so that I can note ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/26-things I've installed Thickbox on my blog. That means that whenever you click any thumbnail images in my posts, they'll load in a groovy box, whilst the rest of the blog is still visible behind it. It's hard to explain how it works completely, just go click an image to find out ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/thickbox This is much funnier when actually done, but this image will show you the point. It's great when you do it on a mirror in a girl's handbag/purse, or on the sunshield mirror of the passenger's seat in a car. Just cover the mirror with a suitably sized piece of paper, and ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/reflection-unavailable It has been a while since I have criticised something because of the famous "green-grocer's apostrophe", or generally a complete lack of knowledge of the English language, but this one amused me: The thing that amused me about it is that it had a comma, in the correct place, but it ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/excess-punctuation If you ever dwell on the thought of actually moving a long way away from somewhere you've spent a lot of your life, then you begin to imagine what life would be without seeing those things you see every day.In my case, when I think about it, it's a bridge ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/leaving-it-behind Now that I have a camera that I can take everywhere with me, I will have a lot more to blog about. Just a picture I took yesterday though, feeling hungover, still: http://www.darfuria.com/blog/camera Well, after being a bit lethargic and really not bothered about going out yesterday, I had a really great time. I left my house with the annoyance that my camera failed to be delivered, which was slightly annoying, as this meant I couldn't take any pictures on my birthday. Anyway, off I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/good-night Another year! Make sure that you plan something for this evening, Aquarius; a minor but negative aspect from the moon indicates that while you’ll have a great day you’re likely to start feeling bored or restless later on. Surround yourself with friends and if possible create a break in your usual ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/18th Isn't it funny when you're doing something, and over time you've changed the way you do it. So you look back over the ways you used to do it which got you to the point you are at now. I was making a simple website at work today, and needed a ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/personal-development I've never really liked tight spaces, or the thought that I am unable to get out of the place I am in, but it has never really bothered me. However, over the last few months it has started to build up into something more. My breathing will get really quick ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/chlaustrophobic-attack Thanks to a very kind friend, and a little planning, the new PC is almost complete. Just have to await the arrival of my soundcard and wait until I get paid until I can buy a 22" widescreen monitor. Then my setup will be complete. All I need to do ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/the-new-pc Recently I've been having a huge issue with MSN messenger. I use a Gmail account to connect and talk to my various contacts in much the same way anyone else that uses MSN Messenger does. I was at my Dad's using MSN Messenger on my laptop, as usual. I signed out ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/msn-messenger-kerfuffle Recently I've been zoning out a lot, and it's actually beginning to scare me. I'll be sitting on the bus and I'll start thinking about something, and I'll get so in-depth into my thoughts that I completely zone out into a state of semi consciousness. I'll awake a little later ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/sarcastic-humor-phonecallers I finally found a Wordpress template I like. Kudos go to the creators of it, who are linked at the bottom of the page. It needs a small amount of customisation for personal preference, but on the whole it's quite colourful and nice. If you're using Internet Explorer 7, please go ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/new-template This is another serious invention of mine. Puzzles should have a small velcro-type frame in them, so that you can do the puzzle in the frame and the pieces will stick down, so that the puzzle is easy to pickup and move around, and so on. Also, this frame would allow you ... http://www.darfuria.com/inventions/the-puzzle-frame This is actually a serious invention idea of mine. Too often do you see lots of people walking around with far too many carrier bags, which not only hurt your hands, but are far too hard to manage when you need to put them down and pick them up again. What I ... http://www.darfuria.com/inventions/the-bag-holders-bag-holder-of-bag-holding Previously known as 'The Cup of Drink - Biscuit Protecting - Elastic Filter, for Biscuits' Basically, this is a filter on very loose elastic which you can can clip to your cup. When you're dipping a biscuit in your drink the elastic will cause the filter to drop further down the ... http://www.darfuria.com/inventions/the-biscuit-shield I decided to make another category on my blog... Previously I had a silly HTML page on my website, which wasn't actually hyperlinked, containing a few silly inventions I have come up with. Instead of continuing that page, I thought I'd import the ones I've already written and continue it here. Please, honestly, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/introduction-to-inventions Happy new year to anyone that's reading this. I hope you enjoyed your evening, and had a