Jem's field notes

I’ve just invested in Mint. I wasn’t sure if it’d be worth it and have been trying to justify the purchase for a few days, as well as convincing Karl that I wasn’t wasting my money (beating a dead horse there) but I’ve only had it about an hour and I love it already. It’s… read full entry »

I am having problems with my e-mail at the moment — people are getting mail I’ve sent twice, I’m receiving some mail twice (and some not at all) and the actual sending of mail is taking forever. I assume this is a temporary glitch and will be fixed ASAP, otherwise I’ll be in contact with… read full entry »

This is generally only applicable to fanlisting owners, so if you’re not an owner or not interested in fanlistings, move on.. For those who do own/join fanlistings — what are your favourite features of the scripts that are currently available, and what do the scripts do that you absolutely hate? BellaBuffs (no longer BellaBoffins because… read full entry »

The beauty of working in a place of education is that when the students are on holiday, the staff are on holiday.. that includes the poor over-worked ICT Technicians. 6 weeks of pure, paid, lazy bliss. Oh yes!

As I’m browsing around various personal websites and forums I see people offering up space on their domains for those who can’t/won’t buy ‘proper’ hosting for one reason or another, and every time I see these offers I cringe. I cringe at the naivety of these trusting website owners, and at the lack of published… read full entry »

Don’t Eat This Book, by Morgan Spurlock, is a tongue-in-cheek look at the fast food industry all over the world, focusing primarily on McDonalds in America. This book accompanies his documentary Super Size Me, in which he demonstrated the effect that eating nothing but McDonald’s food for 30 days could have on the human body…. read full entry »

Oh me, oh my! Most of you know I like my geeky t-shirts.. well, I found an awesome site at work (on a break *cough*) today: Nerdy Shirts! My favourite one so far is most definitely Quick Fix: you wouldn’t believe how many times that worked for my old game cartridges as a kid. Then… read full entry »

I’ve been in so much pain I had to have an emergency dentist appointment earlier. Apparently, a deep filling in one of my teeth has caught/damaged the nerve-y stuff and I’ve got to have a root canal treatment done on July 24th. Just the thought of the words “root canal” makes me shudder, but apparently… read full entry »

I posted a comment aimed at the owner of pixelfx.org on the latest update at CodeGrrl earlier, effectively pointing out that she was still distributing insecure scripts. Shortly after I got a response from an obviously blind butthead making assumptions about my choice of blogging software (apparently using WordPress automatically makes you a lazy or… read full entry »

Some quick news, because I’m too lazy to blog properly: BellaBook passed 1000 downloads — since I started logging them — today. I started logging them at the end of May, that’s only a month and a bit! I decided against releasing the tutorial on modifying BellaBook into a fanlisting script, because it ended up… read full entry »