Javascript enlightenment

Not that this will make sense to many of you, but i've been thinking of a new design for this fair old place. Now with a name like Russian Space Station there isn't much you can do. Well while doing my share of reading on Javascript i had a epifiny of sorts. I'm gonna redesign the place with a rising and setting sun! Basically it would use java script to calculate the time, where the sun would be etc. and insert the css into the page at "run time". I'll make some mock up's in photoshop and post them for the approval of you the worlds press.
If i do it right, it will be sweet, using no images, and maybe even some SVG images(Pictures made from words basically). Well theres my thoughts on that.

In other news i would like to say thanks to Viki and shell for taking me out and trying to get me drunk on wine, it's the little things that count. It's nice to see that those of us who actually stay at uni have a nice time...

Finally i'm working on a name to put my software releases under, my mum gave me a few suggestions, however the more the merrier. I would like non-tech related names please, something that actually makes sense to the general populus. If you come up with a name that i actually like, i'll give you a 10% shareholding. If it's really good or if you name is phil you get 15% ^_^

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Quote of the Day

"Until you got the hair cut i was scared to call you my child"

My mum always lets me know that i'm loved

My first App (sort of)

Morning, got my first brain wave of sorts today. It's purpose is to stop email addresses being ripped of webpages and used by spammers.
The concept is that the bots that do the "ripping" of email addresses ignore Javascript because parsing it would be dangerous, and could allow exploits to infect the bots. Therefore they only scan the code, and don't execute it. Therefore if you hide it within a simple javascript then they can't parse it, therefore the address doesn't get spammed, thats the idea at least.
While it's most likely not new, niether is it very complex, it works so here it is

//email anti-capture (EAC)
//15/02/2006
//Ver 0.01
//Jonathan Dalrymple
//veritech19@gmail.com
//www.rssv2.blogspot.com
//Place name eg. veritech19 below
{
var name = "veritech19";
//Place name eg. gmail.com below
var domain = "gmail";
//Place suffix .com .net etc below
var suffix = ".com";
document.write(name + "@" + domain + suffix)
}
//To save space, rip out the comments before applying


In the future i plan to build a form based generator for it, so if dynamically generates the code for you, and introduce some complex statments to make it a little harder to parse, Plus a "if" statement that would test to see if your human ^_^

Enjoy, more to come from the lab in short order

Quote of the Day

Mum "Is the bathroom clean?"
Me "No, i sprayed my dirty bath water up and down the walls a couple of times, and rub it in if you want."

It's nice to be back at home

One for the road(somewhat late)

{This post was meant to be posted last year on christmas eve but thanks to the proxy server it never made it, so here it is}

Evening

As i tap (on the T|X course) i'm on a national express bus on my way home. For some strange reason i'm really happy. Why is it strange that i'm happy? Well i'll give you some background

I've worked 8 9-6 shifts back 2 back.
I've cooked almost every meal i've eaten for 3 months.
I haven't eaten a proper meal in 2 months.
I haven't used bit torrent in 3 months

Anyways thanks to the wonders of batteries, flash memory, GPRS, and Microwaves, i'm gonna write a poem and post it on my blog all while travelling on a bus at 50 Mph.

One for the road...

I'm on the road now
I got to find a place some how
i quit my course, but not cause it was fowl.

the internet is where it's at,
law is great, but i'm not good at that

i decided to switch
but that created a itch

no course and in halls
my prospect falls
in rush i make phone calls
..

Ok, it needs a little work
5:50pm

Promise of a Threat

It's an Oxymoron, but it sounds cool so oh well. Anyways i'm back at home now. Trying to get my coding skills on. No word yet from Maplin's of watford, so we'll see what happens there. If not i'll work for low pay or bourbon biscuits, which ever is more. I post a pick of my desk one of thses days but for now i haven't start work on it yet. However i got my basic setup, my pc, a old laptop and a "head less" server for testing stuff. Since i believe in the open source model, and i'm too cheap to pay for a Sourceforge account i may move the blog else where so i upload my source as i work along.

Anyways currently in the development pot is a some javascript that will transform a normal desktop page webpage, designed for 800*600 into a version for handheld users at 480*320 or 320*240. How much "bank" will this net me, nothing, i do it for the love, and the fact that i'll paste my name all over the source code ^_^

Now if i'm gonna be some budding open source developer (who does .net work on side to pay the bills) i need a company name, right? Well i think so cause this whole "Dalrymple" name doesn't wash, any suggestions are welcome. Tell ya what anyone who comes up with a good name gets shares in the company... final amount to be decided nothing over 5% though, so board seat here.