good transition to 2007. Goodbye to a shit year and hello to a good year, I say. Last year was so crap, really. I had a really shit time for the majority of it, and ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/happy-new-year Not having a camera with me at all times is getting more and more annoying. I will often see something which makes me smile, or stop and look again, thinking "did I really just see that!?". Today I was walking through town to get the bus. I walked past one of the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/photo-opportunity So I went out and bought a new wireless router today, as ours is getting a little old, and the aerial is a bit knackered. So, into Currys Digital I went, knowing they had a sale on. I saw the Netgear router I thought I'd get before, took it to ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/well-done-dan So, myself, David, Middle D and Tim were sitting in the pool room at The Globe. There was a band playing in the other part of the bar, playing some relatively cheesy song. I said to Tim "All they need now is someone to come out with the Every Rose ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/poison Whenever I hear something, or think of something, I'll see what it relates to in my mind. I think from doing this I remember things, and eventually have this web of cross-releations and general weird interactions with things going on in my mind. I guess my mind always has to be ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/relations I was getting a lift to my Dad's by my stepdad, who's a taxi driver. We were just generally talking, and I said "This car is weird. I miss your old one, the Saab. They're using it again now, aren't they? Or is the Saab they're using now a different ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/the-taxi Well, merry christmas guys. I've become a bit of a scrooge in the recent years. I guess because everything has changed in the past few years, christmas just feels like a day where people eat food and give lots of presents. Which is cool, don't get me wrong, but it's ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/merry-christmas-and-all-that-jazz I thought that now that I had made this section of the blog, I wasn't actually going to have any more occurances of freak coincidence. However, one just happened. After getting home from work yesterday, I was so tired. I headed to bed very early in the evening and just got ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/early-morning-haunting How unlucky does a guy have to be to miss 5 buses in under 3 minutes? We left work early yesterday, after our christmas lunch and secret santa, which was great (yay holiday!). I got a lift into Exeter because my bus wasn't due for another hour(ish). Upon getting out of ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/an-unlucky-end Well, like most companies, we did a secret santa at work this year. I think I'm really crap with gifts, which is strange because I think I've got a great imagination. I can never really think of what I want to get someone. Or if I think or something, it doesn't ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/secret-santa Taken from a forum post by my friend David Schizophrenia Do you hear what I hear? Multiple Personality Disorder We three kings disorientated are Dementia I think I'll be home for christmas Narcissistic Hark the herald angels sing about me Manic Deck the halls and walls and house and lawn and streets and stores and office and town and cars ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/christmas-carols-for-the-disturbed Don't you just love those days where you walk away from something feeling like you've really done a lot, and in doing so, you've made progress and succeeded in doing something good, and in doing it your mind feels completely numb? That was what today was like at work. Unfortunately I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/numb Okay. This is more of a note-to-self post than a general blog, but here is a list of things I want to do to the blog. Change the template to make it less common and more Darfurian. Make comments popup in a new window without all of the crap that the default ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/upcoming-to-do I was on the bus on the way to work yesterday. I was thinking about a conversation I'd had with someone a while ago about that Guitar Hero game available on one of the newer game consoles. I remember seeing some people playing it, and one of the featured songs being ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/rush-yyz I managed to import my beta Blogger blog to Wordpress,which is excellent. I had to go about it by saving the entire rss feed of my blog and then importing that way. Unfortunately my earlier posts lost their comments and formatting, but nevermind. The style of this blog is a little dull ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/yay-imported I've been meaning to setup a new blog for a while now with the Wordpress software. I find it a lot nicer to use than Blogger. Unfortunately Wordpress are unable to import the blogs using the Beta Blogger software, so I can't yet transfer this one across. Anyway, the new ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/new-blog I feel like ranting. Unfortunately technology hasn't come up with a device that allows us to project our thoughts onto some visual object, such as a PC or a piece of paper. That'd make life so much easier than typing or writing. Nevermind. Christmas Christmas isn't a time of year that I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/inevitability-stupidity-and-general-other-ity-words Yeah, that's right. Recently I got a new bed. A king sized, electric-pump bed from Argos (which I recommend to anyone considering