Ruler of Planet Houston

Been using groove shark for ages. Free online player is a bit of a pain as the video ads play in the background sometimes during your song. I have a plugin for Firefox that allows me to download any song in my playlist...I am a criminal!!!

I did study psychology And the left brain / right brain shit is mostly just that...shit! Old overruled theory. People that use both sides together are usually good at a lot of things including puzzles and problem solving (as in programming). If people had isolated either left or right of their brain they would be, delicately put, "backward". Also, the typical mistake most wannabe designers (those that downloaded photoshop and a keygen) make is that they think they are a designer because they are good at art. Art is not design. Design is much more closely related to the careful planning and theoretical mind of a programmer whereby a design is about 95% to do with function and meeting a goal, the other 5% is the arty fluff added to pretty it up a bit. The main work in the design process is in the wireframing, research and colour theory etc... Drawing a fancy pattern is just usually client-satisfying fluff!

it is a simple fact of you get what you pay for. If you are quoted 10k then there will be 10k worth of man hours going into it and likewise with 1k. Prices can vary from one to the other easily depending on your requirements but a good designer/developer should be able to gauge your ROI possibilities and your budget by speaking to you for 30 minutes. It's really easy to tell the difference between someone who wants a website that sells stuff to see if they make owt back, and someone that has a solid business or business plan and wants a specific goal and profit to be met. The former would normally open his line of questioning with "how much will a website cost me, mate?" and the latter may ask "Could we arrange a meeting to discuss a new website for my business?" and he'll turn up with a few folders full of plans and information...they be the ones I like and usually work with For the record, my average ecommerce sites seem to be around the 4-5k mark but I do the occasional cheaper one for those that just insist their site should have a 'payment button' on it And yes, I strongly disagree with this statement "Everyone in the business will disagree, but it's a fact that coders cant design and designers cant code.". Point me in the direction of the source of this factual data and I will admit I am wrong, otherwise state that it is only your opinion. This old chestnut actually came about through ignorance, blinkered views and bitter rivalry and jealousy between the two skills. It is entirely possible to be extremely good (or bloody amazing) at more than one skill or trade especially when they are related. I'm sure most of you know people who make a living and are top of their field in one profession but could easily outplay some famous musicians although totally unrelated to their day job? Same thing! I personally have always been into art, started as a graphic designer, always dabbled in programming and now do both continuosly and interweaved on a daily basis (which takes over most of my life). My clients usually come to me initially based on my designs and are always extremely satisfied with my solid programming - I have also been offered (and had) senior positions in both fields. That is my source for my educated opinion anyhoo!

English man....English!!!

Whenever I have no service on my phone (orange) I can't make phone calls...but of course! However, if I dial 450 (the number you might ring if you are on payg to top up) the signal magically reappears. EVERY TIME! Are these twats trying to con me or summit?!?

Sorry to disagree on that. I have set a few old fogies up with linux (the aforementioned distro) after their windows got ballsed and they had no backup or owt. It does what they want and they say it runs faster and never gives them anywhere near as much trouble as windows did. Too many people seem to think that you should only use linux if you want to have a stripped down os and do everything the hard way. It actually can be a much nicer and faster os than windows and still suit the general web surfer / open office user. I wiped all of my windows laptops and put linux on just for general use. Much better, no problems.

if you look like this then yes you do need to be able to program code to use linux If not then you can get by as a normal user. The only thing you might find a bit alien is installing stuff that isn't in available in the software manager as you may need to load it via terminal - which is not much harder than the old days of loading a zx spectrum game from the command line.

if you are used to windows, zorin is a good distro for you to get cracking with.

Spending the xmas money eh? Cheers for the bday card & scratchies btw

Sorry like but this has got to be a tranny

I couldn't help reading that quote in a morgan freeman narration voice.

that site crashed my browser

I taught myself with a couple of starter tips from my dad e.g. notes of the guitar, part names etc... but I did play piano fairly well and knew a fair bit music theory already. I started playing when I was 11 though and apparently your mind is more like a sponge at that age and it gets harder to learn as you get older. My brother got lessons a year after I started playing and seemed to catch up with me fairly well. He had a very good teacher though. I suppose i's like owt else...if you get a good teacher and you really want to learn then it will work. As for the guitar game thing...I didn't bother looking into what it was but immediately think it is a waste of time. If you need a game to keep you interested enough to learn to play you are never gonna be any good. Just the simple sitting for hours trying to master a 4 note riff in your bedroom should be enough to hold your interest if you really have the passion @Andrew- I used to teach guitar about 10 years back and I had a student called Andrew who would be about your age now and I mostly taught him songs and a tiny bit of theory crap! Could it be thee?

Bah! Well I appear to be way out in front now anyway. I posted on my blog and stuff so should get a fairly steady stream now. Be interesting to see if these competitions are actually real or if I will conveniently get overtaken at the last hurdle

Shoite! I would have done that...but nobody likes me

argh! 'tis true aye! But worth a shot still like. I have the smallest social following in the world so I can be wiped out in an instant. However...if I win I will let you all have a turn on it any time you like

Not a lot of entrants I reckon so canny chance Win an ipad mini 16GB

lotr films could have been 3 times as long really...the books certainly allow it. So the Hobbit could easily be as long as 6 hours - whether it is an entertaining 6 hours is a different thing. I have a feeling I will enjoy part 1 but not 2 cos I can't be arsed with dragons

The Beaver. Great film considering it is just a fairly simple story enhanced with a beaver on mr Gibson's hand

aye...cracking bag. Just need a little bungee to attach my tripod and I'm sorted

Why is he wearing women's underwear?

well I suppose on the positive side I don't have to upload all my music to match but I would with google. And it works on my iphone. I'll have both for now then and see how they compete

what a shitter! I just paid for itunes match two days ago