Freakcity

...and it’s all stiff!

Freakcity is 1 yr old today. Exactly one year ago today we were musing on IRC what to call it and settled on “FreakCity” and registered the name. Now we are over 300 strong and still growing.

For FreakCity’s birthday we had a barbecue, which went exceptionally well. Firs...

Company has been invested in lots. Maybe it’s time for a payrise 😉

My journal entries appear to have become all sporadic an stuff on account of me not having my T3 and not scribbling aimlessly on tubes. Bah.

Well. Had fun with Adam. Drank too much Friday. Chatted lots with Warren who is empathic like wot I am. William managed 7 hours in my flat without pissing a...

So I go out on Friday and am very good, no fags, a few voddies, then home with James to eat spag bog. Adam was in so James got to meet him – pronounced him far less scary than Ron, which is a compliment in anyone’s terms...

Watched some Will and Grace and then had a fairly early night.

Got up,...

It’s 5pm and I have half an hour left to go. O2’s text service appears to be being strange, and I am knackered. I should probably just go home tonight. But I might go to Retro and see James. Don’t know yet.

Gonna try and get some FreakCity done this weekend, want to change the design of the beta,...

...and I’m feeling very sick and ill today...

No T3 to scribble my writings on. It’s so depressing 😢

Bitty day. Fixed some whopping bugs, which was fun. Waiting for things to be tagged now, which is less fun. Have to do a global search and replace in a moment, that’ll be nice – if I break it...

Good things:

My T3 should be fixed in 7-10 days

My throat feels less shitty

I am making chips 😁

Bad things:

No text from Tobias yet

I had to send my T3 to suninland 😐

I am very tired

Indifferent things:

Still haven’t used my thingy yet.

Managed to get my head around struts and Javascript in the end. So almost a productive day at work. Got home to discover Adam is as ill as I am. Fed him some night nurse. Made salmon lattice things (from a box, which I suppose is cheating :)) and pasta in mushroom, garlic and white wine sauce (from ...

Got up at 7ish – felt ill. Sore throat. Grr. I blame certain people at work coming in with sore throats last week.

Pottered about a bit. Got on the 11am train to Sarfend. 3 quid off coz of my goldcard. Rah. Arrived at Benfleet at midday. Buses every hour. Got a cab 😁

Fixed Mij’s PC – "This ...

So I have a sore throat. Bah.

On a c2c train to Benfleet to visit the grandparents and see the pwetty airplanes at the airshow.

Stayed in on Friday night. Adam turned up with a friend of his and many many huge suitcases...he is a proper fag I think as they were all clothes 😁

Bought them ...

So I’ve been mostly feeling shit. Feeling underslept and feeling like I can’t concentrate. Bit of an issue at work, but I’ll deal I guess. I am writing this on my lappy as the other PCs are busy updating Slackware and breaking rather spectacularly 😁

I think I may write a script that mirrors the ...

Pepto Bizmol makes your poo go black!

...and the weather’s shite. Just in time for the flower show. Yay!

Nikki is down today for the Chelsea Flower Show, hopefully meeting her after work...another day of bug fiddling and stuff. Joy.

Felt mostly OK at work. Dave looked awful though. Had a cold. And today I feel like I may be gettin...

We went home via the offy, fed Ron beer and had a little Archers & lemonade myself. Watched some telly and went to bed.

Smess had arranged a picnic for Sunday...so we got sorted and after a slow morning headed off to Greenwich...me on the bike, Ron with my travelcard. I got lost. Dom and Pete we...

My sore neck exploded into agony over the course of Wednesday, I ended up being first smothered in tiger balm by Rach, which left me still in pain but smelling much funkier, and then heading home early as it hurt too much to concentrate. And it steadily got worse. On the plus side, my new phone arr...

So I wake up this morning and I can’t move my neck without being in severe pain. Grr. Got to work yesterday with no music as I forgot to charge my DAP. Bah. More bugs and a lovely new chunk of compare functionality. And a ranking system. Have left most of it for today. CVS issues plagued us for most...

Groovy coding all over the site. Removed the images from the old folder and checked that they were all in the new ones. Polished some bits. Fixed some bugs. Phoned the agency and got them to send out a gas person. Warned Adam about it and left work early so I could be there when he arrived. Discover...

So I decide to go to Retro after work to see if I can get some cashback. They don’t do it any more. Bastards. Bear is there, we sorta manage a stilted conversation because we don’t really know each other, and my brain fails to operate after 5 hours solid Javascript. (compare function is pretty thoug...

OK. Angel seems to have been written for people with 14 day memories this season. Grr. Still, a mighty fine episode. If a little predictable.

Nearly finished the monster Javascript beasty thing that drives “compare”. Still considering adding a little flourish...might do if I get time. Am consider...

Worked on compare yesterday...have heap big pile of funky Javascript to write today to make the bastard work now. Check for cookies, set hotel name to cookie, read details from cookie, prepopulate results, enable unselection, beat people who don’t have first party cookies enabled to death (the 'tard...

What to do? Store a user’s timezone and then display their blogs according to that, or simply just do it all in GMT?

Had chicken and roast spuds yesterday evening. Roasted mushrooms too. mmMMm.

Chatted a bit with James. New job going well, still want to see him in a suit, mind. Chatted some to Jos...

DAP being odd. Keeps playing the same tracks over and over. Even though it’s on random and has 3k songs on it. Odd.

Most of the weekend I’ve felt like killing people. And I left home this morning and forgot my pass. D’oh.

I get to be Team Lead on the White Label project which is good. Skint w...

Managed to work out how to make the DAP charge properly with my laptop charger. Fuck you Creative!

Busiest week so far on the forums with almost 900 messages so far. Yay!

Pootled about online for most of last night...was too knackered to do owt else...Work was mostly filled with bugfixing...fin...

Got in at just after 7 last night...have some lovely new scaffolding 😁 They are apparently doing up the outside of the building to make it look veypritteh. Blokey got lost trying to find the flat so chatted briefly with James. He was meant to pop my key over but had forgotten it. Predictably as soo...

And I think we may reasonably be on track for our Friday deadline 😁

Silly day on IRC, with “he who shall not be named” the “Hardcore .NET developer” Not apparently being hardcore enough to know what CSS is or how it works. Also, Garry told me that my pisstaking of him had earned me a well deserv...