Having a blog or a twitter account or even an openly searchable facebook account leaves you at a social disadvantage offline.
Against all odds..
August 3rd, 2010Principles and applications of web Services (technology): A3
Digital Entertainment Systems: A1
Web Application development (design): A3
Professional Issues in computing: A3
Who needs a sidebar?
July 25th, 2010I know that folks check out sites in an ‘F’ fashion, I know about SEO basics and understand some advertising strategy, I know my site is a little less than accessible (one of the main reasons it’s due an overhaul) but this is my PERSONAL site and most folks use the RSS feed to access it anyhow.
Revision for professional issues in computing
June 30th, 2010This is for my last exam which is tomorrow – the blogging my revision trick seemed to work quite well for PAWS so lets see how I get on with PIC. A lot of this is cut and paste so most links will be to where ever the information has been taken – if anyone has issue with it being here just drop me a line and I’ll remove the post.. heh.. Now that’s professional.. *grin* Read the rest of this entry »
Revision for Principles and Applications of Web Services
June 20th, 2010I’ve neglected to blog for a while and figure that since repetition is the best way to learn I should kill two birds with one stone and share a little of what I’ve been going through today.. So read on if you’re trying to sleep – it’ll help cure insomnia – trust me. Read the rest of this entry »
Memories and musings
May 5th, 2010“She greets us as we enter the world; she is with us when we leave it. She is never more than a second away from us, as close as our own heartbeat; but when she does not stand directly before us, we cannot recall her face.
When she calls, loud and clear, we drop whatever we are doing and attend to her needs alone. At the touch of her hand we forget work, friends and lovers. She is the mistress of the universe. She is pain”
Is the Real Time Web stunting creativity?
November 6th, 2009Perhaps this post should really have been entitled GTD vs the Real Time Web..
Most folks are aware of the GTD method created by David Allen and coming up fast behind in the awareness stakes is the Pomodoro technique created by Francesco Cirillo.
Victoria Stringer; getting professional?
August 15th, 2009I’ve been culling posts left right and centre from this blog so that I can ‘streamline’ the content when I merge my other blogs to it during the (hopefully soon) site redesign and update I’ve been working on. Doing so I’ve discovered many things; not least the changes in my writing style and the tone and content of the posts themselves.
HCI as a student sees it
April 30th, 2009This is a post about future developments in HCI from one of my studynet blogs. As my HCI exam approaches I figured – why not use it here as well? There are many of you twitterers and facebooky types interested in this too, no need just to share thoughts of this nature with the studious ones counting down to May 13th..
WordPress thoughts
February 3rd, 2009I’m currently in the process of sorting out a website for my ‘final’ year project, I’m using wordpress to create a site for a peripatetic music teacher based in Surrey (who just also happens to be my best friend..)
A meme
January 8th, 2009It’s been soooo long since I’ve done something this bloggy (as in community of bloggers type bloggy) I saw this on the LittleBead blog (which I found following through from her twitter page) who got it from Swirly and despite not knowing the lass (though I’m now following on twitter, gotta love the fellow beaders on the web when you find ‘em) I’m going to do a meme.
Salute to the IT support guys..
October 31st, 2008A couple of weeks ago my technology hating brother called me to talk him through opening a work document his girlfriend had emailed to herself.
Fun times!
June 22nd, 2008I’m really looking forward to mediacamp london, I’ve already spread the word facebook style but as it gets closer I’m getting all a-jiggle about it. This will be my first social media event and I’m just really looking forward to soaking up the atmosphere, conversations and hopefully learning something in the process.
I was going to drag Stef along with me as I think he’d find it interesting too but he’s got a stag do to attend so I guess I’ll be all on my lonesome – if any of you are about and at a loose end on July 5th, come down to the SAE Institute North Road, London and say hi to the dark haired fat chick waddling along the corridors – ignore any muttered curses from her direction though, that’s just a side effect of pregnancy when the unborn brat decides to use her guts as a punchbag..
The international net
March 24th, 2008..I wish *sigh*
Half the interesting ‘new media’ apps are USA based and every website I’ve looked at for things I’ve considered purchasing of late are ‘ship to US only’ sites *sniff* ah well, I’ve taken to collecting pretty pictures instead with which to console myself. Let’s face it, I’m unlikely to have the cash to spend on pretty things soon, everyone seems determined to tell me how expensive childrearing will be – like I hadn’t already figured that out for myself!
