Spacedmonkey

I have really been keeping a low profile on spacedmonkey in the last couple of months, worse the normal but I am a extremely busy man. Having said that, I have tweaked quite a few things on my web sites over the last couple of months. For one, I finally added some stuff on the Tools part of Computing Corner. There are a few pages I had for friends and pieces of work I have done that I have kept me away from coding my own sites lately. This is all going to change over the summer. I have lots of projects in the pipelines and I thought that my faithful readers might be interested.

1. First, I am currently in talks with to become the a consultant at a small promotional company being setup on by a couple of friends of mine. It should be a really interesting opportunity to show of some of my web design skills. Nothing is confirmed yet but I am hopeful. Watch this space for my news on this.
2. Spacedmonkey is going to get a couple of new sections. Instead of all blogs and post simply going to the home page, things will be divided up into sections. It has already been redesigned, with lots of little improvements.
3. ComputingCorner will also change dirrection. It started off a tech blog but I didn’t really add to it, as I think that their are enough blogs out there saying the same things. The blog is going to change into a simple updates to the site blog and the site will focus more on mods and scripts.All the scripts and little bits of code that I have written will be uploaded to ComputingCorner for the great world to use, free of charge.
4. A new micro reviews page 160 character reviews of tv, films, gigs and music.

There are many new things going to be happening, I have to get through my exams and moving back to London for starters. Watch this space for updates.

Jonathan Coulton is singer, songwriter, new father, and ex software designer, but what makes him interesting compared lots of other artists out there is that he released all of his music for free. His story is an amazing one, in 2005 he left his rubbish day job writing software for a small database company to pursue music full time. He worked out that it was really hard to get signed onto a record label so he decided to try something different. He created a website called Thing a Week and released (for free) a new song every week for a year, which is no mean feat.

He created a A few of those songs became big internet hits, including folky cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back“, a funny video called “Flickr“. My personal favorite song called “Code Monkey“, with the classic line

“Code Monkey think maybe manager oughta write goddamn login page himself !”

This was made all the funnier for me while listening to this song as writing a login page at the time, give it a listen. It is nice to have a nerd writing songs about stuff I can really relate with and even sometimes make me laugh. One song that touched me personally, was a Future Soon, which tells of his problems as a teenage nerd.

The most interesting thing about him is the he makes his money purely from donations and live
performances and manages to make a living out of it. So if you like his music, go donate. If you want to listen to his free music, his podcast can still be downloaded for free. Give it a go!

I have never been one for believing the horoscopes, most of them are pretty generic and could mean anything to anybody. For once in my life, I think there might be something to do them. I was on a yahoo web sites on saw this.

You probably aren’t going to feel very social today, dear Pisces. In fact, you’re likely to want to work on projects and tasks alone if you can.This actually might be good for you, as you probably need to concentrate on crossing certain things off your list without being distracted.Still, you should get out among others at some point during the day.You might want to be alone, but you’ll still need to feel that you belong.

This could not better sum up how I am feeling today. It is really freaked me out. Not sure I am a believer, but sure am weirded out.

When I was young I used to love playing with Rubik cubes and the other day I decided to google them to see how they are solved. I came across some really interesting stories about them on Gizmodo. Here you go!

• Rubik’s Cube For the Lazy
• Rubik’s Cube For the Blind
• How to Solve the Rubik Cube in Six-Seconds

This is a message to all the jerks of the world that think that is a good idea to hack and spam other people’s sites. You know what it is people like you that make the internet crap and not a fun place to be on. I am really sick of the muppets out there that think that spam really works. I am really an sick of checking my inbox and finding nothing spam, that I would never click on ever. How many people out there really would trust an email from a stranger telling them stock advice. Who really buys pills to make the manhood bigger anyways. I am also sick the bots that think that it is clever to write pointless comments on my blogs. It is not a big problem with this site, but hate those people that turn the internet is a rubbish tip

I found this on Urban dictionary and made me laugh so much I needed to post it.

Facebook limbo
The electronic space between accepting and rejecting a facebook friendship. In facebook limbo, the user fails to accept or reject friend requests from would-be facebook friends from a variety of sources (e.g., random annoying classmates, despised work associates, ex-girlfriends, etc), because the user is uncertain if he or she will have to interact with these individuals in the future.

(At the bar)
Jim: How about that new kid, Ryan. He’s so cool.
Thom: I dunno man, he already tried to facebook me, wtf?
Jim: So?
Thom: So I’m leaving him in facebook limbo, I don’t want him jo’ing to pictures of my drunk girlfriend…

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