July 7, 2010

Mid Year of 2010

We’ve hit the middle of the year in 2010, tax time begins. Once again, I’ll see mine paying off my debts. But maybe it will be a good thing this year, and I can cross that Commonwealth credit card off shortly after. A lotto win would be nice to clear my debts and buy some things.

I’m a bit stuck at work lately, I find it rather boring. It’s almost like a production line with the same thing every day and nothing stimulating, and I can’t see much in career progression other than getting more certification. But I find that hard when I don’t have the time to do it.

I’m trying to give Tumblr a bash, I’m not sure why. It seems like a good blogging platform, but knowing me. I can never find a theme or platform that I like. WordPress has been close, the only reason I really use it is to continue using it and see if it gets somewhere to be used more like a portal for a site rather than a blogging platform, and it’s damn well close to that now. It would just be nice if some of the plugins you got were basic out of the box features, or at least able to be enabled in the dashboard. Tumblr seems a little easier, or integrated into the various social platforms as well. Like posting pictures, or video or other stuff.

Apple iOS4 came out… that’s about all I’ve got to say on that. That and the iPad is a fucking waste of time and money in my opinion. Oversized iPod touch really.

Some interesting games are coming out, I’ve been playing Crysis but it looks like hammered shit on my desktop. It’s just not up to scratch of playing good games. I did see there is a Vietnam expansion pack for Battlefield Bad Company 2, which is a wet dream. I loved playing BF:V, it’s possibly the last game I enjoyed playing. Everyone wants realism in their games, even to the extent where some first person shooters are looking more like a simulator these days. Only need a case and power supply and I’ll be up and running, the smaller bits I can get later on as I need them, like extra hard drives. I’m interested in tinkering with some hardware for performance reasons, RAID and overclocking. The C2D E6850 is known for being good for overclocking, some reports have been for the PC to go at 4.0ghz passively. So that could be interesting, or I could blow the whole thing up!

I had my endoscopy a few weeks ago, hiatus hernia! No coffee or spicy food. Still can have beer though but probably not recommended! At least I know whats going on and can stop it, back to the medication soon but I think I need something stronger.

Sick of the house we live in, I’d like something smaller to live in. Mainly because the lawns and gardens are too much work, I’m not lazy. It just means having to find time to do it and I just can’t. It seems the only time I ever get for that is when I’ve booked time off at work; and that isn’t much of a holiday.

Oh well, here’s to 2 days off next week and back to work for me.

June 23, 2010

WordPress 3.0 Upgrade

Just upgraded the blog to wordpress 3.0, nothing broke, nothing different.

January 16, 2010

2010 Theme

Although a few weeks after the start of 2010, I’ll call this my 2010 theme. It’s the Minimal theme which you can find on the WordPress Themes Directory, then I’ve changed the background and added in an image as the header, although not linked yet. Also added in my Google adwords, if you click it I get money… SO DO IT!

Still a few tweaks to work on, also some content to add and finish off those pages. I’m happy with the overall layout, the old theme isn’t much different. But this has more flexibility in terms of widgets and uniformity.

January 11, 2010

Lazyest Gallery

While I work on this new theme, as hard as it is proving to be. I installed Lazyest Gallery some time ago, and I have to say, kudos to the developer because it’s bloody easy to use. I’m going to start transferring some stuff over from my Photobucket account, like all the movie posters I have when I’ve done a movie review. So be prepared for a few broken links from time to time as I move everything into one location.