tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29372982010-01-10T05:30:46.585ZKerblam! by Christopher.A collection of tech news, insight, personal opinion plus all sorts of wonderful stuff - some of which you might expect, some of which might knock you for six. Most of it's just an interesting read though; a delve into the eccentric mind of a 20something, quintessentially English (so therefore totally screwball) Uni student. Enjoy :)Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comBlogger1050125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-20101294451161729992010-01-10T05:29:00.001Z2010-01-10T05:30:46.597ZLike of the Week: 10/01/10A Diagram of Geek Culture, courtesy of the GawkerChristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-77703895481941706642009-11-01T00:52:00.002Z2009-11-01T00:56:09.754ZHmm...Been busy since I graduated. Wondering what I should turn this blog into? It needs a redesign regardless, and I quite fancy going more retro. Batman style.I might turn K! into a tech-related blog, but then I already have my technology related blog, Into The Unknown. I have a tumblr blog, nontitled. I just set up my personal site with WordPress but I really like this domain name... Any ideas Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-7971139820765941802009-08-03T21:31:00.001+01:002009-11-01T00:59:53.394ZAnd so it is that efnet.demon.co.uk closes for goodSad day today (3rd of August 2009) - efnet.demon.co.uk was finally shut down. This man had a hand in it (frankly I think he might've done it for the lulz while he was bored inbetween his soaps ;)It is sad for the EFNet community though. efnet.demon.co.uk had been running and hosting EFNet for millions of users for a very long time, and it was the only UK EFNet node left.Get in touch if you want Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-32832403344891183652009-07-19T20:11:00.003+01:002009-07-19T20:18:28.279+01:00Finally, my very first web site gets a lick of paintChrisWoods.co.uk was my very first domain name. I've had it for years (literally, since 1999) but I've only recently revamped it and updated it from its previous incarnation. I think it was 2003 or 2004 when I last changed the site, and it was beginning to really show its age.So, now my personal site has a spangly new WordPress install, a short bio about the site, domain name and myself along Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-81781859479950779772009-06-22T03:04:00.003+01:002009-06-22T05:20:13.876+01:00Problems with shaderapidx9.dll? This fix worked for meI was doing some housekeeping on my PC earlier, and as it was taking up a fair amount of space on my C: partition I decided to backup my Steam install, uninstall it and reinstall to another HDD.I backed up my installed games using Steam's Backup feature, then reinstalled Steam and restored my games (also downloading the newly released Smashball for good measure, which is an HL2 mod). Strangeness Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-25594456740565304612009-04-19T21:41:00.004+01:002009-04-19T21:44:06.736+01:00I'm responsible for my own DNS. Bollocks.Bollocks bollocks bollocks. The IP address of the server this site's hosted on changed last month, and I totally forgot to update the DNS records for it. WHOOPS!For those who were wondering if I'd evaded paying my hosting bill... Me? Evading hosting bills? Never. How dare you think such a thing. ;) My site was never gone (the whole world was just looking in the wrong place for it!) That'll learn Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-38110680098835627892009-03-19T01:08:00.004Z2009-03-19T03:01:56.875ZStuff I've Found: w/c 16th of March, 2008Every so often I just go exploring across the Web. One link leads to another, and after a while you find yourself truly ensconsed in a marvellously diverse selection of web pages.I hate closing browser tabs too, so sometimes I have these pages open for weeks, months at a time (or saved across sessions!) I thought I'd start jotting some of them down on my blog for others to peruse and enjoy, so Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-36244746974856122272009-03-01T16:46:00.002Z2009-03-01T16:51:20.784ZHappy to accept all comments except less-than-adoring ones?Interesting... I just commented on an article off the BBC's sprawling U2 microsite, and although "all comments are reactively moderated" it seems that they're all being PRE-moderated too. Nice.My comments were in response to the U2 rooftop gig; here's what I wrote:So, er, does this mean that the Beeb is going to start doing more rooftop gigs to help promote new artists? What would be far better Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-69816264808381758672008-12-01T16:13:00.003Z2008-12-01T16:17:26.842ZThe