I’ve recently tried my hand at Fuze Bead Pixel Art. It takes a significant amount of patience and dedication to get to the final result, but its all worth it in the end. When I first started looking in to how to go about making your own bead sprites I found out that it got
I’ve been using XBMC (Xbox Media Center) for a long time now. I started off using it on windows which weirdly required a lot of power to function well due to the hindrance of the Windows operating system. Eventually I moved to using XBMC on Linux installed on a small dedicated mini-ITX based HTPC. This
Just a quick post to mention that i’ve spruced up the home page of this here website. I’ve made the page extra stylish and fancy with some cool CSS animations, which are cross browser compatible. I made sure the whole page is entirely responsive as well so visiting it on your phone will look just
I use an incredible amount of chillies in my cooking as I am always cooking homemade curry’s and other wonderful spicy meals, so I came to the conclusion that I should grow my own instead of wasting my money on buying them from Tesco each week. As far as I know they are a fairly
Recently I happened to see the controversial film “Django Unchained”. It was criticised for being incredibly violent and having liberal use of the word nigger. Fair enough this may not be to everyones taste but at the end of the day, its very likely that in the 18 hundreds life in the USA was very
For as long as I can remember now I have used windows as my primary operating system for running a file server. I currently run a file server on Windows 7 capable of storing 12TB of data. This has always been an ample amount of space for my needs and i only use about half
Today I was looking at my traffic for the blog and what articles people are reading most. Strangely there is still a significant amount of traffic hitting an old dead blog post I made in early 2011 and I removed in late 2011! The post was a quick tutorial with some PHP code I had
First of all this post is not about any of the big social websites, its not about Facebook, Twitter, or Google. I want to talk about the state of small ‘social’ websites like forums, or small business shops, or simply websites that like to have you create accounts and profiles for some odd reason even
Ive been hoarding my coppers in a jar now for almost a year, waiting for the perfect time to change them into real money thats actually useful. Recently the jar was brimming and it seemed like it was ready to be changed. I guessed that there may be about £5 in the jar which would
Last weekend I decided to take my LED project up to the next level and mount them to my desk in my office as a Ambient Lighting System. I wasn’t sure If it would look any good but I thought I would give it a try anyway. Ive a good number of patterns which i’ve