Must go, laters

Quote of the Day

"Whats the difference between a threat and a promise, the tone and the sentence subject, for example i will kill you, i will help you; one word both are promises and depending on the tone, both could be considered threats"

It makes sense to me

L33t coda is coming back too the hood

In english; i'm coming home, at least for the next 8 months. So lan parties, hardcore coding, desk building and all the other assorted stuff that comes with me shall return to hemel hempstead, including the "new" and improved blu-ray (more memory, high powered graphics(oc'd of course) and quieter, apart from the massive 5.1 surround sound system). I should be back on saturday afternoon, so ready the party invites, in the mean time i need to sleep as i'm really tired. But thought i would drop in and say howdy. It's been a long 5 months, exciting too, and just think i get to do it all over again, in a few months time...

Tech appears

Right tonight, i did my first real techie thing in a while, i learnt some javascript. With what i've learnt i made a "scheldule show-er", so what does it do you ask. It shows what i'm doing on any particular day. Kinda sweet, and hopefully the first of many cool things that i'll create, the codes a little complex for such a simple thing, but hey it's basic programming so give me a break.

In other news i'm not moving back to hemel, but i got a room in a very nice house. I move in on the 25th. If i can work out how to do it, i'll put a counter/ count down up. Hopefully i won't go to crazy with the javascript, for your sakes.

Till another time, later

Return of the blogger

Season's greetings to you all.

I'm still in fair old southampton. I'm working every day from now till christmas eve. Now the nice thing is that my flats virtually empty. Out of the ten of us there is only me and ashley left, and we both head out on christmas eve. The same is true for most other people. It's a nice atmosphere as a result. As a result we spend a lot of time in other flats, hang out, and winding down, after serving the fair public of hampshire.
Now the big news of the year is that i'm changing course, thats right, halt any crimes, as i won't be able to defend you! Instead i'm going to do "Internet Application development" with will allow me to do cool "AJAX"(Asyncronous Javascript and XML), like gmail and such. Why the change i hear you scream, well law is hard, not impossible but hard. Unfortunately i don't believe i'm passionate about the subject, or at least not enough to get a 2/1.
However there is one problem, my course doesn't start till september, so i'm gonna try and sort something out, and might possibly end up moving out of halls for 8 months, do the whole holding down a job thing, and then restart next year.
As of yet, i don't think i'm moving home, or at least i don't want to, as i would have to give up my job, which i a, like; & b, will need next year.
Well how about that oil depot, and nothing happens in hemel...
Finally i'll try and see as many of you as i can when i get back, i might only be around for a week as i need to get back down here and look for somewhere to live, but in honesty i kinda miss you all and because i'm a cheapskate, i never call, have you seen pay as you go charges!.

Merry christmas everyone, and i'll see you soon-ish

Quote of the Day

"boom, boom, play it forward"

Don't ask, but a friend who happens to a girl, thereby debunking the "jon's gay" myth, of mine says this sentence a lot

Christmas, what's that?

It's an update the young warriors cried as they reached the peak of the mountain upon which they looked down at the deep, dark valley filled with assignments the cries and worries of 16 generations of...

Sorry I got excited for a second there. I just finished my Constitutional Law Assignment, which has like 20+ quotes from actual government legislation. Sounds like fun, don't you agree? Anyway I have to hand it in later today, plus I got another one to do for next week.

Just to update one and all I'll make my return to the "hood" on Christmas Eve, as I have to work so I can have two weeks off, after 4 months of almost constant work, life is one big balance I like to think.

But as I'll be virtually minted, able to spend time with my family, it will be nice. I have to go now To order my Nvidia 6800 Graphics Card to sort myself out for the day.

For yet another day/week/month take care everyone

Quote of the Day

Girl at vending machine "Your Scary, you scared me"
Me "I'll take that as a compliment; I've heard funny, annoying, but never scary"

what's wrong with a Kid with a Hood standing behind a woman at 1am in the morning, in a car park? Doesn't everyone do that?

Free Time; a funny concept

Free time for me, no longer exists. I now work (either my job or uni) 7 days a week. No breaks, no nothing. Busy i am.
Tired i am too, but hey, thats life. I like money, and i like knowledge, so i'm getting what i asked for, 4 assignments too, it's all a bit crazy really.

As i'm mentally knackered, i'm not gonna write much, i gotta save that for my essay. I don't know when i'll update again, but if you ever want to contact me quickly email me @

verisys AT bluebottle.com

The email's go straight to my T|X handheld, so i'll read it on my uni/work/ off a bridge etc.

Quote of the Day

Dr. Lars "Turkey's don't ask for christmas"
Me "Turkey's are the lucky ones, what about chickens"

Caption

Your hired

I got job yo, at the highstreet electronics store Maplin. Nice don't you think, i get paid to play with electronics, if they only knew what they had done ^_^.

