DREWspectiveDREWspectiveThe official weblog of Drew Maughan - his perspective on the world without.
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To Be Cared For
2008-05-21 02:17:00 You know, just as well nobody reads (or at least, comments) on my weblog entries; this one’s going to be very personal. I guess you could call me lucky or fortunate, because I’m the type of person who - despite being overweight and out of energy a lot - hasn’t had to stay in a hospital ... More About: Personal
Failure
2008-05-16 15:40:00 I wanted to share this quote, posted by a YouTube user named DigBreamer: Deep, eh? The truth is that failure is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, failure is one of the most important things we can have, as people who are constantly developing. Yet, the act of failing is stigmatised beyond proportion. You only have to ... More About: Personal , Language , Failure
Manipulative Language: ?not working, pls fix?
2008-05-08 12:01:00 Believe it or not, the title text is classed as an acceptable bug report in my current workplace. I’m not joking; I’ve been sent this so-called bug twice before, albeit not recently. Since then, other equally vague "bug reports" have cropped up. But I can’t retailiate curse at the people responsible, or throw it back at them ... More About: Language , Working
Are You Sure?
2008-04-30 13:31:00 Just now, at work, I received a "bug" (read: feature request) to add those "are you sure" dialogue boxes to a script. (If you’re unaware, at the place I’m currently working everything is a "bug". You might work in such a company.) The prompts would come up when moving and removing items from a category, and it ... More About: Personal , Programming , Language
Arrogant Tough Love - Debunked
2008-04-30 13:27:00 At my current workplace, there’s a printout stuck to someone’s wall with a summary of a speech, allegedly given by Bill Gates at a high school. It basically highlighted eleven "points": all of which were the typical, sometimes truthful but intentionally spiteful "tough love" platitudes given by arrogant high achievers. The first of these was the ... More About: Love , Language , Tough
Vote For Brian Paddick
2008-04-09 00:47:00 as the new Mayor of London. (Yes, believe it or not, there are other people running for Mayor.) More About: Promotion , Vote , Brian , Brian Paddick
Flea Market Montgomery REMIX
2008-04-08 11:52:00 Yesterday I revealed to YouTube that Chadwarden put out a remix of the infamous song It’s Just Like A Mini Mall, performed by Sammy Stephens (owner of Flea Market Montgomery): But only this morning, Chadwarden hit us all with some surprising news: More About: Remix
?Otherculturalism?
2008-04-07 19:00:00 In less than a month’s time, the Mayor of London - and I hope to God it’s a new one - will be elected. Last week, the almost unbelievable happened: a leaflet from the BNP was sent in the post, addressed to nobody in particular. Of course, I didn’t know it was from them until I ...
Status Dropping
2008-03-31 15:54:00 "I don’t think my boyfriend would approve." "My fiancée thinks so too." "I’ll have to see what my man is doing." "My husband likes that as well." Ever had this happen to you in a conversation? You could be being as sincere as possible, engaging in a conversation on equal terms with someone else, having been single for years (and ... More About: Rant , Status
Subversion
2008-03-27 11:24:00 In contrast to my unfinished rant about Propel, I just love Subversion . It is, however, a bit of a bitch to get working how I wanted it. Actually, that’s not quite fair; the problem lay with TortoiseSVN, which I shall explain later. For the uninitiated, Subversion is what’s called a version control program: it keeps track of ...
Drew Hates Propel
2008-03-26 16:07:00 I’ve wasted the best part of three days, and valuable developmnt time, trying to get Propel to work on my local web server (read: installation of AppServ on a partition other than C:). For those not in the know, Propel is supposed to be a "object relational mapping" framework, which basically means you can access databases ... More About: Programming , Rant , Drew
Debit Card Woes
2008-03-26 16:02:00 I’d spent this Easter under the grip of "man flu". Maybe it was because I’ve been working too hard on too many different things, or that I didn’t pull through with the things I was supposed to give up for Lent, but eventually I was convinced I deserved it. Right now, I’m managing a nasty chesty ... More About: Personal , Card , Debit Card
Chadwarden Jus? Eat Dat
2008-03-24 11:02:00 Thanks to a video uploaded by YouTube user Chadwardenator, The Legendary Drew comes out of retirement.
