Firstly, just a quick one about Media Players: Zeth’s written a blog entry about mplayer. The blog is about command-line tools, and mplayer can be run without a graphical front-end. To be honest I think graphical front-ends are a lot quicker when you’re dealing with media, but there you go! Just something else to read…

Well, I’ve got the new design up and running. I think I’ve still got some work to do (‘some work’ will probably translate into ‘re-designing the whole thing from the ground up again – twice!’) but still. All I have to do now is add a photo gallery. I might put my ‘Open-Source’ page back…

I forgot to mention this at the time, so I thought I’d mention it now. If you’re looking for a good all-round Media Player for Linux, check out Xine. I used to use Mplayer, but I found that it didn’t seem to like some DVDs and files: the DVD player didn’t support DVD menus, which…

Just a quick update to say I’ve added a “Random Quotes” feature to this blog. All the quotes are taken from the Campus Crew MSN Group. I realise that they’re probably quite cliquey and not many people will understand them, but hey – you don’t have to read them! It won’t have any negative impact…

It’s really weird. I’ve started to, like, you know, use the word “like” in my sentences. I don’t know why. It’s, like, really strange. I think it could be, you know, like, me wanting to avoid growing up. Like. Ah well, I’m sure it’ll, like, go soon…

Time for the customary ‘The Weekend’ post! Quite an unusual one actually. Friday night, I went home and stayed with my parents overnight. Then I had lunch with them on Saturday, and headed back to Colchester. In the afternoon and evening I didn’t really do much! Just worked on the new look for this site…

*phew*… that was quite a mammoth SQL session! To give you a bit of background info: Blogger didn’t used to let you put titles into your post, unless you paid for the privelige. After I’d been using Blogger for a few months they gave the feature away free, but I never used it because I…

I don’t know why for the past couple of posts I’ve started making my titles groups of three things… strange! Ah well. I went home overnight last night, it was good to see my parents again and be back home. It did make me glad that I’m now a Linux user though – my mum’s…

Hmmm, before I made this post, there were 666 posts in total on this blog! Having said that, apparently the “mark of the beast” is actually meant to be something like 626, they added it up wrong. Or, um, something. I don’t know! Anyway. Yesterday evening was rather annoying – our internet at home was…

I found an interesting article today on the Guardian. It’s about “Lads’ Mags”. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I think (despite this article sounding like a huge rant) I actually agree with it. Are lads’ mags a bit of harmless fun, or do they cause harm which may not be obvious?…