I’m officially not blind anymore! After spending more than three years dealing with my short sightedness, not being able to see people or read things that are more than about 5 meters away from my face, I finally decided to book an appointment to see the optician this morning. He obviously confirmed what was already obvious, that I had ‘myopia’, aka. short sightedness. I went into Boots Opticians this morning at 9:25 and was out by 11am with vision like [...]

This is the story of my dealings with the online mobile phone company, OneStopPhoneShop.com, quite a long post, get ready to dig in, like I had to. They had the best deal on the phone that I wanted to buy Laura that I could find anywhere on the web. I specified that I wanted to have it delivered to my work address. The next day, I realised that I wouldn’t be able to take the delivery at work, so I [...]

Lost DVD finally came Originally uploaded by charmingman. My Lost DVD finally came today after pre-ordering it from Amazon.com, unfortunately I had to pay a customs charge of £8.76 so I probably would have saved money buying it from CD-Wow or Playusa even though their prices were higher. Never mind though. Anywho, I have now watched every single episode in series 1 which was left on a nailbiting cliffhanger. This would usually be annoying, but, Series 2 has actually started [...]

Success! After just a few more hours of tinkering and tyding up code, we have almost a fully working WordPress based website. I’ve even managed to configure a very, very impressive plugin, the likes of which I had been hunting for under movabletype for months to no avail, which will interface between my website and flickr. You can see my photos page now, which I think looks very nifty, by using the ‘photos by moi’ link on the navbar. The [...]

OK, so after a short battle, the main homepage of the site is now being built by WordPress, rather than Movabletype, Yay! I still have a long way to go, but I think I’m getting the hang of this new CMS. The major difference is that WordPress is built on PHP rather than CGI. This isn’t so much of a problem, in fact it works to my advantage because I’m much more proficient in PHP than I am in CGI, [...]