Author Archives: Alex

New phone and Heroes

I have recently rejoined the world of the mobile phone user with my purchase of a Sony Ericsson k800i from three, and have to say that I am fairly happy with it as the call quality is very good and three offer the best data plan that I could find. The camera is also quite […]

New design underway!

For the past few days, I’ve been away from my primary development machine and I’ve been unable to work on the code behind the new version of my blog so I’ve been thinking about the design that I’ve been working on for it.
It sucked.
With a starting point of the css tinderbox I came up […]

Celebration Europe

Wow,
Yesterday I attended Star Wars Celebration Europe, and it was most excellent. After waking at 6am and making my way to London Waterloo station (a record in punctuality for South West trains at only 5 minutes late) I met with Lasse and Peter and travelled to the ExCel center using all manner of different […]

Move Finished

Themak.org is now (mostly) happy on it’s new host and Wordpress is now running at 2.2.1.
All links from alex.palgn.co.uk should now point to themak.org.

Mac Heist and Guitar

Mac Heist has been at it again with another heist which is listed as a skunk works heist in partnership with Mac Update, and as usual they are generously offering free stuffs in the way of the excellent IRC client Linkinus and have bolstered the programs in the bundle by including private beta access to […]

The End of an Era

Yesterday marked the end of the final act in the final part of my compulsory schooling, my education within the many walls of Truro School and my GCSEs. One of the most stressful times of my life so far has ended and the next is about to begin.
As I move away from Cornwall, yesterday […]

A rather long walk and other miscellany

Yesterday, after spending the prior three days walking on the great expanse of barbed wire and knee-to-waist-depth mud and the not so delightful wet marsh land, and I have to say that I found it immensely challenging and rewarding when my team walked into the Jamaica Inn- I was however completely exhausted.
In other completely […]

Some Miscenalia and a Shopping Trip

The move has gone pretty well and it should only be a few days of working things out before all my computers get onto the internet and back up and running; by which time my guitar should have arrived (Yamaha RGX-A2). But meanwhile I’ve got to complete the Duke of Edinburgh silver expedition, which should […]

Moving

I’m moving home tomorrow and will most probably be offline until early july. I’ve currently got very limited access to the internet as I’m about to box this computer up for the move. I’ll probably not be able to check my email etc. for a few days, and I’ll be leaving very shortly after my […]

New Version (coming soon) and other miscellaneous updates!

Here’s a preview of what’s soon going to be the new look of themak.org:

All critisism welcome for the new design.
The new theme is also going to mark a whole new version of themak.org, the move from the brilliant PALGN free hosting to an ASO shared hosting plan where I will also move this blog from […]

8 Random Facts

I was tagged by Takumi a week or so ago:

Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
Players should tag eight other people and notify them that they have been tagged.

And my facts:

I don’t watch Big Brother, nor any other reality television. (Nor Soaps, […]