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I am back

thiswayup — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:21:47 +0000

So after almost a year and a half of not posting, I've decided to actually get this baby back up. So If anyone cares to wonder what has been happening, well I had a small issue with my old hosting provider and decided at the time not to bother any more. I also at the time was working my ass off to try find a new job during most of 2008 and didn't want to loose my focus. Well, after over a year switching from working as a Technical Consultant for the Professional Services team at Tradar, going to work for Spring Digital working for the Business Applications team, unfortunately the group was basically was reduced. So I ended up switching to work for their sister companyArtemis8 (the affiliate publisher/digital performance agency) as a developer. It has been pretty eventful time in my professional life. Now I work for a company that gives me free milk for my cornflakes and beer as well. I am content in life

Any who, enough about work and all that boring stuff. I've decided to lay out some stuff what I'm going to try post about. So hopefully from this point on, you may just see some stuff about music, coding, general thoughts and even some gaming stuff.

Mrs Palm on Mr Nokia action – An overheard conversation

thiswayup — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:10:52 +0000

Seeing this article on the Register and wondering about how this came about, I thought to perform a cross dimensional phase shift into an alternative universe (also known as a day dream) where there lived a entities called Mr Nokia, Mr Sony-Ericson and Mrs Palm....Lord and behold....I heard this conversation whilst having my morning coffee in said alternative universe:

Mr Nokia: Holy shit! Heard the news Mr Sony Ericson?

Mr Sony Ericson: What's that bob?

Mr Nokia: Mr Nokia please, we may be good friends but this is business.

Mr Sony Ericson: Ok... Mr Nokia.

Mr Nokia: Better. Those do gooders google have shown off their Android platform. It's erm...not bad.

Mr Sony Ericson: Ah crap. I heard. It's really good hey?

Mr Nokia: Yes. Damage control time. We need to get some cool software, or any software for that fact, onto our system. We can't be arsed to GIVE money away to help do this like them lot. We need a cheaper idea.

Mr Sony Ericson: Yeah. Cheap, I like cheap, like your 1000 series.

Mr Nokia: That's what I gave my wife for our anniversary. I said the 1000 represented the number years our hearts will blossom together. Or some shit like that.

Mr Sony Ericson: Nice. So how we gonna get a loada software quick on our system to add value and not seem like there's nothing in it? Build another system and actually be a bit more helpful in helping to build stuff for it?

Mr Nokia: No. Meet my rather tasty friend, Mrs Palm.

Mrs Palm: Hello boys. Hope you paying good. I was really worth it in my time.

Mr Nokia: Yes well...Ahem. Mrs Palm has lots of software under her erm...belt. Lots of people been working on Mrs Palm but she's a piece of lovely and plenty of software to boot.

Mr Sony Ericson: Been around a bit hey? But I see your plan, have Palm run their stuff on Symbian. Genius! Bet no one has ever done this before.

Mr Nokia: Quite! Thought of it all by myself.

Mrs Palm: Actually...it's not quite original

Mr Nokia: Oh shut up! Your sugar daddy has left the building for you missy, time to listen up to your new masters.

Mrs Palm: ...

Mr Nokia: So should we finalise the details? Wanna see what's this lump in my trousers is?

Mr Sony Ericson: You still got that piece of shit-awkward-as-hell 9500 Communicator then?

Mr Nokia: Errr... yes, but I meant...or never mind.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not necessarily based on real events or people and may skew from the actual truth...apart from maybe the bit about the coffee. I did drink some today.

Wanted: MI5 agents – see gaming world for details

thiswayup — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:52:29 +0000

Was wondering past wonderland and noticed this.

Looks like GCHQ (think the UK version of NSA) are hiring by putting ads in video games as ...

A spokesperson for GCHQ described the potential recruits that it wanted to reach as â€œcomputer-savvy, technologically able, quick thinking.

But would potential recruits mum's appreciate this? I mean if I was a parent I wouldn't want little Johnny to be staying up past their bed time hours on end, trying to translate some cryptic message when they still gotta do their French homework!

Hello world!

thiswayup — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:14:37 +0000

Well this is officially my first post! Unfortuntely I'm really quite ill with the flu and can't be arsed with anything too earth shattering to say. As you may have noticed I am using Wordpress, so if there are any other Wordpress users are there who can give us any tips, drop us some comments below. Don't forget to use the number entry thing as well (trying to cut down on spam).
So this is ill joe signing off...