getting a new bed). It makes me wonder where my bedroom has gone, but right now I don't care. It's helping my sleeping a lot, and I think ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/living-the-lazy-life A lot of people ask me what I like/look for/dislike in a girl, and I can never really come up with a complete answer. I think everyone has their 'ideal' partner, and then they have the things they look for. The ideality doesn't dominate my life, so I'm not a ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/girls After days and weeks of standing outside, shivering in the cold, the sleep still firmly wedged between my eyes, waiting for the 7:40 bus.I'm not even sure why I used to get that bus. Maybe it was because the 7:30 bus never turned up, and I never quite manage to ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/tesco-self-service Well, once again christmas is approaching *sigh*.Christmas is that time that is good when you're either a kid or have kids, but otherwise it's just a mad rush to spend money. Whilst people say "No, the value of christmas is being with the people you love", nobody really goes by ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/christmas-gadgets I just obtained a copy of Microsoft Office 2007, so I thought I'd just state my opinion about it, incase you were considering sending your hard-earned cash off to Sata- I mean, Bill Gates.EW!Visual menus? Anti-aliased text? Backgrounds around the page layout? Visual menus?... VISUAL MENUS!?Ohdear! Office 2007 is completely ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/office-2007 Haven't you ever found it funny how an old woman won't hear you screaming down the stairs, at the top of your lungs, but she'll hear your music on the bus if she's sat next to you?Haven't you ever found it funny how an old man won't hear you if ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/selective-hearing People always comment on how my hair looks so good. So, let me let you in on a little secret.Funny, a guy giving other people hair advice. Ah well, what's the point in having long hair if you're not going to take care of it, eh?Anywho. If you want my ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/secret-survey Lots more stuff, so lots of things to complain about I guess.Having got in contact with the insurance company and Acer, someone is coming around to pickup my laptop ac adapter on thursday. No doubt Acer will get the high circle of their hierarchy to run a large quantity of ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/1024-1000 Well, after a long period of time of my laptop being broken, we finally sent it off to the insurance company. I was delighted to hear that they couldn't repair the motherboard that the drunk hippy broke, and that they were going to replace it with a laptop that was ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/fuck-you-acer Over the past couple of days I've been entering a load of survey results into a database (which I had to design) at work. I'm nearly finished with this, with about 25 pages to go, having done 120 or so.The survey was generally to collect information on councils in Dorset, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/surveys This is a bit of a pointless post, really.Two of the things I'm really looking forwards to:[Nightmare Before Chrismtas 3D][The Pick of Destiny]Yep. Two movies. I love Tim Burton & Danny Elfman, and The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favourite movies of all time. Therefore, I'm really looking ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/looking-forwards-to I don't really have much to say in this post. Instead I thought I would make a simple picture of what seems to be the opinion of a lot of people. http://www.darfuria.com/blog/its-tha-law Now that I've started working, I'm expected to 'contribute to the household' at home by paying things like rent, my own busfair and money for lunch. I just started working, and got a week's pay a few weeks ago. I'll get a month's wages in a week or two.I completely ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/household-funding Recently I've been looking around at new monitors. I like my 17" CRT, but it takes up a lot of space, and it's quite old. So I think it's time for a new one.However, having spent a lot of time looking at new monitors, I've noticed that the plauge of ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/widescreen Well, I just got a new keyboard, so here is a perfect oppertunity to test how fast I can type on it.---When you think of something in your mind, do you think of it in a language? I mean, when you hear a thought in your head, is it in ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/thinking Yeah, I've gone and changed my template again. You might notice that the font styles and colours will change through my older posts simply because of the way I posted then, and the way I do now. However, it matters not.I've decided I really like these two blue colours on ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/template-change Hello??????????????????????????????? Are you there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????....!