Sorry, haven’t been able to make any posts as I’m on holiday in Hungary, and I’m quite annoyed that I can’t make any posts especially because of all the news (WWDC ’06) and other general things. I do have some interesting topics lined up, but I doubt that I’ll be able to post them until I arrive back to England on August 23rd. I may just post some short links and then elaborate later.
Separately today is my birthday, I’m 16! Woo-hoo! First thing I’m going to do is buy a lottery ticket (what else did you expect?) I was supposed to get a new phone, but due to unexpected delays it seems that the phone that I chose (Saung Z400 Black) is well, not released yet. It’s only in silver which I don’t like (for this phone). I may just choose another one, but I really like it! I have asked around and no-one yet knows when it maybe released.
I hope you have all had a nice holiday so far and enjoy the rest!
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I am going on a school holiday (residential as we call it) to Italy for a week, and coming back next Friday, so I’m afriad there won’t be any news until then. The weather should be quite hot so I hope I am going to enjoy myself. The worst part: I have to wake up at around 2:30AM as we are leaving from the school at 3AM. I will try to get as much sleep as possible, because once we are on the plane, I can’t really fall asleep (I don’t know why, I just can’t!)
So see you all, and I will be back in a week, with the latest gaming and tech news!
Sorry I haven’t been posting for a while, due to my exams. They have now finished; well the last one was on Monday and I took some time to relax from the past 2 years of stress! Anyways that burden has now been lifted, and I think it’s safe to say I think they went pretty well. I will get my results in mid-August so I can have fun until then.
Being summer time, I probably won’t be able to get back into regular posting mode until August, as I am going on a school holiday to Italy next week and 2 weeks after that I will be going on a summer holiday with my family. During that time though I will be able to make some posts, but probably not too many (days when there is nothing to do etc), from my Auntie’s computer. I do have quite a few topics piled up today so I will be posting as many of them as possible. This week is an interesting news week!
We started our exam period this week. I have a further 13 exams to take as a part of my GCSE’s in year 11 (Roughly I think I would be in High School in the US, but I have no idea how their Education System works; I am 16 in August). This means I have to do a lot of studying throughout the next couple of weeks, so the blog might be a little light on posts. This is really what makes or breaks my career, so I definitely need to stay away from the computer (great job, eh?) for at least 5 hours until I am sure I am ready for the exam I have the next day. I am doing 6 this week, the first of which was today. The first exam was Maths which went surprisingly well.
I have been receiving way too much spam on this blog and I am getting floods and floods of emails from the blog telling me there is a comment in moderation (because I set it to moderate a comment if it has more than 3 links). I am going to disable this, but Akismet has not blocked it all, and so I am taking action. Any spam comments received will get their IP permanently blocked from the blog. However, if your ISP uses dynamic IP’s and you happen to receive one of the blocked IP’s then you can shoot me an email (a link is provided on the page you get when it shows your IP is blocked).
Sorry for having to do this but it is such a pain, I have had nearly 5000 spam attempts to the blog (most of which have been blocked by Akismet, others I have had to do manually).
I have been using the K2 theme for WordPress and I downloaded the SVN in hopes that all the cool new features would work. I tested it out on my apache server on my mac mini with no problems, but now none of the ajax features work. So I have to down-grade backto the previous version and re-style the site. So many problems 
Anyway most of the site should look like this when it is finished, the problems are with the features that make the site pleasant to use. Feedback for the site is welcome!
Note: Because of some problems with the menu bar, it may show up out of aligned in Safari and Firefox for Mac (but should be fine on Windows) and in IE. I am working to fix this, but I hope the menu is still accesible and useable.
This problem has now been fixed: However if you are using Firefox on Mac you will continue to have a miss-aligned menu bar, for some reason Firefox on Mac displays it different to Firefox on Windows.
I am in the process of re-designing the blog, and it should be released soon. Hopefully it will be a lot cooler and more unique!
…but for some reason I have been having trouble reaching the blog’s server and I couldn’t make any posts! I just hope I don’t lose any readers. I’m going to try and make a few posts tonight as there is lots of exciting news; Apple, Nintendo and PS3. Check back soon!
I’ve been experimenting with the design of the blog and I want some of your ideas / tips. Anything small to big I would love as I am looking for a unique design (which I don’t think it quite resembles yet). I’m not much of a designer, at all, so anything to freshen up the site would be really helpfull
So, got any ideas? Then leave a message in the comments, or send me a note using the contact form.
Thanks!
A lot of people have still been asking me for invites for the Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Messenger Beta programs even though I have said I don’t have any. As soon as I get some (or any sort of beta invites) I will make a post about it and thosee who haven’t got any yet can make a post. Please only post your email once, and if you are genuinely interested because I only get 15.