James Lee Saund...'s profileJLSaundersBlogLists Tools Help

Blog


    September 25

    My Blog… An Apology

    During the last year I have been rather lax writing in, this, my blog. I could make up some elaborate excuse why I have been blog vacant but to be totally honest it is just because my interests were else where… wait, hold on don’t switch off yet! I just want to apologise to my ‘loyal readers’ for deserting them...
     
    September 25

    Poll: What is your favorite joke?

    We have finally got internet at home again! Claire and I have now moved to our lovely new and bigger flat, but I have had to wait a whole 1.5 weeks to get my broadband transferred to our new address - it has been painful and I will not deny at times I was pining! This morning

    [Read More...]

    September 07

    Girl 1: That's a nice...

    A recent observation I have made is that when ever two females meet, they always greet each other in conversation using the same basic formula: Girl 1: "That's a nice [X] , [where did you get that from | I think I saw one of those in [Y] ]?" Girl 2: "Thank you, I got it from

    [Read More...]

    August 31

    My First Flash Application

    I have made my first couple of Flash Applications using Flex 2! It was suprisingly easy to create the applications after downloading the Flex 2 Development Kit and following this simple tutorial I created two little applications which connect to my MySQL database backend.

    [Read More...]

    July 24

    Do you keep the film on the screen?

    I have recently got a new mobile phone (yes another one!), a Samsung i600 free from Orange. It is a very nice phone with all the bells and whistles. Like most gadgets, PDA’s, phones, cameras etc. the screen had a protective film. This time I peeled the film off straight away.

    [Read More...]

    July 14

    Och Ei Laddi

    Getting ready to travel back to Gatwick from Inverness, we have had a lovely time in Scotland with my brother. The people here are really friendly. We went to Loch Ness and I really did nee Nessie, see my Facebook profile for

    [Read More...]

    July 10

    Off to wear a kilt

    Claire and I have flown up to Inverness, Scotland to visit my brother, David, and his girlfriend Ruth. We have all been at home in Eastbourne visiting our parents and flown up this afternoon to the picturesque highlands. So far it has been a really nice week spending time with ou

    [Read More...]

    June 14

    Poll: Should Craig cut off his dreads?

    Craig Hicks is to marry to Sarah Wallace sometime later this year. Craig has had his hair in dreadlocks for a number of years now. Should he cut the dreads off for the wedding? You decide... http://www.jlsnet.co.uk/poll/

    [Read More...]

    June 11

    ViralTags Experiment

    Below is a matrix of 120 'ViralTags', this is part of an experiment, started by Founders Cafe, to distribute links around blogs in order to achieve higher Google and Technorati rankings. In brief, it

    [Read More...]

    ViralTags Experiment

    Below is a matrix of 120 'ViralTags', this is part of an experiment, started by Founders Cafe, to distribute links around blogs in order to achieve higher Google and Technorati rankings. In brief, it

    [Read More...]

    June 07

    New Pages Added: ADSL and ISDN Fault Finding

    I have added a couple of new pages to the JLSNet main site. The first page being a fault finding guide to help troubleshoot ADSL

    [Read More...]

    May 25

    A Cornwall Holiday

    I am really looking forward to going on a little Holiday with Claire, Alli, Lisa, Katrina, Ben, Julie and Sam. We are leaving tomorrow morning to go to all stay in a little cottage in Port Scatho, Cornwall for a week. I am so excited I have written a little song...

    [Read More...]

    May 20

    James likes to...

    Just for a bit of fun... using Google (other search engines are available) search for your name, followed by 'likes to' surrounding both by double quotes. For example "James likes to", write down the first 10 se

    [Read More...]

    May 10

    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

    I am currently traveling in a mini bus, along with my work team to Nottingham to play in the Virgin Media Touch Rugby tournament, we were all up at crazy early time this morning, it is now 7:56 (according to Chris Moiles, Radio 1) and we are half way up the M1 (You can work ou

    [Read More...]

    May 08

    MySpace: Behind the Scenes (Keeping up with growth)

    In my last couple of blog entries I have been bashing MySpace, ranting on about how cluttered and unusable the site is, however MySpace is currently the worlds 5th post popular website, and I can therefore not argue against its technical success keeping up with growth. Doing a

    [Read More...]

    May 03

    MySpace: Style!?

    Following on from my recent little 'project' to try understand MySpace, I am going to look into a handfull of webdesign techniques to try make MySpace profiles look a little less cluttered. By injecting CSS into the MySpace profile editor it is possible to manipulate the apper

    [Read More...]

    April 22

    Attempting to make MySpace look good

    I have never understood why MySpace is so popular, it is so disorganized, hard to navigate and looks like a website from the early days of the internet, as a friend of mine says "It looks like someone has vomited onto the screen". Yet somehow MySpace is the most popular community

    [Read More...]

    April 19

    We are Doooooomed Captain Mainwaring!

    Why is it the inhabitants of good old Blighty can not survive without some kind of hype (read: crisis) going on? Do we all really want to know that we are in the midst of certain doom, or is it just the media who feel it is their duty to inform us that we must all stock pile our

    [Read More...]

    April 12

    Why can you not get 'normal' yogurts these days?

    It frustrates me that every time Claire and I wonder down the yogurt isle in the supermarket, we can never find 'normal' full-fat yogurts! There are rows and rows of low-fat, pro-biotic, plastic, mini-pots but no real yogurts that are nice a creamy, why!? On a similar same not

    [Read More...]

    March 17

    What has Bugs been up to since... College

    This is the second blog entry in which I will continue to write about what I have been doing over the years, this time I will write about what I have been up to since college (1999->2003). I left ECAT (Eastboutne College of Arts and Technology) in 1999 with a Advanced GNVQ in

    [Read More...]