Bags of stuff
January 28th, 2008The latest college assignments had me chuckling; first of all we have to keep a career planning blog, they’re trying to initiate some sort of micro social network within the group with these – at least that’s how it seems. They all have to be public, we are all supposed to keep up to date with each others progress and comment on that progress, they also want us to participate in polls and discussion boards.. This would be all fine and dandy assuming the techie responsible for setting up these career planning blogs had made it possible for us to add new entries *grin*
Getting ahead of myself
January 16th, 2008Seems I should check my paperwork more carefully, I’m still fully hosted right up until june YEY!
*grin*
Blog for ‘stuff’
September 5th, 2007I’m thinking there must be something in the air, bloggers are giving away a tonne of stuff for free!
Well, not exactly for ‘free’ but there’s many a ‘blog about this and you could win..‘ type post knocking about at present. The first one I noticed was for a game – a very pretty game called Quartile I chuckled to myself and sent a tweet out about it, it looks like it could be interesting to play and if it truly can help you with mental arithmatic then it’s something I could definitely do with *grin*
Leaving a useable email address helps..
August 30th, 2007(and yes I did try moving the ‘dot’ before you point that out HK *grin*)
On 8/30/07, Matt Cotter < Matt@dimacc.om> wrote: Read the rest of this entry »
I like to move it move it..
August 30th, 2007We got back to Manchester sometime around 3am Wednesday morning, I have to say, I missed my pc.. Not because it’s a great pc – far from it, but because it has all my files and bookmarks in situ, which is why today I sat and weeded out all the useless stuff and dead links I’ve bookmarked over the last three years and added both ‘bookmark duplicate detector‘ and ‘Foxmarks bookmark synchronizer‘ to my list of ‘must have’ firefox add ons.
Cunning spam
August 17th, 2007I’m not entirely sure why but this blog has had an explosion of visitors of late – I can only assume twitter and the socialset site have something to do with it..
The after party shoe
August 8th, 2007I’ve just come across this site and I have to say.. What a brilliant idea.
The redfootrevolution is here. There is nothing worse than that crippling sensation at the end of the night if you’ve been wearing heels – I was recently reminded of this after wearing an old pair for the first time in over a year.. Ouch.
Saving the environment a card at a time
July 6th, 2007Nik aka loudmouthman has become my net pusher.
Everyone’s related
July 4th, 2007Begging vampires.. So uncool.
June 22nd, 2007I’ve realised I’m a nice person.
No.. Really. Stop laughing! I am. I have proof.
My werewolf received an email from a high yield victim (vampire) to ‘plz stop attacking me’ and I was hit with a stomach churning sense of guilt – even though the whole point of the game is for me to hunt and attack members of the other species.
A guide to English accents in the UK and abroad.
June 20th, 2007This video details Uk accents:
I watched this and had at least 2 laugh out loud moments, the guy has it almost right – give it a go, just try not to be offended because stereotypes are rife *grin*
Pandora radio
June 18th, 2007It’s da bomb!
*grin* Sorry, I’ve been re-living my musical youth this afternoon. (in a none ‘pass tha dutchi’ sense..)
Pandora radio is based on the music genome project: Read the rest of this entry »
We have upgrade!
June 11th, 2007Woohoo! Right, that actually turned out to be easier than I thought – why I kept putting it off I don’t know..
Freecycle funny
June 9th, 2007I know I’ve mentioned freecycle before, it’s a website where people post items they’re giving away on a first come first served basis. I’m a member of the manchester board and in this mornings digest there was a corker of a wanted ad: Read the rest of this entry »
We should start a company and make misery..
June 4th, 2007As the song goes anyway.
I’m really sick of always being tired and always being in pain, logically I know it’s worse at the moment because of the incipient arrival of certain biological functions – but logic does not enter into it where emotion is concerned.
Fire and Damnation
May 16th, 2007I didn’t get to have my driving lesson after all, pain interrupted my plans.
