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Mini rant and celebration

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Yesterday I was joyously (is that even a word?) washing my car when I noticed ALL the paint on my lovely morette quad headlights was coming off in the heat

Stupid body shop dont seem to have keyed the lights properly :(

After spending £200 on them, then a weekend trying to get them to fit properly, then not being able to wire them up, and now the paint falling off, I’ve given up with the things (obviously designed and built by some insane garlic-munching bloke who’s never actually seen a 106 in real life!)

So sold them and got some 2nd hand custom black projectors. Nice lights but not in the greatest condition, so the front of my 106 is looking a bit sorry for itself at the moment :(

However I did order some polyrace bushes today so the suspension will be getting an overhaul again (and ive just fitted avo 50mm springs and a full set of bilstein shock absorbers :D)

But in a rather rare moment for my blog site - im quite happy!

Swapped my N95 8gb at the weekend for a jailbroken 8gb iPhone
Absolutely loving the last.fm application on it - sat in the office listening to music directly over the works wifi connection…. Marvellous!!

I’ll get pics up of the car soon, might also get around to sorting the gallery out on here as well :)

A typical work lunch

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

[[Image:Misc/marco_lunch.jpg|left|Marco eating lunch]]
Me and the lads at work think we have discovered the ultimate Cooplands sandwich!

Its a chicken mayo salad ploughmans and costs less than £3
Keeps you stuffed all afternoon

Marco can be seen modelling it in the attached photo ;)

Why is vista so lacking in features? (aka Ubuntu is gorgeous)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I’ve just been given a lovely new pc at work which i’ve formatted and chucked ubuntu on - I haven’t used linux properly in a few years but now im doing 99% PHP5 development figured I’d have a go at running a pure linux desktop machine

Oh my what a suprise, ubuntu boots up onto a nice live cd for you to play with and make sure you’re hardware is compatible with it all first before you even click install. Network was working, all my hardware, everything straight from a 600mb CD…

So I click install - it sets the drive up perfectly, takes 3 minutes and I have a full OS..

Graphically looks gorgeous, fonts are smooth and pleasing to the eye much like using OSX
And spaces…. how have I lived my life without desktop spaces. I have komodo open in one and the dev site open in firefox on the other.. switching between them is heaven

Then the other 2 spaces I have one remote desktop’d into my home vista pc (LOL) and the other full of personal sites (gmail etc..)

How can microsoft spend years writing vista and not include multiple desktops? Hell if you run a multiple monitor setup it doesnt even allow you to put the task bar on both screens *sigh*

Ubuntu is sooo fast, everything just works straight away.. all the packages are free.. I just dont understand why anyone would buy windows these days

Yes you dont get games on linux, but hell thats why I bought an xbox 360 isnt it!

Vista SP1 might fix the MANY bugs in vista (why does it take forever to copy simple small files?) but I will one night next weekend be formatting my pc at home for ubuntu install