Why Did I Bother?!

At about 1 this morning I signed up to a handful of free online business directory thingy's in the hope of drumming up a bit of business. Each one, however, had a warning that they "have been receiving reports of companies phoning soon after adding a listing to try and sell advertising space, these are in no way affiliated with us".

Needless to say I've had three of these calls this morning trying to pressurise me into giving them £500 over the phone to get an A6 advert into their wonderful magazine that no one has heard of but it will guarantee over 11 contacts each week...

Reckon I'll give them a miss and just deal with customers directly for now!!

MaFt

Nearly Christmas!

For those thinking "it'll be Christmas by the time he blogs again" well, you're wrong. But not too far from the truth though!

Been stupidly busy sorting out poorly kids and poorly me as well as trying to get stuff sorted for the Christmas play I stupidly agreed to do...

I've been pretty busy with work stuff to - lots to do with PocketGPSWorld.com as usual but I've also recently finished the Migrant Workers Information Bradford site as well as completely redesigning the Jalapeno Drums site. The Jalapeno one is still showing the old site while we wait for domain names to be switched between hosts etc etc - all great fun...! I've also updated the portfolio part of my site at MaFt.co.uk/design so it's not been a total loss!

That'll do for now, I'll try post more in the near future!

MaFt

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Now playing: Bowling For Soup - I'm Gay
via FoxyTunes

Javascript

I'm currently teaching myself Javascript which is turning out to be considerably more complex than I'd first imagined! I'm using the O-Reilly book by David Flanagan and I'm currently up to page 105 of 591 (and then another 450 reference pages...!) which is pretty easy to follow. O-Reilly books seem to be very good, they managed to teach me PHP quickly enough too! Still, once it's done it'll be handy!

Right, back to reading :)

MaFt

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Now playing: The Sex Pistols - Did You No Wrong
via FoxyTunes

Excuses Excuses...

Well, yes, it's been over 10 weeks since I last blogged - and that was a rubbish one...

So, what have I been up to? Well, lots really! Still working hard though! The main reason for the lack of updates was my main PC dying. The motherboard died but it wasn't just a case of replacing it. Noooo... stupid MaFt decided to have one of those Small Form Factor PCs (BioStar IDEQ) with proprietary innards. So, it was a new case and motherboard that I needed - slightly more expensive. Then I realised my PC was about 4 years old so none of the other, working, parts could be used with any new equipment... I had to buy a whole new system - the only bits I kept were the monitor, keyboard, mouse and DVD-burner. Also, thanks to the good folk on the GarminPOI.co.uk Mailing List who donated just over £200 the new stuff didn't cost me anything. I just now need to get that site back up to date for everyone!

Our iron also passed-away, as has my digital camera and my camcorder... However, JVC offered to fix the camcorder for free (even three years out of warranty) as it has a faulty CCD which has caused problems in virtually every unit they were put in. So that was nice of them, shame Olympus want £150 to fix the camera (which I could buy new for less).

Punk Worship 3volution is fast approaching too and this time we've opted for early Saturday mornings for practises seeing as that's the only time slot free between the four of us...

Oh, before I finish, here's a great big thanks to TrixMoto for writing a script for me for MediaMonkey 3 to upload my currently playing song via FTP so I can link to it in the panel on the left! Clever stuff eh?! Also, FoxyTunes added a blogger thingy-ma-bob that shows the world what was on when I typed the post too.

See ya

MaFt

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Now playing: Bowling For Soup - Ohio (Come Back To Texas)
via FoxyTunes

The Separation of Work & Home

It may seem kinda weird but since I've been working on a PC all day long at home I hardly ever seem to have any inclination to use my own PC! While this in itself is no big deal it just means that loads of stuff I need to do keeps getting put off - like the pile of camcorder video's I need to edit and burn to disc, websites I need to make etc etc.

I suppose it's like when I made drugs for a living at Nektar I never wanted to come home and make drugs. Now I work on a computer all day I hardly want to use one in my spare time. But, hey, at least I can make all the drugs I want to now!

MaFt

Finally started working!

Right, I've spent the best part of the day on my new job. Working on behalf of www.PocketGPSWorld.com. I've still got some bits to get used to and learn but I seem to be getting the hang of it so far. The good thing is I'm working from home so can listen to music all day long too! So, if you visit the site during the day you're actually likely to see what I'm listening to (on the left) as opposed to it saying "Nothing".

Also, Grandma died at 7am on Saturday morning. We expecpected it but it's like she was waiting until everyone had seen her before she 'let go'. Mrs-MaFt says that sort of thing hapens a lot - she's a nurse and deals wth death quite a lot. Well, she's not in pain anymore.

And, finally, we had our first practise for PW2 on Saturday morning too. We got through a bunch of songs that we did previously but have made a start on some new songs, including som eChristmas carols too! They sound great :)

Anyway, back to work!

MaFt

Jobness

Thought I'd give you motley lot an update! I got a job! Starting from tomorrow I'll be working from home playing on the internet all day, every day! I'll givemore info tomorrow after I've read through the confidentiality agreement as to what I can or can't say about it!

Ta-ra for now

MaFt