Seriously, I’m starting to feel a little paranoid, though to be fair that could just be residual pms. But since I’ve been trying to sort out getting a licence for a number of years now and each time I’ve been thwarted by finances or health issues, I am really considering the thought that just maybe it’s not meant to be..
So, I turned to the net to ease my woes, and it worked, I calmed down, life seemed brighter – the way it always does online until microsoft kicks in and the pc crashes or refuses to boot up the program I need and taunts me with the pretty blue screen of death.
Seriously.. Who the hell chose BLUE as the default colour for that screen? Surely red is a far more appropriate choice?! Or green? Green is supposed to be calming isn’t it? I’m sure that’s the real reason computers used to have green screens (at least my dads did, I think it was an amstrad.. But I digress..)
Paypal protects you my ARSE!
April 18th, 2007Damnation, I was all comfy here
April 11th, 2007By ‘here’ I of course mean my email address, I managed to jump on the gmail bandwagon pretty early on when it was considered a great thing to get an invite (just before everyone had so many they couldn’t give ‘em away) now I may have to be changing things a bit according to a post I just read on the wiredhound blog (another MBL browse by)
The fine art of blogging.
April 4th, 2007I received an email earlier from Dio over at Quasi Fictional asking me to write a post answering the question “What is a blog to you?” since said email was also peppered with such flattering phrases as ‘guru blogger’ and the insinuation was made that I am one of those almighty figures referred to as a ‘renowned blogger’ (I know, I nearly wet myself laughing at this point too) I figured, what the heck – a post is a post right?
Blurb
April 3rd, 2007I went to the doctors this morning to get something to help me sleep, he’s given me a months worth of Phenargan (not liking the look of the possible side effects though)
Popularity contests
March 30th, 2007It seems life does come full circle – even when it’s a virtual life.
I’m blaming Master K for this of course, he talked me into joining the twitter thing which in turn had me noticing a few other people on there, this in turn had me checking their blogs – which then had me link travelling.
Jealousy
March 1st, 2007I truly am jealous of the new gaff Stefs sister and her boyfriend are in the process of moving too – it’s HUGE.
Flyyyy little wi-ing
February 6th, 2007Just listening to a few of the tracks we’re rehearsing – I just hope my throats up for it *sigh* ah well, I’ve a fair amount of time until we get together again.
I dunno..
January 24th, 2007Can you believe the reason I cannot log into my web account is because my host took it upon themselves to change my log in details without informing me?
BASTARD!
January 23rd, 2007GRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.. Some sneaky little witch has locked me out of my account – I cannot do a DAMNED thing on my website, it’s either been hacked or my blokes attempts to retrieve something I had stored on the host have buggerd it up – he’s only just told me he tried logging in before we went away.. I really hope it is that simple, he’s just tried several log ins and it’s locked me out for security reasons, I’d hate to think I have to reload all my files just to ensure no malicious code has been installed..
Dirty weekend in Durham
January 22nd, 2007Well, not really a dirty weekend, but it sounds good *grin*
One of Stef’s friends got married on Saturday, we had to go really – he made Stef do a reading at the wedding (which he got through in magnificent style despite his qualms about using the word ‘foibles’ *chuckle*) When we tried to book a room at the hotel where the wedding was being held there seemed to be none available so we booked a cottage in West Aukland instead:
More eBay nonesense..
January 22nd, 2007I’ve had to escalate the paypal dispute to claim status.
I’m seriously wondering if it’s worth all the hassle – it’s even causing rows between me and Stef now and that’s pissed me off more than anything else. I think I’ll be laying off eBay for quite some time now – I just can’t afford this kind of stress.
That’s just extracting the urine!
January 17th, 2007Before you read any more of the saga you probably need to go here.
Ciao baby!
December 18th, 2006MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I’ve actually found a site that gives you money for writing things. seriously, you just write a review about practically anything and they pay you for it – and if people read, rate and comment on the review.. so much tha better, more mulah for you.
Beady things
December 12th, 2006I’ve been toying with the idea for some time now of trying to sell some of my creations on Ebay since there’s really nothing else I can do to raise money and fund my hobby, this has led to me also thinking of ways to link my website and make it do something useful as opposed to just sit there.
