2006 August « The EggLog

AS Level Exam Results

August 18, 2006 at 7:54 am | In Academia, Rants | 5 Comments

I’ve been Mr. Nopost for so long because I’ve had better things to do, but there is a topical piece of crap that I am about to write.

My exam results:

B in maths (missed an A by one mark); B in politics; B in Physics; C in chemistry (missed out by three marks).

Can you see why I am unhappy? One more night’s revision and It would have been A, B, B, B; so much better than B, B, B, C. ROAR! I will remember this next year when I am torn between social activities and revision.

Who Shall Host Me?

August 4, 2006 at 8:31 am | In Rants, Site News, Teh Intarwebnets, Wordpress | 3 Comments

At this rate, I might return my ‘blog to the categoryless land of Blogspot due do WordPress’s philanderings. To me, presentation of a website is everything: if it looks bad, I’m not interested. WordPress do not allow you to mess about with the stylesheets, so I have to choose one off of a list. I don’t necessarily like any of these. Actually, the one I did like has now been slightly modified so that the headings in the sidebar look awful and as a result, I’ve had to change to a less aesthetic theme.

Problems:

WordPress	Blogspot
No style flexibility	No categories
Impossible to insert scripts (say, for Google analytics)	No import function

I expect that Blogspot will soon include a feature allowing people to import their ‘blogs: they have addressed this problem in their FAQs. The idea of not having categories puts me off working around the first problem for now.

Recently, I wanted to introduce Google Analytics to this site, but WordPress wouldn’t have it: any Javascript was soon changed to simple HTML. This would not be a problem on Blogspot. I am currently deciding what to do; any help would be much appreciated.

EDIT: I’ve just noticed that this style does not make full use of categories. I am now working on a Blogspot profile.

Mr. Beaner

August 1, 2006 at 2:49 pm | In Rants, Visual Media | 1 Comment

Lots and lots of friends were once grouped in one house. And to enjoy eachother’s company, they decided to put the television on. Anyone even slightly observant will know where I am going here. And what did these friends put on? Mr. Bean. This is officially the most dire, unfunny, unclever piece of crap that has ever been produced by anyone. A really ugly man pretending to be stupid and running around with an aerial is just not funny. Okay, I understand that it was originally created with an audience of four-year-olds in mind, but why would a bunch of sixteen/seventeen year-olds find it amusing. I will put a statement out to the general public from my own mouth:

If your are above the age of six and you enjoy the embarrassingly pathetic antics of a silly head pretending to be silly, then you deserve to get raped by your own grandfather.

Thank you.