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May be

petantik — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:21:02 +0000

This is the month I start doing stuff with the website, watch this space my squirrely followers!

March madness

petantik — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:20:04 +0000

Yay, It’s March and the weather is getting better wetter. Been busy doing strange stuff to this site, moved the blog to a subdomain, made the main site a django based site to allow me to practise my python and design skills, which so far has allowed me to add a carebear pic -- baby steps!

Here’s the strangest pop video I’ve seen in a long time. I’ll never look at bald guys the same way ever again.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GOZjlwIwfk

Hot Chip -- I Feel Better (HD)

Death of a bookstore

petantik — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:07:26 +0000

Borders has finally disappeared from UK streets, I must admit out of all the recent big closures this has been the one that I missed the most. It was a place that I’ve seen for the past 7 years of my life, nearly every day on my way to university.

I have walked by it, through it and all around it. I’ve wandered through every section and seen the titles on spines change as the months went on. Seen Terry Pratchett in his hat signing his wonderful books and the crew of the Mighty Boosh attracting hoards of dressed up fans. Myself, in a poor attempt deciding to get a signed copy of Gordon Ramsay’s book but lacking the stomach or the patience to stand in such a queue for hours

It was a very nice location, in the heart of the city, watching the bustle of Buchanan street, with the street performers: magicians, and musicians, and break dancers. The building itself was lovely too but as you can see, the dark insides on Boxing Day 2009 make it an empty shell.

RIP

What a day

petantik — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:44:55 +0000

Wow, it’s only been about two days since I been on DreamHost and two things happen at once, I find out they have a special St. Patrick’s day sale on a years hosting and my site went down for a couple of hours. I hope there are no further problems.

Otherwise it’s been pretty good day, sunny and warm’ish for this time of year, found out something interesting with regards to my research which I hope will pan out, I guess that’s what a week of thinking time gets you.

About here

petantik — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:47:27 +0000

Yes, hopefully I will be more productive in writing now since I’ve graduated. It remains to be seen, this will be my third attempt at writing and maintaining a blog. Only difference now is I actually have my own webspace rather than all those free ad supported sites. I don’t really know what I will talk about, lots of things I hope, I’m pretty much into technology and science so definitely a bit of that interspersed with some personal ramblings.

First Post

petantik — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:56:31 +0000

Hello,

I’m going to put something on here, but skyping with a real good friend currently