Finally, a battle for the Christmas number one, Rage Against the Machine vs. X Factor’s latest robot (AKA: Joe McEldry). The best part is, so far Rage Against the Machine seem to be winning, just look at these download charts:
Hello, and welcome to my blog
This is just a little site I update when ever I can find the time, about what ever happens to be on my mind. So if you like music, motorbikes, programming or pointless rants you might just find somthing of interest here.
A little bit about me:
I'm a rock star trapped in an entrepreneur's body, currently living in North Devon, England. I run my own business, ClearVector, supplying affordable hosting, online applications and website design, and I spend most of my free time making music. I also have a healthy love of taking things apart to find out how they work, and tea.
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Apple iTunes is playing dirty with the Christmas Number One
December 15th, 2009
X Factor Ruined Christmas
December 8th, 2009As anyone who’s known me for more than a year can tell you; every year around December I say “next year I’ll write a Christmas song.” Well this year I actually did it:
Can you bribe a CBT instructor?
November 24th, 2009So, “can you bribe a CBT instructor?” Why am I asking? Because someone reached this website by sticking that very phrase into Google, this scares me, I mean REALLY scares me. Firstly, in answer to the original question: Continue reading »
Twitter Lists – Why Me?
October 29th, 2009Today when I logged into my twitter account I was greeted with the following message about twitter’s new feature, twitter lists:
Twitter Lists
Why the iPhone is still the king
October 16th, 2009I’ve always been very openly against Apple, partly because their products tend be unintelligibly over priced, and partly because there are no fanboys anywhere near as annoying as the typical Apple fanboy. They just will not accept the slightest bad word against anything Apple do.
So how is I now own (and love) an iPhone? I do my best to always keep an open mind, and having tried a fair few of the smart phones available at the moment, I simply found it to be the best. Fear not though, as this post isn’t going to be another review of the iPhone with its tongue firmly lodged in Steve Job’s sphincter, instead I’m going to attempt to address why (at least in my opinion) the iPhone is the best. Continue reading »
Website Design – You’re doing it wrong
August 27th, 2009I think all website designers like to think they know what’s good and bad in a design, yet if you get a bunch of us together we’ll disagree on a lot of things, after all design is very subjective. Continue reading »
Thinking Aloud – Marriage
July 31st, 2009Marriage is essentially small scale communism.
- MB
Time Sensitive Greeting
July 22nd, 2009This is a quick tutorial on how I created the time sensitive greeting you see on the home page of this site. I created this in JavaScript so that it would use the viewers local time and not the server’s time, and if the viewer doesn’t have JavaScript enabled, it falls back to a simple “Hello”.
UK Motorcycle Licence Law – 33 bhp (25 kW) Restriction
July 21st, 2009In February 2009 I passed my motorbike test (first time with two minors, thank you very much), and now I’m on a two year restricted licence. If you are unfamiliar with motorcycle licensing law in the UK, I envy you, it’s a complete shambles of unintelligible nonsense, but I’ll do my best to explain: