Friday, 21 Nov 2008 00:20 by
Hellwrath
I've been listening to
TalkSport quite a bit lately, interesting to hear the callers they
get on the late night phone-ins, in particular the BNP supporters, you really can tell that they're not 'all there', anyway, speaking
of the BNP, I couldn't resist checking out the leaked membership list which has made the headlines this week, it was somewhat
of a surprise to see members from postcodes such as WA15, WA16 and SK9 on the list I must say, also interesting to see a few
from my hometown, who interestingly almost all gave their town as Sale, Manchester, despite Sale not actually being in Manchester, I'm
guessing those members are not originally from my town or really are that ignorant to not know their own address, although can
this only be expected from these Sun-reading, lager-swilling knuckle draggers? That said however, and without wanting to sound
like I'm defending the party, it is disturbing to see some of the comments from those on the BNP witch-hunt, you really do have
to question the sanity of these extremists who are supposed to support democracy and freedom and tolerance, yet plot violence
and harrassment against members of the public just for being members of a political party they happen to disagree with.
Anyway, in other news, I have completed Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas again in just over a total of 25 hours gameplay time, I'm
hoping to get all the spraytags, horseshoes and photos, completing the fire missions really helped me escape the burning drugs
factory in the final mission. Google's
Gmail service now has some nice new themes for
its users to pretty-up their inboxes, I've got a nice 'aqua' bluey sort of theme at the moment, very calming.
Another rant, I was on Facebook before and I now seriously think they should have some kind of mandatory IQ test prior to
registration, I came across a group illegally displaying name and address details of three people involved in the on-going 'Baby P'
case, accompanied with fanatical calls to hang those responsible, of course it's a tragic case, but we live in a modern, democratic
country with laws and a judiciary system, it's not up to vigilante mobs to despatch justice, no matter how heinous the crime
perpetrated, I really do wonder what goes on in these people's minds.
Got a bit of heartburn now, might go to bed now, I'm sick of being out of synch, no BF2 tonight sadly, although got a few projects and
stuff to work on, good things are ahead for 2009 and beyond!
Thursday, 06 Nov 2008 01:54 by
Hellwrath
Finally, a rudimentary blog working on HWDN! I've been working on coding this on my local machine for a few
weeks on and off and I finally have got round to uploading it, everything is written in PHP and I have coded it
to be as simple as possible (for me) to work with and rely on as little (or no) repeated code whatsoever, in fact, the words
you are reading now are extracted from my database using one class, the RSS feed will use the same class, but simply
call a different function
getblogsXML(), which will output raw XML, rather than HTML.
More work is to come of course, I need to add some sort of navigation, I have at least two pages, this and the contact page. I
also want to make a nice AJAXy blog admin page, allowing me to create, edit and delete blog entries, although one step at a time. Been
listening to
TalkSport while working on the site, damn good radio station, especially
since I can no longer listen live to Radio 2 using the
BBC iPlayer, as I am still on Windows 2000.
The BF2 is going well, I should be at 30,000 points soon, getting into the top 100,000 of the leaderboard is proving to be just out of reach
as usual, not helped by the recent spate of 'hacked' accounts, although of course, they're not hacked as such, the servers they play on are. Right, time
for bed, it's 03:38 as I write this, I am knackered.