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!?!?!OH GO BURN SOMEWHERE, WILL YOU!Yeah, that's right. You idiots (or should I say idiot's) who find it necessary to use punctuation to the absolute worst have finally made me write about you. Why... OH WHY!? I mean, most of you typ lyk dis 2 try nd ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/excessive-and-rogue-punctuation Just wanted to make a general update, so I thought I'd post it here.The need for a camera is ever increasing. I keep seeing things that I want to take pictures of. I think my mind is becoming more creative and subconciously plans ahead a lot more than it used ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/goings-on Well, I've heard a lot of rumors, but these seem to be most believable:He was in fear of suffering severe brain damage, but has come out of intensive care now. He's making basic responses to people: Jeremy Clarkson told him he's a shit driver and he smiled.It seems the guy ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/richard-hammond-update [Read this] I'm not a media person. I don't care for those magazines that go into far too much depth of celebrities' lives, so that various people can drown themselves in the depths of dispair when the media release personal information from a very biased point of view. I think ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/richard-hammond I'm not really sure where to go with this post, but isn't it weird how everything is priced over the world.For example, in the UK you'll pay around £10 for a CD. That's £10 for an average of say, 12 tracks. Out of that £10 I wonder how much of ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/prices Yay, after having a huge kerfuffle with having an internet connection, I'm actually reconnected 3 days early (but 7 days late).It's funny how life without an internet connection is so oddly boring. Computers just aren't the same without a connection. I sat here without one and thought of doing various ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/back Being someone who gets very irritated very quickly by stupid people, or people who clearly don't think enough to even be able to survive, I've started picking up on various things that people do that either really bug me, or make me wonder "why do they do that!?"No doubt there's ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/stupid-things I haven't really made any blog posts recently. I suppose not a lot has annoyed me or bothered me enough to be articulated on here. Well, actually, that's a lie; I'm just lazy!I recieved an email from Cosmic the other day saying that the person they took on for the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/jobbie As I was special enough to have a Gmail account, I get to use the new Beta version of Blogger. There aren't many changes visually, but some administration wise. Looks nice. http://www.darfuria.com/blog/beta I've never understood why, when buying people things, they have to buy them 'new' things. I believe I refered to this in my Coke Zero post. I'm talking about food, again.Were I to go and buy someone something to eat and they didn't specify what they wanted, I'd buy them ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/new-things As much as I'd love to leave my entry about Sharon at the top, so that everyone saw it when they looked at my blog, I thought it was time to post a new entry.ReflectionsAll of us that can look into mirrors see reflections, that's a common fact. However, can ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/reflections The trouble with CSS is that sometimes the completely wrong things can appear in the completely wrong places.CSS is basically the backbone of HTML, which will apply a particular style to all webpages with that style applied to it. It makes managing and creating websites much easier. http://www.darfuria.com/blog/the-trouble-with-css http://www.darfuria.com/blog/i-got-bored This is something that came to me just now. Although I'm not entirely sure how to articulate it.In English cuisine you have the 'sunday roast', which I'm sure most people are aware of. Now, the type of meat you have generally varies: Chicken, turkey, lamb, beef, pork... Ok, people will ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/traditional-eating Someone bought one of the new "CocaCola Zero" drinks home for me... So I wasn't with them when they bought it. I'm assuming from looking at the bottle though, that it's a replacement for Diet Coke.The label says:"great Coke taste... Zero sugar"I think they did this because kids will naturally ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/cocacola-zero For those of you who I do speak to online, just to let you know, I find cryptic messages very easy to discover and make sense of, so don't bother using them. If you have something to say to me, just say it... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/cryptic-messages I'm not an insect person. I'm not a huge fan of things that are very small, that have more legs than I do, and crawl about. However! I can very rarely bring myself to kill an insect, bug or anything. Spider, moth, fly, whatever. I think killing them is very ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/killing-bugs I've always enjoyed food, especially if I've made it. I'm a huge fan of Italian food, and generally, sandwiches!Now, in the past 12 months or so I've taken to making sandwiches late at night, to quench my hunger. These sandwiches slowly got bigger and bigger. They started at bacon, then ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/bye-liver Everyone has heard that famous question:"What came first, the chicken or the egg?"Someone asked me this today, and for the first time I gave a constructive answer:Considering the question is "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" and not what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg, this ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/chicken-or-the-egg I think that the punishment for a commited crime in this country is much overlooked, and frequently misunderstood. A lot of things take place out-of-sight to those who haven't had any experience (be that first or second-hand) to behind the locked-cell doors. I'll give an example to what I mean:---Last ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/crime-punishment You are granted three wishes. What do you wish