December 31, 2007
· Filed under Products
I find it hard to believe how much of a task it was to find a small keyboard. I Spent about a week finding a small, wireless PC keyboard when it should have only taken a few minutes. Though now I feel quite silly because searching “small wireless keyboard” gave me a perfect site showing a few good keyboards. Thankfully I did not order the one I found, and now I will look through this site.
But for the past week I had some real trouble with finding a keyboard that met my needs. Searching For small keyboards I was mostly finding PDA keyboards which wouldn’t have worked with a pc, which is annoying really because a foldable keyboard would have been perfect for me because I could have just slipped it under my pillow at night.
To be honest, while writing this article I have been searching Google to find search terms which came with the wrong kind of keyboard, but I seem to be doing a much better job of finding the right sort of keyboard now than I had been doing through the week, so this article seems to be getting more and more pointless as I keep writing. I did decide on the “iOne Mini Wireless 10m Range Keyboard With Built In Mouse” from Amazon, but with these now found sites I will have to make a more informed decision, thankfully I had not ordered yet.
Ps. Word crashed half way through this article so I have probably missed something out that I meant to say.
December 31, 2007
· Filed under Products
Well, the main idea behind this is to be able to rest my head while watching TV on my laptop. It was not very pleasant to do this with my laptop alone, so I have hooked it up with my TV and kept it that way. So now I just have to slide my keyboard across and be comfortable while watching a film or TV with my laptop. At the moment it is now quite perfect though.
It is a bit of a task to remove the laptop from all its connections, so I ordered a micro USB hub yesterday. So I will only have to remove the VGA, AC and one USB. Also I am using a large Microsoft wireless keyboard at the moment, so I have ordered a nice small keyboard So the setup will be both comfortable and functional,
I only wish that my laptop had a HDMI out connection and blu-ray drive so it would be perfect, but I suppose that does not matter too much at the moment. So yes, all seems well and good at the moment, I will now move a few centimetres to have a small nap.
December 26, 2007
· Filed under News
I was quite pleasantly surprised today to see my page views jump from 55 yesterday, to 158 today, at first I was quite confused as to how that had happened, but I realised it was Christmas. Christmas means lots of people getting iPhones and iPod Touches, which means a lot of people wanting to downgrade and jailbreak their devices. So yes, big jump in page views, and it will probably stay high for a while until the amount of un-jailbroken devices diminishes.
In fact, this was quite a good Christmas for me indeed. First of all I got my 19″ HD monitor for my laptop so I can lie down in bed while using Media Centre and online TV sites. Along with that I got many smaller gifts including a really fun RC helicopter, a gyroscope, a bonsai tree growing kit, some miniature boomerangs, a 51 year calendar, a really bright LED torch and other strange things.
So yes, best set of presents I have had in a while, I have had much fun playing with everything, and I love my monitor. Hope you all had a great Christmas and have a happy new year.
December 20, 2007
· Filed under Random
A few days ago in Biology we got to dissect a heart. I have to say that it was very fun and I had a very good time. So I went down to my local butchers and asked if they had a heart I could buy, they did not, but they said they would get one by Friday. So on Thursday I went in again and picked it up, it was a rather big pig heart, ready for cutting up. So I found a container to put it in until the next day, found a nearly-finished tub of (vegetarian) ice-cream so I finished off the ice-cream and cleaned it to put the heart in.
Before I put the heart in I took had a good feel of it, it feels like really tough, moist meat. I also took some ‘before’ pictures to post on this article. So after I had finished I put it in the tub and left it in the fridge.
First we felt to see which side was the left; we put our fingers into the veins and felt the thickness of the muscle to find the left side (the thicker wall). We then cut down along the vain down to the bottom of the heart to have a look inside. We measured the thickness of the wall and had a look at the valves and how they stop blood from travelling the wrong direction.
After we had seen all we needed to in there, we cut along the same line but along the right side so we could compare the different sides (the left wall was much thinner). We then followed the path the blood takes, in through the right vain, out through the right artery, in through the left vain, out through the right artery. After that we had a bit of time left so Mrs Hughes-Gooding let so do what we wanted for the rest of the lesson.
We learnt a lot really, about how the right wall is thinner because it only pumps blood to the lungs, about the path the blood takes and safety precautions the heart has. It is much better to have fun cutting up a heart than to just learn from what the teacher says.
December 16, 2007
· Filed under TV
Daria was an animated programme aired on MTV 2 a few years ago. Daria was first seen in Bevis and But-Head as a secondary character, later she was then given her own show named after her. She is an intelligent, down-beat student of Lawndale High, she is best friends with an avid artist called Jane and is sister to the co-president of the fashion club in school. Her mother is a lawyer and her dad is a salesman.