A parable for modern times
August 20th, 2006I was sent this by a mate and felt that every brit who stops by could identify with it – sadly..
a parable for modern times (or the real reason the BNP have such a large following)
A PARABLE FOR MODERN TIMES.
DAMNED browser issues!
July 19th, 2006I had virtually finished this post, it was witty.. Informative.. Fairly disgusting, but yes – it was just about done.. Then firefox wigged out on me – again!
“we’re having a heatwave.. A tropical heatwave”
July 5th, 2006It’s too damned hot!
Yes, I’m melting – didn’t bother getting clothed today – yup, you read that right, I’ve been sat here NAKED reading your blogs and answering your emails HA! and there’s not a sorry lil thing you can do about it.
I’m a web designer.. Kinda.
June 24th, 2006OK!
My site is up and running, it’s quite raw as you will plainly see – but for those of you who really wish to know more about lil ol’ me then toddle over to: Read the rest of this entry »
Introducing her geekiness.
June 12th, 2006ohhh.. I’m a happy bunny now I am, the nameserver change has finally gone through so yours truly can start uploading stuff to rosevibe.me.uk
Damn damn and double DAMN
June 6th, 2006My Pc is female and she has the hots for my man.
It’s the only explanation.
Now he has his own pc, it’s newer, faster, prettier and he spends his life on city of heroes with her (yeah, cheers for that K..) My little lady is throwing a hissy fit.
It’s decided
May 29th, 2006Was chatting to Neil last night and in the course of our conversation he helped me to solidify an idea in my mind of the website I want to create as my course project.
York and stuff
April 25th, 2006I’m a busy gal these days, seems like I’ve finally managed to turn the corner with this whole CFS crap because I have a life again.
Games
January 24th, 2006Stef has been kaning the online games thing for a while – usually concentrating on the likes of sudoku and text twist – but he’s now got me playing along.
My head hurts *whimper*
quizica..
January 22nd, 2006ok, I know – tonight I’m a quiz junkie – but blame Brandie for this one: Read the rest of this entry »
blog traffic
January 18th, 2006I’m starting to remember why I stopped using blogexplosion.
My stats are hardly worth looking at due to the hundreds of people skipping through in a mad click frenzy. I only went on there because I got an email about a message – then I thought I’d go check out the people I had blogmarked only to find most of ‘em have either given up blogging completely or moved.
Sadly this means that all my accrued credits seems to have been activated and I’m being paraded in front of people who are too busy looking at the countdown timer to give a stuff about anything else.
Awesome gadetry
November 9th, 2005This is COOL!!!!
Seriously, Stef pointed me in the direction of this freeware I basically now have a dictionary on tap for you all *grin* go on, just double click on any word and see what happens. That’s assuming your pop up blocker doesn’t quash it.
google rule the www
August 25th, 2005Hmm… I’m beginning to think that Google are trying to take over the webiverse.
I know – you already knew that, what can I say? I’m a little slow.
Anyhow, if you want to try the new google talk thing but seem to be lacking a gmail account (um…Why?) don’t worry – both K and I can hand ‘em out like toffee.
…Invites that is, not toffee. Neither of us are made of money y’know!
I have a virtual life, but I love it.
April 13th, 2005I began thinking earlier of just how much time I would have to myself if I gave up the internet.
Now, I know that the time I spend online these days is but a mere fraction of the time I’d spend this time last year, but it is still quite a substantial portion of my life.
finding my inner female
April 5th, 2005Have a little proof I’m a girly girl sometimes…
Stuff
Innovative furniture (this is way cool! Not exactly girly, but worth a mention)
Home design the BBC way (see, my main viewing habits when there are no films on…)
Sing star – that’s me.
March 12th, 2005Ahhhh…
Nothing like jumping 6ft in the air as the housemate walks through the door as I’m murdering jamilia ‘superstar’.
I’m half man! give or take a bit..
March 6th, 2005This explains sooooo much…
| Your Brain is 53.33% Female, 46.67% Male |
| Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female |
HAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa!
March 6th, 2005WTF?!?!