for?1 - The ability to change anything I want to.2 - ...3 - ...You're stranded on an island. You have 3 items with you. What are they?1 - Genie in a lamp.2 - ...3 - ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/stupid-questions-logical-answers Connexions is a company which helps teenagers from the age of 13-19, in the UK. They apparently 'help' through education; help you make the right choices and provide you with awesome information whenever you need it.This is one of the companies I absolutely dispise. They're meant to help you out, ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/grammar-police-001 In every house I've lived in for over 3 months we've had one of those outdoor keymeter electric systems. Basically, you have an orange key which you take to a shop to "top up". With each of these keys you have a £5 emergency budget, so if the electric goes ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/key-meter-electric As I was growing up as a child all of my family watched a lot of TV, part my father, who I wouldn't see very often.I was never much of a TV child... I was more into video games, and the only reason I'd watch TV is because I had ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/tv-first-you-second So, today was meant to be the last day of life. The day of recognition. The apocolypse?Why? Because the date slightly relates to the number 666; the number of the Devil. The fact that in a true date format, 10 characters long, is obviously completely irrelevant, and thus the date ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/t3h-apocolypse-is-now (The Grammar Police)Ok, I've decided that I'm going to get a small group of people together, and call ourselves "The Grammar Police" simply so we can go around and correct all the terrible grammar that people so foolishly use. As described in "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" the "Greengrocer's Apostrophe" is ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/da-gramer-polees I was on the bus today, on my way into town. As usual I was watching the world go past when I noticed that one of the shops had suffered quite a drastic outburst of colouring...Infact what had happened is they'd printed out several very large posters saying "SALE. TODAY ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/the-value-of-paper Felt like posting a diary entry here, not entirely sure why.My life, at the moment, is having serious ups or downs... There isn't an inbetween bit. Funnily, the really 'up' moments are when I'm not at home, and the really 'down' moments are when I'm at home.I hate this house. ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/a-diary-entry Ok, another thing. Why does my cat have to make such a vocal announcement everytime he stands on my bed. I can always tell when he's standing on my bed simply because he shouts as loud as he possibly can in his feline language.I swear, if I could understand cats ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/more-feline-comments Well, I've realised that I don't have enough content for my BLOG, and I don't really have enough stuff to post about. It'd be great if I could have something humerous, and popular - With comments! Though, I don't know how I go about achieving that.I've had this idea that ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/hot-drinks DO NOT OPEN IN FRONT OF PARENTS...5 PPL ACTUALLY GOT KILLED BY NOT SENDING THIS PIECE OF MAIL.THE CREATOR OF THIS MAIL HAS A PROGRAM THAT WILL TRACK DOWN UR ADDRESS. WHAT DO U HAVE TO LOSE? UR LIFE. PLZ REPOST! THANK YOU AND HAVE A MEANINGFUL REST OF YOUR ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/chainmail-004 In town today, shopping for Mother's Day, I discovered something which is way more torturing than fingernails on a blackboard, cutlery on china, or any of those skin-crawling type things. Now, I'm probably just one of those people that can't conform to the norm of "shopping-isle walking". This is the ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/pensioners Having just consumed a rather large amount of Cheddars, I came to the conclusion that things like crackers, jam tarts and apple pies are stupidly designed for us to eat: Have you ever tried to spread cream cheese on a cracker, for instance, and have it snap in half in ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/crackers-tarts-with-the-occasional-pie MARGARET Beaton loved to travel, but never made it to some of the countries she really wanted to visit.But now, two years after her death, her son is trying to fulfil her wish of making it around the world - via eBay.Glen Beaton used the internet auction site to try ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/whats-with-ebay "Hi everybody, here is a true story. The use of msn and hotmail will costmoney from summer 2006. If you send this message to 18 different peoplefrom your list your little msn icon will become blue and that will make itfree for you. If you dont believe me go on ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/chainmail-003 Isn't it funny how we use language in reference to humans and imply it to technology?In example: "I'm going to kill this computer!". We never say: "I'm going to uninstall this person!". Just makes me wonder where one type of language was metaphorically used to dictate another."Body can not find ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/metaphorically-speaking Yet another post relating to online chat... Why? Because people obviously fail to notice the magical characters on their keyboards known as the BRACKETS! Brackets are amazing things. Look, look at what you can do with them: (Hey!). Isn't that amazing? I thought so.Brackets are so underused. When talking to ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/emoticons-or-stfuicons