Edd Mills's Blog

Icon

Ideas, thoughts.

Please, for my sanity, stop visiting the sales

I cannot handle another day of the public. The public + sales equals a very upset, stressed and annoyed Edd.

Please, if you were considering hitting the sales, think again!

(All the sales are crap, honest.)

Filed under: Uncategorized, , , , ,

Happy Christmas everybody!

Have a good one. :)

Although, please, be nice to us shop assistants in the January sales. We are but mere mortals and we could really do without abuse and mess. If you pick something up, pop it back where you found it and if you buy something, don’t be rude to the person on the till if they seem a bit tired. Or, you could help even more by just not shopping for the next week or two, keep it quiet and all that.
k thx.

Filed under: Uncategorized, , ,

The greatest spam comment ever.

As she was trying parishilton and britney spears regain her composure he pulled her up on her knees and pressed his semi-hard cock to her serrate lips.

That’s a comment I recently had on one of my posts. Quite obviously, Askismet caught it as spam, but it made me laugh nonetheless. Especially that last part, it’s almost poetic! Poetic spam, whatever next?

Filed under: Uncategorized, , ,

New Bright Eyes album set for April release!

I have to admit, I am a big lover of Bright Eyes. While often referred to as being highly depressingly, I personally find Bright Eyes extremely calming and thought provoking.

Anyway, the new album, entitled “Cassadaga” is set for release April 10th 2007 and I’m sure a tour will closely follow, so get saving the pennies and be sure to have plenty of time to book off work so you can go to as many of the tour dates as possible.

Cheers to Punktastic for that lovely bit of information.

Filed under: Uncategorized, ,

Paperchase give me the coolest bags

I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, I just kept forgetting:

Behold, the beauty of the Paperchase Christmas bag! It even says Merry Christmas on the bottom.

I love you Paperchase.

Filed under: Uncategorized, ,

Skinny jeans: The clue is in the name

As my boyfriend and I were waiting for our lunch to arrive today, a girl walked past who was, shall we say, not quite your perfect 36-24-36. Now I think you will agree that when you are of a certain size you must adapt the way you dress to suit your body shape. Look at that girl who won Pop Idol (I’ll be damned if I can remember her name though), she was a big girl but I still thought she looked really nice when she got on stage to sing, so it’s certainly not impossible. But despite it being possible for larger people to look nice, some just insist on offending the world by wearing none other than skinny jeans. Their name kind of gives you a hint as to who they suit, wouldn’t you agree? I think you can guess what it was about the girl who waddled past us at lunch that urged me to the start this post with the mention of her.

So then, people of the wide-legged variety who own skinny jeans; take them off and put them in the bin. There are jeans made for you but, alas, they are not skinny.

I’ve been looking around the net for a while for a photo that really demonstrates my point but I can’t find one at the moment so I may have to go out armed with my camera phone and do it myself.

Filed under: Uncategorized, , , ,

Woah, I wasn’t quite expecting that.

My post about using Notepad hit the front page of Digg earlier today and has received around 3000 hits! Not only that, but the mega-traffic I received as a result pushed me to the number 1 spot in the fastest growing blogs on WordPress.com, I had the second most popular post and I came in 6th on the most popular blogs! (Last time I checked anyway) so that was nice.

Thanks to everyone who has added me to their feed reader as a result or has decided to keep an eye on my blog, I’ll try keep you entertained best I can by initiating more geek bitch fights.

Oh, I have a seperate post I need to make as well, so I’ll go do that now.

Filed under: Uncategorized, ,

Woah, I wasn’t quite expecting that.

My post about using Notepad hit the front page of Digg earlier today and has received around 3000 hits! Not only that, but the mega-traffic I received as a result pushed me to the number 1 spot in the fastest growing blogs on WordPress.com, I had the second most popular post and I came in 6th on the most popular blogs! (Last time I checked anyway) so that was nice.

Thanks to everyone who has added me to their feed reader as a result or has decided to keep an eye on my blog, I’ll try keep you entertained best I can by initiating more geek bitch fights.

Oh, I have a seperate post I need to make as well, so I’ll go do that now.

Filed under: Uncategorized, ,

Coding in Notepad does not make you clever.

A friend of mine just asked what I use to code my web sites and I triumphantly stated that I use Dreamweaver, a program that I deem one of the most fantastic pieces of software I’ve ever owned. Anyway, having told him this (and using the ‘hot’ emoticon on MSN) he told me a quick story of how his friend (who is a year younger than me, apparently) uses Notepad to code his websites. This was subsequently described as “cool”.

Now, I want to make something really clear here; coding with Notepad does not make you cool. Making more work for yourself is not cool. Being counter productive is not cool. Using Notepad for some sort of warped credibility does not make you cool. Notepad is not and never will be a productive environment to code web sites. Even on the very basic level, it lacks line numbers and coloured code, how can that be considered useful?

I do use Notepad2 quite a bit, for editing straight from Filezilla because it’s pointless to get Dreamweaver open to make a small edit but the key point here is that Notepad2 (and a plethora of other text editors) support coloured code and line numbers (oh my!), basic features that Notepad doesn’t provide simply because it was never really made for coding web sites.

So, if you’re coding your web sites completely in Notepad, please think again. It’s not cool and its not clever. Your reasons for doing it are warped and, to be quite honest, quite sad. If you wish to look clever, I’m sure there are better ways of doing it than coding web sites through the most laboured method ever created.

Filed under: Uncategorized, , , ,

I’m not the only one who loves Trinny and Susannah.

I just checked my most viewed photos on Flickr, this one comes out on top with 1,307 views. I don’t know how I feel that a quick graphic I made is more popular than some of my photography!

Filed under: Uncategorized, , , ,

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.