I’ve put up a donate version of AndChat in the Market for anyone who doesn’t mind paying £1.99 for my efforts. If you haven’t got a Google Checkout account or credit card, you can make a donation via PayPal.
For anyone curious/worried, the free version is not a ‘lite’ or ‘trial’ version, the only difference between the 2 is the ‘About’ screen. AndChat will always be free but a contribution is always appreciated.
I got tired of uploading and downloading files to test changes to my site, so I installed Wordpress on my laptop. 
If you wanna do the same for testing, this site has a excellent and easy to follow tutorial.
If you haven’t bothered to watch the Bill Gate’s keynote at CES ‘07 (Consumer Electronics Show), you can find recorded streams at the links below. He made some very interesting announcements:
100K Stream | 220K Stream | 500K Stream
You can keep up to date with the latest CES news at the Neowin Events Blog.
On Boxing Day, I went to Central London to do some shopping. While I was there, I popped into HMV to buy some games. I choose FEAR and Half Life 2, both for a reasonable price. I got home, removed the plastic covering, and I find out that the HL2 game still has the security tag on it (no I didnt steal the game from the shop). I was really fucking pissed off, I decide to buy a game, and suddenly I can’t play it because of a fuck up by retarded employees. I couldn’t be bothered to wait till the next day to get an exchange, so I broke the case slightly and took the tag out. Luckily, the CD had just a minor scratch on it, and I managed to install it without problems.
Right now, I’m playing FEAR, it is a wicked game . I’ve been taking some videos of it, and I’ll put them up after a while.
Some pics of the case and tag (the red thing):
Managed to fix the damn problems with the comments in IE6. Site has been tested with IE6, 7, Opera and Firefox and should work 100%. Colours look a bit off in IE6 and 7, but its so minor its not worth tackling. Most of the site validates aswell so it should be ok.
Also, the ads, I decided to take them off again, but I kept the small Google + Firefox logo at the bottom of my sidebar. Decided there was no point in keeping them really.
This is gonna be a hilarious film Can’t wait Trailer:
It took a long time, but I’ve made some more changes to the site. The most obvious is the ad and the theme. I’ve tried to keep the ads simple and not too “in your face,” and I’ve decided to limit my ads to one per page. The ad will always stay in the same place (makes it easier to ignore 
). I personally hate those sites that are just made of ads and no real content, so I’m trying to keep as few ads as possible.
The other thing is the new theme. I’ve had to make a few changes and customizations to make it what I wanted. The changes aren’t major, mostly minor code changes and won’t be noticeable. You’ve probably realized I ain’t the most php and web design savvy person, so I can’t be bothered to make huge changes to the theme. Anyway, as silly as it may sound, there may be bugs, I might have screwed up somewhere, so if you do find one, please let me know via my contact form or email in the About page. I know that the site is aligned all the way to the left in Internet Explorer, but I don’t have the time or effort to try and fix it, but the site looks fine in Firefox and Opera.
The third thing is a new gallery. You can find it by clicking on the “Picture Gallery” link under blog navigation. The slideshow in my sidebar is also linked to it, and the pictures change every 7 seconds. There isn’t much content there at the moment, but I’m planning to upload more stuff soon. I may also have to buy more space from my hosting company; I choose the tiny package when I signed up, but I didn’t think I would run out of space so quick.
Also, a Thank You to MrEggSalad from Neowin.net, who made my site icon. 
Thats all for now, but I’ll post any changes I make.
Ok, I finally made the change to a new site, this time with a new host and domain. I enjoyed my old blog (http://zer0day.wordpress.com), but I decided I needed my own site. I’m still working on the site to make it look nice, but given my limited web design knowledge, don’t expect a miracle.
Holidays finally started Now I can relax, and get working on my new site >.>
I found a very good article about the slow erosion of civil and human rights in the United States, with the framework being laid for a Big Brother State, the suspension of all civil rights, and the installation of a Military Government, who overrides the basis of American Democracy.
The article talks about cancelling election, martial law, the Military and the Partiot Act.
Last week I put my laptop for sale in Loot, a UK based ads paper ( think of it as a ebay on paper ). So anyway, I got a few responses, but so far, they all seem to be scam emails lol. One email in particular has a request for the laptop to be shipped to Nigeria (how typical), and she was willing to pay £20 extra to persuade me to only sell to her :o .
I thought for once I’d play along with the scammer. I sent an email saying I’d only pay to people who meet and pay me in London. The reply I got was the funniest scam response I’ve read so far. She emailed back saying she works on a boat as a sailor, and can’t meet me or pay me in person, but she can pay via Paypal. Bear in mind that this person hasn’t asked about the condition of the laptop, or any pictures of it. So I replied saying that that is fine with me, but I need her account details first to make sure it was a valid account.
I got a response saying that Paypal has authorised us 
to not give out account information, and am I trying to scam her :o . TBH, yes I was trying to scam the scammer, it was getting kinda fun making them get their hopes up that I might share account information with them. I replied saying, oh noes, not the password, just the account details to make sure it was valid “as I want to protect myself against fraud.” We’ll that seemed to end my little game, I got a reply saying she was no longer interested and I could sell to who I wanted. I decided it was time to let all my frustration at scammers out, and I sent a very colourfully worded email, telling them I knew what they were doing, and I was playing along to it to annoy them
So far I haven’t got a reply, but no doubt there’ll be plenty of scam email everytime I advertise something, so next time I’ll be a bit more careful when I ask for info and maybe I’ll be able to make them do some of the silly stuff you find at the 419 Eater forums. :evil:
Yesterday was the 2nd last episode of Prison Break Season 2, and it was a crazy episode full of twists!!!! It’s gonna return again in January (WTF, Why So Late!!!) Anyway, unfortunately for us Brits, Season 2 isn’t gonna be on our screens for a long time 
but, using the ultimate h4×0r method ( ), I managed to see all the eps in this season so far. If you don’t wanna know what happened in episode 13, skip this part of my post
To keep it short, Michael and Burrows get caught by Mahone, who doesn’t have the chance to kill them because border patrol turns up. They get sent to a hold place so they can be transferred to Fox River, but now Mahone is screwed because he didn’t do his “job” properly for the Company, i.e. kill the two brothers. The Chinese dude, who is Kellerman’s and Mahone’s boss is now meeting with his boss, a weird man who writes notes instead of talking, he orders Kellerman to be killed. While they are being transported, Kellerman, who is now a marked man, has the bright idea of screwing with the Company, helping Michael and Lincoln escape, and shooting, maybe killing Mahone in the process.
In other news about my life, Uni is getting very hard. I flopped one test, did ok in another, and aced it in another one. 
Until the 16th of December, I have to work extra-hard, but after that date, I can relax for a bit, since after that date, I have no more coursework and no more exams until next year.
I’m also trying to decide whether I should sell my current laptop, an Amilo A1667G, and buy another one which is more portable and has better battery life. I have my eye on the Dell Inspirion 6400 (Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, 120GB SATA HD, £790) , but I’m not sure whether I’m ready to sell this one yet. I wanna be able to play games, but if I get the Dell, which has either a X1300 or X1400, I won’t be able to. This laptop is able to handle Far Cry, Splinter Cell 3, GTA:SA and NFS:MW and NFS:C with either the highest or very good graphics. To be honest, I rarely find the time to play games now, but I probably will start playing after I finish all my work at Uni.
I could carry one using this for a while longer. If I sell it, I would probably make a loss, and I recently upgraded the RAM and HD, which has added to the cost of this laptop. Currently there are no Amilo A1667G laptops on Ebay, so I’m not too sure if I could get this to sell
