News from the world of me
By Glen McNamee | November 22, 2008
Well the last post certainly caught a fair bit of attention, in fact it’s the most popular post I’ve written since the move to Wordpress. I must blog about current events more often (or just blog more often).
I’ve been Working from home for the past few weeks, and it doesn’t look like I’ll be travelling again in a while, probably not until after the new year. This gives me plenty of time to go stir crazy, but at least it means I spend less time traveling.
Working on ObscureInternet.com as well, been interview some bands from MySpace (first one was published on wednesday, a lovely young lady). The request for interviews got a much bigger response that I expected, I’m still writing and uploading the answers I got for requests I sent out over two weeks ago.
Also I’ve just bought myself a nice new Microphone so I can start broadcasting show live shows for Radio6581. I’ve got a few things to sort out but these should be coming very soon. I’m also thinking of doing some Podcasts for ObscureInternet.
Oh, while I’m on the subject of retro radio, it’s time to Vote for ROTY 2008! again on remix 64, it only seems like a few weeks since the last awards show.
Fitness wise, I’ve been going Wii-fit intermittantly and I’ve manged to complete Week 2 of Onehundredpushs. I managed to complete more than 81 push ups in one session, which surprised me greatly. The weight is still yo-yo-ing (is that a word? I hope so) but as I’ve said before this doesn’t really bother me.
I’ve also been busy with something else that I’ve got going on at the moment, but it’s a bit of secret and has been for almost two years. I may reveal the secret at the end of the year, but don’t get too excited, it’s not that interesting.
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BNP Member List (Updated with New links)
By Glen McNamee | November 18, 2008
The idiots at the BNP have manage to have their list of member leaked and published online.
Here it is get while you can; http://bnpmemberslist.blogspot.com
Update 19-Nov-2008 10:51
Link appears to be broken; So here are some torrents of the list, the full list on Wikileaks and a rapidshare link of the email addresses
Update 19-Nov-2008 14:58
BNP member proximity search - Find BNP members near you.
http://lolgriffin.blogspot.com/ - LOL Griffin
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Another new blog design.
By Glen McNamee | November 10, 2008
Yes, in case you’ve hadn’t noticed by now I’ve tweaked the design again, and this time I’m happy with the results.
Here’s a little sneak preview of design for those of you reading the RSS feed. Also when I change the design again this image will also be a nice reminder of how the blog use to look. I’ve changed the design a number of times, but I’ve never really saved screenshots of the previous design, so I can’t really look at the evolution of the site. Archive.org only gives a few of the old designs, and the images (such as the old logos) are missing.
The new design is an attempt to reflect the C64 part of C64Glen. It’s a lot more blue and it uses the Commodore 64 font in the main logo.
The blog is now running using WordPress 2.7 beta 2, and must say, I have been impressed by new dashboard interface and functionality. The only downside is the Blog Stats are missing from the main dashboard screen.
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The US election, Bonfire Night and Fitness
By Glen McNamee | November 7, 2008
It’s been an interesting week, first of all we’ve had the end to all the nonsense in the USA. Yes, the US election finally came to an end on Tuesday. I stayed up, until after three o’clock in the morning, to watch all the fun on the BBC, and also to actually see if Obama would win. Obviously Obama was favourite to win, but given the nature of Americans, I had to see it before I would believe it. Thanks to the BBC excellent coverage, I did see it and even that idiot John Bolton didn’t manage to spoil it.
Wednesday was Bonfire night. This year rather than go to an organised display, Conor and I walked around the local estate visiting the various fires that had been assembled by the local children and the unemployable. This was something I haven’t done in a long time, and it was an interesting experience. It is just like a organised display except people go these Bonfire in there pyjamas, and the fires are mostly built out of Wheelie Bins (which burn surprisingly well), garden fences and old household furniture. In conclusion I really should move.
Finally today’s Wii Fit weigh showed that I have lost 3lb pounds in the last two weeks, which is weird because I haven’t had time for either Wii Fit or the hundredpushups thing in those two weeks.
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Wordpress 2.7 beta 1
By Glen McNamee | November 3, 2008
I thought I’d give the new beta of Wordpress a try. So far I haven’t noticed a great deal of difference except for the fancy new dashboard screen and the even fancier post editor.
