I just wanted to take a very quick moment to give a plug for a game built by a couple friends of mine – Egyptian Labyrinth.

In Egyptian Labyrinth you collect idols while avoiding sandpits in treasure mode, strive for perfection in timed mode, and conquer the warped maze in pyramid mode. There are 50 levels per mode.

They’re also hosting a competition via their Twitter account where once they get 100 followers, they’ll give away a free copy to one of their followers.

So make sure you check it out.

It has been a few months since I last did a Wordle for this site, so I thought I’d do a new one.

Just a short post to let everyone (and by everyone, I mean both of you) know that I’ve successfully moved into a new flat. For the first time in my life I’m living on my own. My kitchen is MY kitchen! My bathroom is MY bathroom! It’s great!!! Check out my Twitter feed for some photos of the flat.

Because of the move, however, I’ve once again fallen behind schedule on my Independent Study. According to my project plan, by Friday I need to have completed two Cognitive Walkthroughs and be ready Monday to start my data modelling – I can’t see that happening at this rate.

Oh well, now that I’ve finally sorted things like moving my telephone and broadband connections to my new address, I think I’m going to enjoy the rest of my evening, then start fresh tomorrow morning with the rest of my project.

I just wanted a share a website that I discovered today while browsing the Magic: the Gathering blog – something called Wordle. It’s quite simple, you just point it at any site with an RSS feed and it creates a word cloud.

Here is the one for this site:

Right – back to work now I guess!

I would just like to take a moment to thank Google for providing a fantastic service. Why am I thanking them? Because I’ve just set-up a direct synchronisation between my Windows Mobile phone and my Google account.

Up until now, I had been syncing my phone with Outlook, which would then sync with my Google calendar – and this works, all except for the fact that it required two different sync-systems to work (doubling the chance that something could go wrong – which it did), and that it didn’t sync my contacts.

Now, thanks to Google being awesome, I’m able to sync my phone with my Google account directly – over the air – without the need for the Outlook middleman – not only that, but it also syncs my contacts as well.

There are some issues with it, such as my phone’s instanstance on making single name contacts (i.e. Amy) their surname, but these are minor problems. My ultimate aim is to get a T-Mobile G1, but this will have to wait until my current phone contact expires.

In other news, I’m meant to be working on the assignment that’s due in tomorrow – but instead I’m installing Windows Se7en beta on one of my laptops.

I found this online and wanted to share it.

Through my Twitter account, fellow Twitterites and myself have created the ultimate web developer/action movie.

It’s called Position:Absolute. It’s about z-index, played by Sylvester Stallone, a web developer who gets fired for supporting other browsers besides IE. The villain of the story would be Strikethrough, played by Jeremy Irons, who stole z-index’s code, had him fired and forced the entire web department to only support IE. Strikethrough’s sidekick Scope Creep would be played by Jack Black. Mos Def would be the token #000000 guy, named mos:def;. And Alyson Hannigan would play the spunky love interest of the story named Fire Fox.

This is also open to be part of a trilogy with Position: Fixed being the second part where z-index has been commissioned by FBI to stop a bunch of IE hacks (z-index’s FBI agent point of contact with would be played by Samual L. Jackson) and the final chapter, Position: Relative, would be about z-index’s son having to clear his dad’s name after he is wrongfully imprisoned.

Also, all the web development transition scenes would look like the hacking scenes from Hackers.

“This summer, Stallone is going to paint the town #FF0000! Rated R for violence and pwnage.”

This is pure Action-Blockbuster-Gold. I just have to wait for Hollywood to come calling.

I’m feeling like a bit of a geek at the moment, so I thought I’d post the list of software I’m going to install on my laptop when I format it.. Here goes.

Premium Software

• Vista Business SP1
• Office 2007
• Visio Pro 2007
• Project Pro 2007
• Abobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection
• AnyDVD
• CloneDVD

Free Software

• OpenOffice.Org 3
• ImgBurn
• Deamon Tools Lite
• Avast Anti-Virus
• ZoneAlarm
• WinAmp
• Firefox
• Opera
• Safari
• Chrome
• Notepad ++
• XAMPP
• FileZilla

A poem sent to me by Matt.

Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Berners-Lee,
keeps us all happy after our tea
we all stay in touch, yes, me ‘n’ thee,
Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Berners-Lee.

Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Berners-Lee,
a spin off job for the militar-ee
let’s hope they paid a nice hefty fee
Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Berners-Lee
cha-cha

Well… it’s been a VERY long time since I’ve done anything on this site – so I figured I might as well give it another go. (That, and the fact that I need a blog for one of my modules).

I’d not expect too much excitement from this blog if I were you, I’ve tried blogs before, but they’re just not me – oh well – but feel free to check it out of you’re interested in how I’m doing on my Advanced Web Design module.