Archive for August, 2007

Having a Bicycle is Expensive

Well other week some twat decided to try cut through my bike lock. They didn’t succeed but they got half way through so I had to go out and buy another. Anyway new lock £30. Also I had bought a new bike tire pump for £20 and now it’s been stolen, so another £20 to replace it. I was hit by a van driver the other day on my bike as he pulled out without looking. Don’t worry I wasn’t injured but he has slightly buckled my back wheel. Cost to replace that I’m not sure but looking at £ 30+. Also both my front and back tires have gone brittle as my bike was stored outside for several months while I was in college. To replace them plus new inner tubes cost £45. Also because I was using my bike a lot I needed new seat for comfort, cost £40. Well that covers all the expenses. A grand total of £185 in a month, I could run a car on that amount of money in a month.

Free Pizza

Well thought I’d go to pizza hut for my dinner today. They do great pizzas but there is one thing that lets them down. That’s that the tables always feel grubby and sticky. It’s a 10 second job for them just to wipe a table properly when a customer leaves, is that so hard? But why am I complaining because whenever I seem to order a medium pizza they ether get the order wrong and send out a large or they never have medium bases in so they give a large one for no extra cost.

Drama

Emphasis…. Drama…. Fuck Off!!

An Old Email Read Again

Ok I was going through my msn inbox having a clear out. I had about 200 emails and I was after one particular email. Well anyway I came across this email, nearly 2 years old.

Dear Scott,
I have let your letter sit in my inbox for quite sometime as u can see. Well today I was reading something about England and I thought about you, and no this isnt the first time I have thought about you since you last wrote. I actually think about you quite often…. I just finally got up the nerve to write you back this time. You are right you didnt deserved all that, and I am sorry. I would to like to think I have matured over the past couple of months but I’m not quite sure. I hope your life is going good. I have no time anymore for anything. I have a job now. I work 5 days a week in addition to school. I never meant to hurt you like I did Scott. I promise. I came across the letter you sent ment when I was moving and the later when I was going through my things. I read your letter again and it had me smiling the rest of the day. I just wanted to thank you for everything… I think out of all the relationships I have been in and out of the past few months… ours was the best. I have the most fun memories with you and we talked the most…. I’m sorry I let that go I’m sorry I let you go. I am sorry to have hurt you Scott I truly am. Its been so long since I have talked to you. I hope you respond to this letter just at least to let me you know you read it. I hope that maybe we can start talking again… or at least drop an email by once in awhile. I continued on with my computer programming course.. Im in C++ now, and I have really got into this computer game called World of Warcraft. Please write me back… I know this letter is confusing but I didnt exactly no what all to say… so its a bit random.
Sincerely yours,
Kayla XOXO

Really do miss speaking with you Kayla xx

Ajax and JavaScript Exploiting

You may be aware of website-codes.com if not let me tell you. The idea of it was to provide php scripts that could run from any webhost that didn’t have php support. How I would achieve this would be through a line of JavaScript that user would put on their site. Well the website has been put on hold as I haven’t found time to code it.

Well anyway because I’ve been doing a lot of Ajax and JavaScript coding for where I work it had me thinking. If you could get Ajax to work on any webhost with only putting one line of code on their site? Well sure enough you can. I did a bit of testing there and then and it worked 100%. I couldn’t believe it. Because with JavaScript you can literally change the whole look and feel of a webpage, if you think hard enough you can see how this can be very dangerous to people’s websites. One thing that comes straight to mind is that you can use this one line of code to turn a whole page into a login page look-a-like (phishing) I now see why many public pages don’t allow JavaScript. E.G. MySpace.

Dentist

Well today has been productive, NOT!! Took day off from work to go to dentist that has been set for the last year. Well I get in and say that I have arrived to the receptionist I get a dirty look and I’m sorry but Dr McCormack isn’t in today. Well I’ve had to rebook for another day. Been kind of a depressing day, I even witnessed a funeral while I was sat outside Selby Abby.

Anyway I’m back in York now and I’m looking round town to pass the time. Might take buss up to Clifton Moore and take a look around Comet and Currys to look at their laptops as university for me it isn’t far away for me and need a laptop for university. Well ok not need but it’s a matter of want :p

Coins on Notes

Right I’m really starting to get annoyed how cashiers at supermarkets hand you your change back. They always place notes in palm of your hand and then the coins on top. There are several reasons why this annoys me.

1) The coins slide all over the place and many a time they end up on the floor.
2) If you do close your fist to stop the coins sliding you end up crumpling a brand new crisp note.
3) Because I paid by a note I have already got my note section of my wallet open but with the coins on top you have to slide coins off your hand into another compartment in your wallet. Changing compartments with one hand while trying not to drop everything is hard enough.

This is always the way in supermarkets…. Do they teach their staff to do it that way? Some one that works in a supermarket please tell me, because every time I go into a corner shop they had the money back the correct way: Coins in palm of hand and notes between thumb and Index Finger. That way I can easily slot my notes into the notes compartment, that is already open, keeping firm grip of coins in palm of hand.

Please cashiers hand the notes and coins the right way, well my way :P

Orange Tank Annoyance

Ok other day at work I needed to send text message. Sure enough I didn’t have enough credit I only had 9p. Well I had heard Orange do this new emergency credit thingy. Well I couldn’t remember what I had to text to get this credit so I went on a Google search. Well I came across someone else’s blog where they were annoyed at this Orange emergency credit. What they said was that you can only apply for this credit if your balance is 0p. Well straight away you can see the problem. I had 9p and there was no way to use it. Text messages are 12p and you can’t make an outside call with 9p. I just want to share my frustration at Orange how they could be so stupid. How are we ever to make that emergency call to friends or relatives when we have 9p of credit??

Oh and btw Bex rules. She beat me at nudge war on MSN. *Goes off to hide*

Urgh Ironing

Need I say more? I hate ironing. I wish there was an easier way to ironing…..

Looking out over the river

So ok I lied I didn’t go home just yet. I decided to go for a walk around York. I’m now sat on the bank of the river looking out over the river. My legs are killing me which I’ll explain why at another date.

While sat here I’m amazed at the amount of interesting sounds all around me. Lots of laughter, crying, shouting, a whole array of foreign languages, geese, sounds of footsteps, traffic and sirens. I could go on but I think you get the idea.

I’m having a starring match with a goose on the river. It’s looking right at me, sizing me up. I kind of feel uncomfortable by it. I think it’s time I moved on. I do like it here though it’s very relaxing.

Looking out over the river 1Looking out over the river 2Random guy trying to feed the swan

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