Since when?!
| You Are a Pundit Blogger! |
 Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read.Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few. |
Team fishcake
February 4th, 2004another shift, another coffee with baileys as reward upon my return home… (the whipped cream topping is what makes it a treat) as always the need to unwind after work also involves a short (yep, i said short) internet session (after all who could sleep without checking for messages..?)
i decided that i should have a quick shufties though my faves list since a few of the links may have become a bit ‘deaded’ by now, this is where i re-acquainted myself with teamfishcake, this guy is my favourite person – if anyone feels the way i do about christmas and has ever had to endure the trafford centre, you too will hold him up as the hero he is.
in fact, this site is so amusing i shall cut this short and sweet… read a little more then hit the sack. i have shopping and ‘things’ to do tomorrow, yes i have to wean myself off the net it is probably time for me to take the words of master B. Murray to heart and ‘Get a life’.
LMAO – like THAT’S gonna happen!
P.S. ALL parents need to read THIS. Its mandatory.
stuff to do
February 3rd, 2004Karaoke competition tonight. hmmm… still dont know what i want to sing, never a good thing – after all preperation is the key *grin*
Thats the problem with knowing and liking too many songs, im a good singer, not fantastic – nowhere near as good as i used to be, but i have a good sense of rhythm, decent pitch and a lot of power… shame about the control and the range though lol so far its looking likely that i’ll end up doing good ol’ “Mustang Sally” but then again… if i hadnt have already sung total eclipse of the heart there last week… decisions decisions decisions…
ahh.. The sheer poetry of it all
January 29th, 2004AHhhhhhhh..
how odd, i have managed to find things to do other than just sitting in front of my pc for 3 (yes, THREE!!!) whole days. the mind boggles.. truly.
(although i did check my messages and send the odd email before bed and upon waking so i suppose i havent managed to wean myself away just yet…).
Tribeca is a fantastic place to go, not only is the upstairs bit PURPLE LEATHER but they have a basement level called ‘Bed’ where they have a karaoke on a tuesday… it rocks, much fun was had by all – even M (which i think made up for the birthday fiasco) last night a friend came up to visit me from Daventry (i grew up there, its a hell hole, never go.) he introduced me to the dubious pleasures of Ebay, now… you may ask yourself how ive been online so long without actually using this site, the answer is simple – i have nothing to sell, and no money to buy. though there were some very nice bikes on there…
Decided to forgo selling my book collection on ebay despite the urgings of P and S (mainly since im more likely to sell my body and soul than part with any of them) instead chose to look up some more music stuff but got sucked into an article about the legality of p2p music downloads instead.
had yet ANOTHER person nag at me about getting some of my poetry published so my next entry to this will be a poem. by me. next time i get told to ‘publish’ i shall merely smile and say that i have done so already. (not exactly a falsehood, check here under the name vicky stringer, im the one with jane in the middle. its all a diddle of course, virtually everything i have on here has been stuck in one of their books – apparantly, they keep emailing me and sending me letters out – ive even been nominated for poet of the year 3 years running – would seem more impressive if i didnt think everyone who submits a poem to this site gets entered alongside me…)
surfing is work!
January 26th, 2004Got a lift home at around 8.30 this morning, actually slept through till just gone 4 this afternoon… disgusting *grin* the life of the unemployed huh?
currently listening to Def Leppard’s ‘Love Bites’ ahhhhhhhhhh… the memories…
but enough of that, have discoverd a new site to pique my interest (and there are sooooo many.. the net rocks!) i came across it after something i read on this site led me to do a google search for monkeys… you would be AMAZED at the stuff you get up for the oddest words – i have been known on the odd occasion (when extremely bored) to just type a random word into search engine and see what it brings up, cool way of finding obscure sites (im sure im not alone in this)
Had to give directions to my new house again… i finally gave up trying to explain where i was in relation to the only landmark j knew and directed him to the R.A.C website to use their route finder (hours of fun to be had with that, the stalkers tool *grin* assuming you can convince your subject to give up their postcode…)
i may be getting a webcam soon – should prove to be fun… how ive managed to escape this phenomena in the time ive spent online i’ll never know, but Y has offered to lend me his on a tryout basis as he rarely uses it anymore, it’ll make T happy anyhow, she keeps whining that i have to join her in a cam chat room – im a little dubious but i’ll try anything once…
Please forgive me Matt.
