Category Archives: Technology
The Birthday Calendar
As I was doing a really bad job of keeping track of how old anyone was going to be at their next birthday, I embarked on a weekend project to make this easier. I already had a Google Calendar with birthdays in, but as these were recurring events, it only had names, not ages… The [...]
Projects, Programming Languages and Procrastination…
(ooo… alliteration….) I’m writing this blog post when I really should be doing something useful like working on my final year individual project, but hey, sometimes you just want a break and I’ve played enough Freecell recently… So, what is my project? I’m writing a program to extract metadata (play counts, track durations etc.) from [...]
It’s been a long time…
…but I’ve finally got round to posting again… Since my last post, I’ve been rather busy, with the Spring term and all the work that went with it, and for the past 11 weeks I’ve been on placement (nearly half way ) So.. the Spring term… the group project was completed and the presentation went [...]
My move to Windows 7
With the release of Windows 7, and the fact that I can get it free from MSDNAA, I decided to leave Vista behind and upgrade. I also decided to move to the 64 bit version. The only problem I’ve had so far seems to be a rather strange configuration issue in Apache, but I’ve managed [...]
Updates…
I haven’t updated my blog for a while, so I thought I’d just write a quick post… Firstly, I updated my gallery a few weeks ago, with all of my pictures and videos being found in the same place. I uploaded a lot of new photos and some additional videos whilst I was at it. [...]