| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 |
| 11:46 pm |
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| Thursday, February 12th, 2009 |
| 2:07 pm |
I'm going legal
Much to my own shock I am going legal and above board with my company. Wow does that sound as wrong to others as it does to me? legal me! Welcome to the world now containing JamJarIT. Current Mood: accomplished |
| Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 |
| 8:41 pm |
VoIP Phone System
Okay is this the sign of true geekness? Getting fed up with a VoIP phone system and building your own running of your laptop? I think I need help either that or paying more! Current Mood:  amused |
| Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 |
| 4:20 pm |
Ah Geekness restored
I lost one of my external hard drives no lights nothing. After much bodging and checking got it working as an internal drive after turning on the extra sata port in the bios. I now have a hard drive secured to the cooling mesh on the back of my case as Dell don't think you are likely to want to fit any more hardware yourself. Current Mood: accomplished |
| Saturday, November 15th, 2008 |
| 9:29 am |
You dont mess with the ginger
I want to start this post mwhahahaha but though marginally better of it. "Anyway Croydon council you is not gonna fob off me with a mere 700pages of paperwork telling me that it is complete. I was the bastard that created most of it and I know I created more than that." a very tempting quote that I managed not to use when contacting <start titles> Corporate Solicitor, Chief Executives Department, Democratic and Legal Services Division</end titles> god that sounds scarier typing it than I originally thought. Ah well. Also I have an amusing answerphone message from a Councilor basically saying "please stop picking on me I am chasing people as much as I can please don't take my diner money". Its a strange/interesting position to be in to have a Councilor and Corporate Solicitor on your email contacts list.... Current Mood: amused |
| Friday, October 31st, 2008 |
| 2:05 pm |
A good day
Having another good day and thought I would share it: Got one very happy customer even though I have made a few typos on their stuff but they trust me and have loads more work for me to do and want me to do it over anyone else. Went there yesterday to sort out my cock up and walked out with some more cash so must be doing something right. Got an email from some one else who wants me to do them a website and general IT maintenance so more money there for the taking. And importantly a second customer meaning I'm not dependent on HookerTech for income and use of my time. Got more information from Croydon Council re the ongoing housing benefit argument. I know I shouldn't be happy to receive over 500 pages of paperwork but its fun to be able to go back to the most senior legal consultant for Croydon and say its not all there what you going to do about it? Have also found out the main reason for the refusal of DHP and can now argue that it was unfair/illegal. Also interesting to see that no one in the council understands the housing benefit system, and that the councilor I have looking into this is being given incorrect information by both the current and future manager of housing benefit. Oh and I have a number of agents finally taking my CV seriously and looking potentially good too. Now all I need to do is chase up a quotation I did for a charity that runs an internet cafe and has NO security at all. All in all a good day for me and I feel good. Current Mood: :D |
| Monday, September 15th, 2008 |
| 9:48 am |
Geek badges
Well I think I am earning a number of my geek badges now. Finally set up my first domain. Have worked with domains and tech supported them in many different ways but now I have my own. Still looking at getting a server of my own in a nice secure datacentre to run several apps and to host a number of domains. That however is a badge for the near future not today :P. Lets see what i can list as my geek badges: own and run domain, run linux, set up a linux server, developed a java app, planning to get a secure server to run said app, yup I think thats geeky. :D Current Mood: excited |
| Friday, September 12th, 2008 |
| 6:46 am |
I don't think smug is a strong enough word
I do believe I have beaten Croydon's housing benefit system well and truly. I have got an admission that Nic and family require a four bedroom property because of Harry's disabilities. This comes from the council housing medical advisor. The most senior of people in the council housing department and automatically means they woul be entitled to a 4 bedroom propery if it were to be supplied to the family by the council. Now if anyone could explain how the housing benefit department could maintain that they (including discressionary payments department) can not fund a 4 bedroom house I would love to hear from you. I do believe it is time for them to lube up and get over that there barrel!!!! Current Mood: accomplished |
| Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 |
| 8:35 pm |
Woohoo i'm wondoze free
Just got my mobile broadband working on my new Ubuntu running laptop. :D Current Mood: accomplished |
| Friday, August 1st, 2008 |
| 4:06 pm |
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| Friday, July 4th, 2008 |
| 9:14 am |
Today is a big grin day!
I've got the security of my application sussed and working! Its lovely to see and nice and secure. Its the bic biro of security so simple its amazing. I love solutions like that. Current Mood: accomplished |
| Saturday, June 28th, 2008 |
| 9:28 am |
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
reassured to see i break 6 :P
what i do find worrying for an avid reader is the number of these i've seen as films...... Current Mood: awake |
| Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 |
| 8:15 pm |
Grails is powerful stuff
Finally got some sort of authentication working in my project. Admittedly it redirects you to the bbc but it proves the authentication. Now to make it work in the right places and all the time...... Current Mood: geeky |
| Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 |
| 11:14 am |
Day off!
Okay it may be Wednesday but I'm classing it as a day. Feel free to join me in relaxing and not looking at work. :) I think I've turned my mind into a pile of mush learning grails and making an idea fit together. Current Mood: relaxed |
| Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 |
| 10:56 am |
Paypal
Has anyone here used paypal for web payments? Linking them to a web app that is automatically updated with the payment? Current Mood:  bouncy |
| Friday, May 30th, 2008 |
| 9:17 pm |
I'm feeling quiet smug
Yes I've come up with a web based idea which is making me feel good. Its good in may ways: it could work(make some money too), it will make me learn something new, it will give me some goals (fairly short term but therefore sensible) and could just be plan useful. So off to bed I head with a plan in store for the next few days. Current Mood: rejuvenated |
| 10:01 am |
Another job first
Today I got my first postal rejection a very polite letter saying they had had better qualified applicants. Not surprised was in it for a punt. Database updated. :P Current Mood:  silly |
| Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 |
| 2:27 pm |
General Stuff
Been applying for more jobs online (growing my database :P) and actually got a rejection email. Don't sound much but is a first, apparently I wasn't qualified, questionable in my opinion but what can you say to that. Anyway at the moment job hunting is just a hobby to keep me amused and not something to get bothered by, applied for 3 in total today. Current Mood: accomplished |
| 2:07 pm |
Random thought
This is something I have wondered about for a while: Why if in english do we have too do we not have soo. It could just be the way I remember the difference and use too ie putting greater emphasis on it in a sentence or is there a real (as far as english grammar and spelling goes) reason why we dont have a similar soo. Current Mood: amused |
| Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 |
| 8:35 am |
When pain is good
Had my first physio gym session yesterday and it shows up all those weaknesses I have in my legs, it was hard even with only basic exercises. Good news was that it didn't set my back off so limited the pain to leg muscles which was cool. |
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