I HATE display names; the ones you get on MSN Messnger (why do people just call it MSN anyway? It's MSN Messenger - Microsoft *shudder* Networking Messenger, not just Microsoft Networking.). The ones on Yahoo Messenger or AIM aren't so bad because once you've registered, I don't believe you can ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/display-names Okay, I don't like stereotyping, but there is no technical way of describing a chav in letters longer than the amount of 4, purely because that's impossible. Anyway, this is the chav's keyboard. I plan to sell these soon.Click here to see it http://www.darfuria.com/blog/a-keyboard-for-chavs Hey it is Andy and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption butmsn is closing down. this is because too many inconsiderate people aretaking up all the name (eg making up lots of different accounts for just oneperson), we only have 578 names left. If you would like ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/chainmail-002 Okie, this time I walked out of my room to go to the bathroom. As usual the landing was dark. Only, this time I failed to see the glowing eyes and white patches. I swear my cat painted itself and closed it's eyes on purpose. As I walked forwards I ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/cats-2 I hate people. They, in general, suffer from a heavy case of stupidity, fail to understand most things, often state the obvious, and rarely notice it. They're not reliable, you can't trust them with anything, you can't tell them anything important. They mistreat things, and people. They say and take ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/right-now "READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW !Someone is sending out a very cute screen saver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password!DO NOT DOWNLOAD ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/chainmail-001 "ASYLUM-SEEKERS and illegal immigrants are to be offered a £3,000 bounty to leave Britain voluntarily as part of the Government’s efforts to increase the number who are returning home. The handouts will be paid to people who agree to leave the country in the next six months and could mean ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/get-out-get-out It's so annoying when you're talking to someone online, and the word they're trying to spell is right there infront of them, and yet, after many attempts, they still don't get it! Whether this is on an online game, or even an IM client, people seem to be completely oblivious ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/oblivious-or-general-stupidity Just a short post to say that my Mum got owned XDShe got sent to her room... Long story, don't ask. But still.HAH! http://www.darfuria.com/blog/mum-ownage This is something which is always on my mind, really. So I'll go in to some detail.Where ever you live, some form of fate or destiny will conclude that you will eventually make some friends... Where you live. You'll go to a school, and know the area and even society ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/the-controversial-humanness Well, just a short post, really...I hate stereotypes. Sure, we all use them. I'll call someone a "chav" or an "emo", but really, when it comes down to it, I'd rather call these people by their names, not by some specific category which requires some form of visual or biographical ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/stereotypes Some people can't grasp this, so I'll write it here, so that someone might learn something.To - As if you were writing a letter. Example: To Dan.Too - As well. Example: I want to do that too. I have too many of those.Two - The number, "2". Example: I have ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/english You know, it's so stupid when people state the obvious. It's a natural human tendancy, just like looking at the lightbulb when you turn a light on, talking to babies and animals in a higher pitched voice and having that really annoying temptation to do something when you're told not ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/stating-the-obvious You know, it really annoys me when you're talking to someone online, and you type something, and they often say "Huh?" or "What?"... It makes me think:'C'mon! Do I really have to type that all over again? I mean, the text is right there infront of you, why don't you ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/huh-what You know, this is equally annoying as the screen shaking, because usually when I don't want to talk to someone I'll close the conversation, and then I get the MSN popup window near the taskbar saying "(Insert Name) has sent you a nudge", thus almost rendering "Disable Nudges" pointless. Honestly ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/insert-name-has-sent-you-a-nudge Well. I was watching Family Guy. The episode where Brian has sex with Lois' Dad's dog, Starbreeze. And when the part where Bill Gates shines the flashlight in to the air, and the Microsoft logo appeared in the sky, I decided to toy with the idea that that's really true ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/childish-but-funny " i never seen a fat ethipopien kid who was fat cos of his "genes" "Well, for starters this was annoying purely because I think he meant Ethiopian. Secondly, surely you wouldn't find an Ethiopian child that was fat because of his genes because his parents weren't fat. As far ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/daves-personal-message What is it with cats? I go to step over my cat in the day light and he moves, often causing me to trip up. I go to step over him in the dark (I only noticed him because of his glowing eyes and white patches) and the damn thing ... http://www.darfuria.com/blog/cats