Posts tagged with "personal"

Well it's been a good year on o2. They did Harri and myself rather well last year by offering us a £35 contract but giving us £10 off each month. The tariff gives us 500 anytime minutes and 500 texts. This year is a completely different story. Tariffs are getting worse, not better, with

Posted by Oli 15 months ago in personal. Continue reading »

I love watching films and I'd really love to be able to watch films more than once... There's just one problem: me

Posted by Oli 16 months ago in personal. Continue reading »

What has eight legs, no hair, a nasty temper and is sitting under my bed as I type this? I'll give you a clue.. It's not 4 skinheads in a 5-legged race... I almost wish it were though

Posted by Oli 16 months ago in insects & personal. Continue reading »

Tudball is no longer Minesweeper champion of the universe and Paul has released a new testing version of his first person shooter: Shooter.

Posted by Oli 18 months ago in games & personal. Continue reading »

Oli weighs up the cost for the immensely improved photomerge feature in Photoshop CS3: 1.1gigs of RAM. Includes a comparison between CS2 and CS3 photomerge results.

Posted by Oli 20 months ago in memory leak, photoshop, messenger & personal. Continue reading »

Well I'm tying up the loose ends of the design and while I know there are a few bugs that I'll get to eventually, I think the home page needs the most attention at the moment. I need some help though

Posted by Oli 20 months ago in personal. Continue reading »

So I recently started getting raging clues about a possible redesign. As I explained in a 9rules Notes thread the other day, designs are made out of two mandates: aesthetic design (how it all

Posted by Oli 20 months ago in news & personal. Continue reading »

I've seen a few "show us your desk"-style threads over the last couple of months and therefore I've decided it's time to photographate my little computer area and give you an idea of what things look like at this side of ThePCSpy.com =) [image] PC.

Posted by Oli 20 months ago in meme & personal. Continue reading »

I've just cooked myself a steak and in the finishing bites, I thought I'd ask the question: how do you like your steak? [image] I would call this, the final part of the steak, a medium, although most of the steak was a much deeper red in the very middle and I'd venture that as rare.

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in meat & personal. Continue reading »

I know me whinging on about programming the site is starting to look like a recurring theme here — I promise that once I've got this problem out the way, that's it for a good long while. I'm trying to sort posts for the forums by latest activity. That bit works fine — but I also

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in vb.net & personal. Continue reading »

One by one, the VB.net-wielding mind-badgers rob me of my sanity and sell it to Steve Ballmer. I've been up all night programming the forums. In doing so I decided that it was time to completely overhaul the structure of the back-end... Re-writing about 1000 lines of code. Suzie's current

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in personal. Continue reading »

Hi guys. I'm just putting the finishing touches on the forums (the version that none of you can see yet) and I'm trying to sexify the paging/pagination. I'm aiming for a system that works like this: It will always display 9 numbers When the range is more

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in personal. Continue reading »

I decided today that the PC was due a thorough dusting even though it was only a few months since I did the last dusting. Keeping your PC on carpet is a bad idea for precisely this reason. In true blogging style, I've decided to share this occasion with all of you!

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in cleaning & personal. Continue reading »

A good friend of mine needs support for a project of his at university in the form of filling out a survey. If you've got a spare five minutes, could you please visit the survey and answer the 18 quick

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in personal. Continue reading »