The Making of Best Chadwarden Parody Moments REMIX
2008-03-19 15:00:00 It finally went out on the 14th March (13th March in the USA - not the release date I was hoping for), but I have to share with you guys what Danielle Kennedy referred to as "the agony and the ecstacy" of my latest YouTube video: Best Chadwarden Parody Moments REMIX. It took roughly three weeks ... More About: Personal , Remix
Best Chadwarden Parody Moments REMIX
2008-03-15 12:51:00 My final Chadwarden YouTube video. More About: Parody , Remix , Moments
Naming Conventions
2008-03-11 18:56:00 I’m sat here at work, doing my thing of producing CSS very quickly. It suddenly dawned on me, having looked through a 1300+ line CSS file that I previously created, that even I get confused by the style names I use. In different situations I tend to mix camelcase and lowercase, and the result is ... More About: Conventions , Language , Naming
Observations of Speed Dating
2008-03-09 11:10:00 This has been a post in the making. Having been speed dating a total of eight times, I’ve noticed some commonly occuring themes during the events. Here are a few of my observations: feel free to disagree or agree with them as you will. Please note that I am specifially referring to speed dating in the 20s ... More About: Dating , Rant , Observations , Speed , Speed Dating
Drew?s Pimp Cup? BROKEN
2008-03-08 21:30:00 While moving my new three foot fish tank upstairs into my room, I accidentally knocked my pimp cup over. It was barely a two-foot drop, but it smashed into pieces. Was I mad? Yes I was. If there hadn’t been so much stuff in the room, it might still be here. Am I moping about it? No. I ... More About: Pimp , Broken , Drew
chibiModels Project - Part 6
2008-03-06 23:54:00 I almost forgot to mention… Over the weekend, I’d finally completed the first chibiMon model! And it looks like… Well, on this scale it would be impossible to make it manufacturer quality. But I have one completed, and that’s all that matters! By far the most difficult part was applying the arms and legs; I knew that getting it ... More About: Project , Crafts , Part
Manipulative Language: Not Done
2008-03-06 11:47:00 Not done Not working No changes made Not fixed I’m racking my brain as I write, but I can’t think of a single other "bug report" that gets on my thickwick more than the above. And now you’re going to find out why. First of all, whether you’re a web developer, programmer or someone who works on some kind of ... More About: Language
Yet more Chadwarden
2008-03-04 12:03:00 Some "outtakes" from our main man Chadwarden, devised by myself and bro.
Between The Lines / Direction
2008-03-04 11:44:00 http://www.betweenlines.co.uk One of my real friends from uni had the idea of starting an e-zine. Wanting to be part of something grassroots, authentic and underground, I offered my support and skills; the above link is the result. Let me tell you guys: the whole process—idea to implementation—took almost a year. Along with my other projects, like The ... More About: Personal , Promotion , Lines , Direction
Silent Treatment
2008-03-02 11:15:00 I’ve written about this before, and have made my views known about it on many an occasion. But not on DREWspective. So here we go. Following my best friend’s success with online dating, where he claims to have had no less than 15 dates as a result, I decided to give being much more ... More About: Personal , Treatment , Rant , Silent , Interaction
Exaggeration
2008-02-29 18:54:00 In light of the recent "earthquake" in London a couple of days ago, someone had sent a letter to the Metro highlighting the horrific damage caused to someone he knew. The letter was accompanied by a photo of a toppled over garden chair. Short but sweet. More About: Rant , Language
Watch Your Words
2008-02-29 18:52:00 Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Frank Outlaw Just out of curiosity, I’ve just done a sweeping search for DREWspective using the search term "drew weblog". Just skimming through the results, I came across what ... More About: Personal , Watch , Words
chibiModels Project - Part 5
2008-02-26 15:08:00 Some very exciting news about the project has surfaced in the last couple of days. Unfortunately none of it involves receiving any money as yet. First of all, the bad news: because of copyright issues on my part, I will not be posting any more photos of the work in progress until after they’re ... More About: Project , Crafts , Part
So Many Ideas, So Little Time
2008-02-18 15:11:00 I’ve always found that, when I’m employed, I’m far more productive in terms of my own projects as well as the employer’s. I also start coming up with more and more ideas for personal projects, that I just don’t have enough hours in the day to implement. If I do find the time, however, the motivation ... More About: Ideas , Time
chibiModels Project - Part 4
2008-02-17 17:50:00 So the shapes have arrived, and we’ve hit a snag as we’ve found out the shapes that were ordered were too small for the existing head pieces. It also turns out that most of the ordered pieces, which were bought from a shop in the US, could have been ordered over here in the UK! However, ... More About: Project , Part
Hiatus
2008-02-15 11:36:00 Hi. I haven’t written much on DREWspective recently, as you can tell. Besides being extremely busy with work, and trying to get The Ignored Board back on track, I felt like DREWspective was going down the same road as my old weblog. I don’t want that, because I don’t fancy being brought to trial by an attention-seeking ... More About: Personal , Rant , Hiatus
Speed Dating, 2008.02.05
More articles from this author:2008-02-15 11:18:00 It turns out that I’d left this as a placeholder post, which I haven’t added anything to yet. I’ll briefly go over what happened now. On Tuesday 5th, I went to yet another speed dating event in London. The venue was the 101 Bar near Tottenham Court Road: a venue I’d been to twice before, and ... More About: Dating , Speed , Speed Dating , 2008 , Interaction 1, 2 |
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