Posted by gus on Aug 28, 2007 in
money,
musings This won’t be a very exciting blog post I’m afraid because this is my first day back at work after having been off since last Thursday, so I’m quite busy. I’ll try and write an update on personal stuff a bit later.
Actually, this post is just to try and drum up a bit of free publicity - I’m running a few eBay auctions at the moment for various things, and I thought I might as well link them here in case anyone is interested. They’re mostly some old mobile phones that a friend of mine has asked me to try and sell for him, but there’s a decent Windows Mobile 2003 PDA in there too which would be a steal for anyone who’s looking for that sort of thing.
Nokia 6310, good condition, £3.99 starting bid
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140152227980
Nokia 6310i, OK condition, £3.99 starting bid
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140152229758
Nokia 6310i, bad condition, £2.99 starting bid
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140152230450
Nokia 3120, OK condition, £3.99 starting bid
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140152232602
Nokia 3120, good condition, £4.99 starting bid
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140152233508
O2 XDA IIi PDA, good condition with charger, leather case and manuals
£29.99 starting bid
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140152239428
If you’re at all interested, either bid or let me know. The phones would make good spares for anyone who needs one, not to mention that they’re also the ones that work best with Nokia-supplied car kits.
My week off work was great fun. I had the entire house and the whole internet connection to myself, and nobody else but me to worry about for an entire week. I stayed up late, got up late and did many amusing things. I shopped for myself, bought all the things my parents don’t believe in buying, I had some hilarious efforts at cooking and just did whatever the hell I wanted to.
Unfortunately these things do have to come to an end, and it was an effort to get up for work on Monday morning. I thought that was bad, but it was nothing compared to what it was like this morning. I thought I was going to collapse when I dragged myself out of bed and into the shower - I’m totally not a morning person. People have said you can change yourself to be but I just don’t believe it. I’ve *never* been able to get up properly in the mornings, not matter when I go to bed and how much sleep I have. Still, I’m going to try and get to bed a bit earlier in future.
I think I’m going to do some experimentation with the Zend framework this evening. It’s a way of programming that separates content and layout for a site, and then ties it together using a “controller”. It sounds like the perfect scalable solution for an idea I have for a new website. I’m going to start it and see whether the idea still takes my fancy when I’ve done a bit of coding with it.
I’ve just rewritten my IRC bot (botsworth) as well, to use TuB’s framework. Unfortunately he’s changed it already and so it’ll probably be due a rewrite sometime soon. He is ridiculously impulsive and will often change his mind entirely about something in a matter of minutes!
The Premier League is looking like it’ll be an epic battle this season, from the matches I’ve seen so far. I’m tipping United, Chelsea or Liverpool for the title - I’ve been told not to write off teams like Arsenal, but I’m just not convinced. I may stand to eat my words…