James's Weblog

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jamjm — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:37:41 +0000

Well… Just been in London yesterday and today… Didn’t do much yesterday but got a new watch, belt and wallet today . I got the watch from next, the belt from Vans and the wallet from animal.

I’ve had a bit of a film fest recently and watched all the Jason Bourne films, all the Ocean’s films and all the Harry Potter films. About three times. :\.

That said, Harry Potter does rule . Got a free house all next week though so should be fun! Then Tom is coming on holiday with us (Menorca) for a week.

Summer holidays finish in about 3 weeks now though :’(

Anyways… Going to be coming into Hitchin soon (on the train at the moment so going to go now

My general everything.

jamjm — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:24:12 +0000

Well, I thought I would post what I have been up to recently… A few weeks ago I went into London with Kayleigh (my cousin in-law in-law) and we went around what felt like everywhere. I could have sworn we must have done a full lap of the circle line!
We also went to the London eye and after buying the tickets, were told we needed an adult with us and that we could not get a refund (scammers :p)
Oxford, Regent and Carnaby Street were as streetish as ever although Camden seemed quite normal! We only saw about 3 punks!! We also went into Cyberdog (comon, you have to ) and also went to Wagamamas on Southbank

Phew!

jamjm — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:58:00 +0000

I just brought my MacBook back from the dead! Here is how it all happend:

1. My mum asks for Vista on her computer. I also decide to use Boot Camp on my MacBook with Vista.

2. My mum needs files backing up – I use my Time Machine hard drive (Installed MacDrive on her computer it can read Mac HFS+ disks)

3. Start boot camp assistant – It asks me to format my whole hard drive (it has done this before :s). So, I start to format my MacBook (because I have a Time Machine backup) and erase the drive. Insert disc 2 when it asks for it, gets about 60% through disc 2 and it says error installing OS X! (this is when the nightmare begins )

4. Think to myself, oh well. I can just restore from a Time Machine backup. So, I get my Time Machine drive and select restore from backup. OS X can’t find the drive! So, after plugging my Time Machine into another PC (with MacDrive installed) it is revealed that MacDrive had screwed up the partitions! MacDrive could still read the data but my Mac couldn’t!

5. Thought that I could just get a backup image of the Time Machine, format and restore the backup, I don’t have a HD big enough in my house to backup the whole drive!

6. Finish installing Vista on my mums computer and then try installing Vista on my MacBook without boot camp. I change the HD’s type to Master Boot Record and install Vista fine! I decided that I wanted OS X (obviously) so I called Apple about the discs. They said they could send me some new ones free of charge (but the wait! It was Friday evening!)

7. I put the OS X install disc 2 into my PC and make an ISO image of it. I then burn a new disc in Mac format. Start installing OS X on my MacBook AGAIN and this time it says nothing to install when I put in the new disc 2. I decided to try the old one AGAIN (for the last time) and it comes up with the error. I just press quit installer and for some unknown reason, the welcome video started playing! Never had I been so happy to see that annoying video that you cannot skip!

8. I then put in my Time Machine drive to restore data (it is very important data) and I could not read it and nor would the partitions show up in Disk Utility (the drive showed though). I then downloaded some recovery software for mac. I hadn’t bought it and was on the trial so I was not able to recover the data but it did allow Disk Utility to read the disk (it must have force mounted it or something). I then click repair in disk utility for the drive and 15 minutes later, I was restoring all of my data!

9. I then decided that I still wanted Vista on Boot Camp – Got it running fine with a 20GB partition but then (trust me) I wanted a bigger partition .

10. Tried resizing in Disk Utility – didn’t work. I then made a copy of the volume using Disk Utility and deleted the partition and started Boot Camp again. Low and behold, it wanted me to format. Well, I thought hell no!

11. I then booted Disk Utility from my Install Disc and managed to create a 35GB FAT32 partition (don’t have ANY idea why it let me create a 35GB one though…) and booted OS X, and deleted it using Boot Camp. I then tried to create it again in boot camp and this time it let me!

12. The image of the Vista install that I had was somehow corrupt so instead, I did a clean install. I now have Vista on a 32GB NTFS partition and OS X as well .

It only took 2 days, a late night/early morning and a lot of frustration but hey!

No data was lost in the making of this blog post.

yawn

jamjm — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:39:54 +0000

Just finishing up installing Windows Server 2003 on a virtual machine. Took longer than I thought! Now 1:37 the next day .

I’m installing it so that I can test out the built in email and also if the ACT sales database for Safe Route will work with it. Hopefully it will all work fine! It’s quite worrying that it hasn’t asked for the other 4 CD’s though…

Anyways. I really should crash so I think I will

Enjoy your evening/morning/sleep.

Oh my god

jamjm — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:47:06 +0000

I have only just realized how stupid, idiotic and childish my step dad is. 43 years old and can’t understand blackjack. When playing he starts using stupid voices and saying things like ‘acemondo’ and ‘hit me with your rhythm stick’.

He has such a split personality…

At station

jamjm — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:11:49 +0000

I’m at the station now waiting to go to Kings X and I am burning up!

Sitting here with a blue powerade and my laptop in its bag in the 24C heat (according to my phone anyway). Train comes in 15 minutes and every fast train that comes past that sends cool air across the station is a godsend!

Anyways. Will keep you updated!

NB. Don’t walk to station in this heat.

On another note… If anybody needs some web design doing, email me I’m sure we can agree on a very affordable price!

Previous work: www.saferoute.co.uk
www.grassrootssoccercompany.co.uk
www.flexonet.com

Hey

jamjm — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:19:16 +0000

Hey everyone!

Just started up this blog for a little bit of fun. Will try and keep it updated but will probably forget! Anyways… I will edit this later with all details on what I am up to and about me later so stay tuned! (now to see if I can get wordpress for my iPhone. That would be cool :p)