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Tricky Council Estate
My brother, Greg Dixson, has produced a remix of Tricky's new song "Council Estate"
It's available on his MySpace page: Tricky Council Estate Remix
COME ON ENGLAND!!!
Here's an England mobile wallpaper that I made, current screen resolutions fit: Nokia 6280(320x240), Motorola V3((176x220)(which will also fit Sony Ericsson phone)) and one also phones that use 128 x 128 size like the smaller screen Nokias
Use wap on your phone to browse to http://tinyurl.com/g6397 and download the above image to your phone.
Use wap on your phone to browse to http://tinyurl.com/gq58z and download the above image to your phone.
Use wap on your phone to browse to http://tinyurl.com/je7s5 and download the above image to your phone.
Open SSHd For Windows:
I've recently created an updated version of Open SSHd for Windows (based on the Cygwin dll).
I've created a sub-site for it at http://sshwindows.webheat.co.uk/
AND Another dirty ditty:
I just recorded this quickly the other day.
It's a cover of another Grant Lee Buffalo song, "Honey
don't Think".
I'll be going into my friends home recording studio
at the end of december to properly record this song and
Rock of ages.
I'll upload the results here afterwards.
Another dirty ditty:
I've been practising a couple of songs tonight as
I'm going to record them at a friends gaff and he has
far superior recording equipment.
In order to practice recording the guitar and then the
vocals and so on I was playing around with a Sonic
Foundry's Acid software. I recorded this and whilst (if
you know the song) I botched it missing out a whole bar
it sounded pretty good so I thought I'd whack it up
here as a improvement on the Drunken Angel song
My cover of Grant Lee Buffalo's Rock of Ages a cocked up and unfinished version
New Section:
I've added a section on Cascading Style Sheets(CSS) to the site.
I'm getting more and more into it and wanted to be
able to create a few cool examples of CSS and showcase
them on my site.
I'm just gather ideas at the moment but have popped up
something I created today in the section and will add
to it as my ideas come to fruition
Free Mobile Wallpapers
I designed these particularly for my Nokia 6100 but they will work on any mobile that have a 128x128px screen resolution.
If you have infrared, bluetooth or a datacable connection to your computer you can download these images to your computer and transfer them to your phone.
However if you don't have any of those you should be able to use WAP to browser to the urls below the image you want and save the image to your phone from there. That's obviously subject to any charge your mobile network provider charges you for WAP access.
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| http://tinyurl.com/6a6o2 | http://tinyurl.com/438hg | http://tinyurl.com/5sk9z |
Feel free to MMS message these images to your friends as well. The more the merrier!!
Song and a Dance:
Well I've finally made my debut in the world of
music.
I've been singing for my own pleasure since about 1993
and wanting to write my own songs and music.
I'd like to start out with just me and a guitarist
(playing acoustic guitar), with the lack of anyone I
knew playing guitar and my lack of confidence in my own
singing I set about learning guitar myself.
I've learnt a few simple songs now and this one
suited my voice pretty well and so I recorded it, very
crudely on a very poor quality pc microphone with no
real proper set up.
The results came out pretty well considering
Lucinda William's Drunken Angel covered by Mike Dixson
(as covered by Grant Lee Phillips)
I need to rerecord this really cause I can play it so much better now whilst singing. Though I should try and record the guitar first and then vocals.
New Design V2:
After I'd made the new design, which was mostly just
in basic HTML it became a bit of a pain to put new
information up on the site.
So I begun an overhaul of the site. For the most part
you will only notice a change in design, but behind the
scenes many things are going on.
The pages are now PHP (they used to be php way back
before the last design change) and I've intentionally
separated the design from the content as much as I can
at the moment. This is so that I can easily change the
design of the whole site by just changing one page and
also so that I can update the site without worrying
about throwing any thing out of whack.
This design of the rounded rectangle is an interim design until I come up with something more fitting and possible radical.
I've also encorporated a lot more CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), smarter HTML (i.e. using it more wisely), and in the future will modify the method by which I can add content to this site; at the moment it's a bit on the manual side. Along with this will come more content, more types of content and with any luck I'll update it more regularly.
My 'Other' site:
Well it's been way too long in the coming (I think I've actually renewed the domain once already with nothing on the site!).
I bought the domain Techtac.co.ukto use to provide help for
those less techie people out there.
Seeing as I seem to be the middle ground between geeks
and computer users it seemed that I could make some
walk throughs that would aid those who needed help.
Finally over the weekend I sat down and wrote some code and a design that meant that, in order to maintain the site I just need upload plain text file walkthroughs to my site and the rest get's taken care of, formatting, navigation the lot. :)
This all means that it'll be nice and easy for me to
actually keep putting new bits on there.
At the moment it's just a few little how tos for some
fairly geeky things that I had to write down for myself
anyway.
Hopefully over time it'll grow into a tech library so to speak.
Maybe someday I'll get round to the original goal which was to make graphical walkthroughs, i.e. recording my screen activity, of various tasks from very basic stuff to more advanced stuff.
It's on my list.
Vector Art Skill Development:
As any of you who've been visiting my art section will have seen I'm getting very into furthering my vector art skills with a new piece that I'm working on. I've been posting each stage to show the development of this piece:
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Also take a look at another piece that I created
recently and works well as a mobile phone
wallpaper.
New Sections:
Newly added sections include:
Photos -
Mostly from gigs I've been to, more pics to come.
Art - Some
examples of my art work, mostly created in Paint Shop
Pro.
Please have a browse, download some of my art and maybe
write a Haiku.
24 Hour Famine Update:
I completed my 24 Hour Sponsored Famine.
It started off not too bad as I'd been fasting throughout the day for two weeks before hand, only eating in the evening. When it got to evening time I got a few hunger pangs as expected. What I wasn't prepared for though was the temptation... I hadn't realised until that day just how many fast food commercials are on TV on Saturday.
Then I had to pop down to the shops in the evening and had to walk past KFC. The smell was deliciously tempting.
When it came round to the time to break my fast, quite late in the night I gorged myself and felt thouroughly sick for it afterwards.
My advice to anyone doing a sponsored famine is this:
- Don't watch TV, rent a load of films or play computer games but avoid food adverts on TV
- Keep busy, keep your mind occupied, doing something you love to do.
- When you break your fast, do so with something light. Something healthy is probably a good idea too.
I managed to raise over £100 from sponsorship which was gratefully received and donated to Crisis, for the UK Homeless.
Site Redesign:
Well my site's been fairly dormant for a while, mostly just display a notice to those who might visit my site due to some people spoofing my domain when sending out spam emails.
I had some new content that I wanted to add and it
wouldn't have worked with the old design.
The new content is the designs section.
For a while now I've been getting back into graphic
design and artwork, from a completely different
approach to that which I'd taken part in before, i.e.
using conventional materials. Now computer artwork
became my passion.
My designs have varied as new opportunities and passions came up ranging from custom shell theme designs to T-Shirt design.
In order to publicise this more readily I'm using my most valuable asset, the webheat.co.uk site.