The only real reason it was allowed to be aired on MTV 2 was because the music in each episode was made of recent tracks, so there was some musical element.
The episodes are mainly made up of school life for her; she is one of the ‘unpopular’ kids so much so that her sister denies knowing her. The humour is mainly sarcasm and it makes a great programme, I have not seen it aired on any channels recently so it is hard to watch, best thing to do is watch it on the internet at veoh or similar sites.
Daria is one of the most wanted DVDs according to a survey taken, it is unlikely for the DVD to be made because it would be very hard to get permission to use all the music for a DVD, so it does not look good for the fans of this great show. So yes, give it a search and I’m sure you will like it.
December 12, 2007
· Filed under Internet
I found this website on a weird biscuit website a few months ago and re-discovered it today, they are little humorous comics about dinosaurs, they make a nice little break from work to just have a little laugh at some dinosaurs.
So yea, just give it a look on http://www.qwantz.com/ and I’m sure you will add it to your daily visited sites.
December 10, 2007
· Filed under Products
Today I lent my USB pen drive to Peter because he missed an episode of a programme. I have a really nice pen drive, 4gb in a very small space, though I cannot remember the name of it at the moment. So yes, Peter has it at the moment, and I needed it today to transfer some files from desktop to laptop. So I was reduced to find other means of transfer.
First of all I tried to use Windows Live Messenger’s sharing folder function, which just wouldn’t work, so then I went to my PSP (which had no battery), so I finally dug out the oldest mp3 player in the house.
It is more than 5 years old, 256mb and just really awful. What I did not realise was that it was USB 1.0, I tried to put it in my USB drives and was greatly confused to why it would not fit, I realised that it must have been USB 1.0 so I got an old USB extension and it worked fine. But what I did realise was that it was cripplingly slow. I knew that there were older versions of USB and that they were slower, but I had never come across any of these older devices or cables.
All I can say really is that I am thankful for USB 2.0 and I am looking forward to USB 3.0 in the first half of 2008.
December 10, 2007
· Filed under Music
I have just come back from watching Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds in Manchester and I thought I would just give a little review. All in all it was a great show. Great music, which, because was already a fan of the album, was to be expected. Also a great story, and great performers. There is not much to say about it really, it was what it said on the tin, just the album performed live, some visual interpretations to help those with little imagination, and real people to sing the vocals.
The funny thing about it all was that when I went to see Bill Bailey live, we saw it advertised and Joe’s dad laughed and said “that would be right up your street wouldn’t it”. Apart from trying to figure out why he knew I would like to see that, it sparked inside me an urge to go to watch it out of semi-spite.
So yes, very good performance, I would recommend it to anybody and will laugh at Joe’s dad heartily next time I see him.
December 9, 2007
· Filed under Random
I have been thinking about my career recently and I cannot think what to do. I am nearing the end of my last year of school, and then moving on to college. But what I am stuck on is what courses to take and which college to go to. My only real career I can see myself enjoying is animation, but the major flaw in that path is that I cannot draw at all.
Last night I had the idea in my head of some sort of anti-emu, but today when trying to get my ideas down on to paper I was hit by the fact that I cannot draw an emu, never mind an anti-emu. I have dabbled in a bit of animation over the past two years, I have plenty of characters in my head, but it is really impossible for me to make anything half decent because I can’t draw a thing.
I would really like to be an animator, but the only job I could really get would be a worker bee doing the animating for the person who has the ideas. I have many ideas, but if I cannot draw how far can I get. I used to be very interested in science, but the Bunsen flame which once burned inside me has died and my interests have moved over to the virtual word. It is not far off until I need to figure out which college I want to go to, I want to take a course in animating, get some qualifications to show I am more than competent in using a computer, and go down a computer based 
career.
So I need to find a collage with a decent animation course, hopefully that task will be easy, but to go through the course without any issues will not be easy for me. I want a career which I will enjoy, where I can walk from home if I choose to and one where I can vent my ideas.
December 4, 2007
· Filed under People
Peter (wearing the bin bag) is my best friend. Maybe you have noticed a mention of him in a few of my post. I use him often because he normally has the opposite view to me. It is always good to show another point of view, and to give sources, so Peter is killing two birds with one stone really.
So yes, I thought I would give you a bit of information about him rather than leaving you in the dark, maybe if I didn’t people would start to worship him as some sort of unknown God when really they should be worshiping CowPig with his beefy pork.
So yes, Peter, you will probably see him in some future posts.
p.s. He is not fond of CowPig or my lovely Mario badges.
