Wordpress 2 app for iPhone
Hey all!
I have been using the Wordpress 2 app on my iPhone since I got the phone in December.
I was just wondering if anyone else has the same problem I do? Everytime I write a post using the app, it puts ‘\n’ instead of the actual new line!
I get around this by saving it as a draft and then putting the real line breaks in at a PC later, but this sort of defeats the object.
If anyone knows a fix for this please let me know!
Best analogy ever?
Hey dudettes,
I don’t normally look at sites like lamebook but I saw a link to this on a friend’s facebook profile and couldn’t resist sharing!
Enjoy.
Share. Check. Rapid. Not so much…
Does anyone else think Rapidshare should be called very-slow-unless-your-premium-user-who-forks-over-lots-of-money.com ?
Festive blogging
Hey there people in the ‘blogosphere’!
How was eveyone’s Christmas? Good? I’m glad.
I know you were wondering what I had for Christmas so I will tell you. Because my contract was coming to an end I thought it was time to get an upgrade from my HTC Touch Diamond, so what better to upgrade to than the iPhone 3GS? (the actual present bit was that my parents paid for the handset and are contributing to my monthly contract)
Needless to say I am very happy with the decision! It is true that for almost all problems, there’s an app for that. Also needless to say, as soon as I received my new gadget I loaded up the App Store and downloaded pretty much every free app that may be remotely useful between now and the very distant future!
Sad I know, but this post is happening by the grace or the Wordpress app! Hopefully this will mean a bit more blogging from me as I can now blog on the move and as soon as something happens!
To jailbreak or not to jailbreak? That is my new question.
Happy reading.
The thing I am looking forward to most this year
I think everyone has something that they are looking forward to in the year. I bet you can’t guess what mine is!
Christmas? No.
New year? No.
Revision? No.
Going home to Newport? No.
You will kick your self when you realise how obvious it was! It is obviously Iron Fives! If you don’t know what that is, it is an Ultimate tournament in Plymouth where every team is only allowed to take 5 players (that means no subs) for the whole weekend.
It’s not the idea of just wearing myself out that is appealing, but the idea of playing some awesome Ultimate with guys that you want to play with and they want to play with you!
We have been seeded 32nd out of 32 so the hopes for us are not very high, but that does mean that the only way is up! Just need to show people how good we really are by coming a bit higher.
I can’t wait, fuck Christmas, I’ll take two Iron Fives if possible!
The stresses of trying to be nice
Want to know one thing that really sucks?
Giving someone advice that you know is the right advice but hating every word that comes out of your mouth. Yes, I am giving advice to a very good friend and whislt I want to do what I can for them to try and see them through this problem as best as I can, the advice I am giving is no fun for me to give.
Why am I giving this advice you may ask? Because I was asked and I would like to help my friends in an (sensible) way I can. I must say, this isn’t the first time either. I have given this same friend advice on the same topic before and it sucked then. Moral of the story? It sucks to be trusted and to have your opinion valued!
Oh no, they are about to look over my screen, gotta go, bye!
Facebook: The place to name and shame your friends
One of the features that the facebook people have added really bothers me. It is the feature that if you type a name of one of your friends into you status, facebook will put a link to that persons profile in your status, thereby advertising you to the world (or at least all of the friends of this one person).
That bothered me enough, but today I think I have seen the worst case of name-linkin on facebook.
Naming and shaming! That’s right, if it wasn’t bad enough to air your dirty laundry on facebook, you can now provide a direct link to the object of your disapproval. Have a look at this example below and then think about where it will go next…
I think it should give links for every word to fan pages or anything remotley realted. For example ‘Kristian Brimble thinks sporks are cool’ and then this would link you to the spork fan page. Good idea? Didn’t think so.
Let me tell you a story
What I should have written about (but have been too busy/lazy to) by now is what I have been doing all summer. In short I’ve been working as part of a summer bursary scheme at Swansea University under my 3rd year project supervisor Prof. (as of October) Matt Jones on projector phones. More on this another time.
Because of my involvement in the FIT Lab and working closely with Matt, I got “roped in” to helping out at the British Science Festival in Guildford at an exhibition show-casing the StoryBank project as part of a larger project called Bridging the Global Digital Divide.
In the run up to the start of the Festival, I was not given any information as Matt wanted to keep everything a “surprise”. We were all (that’s me, Matt, Emma who worked on the StoryBank, Simon the Research Assistant who works for Matt and Ram Bhat who worked closely on the StoryBank project in the field in rural India) meeting at our hotel close to the Festival location (University of Surrey) on Friday evening. After a few delays on the train I make it to our hotel and settle in nicely. At the hotel, I’m told what I’m actually there for; engaging people attending the festival to get them to view and interact with the StoryBank.
Day 1. Nice breakfast. Get there nice and early and set up. Walk around and try to get people to view our exhibit. Interact with the people at the exhibit. Seems like explaining the same thing to people over and over would get dull. I imagine that it would.
The difference here is the interesting conversations you have with the people you speak to. Of course there are people that are not that interested but there are people who are truly passionate about the work that has been done for StoryBank and similar projects and it is great to hear what these people have to say and to talk to them about their views on the project and what it has achieved.
At the end of the 1st day, we had engaged or approached 300+ people and had some very stimulating conversations! After a surprisingly exhausting first day, we all headed off to bed to get some rest.
Day 2. Very very quiet. It’s a Sunday and there don’t seem to be as many events as there were on Saturday, at least not in our building. Not as many interactions but still a few meaningful and insightful conversations with people. After we had finished on our stand, we all decided to go to a lecture by Simon Singh called “Why journalists love silly mathematical equations” , which turned out to be entertaining, interesting and revealing. I suppose these are the things that all great lectures need…
Steampunk
Firstly, you can tell my exams finished on the 2nd of June can’t you? No posts since the 1st of June. It has been some busy times since then. A lot to write if I was planning on giving another life update post but for today something simple…
Steam. No, not vapourised water. Something much more dangerous in my opinion.
What I am talking about is the game and content deilvery service by Valve. Steam is a very dangerous thing.
The danger lies in how easy it is to use (ironically, usally it’s things being really hard to use that is the dangerous thing). With just a few clicks I can easily spend a lot of money on games that I am not very likely to play. BOOM! £50+ spent on a PopCap games pack and I can just download and play them straight away.
Most would say the fact that you can download the game and then play it straight away is an advancement. It is. The problem is; it is too good! When I go out and buy a game, I may not hand over any actual cash and see it leaving my hand, but at least I have a physical object in my hand afterwards. The more I buy, the more phyical objects I aquire and it will get too a point where there will be enough of these objects in my room that I stop buying things!
Not with steam, you just keep buying and buying and soon you have a page full of games to play, no hard drive space left (you get to order a new one with Amazon Prime then, another devil in disguise for similar reasons) and no cash in the account. Balls.
Guess who has been playing Team Fortress 2 and Portal all day 
Which one kills more?
After once again trying to avoid revision by being on Facebook, I noticed this like posted by one of my friends:
Word Of Warcraft Totally Looks Like Swine Flu
As much as this made me chuckle, it was one of the comments below the picture that said ‘WoW probably kills more people’
I have actually thought about this, and it could well be true. There are have been a number of reported murders and things about people who were aggrieved by something that happened in an MMO.
So the question is: which has claimed more lives, MMO’s in general or swine flu which has been another ‘we’re all going to die!!!’ disease that no one ever catches.
Hmm, the answer to that could be interesting in a sick sort of way…
/endProcrastination