Fresh and Clean - it's da new style!

11:07.49 - Monday 19th July 2004   (Link to This Entry)

*Cough* Sorry, got a tad carried away there. While mooching about over the weekend I figured I may as well knock up a more colourful new design for the website. I rather liked the idea of dropshadows and the like, and big, vibrant colours, so that's what you ended up with - a complete mish-mash of everything that seemed good at the time. Hehehhe.

There are still a couple of bits to add in: visitor comments, tracking and anything else I realise I've missed. I'll add these (and take onboard any recommendations etc) when I get round to it, but for now it can stay as it is.

Parcel Farce

11:47.27 - Monday 19th July 2004   (Link to This Entry)

Oh man - when I get something wrong, I don't do it by halves.

My brother wanted a couple of CD drives on the cheap so I ordered two from eBuyer for the low, low price of £30 including VAT and delivery. They were out of stock when I ordered but more were secured in good time for my required delivery date and they duly dispatched to Manchester.

Only for some unknown reason, I put my brother's house number down as No.5 when in fact he lives at No.1. I've no idea why, but as soon as we realised I had to ring City Link and email eBuyer in order to try and get someone to change something. eBuyer, of course, take an age to respond to their stupid eNoted thing, and City Link don't take calls on a weekend (seemingly), so I only got an answer this morning. At 08:47 actually.

I don't know if they'll change the address for me but we can hope. It may be that they arrive tomorrow but there's an equally good chance that they will find their way back to eBuyer and I'll have to pay another wodge of shipping charges. Dammit!

Magical Trevor - woah!

12:04.10 - Monday 19th July 2004   (Link to This Entry)

All of a sudden I am getting a LOT of people searching for Magical Trevor, which is a bit odd seeing as the first result at the top of the Google Search is the actual file. Could it be that people are searching for the Words to Magical Trevor?

Kodak Camera - Deaded.

17:55.01 - Monday 19th July 2004   (Link to This Entry)

Since M took it to Italy with her, my Kodak DX3700 will rarely write to it's memory card, pretending instead that said card is Read-Only, despite the fact that all cards tried work just fine in my Lexar card reader and my mobile phone. I'll try reflashing the firmware when I can remember how to do it, but it will give me an excuse to get a new camera if it doesn't work out.

I rather like the look of the Nikon Coolpix 8700, with it's honking great 8Mp resolution. Throw in one of those 2.2GB Microdrives and I'm well away.