January 24th, 2004I am an awful person.
my mates birthday today, i was supposed to spend the evening with him, chilling, feeding and watching a dvd (he’s 29 today, poor lad thinks he’s getting old and doesnt want to go out LOL) sadly, im having to let him down.
I recieved a telephone call from the delightful L offering me a shift at the uni – WORK!!!
i eagerly grasped at the offered hours like a drunk would the last glass of gin in the known universe, only to realise after hanging up the phone what this would do to the aforementioned plans.
Arse.
Still, he’s a forgiving sort is our M. Besides, the housemate should be home before i leave so im sure that, boys being boys, they’ll end up on the x-box or something…
Lack of sleep leads to much linkage!
January 24th, 2004have yet to go to bed… whoops *blushes* once again the curse of IM becomes apparant… where are my lost hours? i know i have done something more constructive than drinking with my time (until i managed to completely crash my other pc *sniff*) besides conversing with intelligent beings i have spent most of the evening checking for music software until the guilt of being unemployed kicked in and i once again turned to my hunt for work
*cue violins…
after fruitlessly searching the database, i decided to take a much needed break and visit coffeebreakarcade sadly, as always – this turned into a much longer break than intended. (mainly due to being distracted by the animated episodes of ‘clerks’ that my beloved housemate has on dvd – the problem with temporarily housing the pc in the front room…)
then a friend foolishly started bemoaning their lack of interesting contacts on faceparty, this then triggerd a massive rant on the sorry state of affairs there these days.
Why DO guys only look at the pictures..? if i have to get ONE MORE message off some testosterone laden pinprick saying:
“WOW, you are FINE! fancy a chat? i’d love to meet up some time and get to know you better…”
GGRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr… *cue much gnashing of teeth and bestial grunting in a wrathful type manner…
Does that actually work in real life? what on earth makes them think it’ll work online? or a better question – how do they even know that its me in the pics? seriously, sometimes im sooooo tempted to source some very real looking pics and play with someones mind…
ah well, maybe one day my sadistic side will reign supreme and i’ll follow through on this urge.
till then i shall merely laugh at the various postings on b3ta and wonder at the surreal thought processes of some of those people…
Idiots – truly!
January 23rd, 2004ahhh friday night,
its absolutely pissing it down out there, its cold and windy – and even if i had the slightest inclination to leave the warm, the mental image of the leering drunkards packed into every pub and club is enough to deter me… besides, ive found another interesting site to occupy my time.
im sat here typing and telling the three people using messenger about the blog, i fail to see how any of my friends havent mentioned this to me before, the links, the tales, the sheer idiocy i could have passed on to the faceless few who may stumble across this… it seems such a waste of my former virtual life.
ah well…
juct told C to check out this lovely little link about Lenore my housemate has some fantastic graphic novels (about 80 or so) and amongst them are a couple of Roman Dirge classics, he passed this onto me so i could see her in animated form. they ROCK.
ive also had to enlighten YET ANOTHER bod about my fave artist who has recently relocated to canada… lucky man
still, since said housemate is sat watching transformers i suppose i should actually do something constructive with my time and have another look at web design ive been talking about setting up my own site for so long.. its about time i actually did something about it.
Hey, hi, how are ya.
January 23rd, 2004My name’s vicky and im an addict.
i mean this sincerely – its a harmless addiction, physically non-invasive yet it permeates my entire being with such an intense feeling of relief and joy when i use… seriously. the worst admission i must make now is that through my usage – i have become a pusher…
the product?
well… its not that simple. you see its quite insidious.
*hangs head in shame
for 4 years now i have been a fulltime internet user. the sites, the sounds, the thrill of the keyboard – to me it is heaven sublime. in the space of net i am free. yet sadly it does not end there. i have managed to infect various friends and family members with this disease… the main vehicle for infection has been faceparty *holds head in hands and starts softly weeping
I know, i know. but it never used to be the way it is now there – honestly *thinks back to the golden time before msn closed their rooms of chat (and misses the abuse and the hellifiknowquiz rooms that were such a joy to frequent on the odd occaision)
ah well…
i just wonder why everyone online seems to be searching for someone to take away from the net. i love it here, let me stay…