In conculsion; I like it.
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Nitrotracker
By Glen McNamee | November 2, 2008
Recently found this great little tracker software package for the Nintendo DS via the Remix64 forum. I’ve popped in on the DS flashcard to see if Conor wants to have a go at creating some music.
Here’s is the link to the Nitrotracker site.
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It’s Post 500!
By Glen McNamee | October 28, 2008
This blog has has passed two very big milestones recently. Firstly the move from ObscureInternet to it’s own domain (c64glen.com) and it’s seventh Birthday, which was on August 8th. Yes, this blog is over seven years old, isn’t that amazing! These two milestones seems to be a great excuse, to me at least, to have a retrospective look at some of my favourite posts and some of the of the more important and vaguely interesting posts I’ve made.
My first blog post was made on August 8th 2001 and it was pretty terrible. This new blog, hosted on the free webspace I got from NTL, was inspired by Scribbler’s blog. I obviously hadn’t grasped that blog should be a little more interesting than a single line, and unfortunately I wouldn’t for a good few years after.
On March 27th 2002, I still I hadn’t got the grips of multi-line updates but I had managed to move the the blog from the NTL webspace to it’s own little home on ObscureInternet.
The first significant thing I blogged about was my Leaving StarTek which I managed to wrote a paragraph about. I also have another post about this when I found my leaving card five years later.
There was not a long for the next update of note, as it was posted the very next day, and in it talk about when I abseiled from Middlesbrough’s Transporter Bridge. I even have pictures.
A manage another paragraph about the day I Joined EDS. The wife’s car getting wrote off gets couple of paragraphs.
Surprisingly My Stag trip to Rotterdam is actually detailed over three rather large posts.
A brief mention confirms my wedding did happen, before I go on to give a more detailed account of the day,
I blog about my first attempt to sell some items on Ebay, but mostly in the hope someone reading it will buy the items. This was a successful sale for me, probably my most successful ever on Ebay, as I managed to sell all the items and get a decent price for all of them.
My son’s disagreement with a dog is covered briefly in Conor Vs Stupid Dog. He still bares a scar from the encounter now, but you now would barely notice it.
Middlesbrough FC winning the Carling Cup and resultant victory parade in 2004 gets a mention in a three different posts.
I’m a big fan of Commodore 64 remixes, so in March 2004 I decided I would have an attempt to create by own remix of a commodore 64 tune to see if I get it on remix.kwed.org and Slay Radio, I even got Anthony Putson to do the mixing for me. When it was finished I couldn’t upload it to remix.kwed.org as it was having problems, so I posted a preview version on the blog. It was played on Slay radio during the Z-Show, however the remix was rejected by remix.kwed.org and therefore never did make it on to Slay radio’s proper play list. However a few months later, a tune I put together just to test out FLStudio was accepted on Remix.kwed.org and is still on Slay radio play-list. Recently I’ve created videos for these two tracks and uploaded them to YouTube
In June 2005 I have to idea to create a Konnie Huq Fan site to bring a bit of advertising revenue, a few months late when Zoe salmon joins the show she gets her own fansite too. - This did bring a trickle of advertising revenue until they both appeared on Fame Academy Comic Relief (in two separate years) when the new of page views exploded (as did my bandwidth, passing the ISPs agreed limits) bringing in a health amount of money. I would eventually go on to sell both sites for next to nothing on eBay.
The next post up is Rubber Johnnies, which is a favourite post of mine. It details how the finding of some condoms, reminds me of how I got originally obtained them.
As previously mentioned Computer music has always played a big part in my life, so I when I was in contact with two Amiga Legends, I take a moment to reflect.
Going on holiday and taking exams seems to be a habit of mine, as the next five updates are about; Becoming a MCP, A trip Disneyland Trip, then a Trip to Amsterdam - and then both Visiting Dublin/Passing ITIL exam.
On of my favourite posts, even if it is only because of the very long title details the second leg of UEFA Cup quarter final between Middlesbrough and Basel. However the post about the final is definitely not a favourite.
