What if this whole crusade’s a charade..
Indeed! After visiting a friend of mines blog (William Hook) I noticed he had a rather sexy layout, I checked the footer for who designed it and went along to their site. I found another design which I loved straight away, this one. I would of stuck with the other but it only displayed 1 post at a time, which I just didn’t like. I tried to edit the pages but it just didn’t work!
Anyways, this one is better and I love it. Also removed the snow as we never get any anyway!
Hope you all had a lovely christmas, I did, home at christmas this year, went well, didn’t get a lot but what I did get I was happy with, only thing I would change is my dog being with us, sadly she (Rio) passed away on my 18th birthday (20th October) she was a great dog and will always be remembered.
On a brighter note, my Steelpad came today, first order from Aria, went smoothly, nice shipping, costly but fast. Arrived well packaged from Citylink. Opened it up and its almost as large as my No.ID, very slightly smaller, the difference overall however, is vast. My mouse glides. It’s really smooth, hard plastic layer on the top, soundless when you move the mouse which was an annoyance on the old mat as it was quite noisy. I chose the flat black one over the elaboratly designed one, I thought this would help with tracking, without trying the other one, i’d say it is better. The pad doesn’t move, the bottom has white, sprayed on rubber type material, this doesn’t budge and inch after hours of gaming (6 hours of COD4 today -.-). I was happy with this pad from the moment I used it, I recommend it to others highly.
Picture after the break for anyone who wants to see it with my Habu which the gloss, original coating is starting to come off, this does not affect the mouse in anyway, only the looks, logo is starting to rub off aswell.
After posting my most recent post I was thinking the site looked a little dull. I do like the default theme for wordpress but it doesn’t have the flair of the other custom ones. After looking through the theme site I noticed BluePoint and installed it and here we are. Overall I think it’s a nice layout, clean, simple and elegant. I don’t post here much but it’s nice to have a professional looking homepage. I also added a few plugins, mostly behind the scene plugins. Wp-cache was the main one, caches certain stuff to help the pages load faster. A nice tool but most people won’t see much of a difference. I also noticed that, even with a Google sitemap generator I wasn’t getting very high on Google under my alias, I went through the settings and somehow I had blocked bots from viewing the site, turned that off and now i’m at #1 for “Acksaw” already :$! Also added an SEO and a few other things.
Also, a bit late but I added a cheesy snow script for the site, nice to be a little festive 
If you want to put it on your own WordPress blog, here you go.
I bought this mousemat after a few weeks of research, as some people who know me will know, I enjoy to game. I spent a fair amount of money on a good mouse, keyboard and to todays standards a very powerful and complete PC. For a while I was using a standard, no-name plastic mousemat, this wasn’t big enough for gaming with as I tended to move the mouse from the pad and then would end up getting fragged. I did a bit of research and came upon a small company known as No Identity. They do a hybrid pad, basically a cloth and a hard topped mat. This looked good on the surface and the reviews were very good. I went ahead and bought it, these are custom made from when you order so you have to wait a week or so for it to be made then shipped from their base, in Estonia. I ended up having to wait a month for the pad and emailed the company numerous times with no response even 3 months later, bad communication is a serious downfall of any company. The mat was huge and very nice looking, loaded up my favourite game and started fragging away. This is where I started getting troubles, I was getting really bad feedback from my mouse, crosshair was all over the place, this probably attributes to the elegant, multi-shaded design of the mat rather than the manufacture, I also noted the edges were not smooth and sharp in some places, not a comfortable pad to play with. I stuck with it and in the past few weeks have noticed that the pad has taken on a sort of bubbly texture where the pad is most used. It isn’t smooth to the touch anymore, other parts of the mat are still smooth, where I haven’t used my mouse there. I started to see the feedback was going at this point, the laser was probably reading the surface better because of the texture of it as opposed to the original smoothness. This is a good thing in a way.. My accuracy is getting back to how it was originally, pre-noidpad. It is, however, bad because it shows the surface doesn’t last on this mat.
It is getting to the point where I cannot game using the mat and am now considering a harder, plastic/metal/glass topped mat and having to pay another £20. At the moment, the SteelSeries Steelpad 5L is what I am interested in.
Moral of the review: Avoid No.ID if you use a laser mouse and want a mat that lasts over a month!
Continue reading ’3 Month No.ID Pad mini-review.’
A week or so ago I was hoovering whilst my USB TV Tuner was plugged (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR900) and the wire got stuck under the hoover, this in turn, bent the TV Tuner’s USB socket and snapped the small plastic guide inside the port on my case. This reduced me to 1 front USB port. I had heard good things about Antec‘s customer service department, I sent an email off to the appropriate people basically saying it was my fault, do you have a replacement part and can I buy said part. I then got a really nice email asking for my address and saying that they would send the part out.. For free. I recieved this part today, via priority mail from the USA.
Sorry for the lack of image quality, taken from my phone.
I thank Antec for this and will continue to buy products from them in the future. For reference, my case in the Antec P182. (Pic of my PC incase)
Holidays are coming, holidays are coming..
So, I was thinking. Coal.
Kids are always (Or at least when I grew up) told that if they mis-behaved they would get coal for Christmas… We are running out of coal.. What will the naughty kids get then? Solar panels? Used batteries?
If you care.. Comment.
