Mind the cobwebs |
I guess sporadic updates were expected when I set up this domain, but this just has to be ridiculous. I know I could start by an unnecessary list of excuses that have kept me from regular posting but… from a few months as a pizza guy, to getting a proper new job, a new camera, a few birthday gifts, turning 21, passing the 2 hardest subjects in my course and obviously a random traffic infringement (is that even a term?) – I've been hardly home to access Live Writer :( This hasn't kept me from dreaming up ideas. I've been playing around with Visual Studio 2010, Expression Blend 4, the Android SDK, the UDK and making more progress on that godforsaken car computer (bought a OBD plug to hook up car to laptop, well really I told Andrew to buy it). A new section will come about soon in the site which will be Gallery. This is gonna be a section dedicated to photography (and wallpapers), thanks to the new Canon S90 I found myself in ownership of. Sorry for the lack of effort here, my bad. All's not abandoned though, I promise! Just mind the webs. |
Star ratings missing from youtube, how to get them back |
YouTube, out of nowhere, removed the star rating system which they believed was too ambiguous and useless, and opted for the simpler Like / Dislike system. I have to admit this is a horrible change. It was via ratings that we knew what was worth watching, what was fake, what was boring or what was awesome. Now that it's gone you got nothing. Thankfully there's a Firefox add-on to rid you of your worries that will add the correct star rating to where it used to be.  Check out Show YouTube Star Ratings 1.2 now! |
Get smart DJ and other features back in Zune |
Microsoft secretly removed the Smart DJ feature along with a few other things in the new Zune 4.2 update for international users. I'm Australian and scouring the www, it looks like we're the hardest hit. If your Zune is missing Smart DJ then you're one of the many people of a non-US country whose existence Microsoft is unaware of. Luckily you can re-enable these features and more. |
After 3 months, we're back on track |
Hey look Ma! It's one of those posts about how the website's got a new theme. My last few layouts weren't what I wanted, and this one was a complete rewrite and purely own design. With faster loading time, simplicity, readability, less JavaScript, more CSS, static pages and post previews in the main page.. this theme looks promising. But that's not all I've been working on the for the last 3 months of silence, in fact there quite a lot I'm going to be putting on here soon. I just needed to get this new site developed so I could upload things and link them in appropriately. |
Happy arbitrary date to you too |
It’s that time of the year again. The end of it. Time is an amazing phenomenon. Our desperate attempt to measure the apparent constant movement of our perceivable 3 dimensions. 2015 years (give or take a year) on from the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, we find ourselves still fascinated by numbers. Sometimes scared of them too, with the ever popular triskaidekaphobia. |
Some thoughts on Word 2010 and issues in Layer-8 |
Woke up this morning with with 0 blood alcohol to discover my laptop right next to me saying the Office 2010 beta 2 had installed successfully. I hastily opened word, only to have it throw up in my face.  |