Mark's Musings

Internet Fail Blog

Mark — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:30:03 +0000

Just found this via the Laughing Squid blog – the Internet Fail Blog.

An example of one of the pictures.

pic: Internet Fail Blog

Rugby

Mark — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:19:16 +0000

So I’ve started back rugby training, i’ve been going since last tuesday and it’s getting easier every time i go. I’m tracking my training and weight over on Traineo. My profile is markj.traineo.com. So far i have lost 4 pounds since starting, it’s been a long time since my weight has been going down.

I can’t wait until the season starts it’s annoying to be doing all this training and not playing, but that will come.

Now Playing: Oasis – Stop The Clocks (Disc 2) – Live Forever

Baked Laptop

Mark — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:54:44 +0000

Somehow this laptop is still working after being baked in the oven.

Kid Geeks

Mark — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:32:48 +0000

Just watched the Robert Scoble video of Daniel Brusilovsky, can’t believe how level headed he sounds for a 14 year old.

Flickr Wallpaper Changer

Mark — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:11:24 +0000

Just found this via Jeff Sandquist’s blog. You will need the .net2.0 framework for it to work. It checks Flickr for photos with the tag(s) you supply and then uses it as your background. You can set it to change whenever you want.

Very Cool!

Dr Who

Mark — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:45:10 +0000

Just watched the last episode of the current series of Dr Who. I had to wait to watch it as I missed it when it was on the first time. Luckily BBC3 have repeated the series and thanks to the joys of SKY+ I managed to record it. It was terrific, the only thing that bugged me was the end. I thought and if there are any Dr Who aficionados reading this then please correct me, but I always thought the TARDIS was impenetrable.

Even saying that I can’t wait for the Christmas special.

Jaiku

Mark — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:57:48 +0000

Signed up for Jaiku. I like the way you can add feeds to your profile and it becomes a central repository
of all the stuff you do on te web.

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Posting from Word 2007

Mark — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:40:38 +0000

Just playing with Microsoft OneNote 2007 and clicked on the Blog This menu item, and it opens up Word. There are a number of blog platforms available so most people won’t be disappointed.

I put in my WordPress account details and there we go straight to a new post, which you are reading now.

Office 2007 keeps on surprising me, every day I find something new in it. I’ve mostly used Outlook which is a nice improvement on the 2003 version which I was using. The ribbon is awesome, everything is just in front of you ready to be used.

Here’s a picture of the blog post version whilst writing this post

Well done Microsoft.

It could gave been worse

Mark — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:54:10 +0000

After our few hours of snow this morning, lots of people were probably thinking oh my god this is a nightmare.
Well have a thought for the people in upstate New York who have had over 6′ of snow.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Upstate New York buried in snow

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What a Difference!

Mark — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:42:10 +0000

These 2 photos were taken only an hour and a half apart.

Technorati Tags: snow, Llanelli, Swansea

Snow Joke

Mark — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:58:52 +0000

It’s just taken me 2 hours to get home from work. It normally takes me 20 minutes on a good day but with all the snow that’s been plaguing the UK. The M4 motorway between Pontardawe and Hendy is absolute chaos.

Below are some pics i took as i was stuck in traffic.

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Disappointing Result

Mark — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:03:58 +0000

So another disappointing result as far as Wales go. The performance was ok, I think Jamie Robinson was out of his depth and went missing for long parts of the game. Overall I think we can build from here and look to the Scotland game with a lot of hope of a win.

Technorati Tags: rugby, Wales, Ireland

Six Nations 2007

Mark — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:00:52 +0000

So we’re on the verge of another Six Nations. With the Autumn Internationals a distant memory all the nations go into this championship with one eye on the World Cup and finding the right blend to give them success.

Looking at the recent form of all the countries it looks like this year could be a close contest. With England having the likes of Jonny Wilkinson and Jason Robinson back in their team and the debut of Andy Farell, they could be a force once again. Scotland have some injury worries and i think they will not achieve the same level of play as they did last year.

Ireland were awesome in November and look like the side that will take the Grand Slam, but they have a tough test against Wales first up. Wales had an ok Autumn but I think Gareth Jenkins had made some interesting choices in his selection. Although Gavin Henson is arguably one of our best players I think it is right he was kept out of the 22. I think we will miss Tom Shanklin in the centre as he has been in excellent form since returning from injury.

I hope that Wales produce a performance and don’t get steamrollered.

COME ON WALES!

BBC SPORT | Rugby Union | Six Nations pundit predictions

Technorati Tags: rugby, six nations, wales, england, scotland, ireland

iPhone

Mark — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:16:06 +0000

I know i’m a little late to the party, but i’ve just been watching the Macworld keynote. I just have to say that the if all this is possible then it could be the best gadget ever.

It’s just a shame that I won’t be able to afford one when they come out.

Musings For 15-1-2007

Mark — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:27:50 +0000

Still on my own in work. Things have calmed down quite a bit though. Managing to get everything done. Which is good.

Musings For 6-1-2007

Mark — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 15:36:56 +0000

So what does the new yeat hold for me. At the moment i’m running the show at work. My boss has gone to Florida for 3 weeks so i’m on my own trying to balance our customers calls and get everything done. I was a little nervous on the first day on my own but those nerves have gone and i’m quite enjoying it now.

Happy New Year to everyone, it’s a bit late but i’ve been rushed off my feet the last week.

Musings For 5-12-2006

Mark — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:17:26 +0000

Never be without music even when your sleeping. You can now have ipod pillows which have a hidden slot to put in you iPod or Zune.

Today is International Day of the Ninja, Wikipedia has some more information

Is this how Google can store all it’s data.

Musings For 1-12-2006

Mark — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:07:53 +0000

Whilst doing some research on why one of our customers servers was failing to run ntbackup. I happened to find that the largest dile that the NTFS filesystem can handle a max file size of 1 exabyte. Which is in language I can understand is 1 Billionn Gigabytes.

Musings For 29-11-2006

Mark — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:31:08 +0000

At the moment i’m sitting in the office of quite a new customer who’s network we are checking for the first time. After looking at their backup procedure we found that even though they have 2 external usb drives, which they swap every week, the task hasn’t run on their server which is nearly 18 months old. How can the person who set it up not have checked it.

Musings For 14-11-2006

Mark — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:15:47 +0000

Looks like the Scobles are hooked on Lost. We are in my house as well. The third season starts with us on the 19th of this month.