Category: Weblog

  • UK Domain Name Awesomeness!

    Ive only waited 5 years….

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    …But today i pre-ordered 0lly.uk 😀

    Hurray!

  • Pointless Social Network Bulls**t

    Early 2013 i decided to sync up my social world and use individual social networks for their main purpose – so for example i was gonna share all my images via flickr as thats what its for…

    But less than a year later i am TOTALLY going back on my plan, and in fact i am adopting the attitude we have embraced this year at work – clear out the crap, and streamline whatever is left!

    • I am no longer gonna use Flickr to share images as their app is terrible.
    • I am no longer gonna check-in via Foursquare, as all i basically do is check-in at work, and then at costa, and repeat. I may still use this on holidays and make it more of a “where have i been in the world” network. I am no longer sharing my check-in’s to Facebook or Twitter if/when i do use it again.
    • I am totally sacking off Miso – it was fun, but no one (including myself) really needs to read about the movies i watch. If i watch a good one, ill remember it, if its crap, then i dont want to remember it.
    • I am only using Facebook for sharing photos and mini-updates of my life as the access is limited and therefore protected.
    • I will only use twitter for complaining as its totally public and customer service representatives scour it looking for you bad mouthing their companies.
    • And Google+ is to become my techie/work related social network.
    • Youtube is my TV outlet of choice and always will be.

    And thats that. I wont be closing any of my accounts as i want to keep the names myself – but i wont be using them, linking to them or referencing them again on here….

    Unless i change my mind in another year 🙂

  • Kitchen improvements Pt2

    Wont bore anyone with pages of drivel about my kitchen – but wanted to follow my last post up with a picture of the new breakfast bar;

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    I had to apply 4 layers of worktop oil over 4 days so we couldn’t use it for a week – but its now in use and 100 times better than the table we used to have.

    That’s it for this year, we’ll decide on cupboard fronts soon so we can finish the cupboard to the right of the breakfast bar – and then tackle the rest of the kitchen! 🙂

  • Space saving kitchen ideas

    Despite the fact ive worked with computers my entire life, i seem to be fairly decent at DIY and my latest project is our kitchen.

    The shit cupboard, before...We originally had a large cupboard in the corner of it, it houses the hoover, ironing board and also the gas boiler. Now me and this cupboard didn’t see eye to eye – i despised the thing as it was too big, you couldn’t actually use most of the space within it – and it was just shit.

    So stage 1 was to plan how i could box the boiler in, create a useful space and maximise the room available without creating something awful like what was there before.

    I did lots of research as i’d never done anything kitchen related before in my life – i searched the web for different kitchen cupboard sizes, depths, widths, and decided that to create the best, most efficient cupboard in the space available i would need 2 x 1000mm Miami wall units from Wickes, 4 x metal legs (as i was using a wall unit as a base unit) and some random screws and L brackets.

    The new epic cupboard of doomFirst, i built one of the Miami wall units as the one at the bottom was to be a complete unit – i attached the legs and hey presto the bottom part was complete. The second half (top bit) was going to be hugely challenging for me as i had to cut the back, top and bottom out of one side of it so i could slide it over the boiler. I dont have a workbench and ended up doing it on the wall outside with a jigsaw and a torch in my mouth – the end result was actually OK though!

    I also constructed a dividing piece between the top and bottom cupboards, creating an extra space for more storage. I fitted it all together and temporarily fitted some of the doors (we’ll be having different fronts once we have chosen them for the whole kitchen) and the end result is awesome.

    Once we have painted the walls behind it and ripped the floor up we can fix it to the wall – until then its freestanding but very sturdy. As soon as we have it fitted to the wall i am going to add some really unique touches to how it all works based on what we’ve learnt we need over the last 8 years of having our own house.

    Its gonna be the swiss army knife of storage cupboards!