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I’ve decided to go back to my own hosted WordPress (WP) and will import all of my previous blogs from blogspot to wp.  Yes fun times are here people, we’ll see how easy this will be. I’ll be following the guide posted:

http://ourtimes.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/import-blogger-into-wordpress/

See you soon :O)

Update: Well that was painless!!! it took less than 5 minutes to do.. lol.

I love this Dance (Candy Dance), comes up at weddings, end of year Christmas parties and others. Its such a cool line dance! (In the US they call it Electric Slide or maybe its originally known as the electric slide – but there is a slight variation in moves from the US and UK).

So anyway I decided to find some of my favourite videos for learning the moves for the Candy (by Cameo) Dance/Electric Slide, just watch it and you’ll see how impressive it is to see everyone doing the same moves and having a great time.

Dance Steps
I got this from Yahoo answers (gotta love them!):
Link: http://tinyurl.com/25zhv4m

On the beat) Two steps right (1-2, 1-2)
Two steps left (1-2, 1-2)
Two steps back (1,2 – 1,2) Hold
One step with left foot forward (lean forth)
One step with Right foot Lean back
Hop ‘n’ kick sideways with right

(Repeat for all 4 corners North, south, east, west)


My favourite Candy Dance Videos:

Peter: “I read a book about that once”
Brian: “Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn’t ‘nothing’?
Peter:”Oh yeah.”

A friend was asking for some advice regarding a laptop she’s a student and just needs something practical within the £300 – £450 price range. I had a quick look around and everything seems pretty standard for that amount of ca$h.


Bare in mind, I’m from the Amstrad CPC 464 8-bit generation, so seeing processors with 64-bit extensions, 1TB hard drives, and Gigs of Ram always puts a smile on my face. A lot of people new to PC’s (through no fault of their own!) just won’t be able to appreciate just how far we have come in terms of hardware/software. So really what I’m saying is times are good, so long as you don’t buy a celeron processor laptop (unless you really must!) anything you get will be decent above the £350 range….and remember warranty can be your best friend, what with RMA headaches.

Anyhow here are the one’s I showed her (I’m NOT affiliated with any of the companies below, just so you know :O), but I have used them including Samsung (but I can’t be bothered to list Samsung, even though they make some slick machines) :


Dell
http://tinyurl.com/2bs6vun

Lenovo
http://tinyurl.com/2wrbz54

Acer
http://tinyurl.com/33w5sq2

One of the first “Portable PC’s” Osboure Executive

Next time, I intend to have a look at the individual brands and possible do some tables for comparisons.

Some cool links on my internet travels at night.

1. Here is an interesting read build-a-hackintosh
2. British women converting to islam

There will be more to come to this section – so stayed tuned… :O)

I’ve been away for quite some time now, not really had the time to update this blog. Although I feel I should start using my own webhosting for bloggin. Whats new with me, well PHP, MYSQL and vtiger CRM version 4.2.3.

Its fascinating on one hand as you have to decided whether to upgrade the existing system or update the existing one. Benefits of updating is that there is very little user training involved, however a 5 year old php web based application seems incredibly outdated when you look at the exciting stuff that is currently out there. Upgrading has its benefits but could be time consuming….and its difficult for me to predict how long it will take to do such a thing. Whats more interesting is that everything has changed on the user experience you have ZOHO, Sugar, Vtiger 5, and lots more – however the big thing is when real businesses use it and the customisations they ask for – ( bare in mind most of these web apps have very common features) – thats when things start to get a little tricky. Take for example reporting, reporting can be such a huge thing and yet there most of these although do provide reporting features its not full-set – in that you cant report on every single module within the application. You can only report on what has been decided is worth reporting on. Secondly the biggest issue is custom fields say you want custom field on a section that doesn’t exist or you want to create sub-section ( I know Sugar provides this, and its great ) but what about if you have 500 hundred custom fields? Are you supposed to sit there and type every single one in? Why not just have a CSV file telling what a field name is, its type and length – simple, and then import that into the system?

I’ve had to learn PHP, MYSQL all over again and by MYSQL what I mean is SQL programming, and the biggest problem is not learning a language but learning how to edit an existing program written already. Its like trying to find the ingredients for a particular cuisine by taste, cutting the food up, seeing what works what doesn’t…..its a tough mountain to climb but not an impossible one.

• You hit a block but can’t move on until you figured out how to fix another block you’ve already hit.
• Certain short-cuts you made years ago come back to haunt you!
• Programming is hard, and its difficult learning somebody else’s system
• Comprise, but how much you want to please your end users and give them what they want, yet it goes without saying that some of the smallest tasks in the users mind can be the most difficult to achieve.
• Documentation is hard to do, and when the only person is you – who do you turn to for advice.