most sense I've read all monthHello, I'm not dead yet! Been superSUPER busy recently but I'm keen to get back into the blogging (just as soon as this latest batch of brain-zapping coursework is over and done with).In the meantime, this, from the latest Zen customer newsletter, made me smile:GRAMMAR SCHOOLEven the most educated readers and writers can fail to get acomplete grasp of English grammar. The book: 'Eats, Shoots and Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-19310219226147548752008-08-25T03:21:00.004+01:002008-08-25T03:29:29.214+01:00I go away for a while, I doss around a bit, I order a Zalman NC2000..."What the bloody hell are you on about?" is something you'll no doubt be uttering - don't worry, it'll all become clear imminently. Long story short, my PC's currently out of action, I'm ordering an entirely new rig in September. A side effect of this is that I've had to keep up with all the work I would have been doing on the desktop, but on the laptop instead. It's an alright laptop, An Acer Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-18695831167184885892008-06-12T22:51:00.003+01:002008-06-12T22:52:46.057+01:00Oh smashing, now I can stop using Dictionary.com all the timeGreat though it is, Dictionary.com has its shortcomings. I've used Urban Dictionary for a long while too, but there's other great sites out there that provide functionality you'd otherwise have to pay for. LifeHacker has the lowdown (click to read the article - I love Gawker blogs!).I'm really busy at the moment, so blogging's gone onto the backburner. Sorry to any of the (semi) regular readers. Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-50100526126807022592008-05-20T02:39:00.003+01:002008-05-20T02:55:28.570+01:00Personal debt, and amusing placenamesI was somewhat alarmed to re-read on the BBC News site last weekend that personal debt in the UK passed the one TRILLION pound mark almost four years ago - and it's well on the way to doubling. That's a huge amount of money (and a UK trillion is far more than a US trillion). I also learnt that, according to the BBC's Hugh Pym, "If you took £1 trillion worth of £5 notes they'd cover a county the Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-41380964229932175542008-04-11T20:51:00.004+01:002008-04-11T20:55:18.175+01:00Windows error codes, know thy masterThose fscking Windows error codes really annoy me sometimes - how am I supposed to remember what 0x00002740 stands for? (It's"Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.WSAEADDRINUSE" aka errorcode 10048, incidentally).If, like me, you don't have a photographic memory (or months to memorise what each code stands for), there's a couple of useful Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-28451869649132908202008-04-06T17:28:00.012+01:002009-01-31T13:20:05.882ZThe definitive 2008 guide to multi-network psyBNC setup and configurationThis work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.This tutorial is published under the "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales" licence. If you want to provide this tutorial on your site for the benefit of your users/customers, you can do so providing you attribute the original to me. I put a lot of time and effort into compiling this, so my only real request is Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-7093569914933896082008-04-06T02:18:00.002+01:002008-04-06T13:00:12.873+01:00Speaking Freely... Or, why in the future you may never have to use a computer to blog again"One of the advantages on keeping your eye on technological developments is something comes along once in a while. It's actually quite interesting. I'm actually writing this blog post with voice using SpinVox which is www.spinvox.com, you can write blog posts. You can use it as a voicemail system so it transcribes incoming calls and you can also have recorded your own memos which were emailed to Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-4201139039929533042008-04-05T09:20:00.006+01:002008-04-05T09:29:15.050+01:00Feel old? Yeah, so do I.I just cleaned about 10gigs of MPEG-2 video files off my PC (DVB-T rips)... At about 2 gig per hour, they soon build up. Three DVDs later, 10 gig more free space! Woo and yay.My first PC had a 10 gigabyte hard drive in it, and I just remember thinking "cor, I don't think I'll ever fill that up..." How wrong could I be: my fileserver (other machine) has more than 1 Terabyte of (mostly filled!!!) Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-31654397703563879942008-03-20T12:16:00.003Z2008-03-20T12:22:29.308ZF1 comes home to the BBC!YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! $deities be praised!The BBC has secured the television rights to show Formula One in the UK from the 2009 season. The five-year deal for an undisclosed fee marks F1's return to BBC screens 12 years after it switched to ITV. The contract covers all platforms and will see F1 broadcast on the BBC Sport website, as well as on TV and radio. F1 supremo Bernie Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-21393798754829128682008-03-05T22:56:00.002Z2008-03-05T22:59:12.325ZI was on BBC TV! And for a good reason, too...Crossposted from my Uniblog. Preface: a while back, I wrote a case study about damage to my own hearing after prolonged exposure to loud noise over a period of years (musician, drummer, listen to loud music etc... I'm sure you're the same or similar, or you know someone like me).Anyway, on Monday, I was contacted by someone from the RNID, who said they were launching a new campaign called "Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-30220354817721489082008-03-02T14:02:00.003Z2008-03-02T14:04:36.942ZMy fave links in the week of a day that shouldn't exist(A very convoluted way of saying 'the week containing February the 29th'). Has your girl proposed to you yet?Links of interest for the week with a day that shouldn't exist(29th of January).The Dangerous Ground Project has a very clever web site illustrating the difficulty millions face on a daily basis with unexploded landmines. Apparently, it takes just £1 to clear one square metre of land, Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-84126201601257019432008-02-24T19:02:00.003Z2008-02-24T19:07:26.855ZSaving the world by doing nothing?There's few people who can attest to doing nothing to save everything, but Stanislav Petrov did just that - and kept schtum about it for decades.What am I on about? Give this a read, and then thank your lucky stars that there are still some sane people in this world, keeping their heads (when all around them are losing theirs)...Hope you're having a peaceful day, see you soon.Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-79755035564964154342008-02-22T12:09:00.001Z2008-02-22T12:10:21.972ZMy favourite links this week (22/02/2008)My links for the week:flac-113 "...was written to allow users to convert their FLAC archivefrom previous versions of FLAC to the latest version. The script waswritten when 1.1.3 was released, thus the name, but can be used for anyversion of FLAC."Full instructions and links to download (with other utilities) too - start your surfing from http://www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/files/flac-113.txt.They'reChristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-68682712075905812232008-02-06T22:49:00.000Z2008-02-06T22:53:08.517ZLekker?Lekker lekker lekker, lekker lekker lekker lekker lekker... So goes a Noisia breaks tune from a little while ago.I'd been wondering what lekker means for ages, because I was sure it wasn't a Dutch word... Turns out it might be a South African word (it'd make sense anyway): lekker (lekk-irr with a rolling r) - Nice, good, great, cool or tasty.Definition from SouthAfrica.infoThat is all. :)Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-51299708655749273172008-02-03T21:28:00.000Z2008-02-04T01:00:43.127ZWoo - Roni Size is re-editing New Forms!Sometimes I'm a little sceptical of artists when they "re-edit" a classic album and rerelease it, but I have faith in the Size. He doesn't mess with a classic formula, especially one which is good enough to win a Mercury Music Prize (before it became shit).I got this email from the V Cycle shop the other day. D&B fans rejoice!Roni Size/Reprazent’s New Forms was a benchmark for not just the drum 'Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-73197299447979608392008-01-23T17:43:00.000Z2008-01-23T17:52:39.636ZAnother blogging platform gets $30million... Share the wealth?WordPress just announced they're getting $29.5 million for their B round of funding.And they said the bubble had burst. Nice! There's still hope for my search for $65m in VC funding for my interactive wacky wailing inflatable arm-flailing tubemen social networking site.I know that $30m only equates to about £4.69 in pounds sterling, but it's still an incredible amount for what's nothing more thanChristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2937298.post-34186566486836730032008-01-21T13:42:00.000Z2008-01-21T13:51:11.318ZCome fly with me...Some inspirational and mind-boggling photography: here's a panoramic collage taken by Charles M. Duke (Lunar module pilot on the Apollo 16 moon voyage):There's tons more imagery and multimedia on NASA's Apollo 16 multimedia pages. I've been meaning to make a note of this page for at least a month now!And while you're perusing these images, you can go download and listen to some of the music from Christopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386819302956011610noreply@blogger.com