Making my first appearance in a podcast. I made a few appearances in the Hanslsland podcast, which for some strange reason stopped being updated shortly after. After podcasting, I thought it was time that I should make my first video Blog on YouTube.
In a rare post about the boy, I discuss his first karate grading.
My only, and therefore favourite, movie review post is The Transformers movie review. This post caused my first proper negative blog comment. Look out for my preview of the sequel soon.
Legoland is definately a reoccuring them on this blog, so after this post I will not mention it again. Conversely buying a car isn’t something I blog about all the time.
My obsession with myself is explored further in a post about the results of Facebook Compare People Application and another obsession, my Radio listening habits, are discussed in Video did not kill the radio star
As you’ve no doubt realised I’ve never really rated myself as much of a blogger, so it was a surprise when I got the message that I had been rated a good blog in one of my favourite posts of recent times.
Recently I’ve been blogging about fitness a lot, and it is mainly due to The I bought a Wii Fit update and starting onehundredpushups.
When I decide to tidy up the MYSQL database that I use for the blog, a Comments Boob happens. This is one of the reason I moved to Wordpress, I think it no overstatement to say moving to Wordpress platform has been the start of a new blogging era for this blog. It certainly has made blogging a lot easier for me and inspired the move to c64glen.com.
Well that’s my favourite and most Interesting posts. Some of the more Popular Posts according to the website statistics are threw which like out to other sites; Magic Trevor 3, I’ve got a big bag of Crabs here, and How to tie a tie. The most popular non-linked post is a post I called ‘that updated’
Being a bit of rubbish blogger and a quiet shy bloke (honestly) there is loads of stuff that has happened in my life that I didn’t blog about. Stuff like; The wife’s miscarriage, getting engaged, nearly getting sacked because of the some blog postings (now deleted), losing god, becoming a panthesit, my fathers death, my sisters cancer, and that secret thing I’ve got going on. Maybe I’ll blog about these things someday. I do however promise to try and blog about all the important stuff in the future.
So what do you think of the blog so far? Do you have any favourite posts I haven’t mentioned? Please leave me a comment.
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A new Starscream
By Glen McNamee | October 27, 2008
Recently I’ve been been giving serious consideration to putting and end to my Transformer collecting. It can be an expensive habit, and I don’t really have the space to store them.
But (you know there was a but coming, didn’t you?) when I saw this fella on sale for only a tenner at Argos I had to pick him up.
I know he’s just another re-colour of the awful movie figure, but he was only a tenner.
I’m going to keep this one in it’s box, as a protest of how rubbish the Movie Starscream figures are, (Please note this is not the real reason, I am just being a twat), that will teach them.
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Giving onehundredpushups another go.
By Glen McNamee | October 27, 2008
After a bit of a gap since I last had a go at it, but I started the onehundredpushups programme again last week. I managed to complete week one without any problems, as well as ramping up my Wii Fit programme.
Friday’s Wii Fit weight in again revealed that I had put on a little bit more weight, but (like I said in the last update) I’m not going to obsess about it, I’ll just keep on going.
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Lose a shilling and find sixpence
By Glen McNamee | October 19, 2008
For the first time in over a month I’ve been working from home all week. As well as giving me extra time with the family, this allows me to get back into doing some Wii Fit. I’ve managed to a couple of hours worth this week, and I seemed to have got straight back into it. During the week I’ve beaten four personal bests and equaled two others, however when I weighed myself was surprised to find that I’d managed to put the 2lb I’d lost last week back on. This is most annoying as I wouldn’t say I’ve been eating a great deal this week, but I’m not going to worry too much about it. I’ll be working from home again next week, so I’ll try and put more time in exercising and get rid of those pounds again.
Being doing a lot of work on ObscureInternet, adding wordpress plug-ins and features, to try and get people to stay and have a look around the site once they’ve landed on it. I’ve also got some work to do on Orchestralmedia.co.uk to do. I need to add new functionality to the site without changing the design of the site, which will be interesting given the constraints of the site design.
The family is still plodding along. Conor is still going to Karate twice a week, and he is now reading the third Harry Potter book after reading the first two in the last couple of weeks. We are also starting to think and plan for christmas. We’ve all got to make up our wishlists of presents (orders from mother).
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