December 2007 Archives

Just found out that one of the flats I was looking at sold for 5 grand less than I was willing to offer. Who the hell has a bunch of viewings one night, then sells the flat before lunch time the next day?

Idiots, that's who.

Shame. It was a really nice flat.

If you happen own a pair of Grado SR80s, don't bother getting the flat pads. I did. Wish I hadn't bothered.
They do help tame the bright sound of the SR80s (which is why I got the flat pads in the first place), but you lose spaciousness, the bass ends up slow and muddied, and the midrange starts to shout a bit. Not good.
Back to the standard bowl pads we go.

(If you think that changing the earpads on headphones is a bit weird, you should probably avoid this page. Some people are really into headphones.)

Just loads of very cool images, updated constantly.
Soak it up.

I think Penny Arcade says it quite well. After all, the best parties are the ones you gatecrash.

Speaking of which, I better get my shit together. 21st birthday parties don't gatecrash themselves, you know.

Merry turkey and wine day to you all. I hope you are stuffed to the gills with wee sausages wrapped in bacon, Marks and Spencers' stuffing, and selection-box chocolate.
If anyone wants a Crunchy, you can have mine. I'll swap you for a Caramel.

I hope Santa was good to you. He emptied his sack into my stocking, and I'm still clearing up the mess now.

Internet trolling taken to a new level: Ventrilo Harassment - Duke Nukem Forever. You'll need sound, and you should probably put the coffee down first.

There's loads more of them at ventriloharassment.org. The Banjo Attack, and the Lindsey ones are good. Don't have the sound up too high for the Lindsey ones, though. :)

The photos are up. There's more than there were on the old site, 'cause I've got effectively unlimited storage on my web server now. Should have done all this a long time ago.

Nominate have sorted the issue with the ilikejam.org domain, so the DNS update should be propogating now. As such, www.ilikejam.org will soon be pointing to the Apache install on my Linux Mac Mini, and this will be the last post on www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com.
I'll start tearing down the site once I'm sure the DNS update went OK, but various pages will live on for a bit, while I import them into Movable Type.
Update your bookmarks: ILikeJam is dead. Long live ILikeJam.

I've imported all the entries from here into my Movable Type installation. If you ever need to kill, say, 5 hours one day; this is a terrible way to do it.
Just need to create pages for the 'article' type stuff (like the Audiophile page, the Unix Runlevels etc), and we're good to go. Unfortunatley, Nominate's control panel for the ilikejam.org domain appears to be borked, so I can't switch DNS over to my home DSL at the moment.

So I was on Digg the other day, and I heard that Movable Type is going Open Source, so I downloaded it (and installed Apache and MySQL) and I'm playing about with it on my desktop machine. It's pretty impressive; both in how easy it is to set up, and what it can do.
I'm thinking, therefore, about using it in place of the venerable HTML hack-up you see before you.
All I need to do is find a style that's not yet another "Web2.0 - paster-colours - drop-shadow - gray-on-white-text - ground-reflections etc." look that I'm becoming really fucking sick of seeing all over the place. You know what I'm talking about.

Update: Sod it. The 'Minimalist Grey' style looks pretty good, so that's what I'm going to use. Gray on gray text or no.