Anyway this fresh influx of £5.05 cash means i can splash out on things like, new graphics cards pasta sauce, and cheese.

Anyways in my new capcity as a maplin employee, i will now direct you to their website. Also as i planed on coming home in two weeks, i wondered of the "gang" would like to meet up and go for a coke drink, down in hemel town?

Interested email or call me.

I'm off to to play NFSU 2 work, cya.
Quote of the Day

Security "All these idiots, just go around and make my life hell, what they don't realise is that i can make their lifes a whole lot worse"
Me "Plus, your paid to do it"

Never mess with security people, they don't take the job for the joy of life, or to see my flat egged, and water poured though the letter box.

Christmas Lights Gone Wild

Crazy 3 minute video of a home that features a dazzling Christmas light show with spectacular grand finale. What would you do if this were YOUR neighbor?!

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Ever wanted to take over the world?

This one is for all the ladies out there, after intense research(seriously) i have found the "tool(s)" to take over and control the world, or at least manipulate it, or at least about 47% of it anyway. If anyone know's Saddam personally, e-mail him the link please

Step 1.
Get some half naked ladies and put them up on a stage.

Step 2.
Place a paddling pool in front of them, filled with a greasy substance of your choice.

Step 3.
Get all the intelligent, able body males, and place them in close proximity to the subjects from steps 2 and 3.

Step 4.
Instruct the women to enter the pool and "play fight"

Step 5.
Execute world domination plans, in relative calm.


Before i continue i would like to state i wasn't at the night in question ^_^, however it nice to see that humans can be so easily manipulated, oh excuse me, must dash, my empty bed's calling.

Quote of the Day

"My mum's worse than the maffia, when it comes to getting money back. All she needs is a couple of skinheads in leathers to do the kneecapping, and she'd be minted"

Parent's are the worse people on the face of the planet to borrow money from, but i still love mine , just.

"RCP week" aka Reading week

What a load of crap that was.
I thought the idea was to read, not be driven to exuastion though, sheer mounds of work.
Well it's over now, the blog is suffering, but hey that working life. so i'll give you the brief.

• I invited Nabil (i have no idea how it's spelt, but It's pronounced na-bile)out, but she was ill, so that died a quick death
• I handed in my first assignment
• I admitted i got a thing for salma hayek and Penelope Cruz.
• I'm getting a tv card, for free from one of my mates
• I can do some extreme wardriving on my T|X
• I might come back to good old hemel Hempstead, for the presentation evening
• DC++ is the best program ever made
• And higher hacks is a great website

Well that about rounds up the week

Maybe another post over the weekend, who knows

Hot Fridge Case mod

Ran across this by accident, i believe the purpose of the mod is to isolate the sound produced by the two computers (Server and workstation). Interesting idea, as for practicality, I'll yet you decide

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Meet my mates (well some of them)

Well i after yesterday's quick update i just discovered that, i had kind of left people in the dark as to what i've done in the last weekcouple days. Well lots of things. I went to the club on Monday, like normal.... Me and Fuad{Pronounced ford, or thats what we call him at least}(a fellow law student) went to another flat, in the "Almond" block, here at lovely Lucia Foster. Where we stayed for 3 hours (bear in mind that it was 2am when we started ) chatting to a girl, who i can only remember as "H", and another girl called niki, that Fuad knew. Anyway thanks to this great site called Don't stay in, i was able to get a photo, of him(fuad) and some other people that i socialize with.

In fact that site is great, i found of a picture of myself, which i thought i had been careful to avoid, damn those druken camera men. Anyways, the pictures, meet the lads.

You can't really see it in this picture, but with his hat off fuad looks like John Legend. Unless you haven't worked it out, the guy on the right is Fuad, and on the left is my Flat mate Bill, who does Sports development(i think). I have no idea who the woman is.

Ok the guy on the left is Imran (i think that's how you spell it) he's doing business, the guy in the middle is one of the promoters for Bambuubar or Bambu as we like to call it, again we have fuad.

See the guy that looks like a zombie? In the bottom left, well he's not a zombie, hes actually Ashley, another one of my flat mates. Nice guy too, gonna give a nice hair cut, tomorrow and sort out this mess that is my headhair.


See the tall black guy at the back, thats Gadget aka William, he's a MC (thats a rapper for you lesser folk) and is known on the "streets" as Gadget Boi, i actually have his complete album on my pc, it's not bad. It's called "Gadgets hideout vol 1" my favourite part is the hoes skit, where .... Imran is also in this picture

Anyway the one you've all been waiting for...

The guy i'm pointing at is "Or-Re" i don't know how you actually spell his name :(, i know the other two guys in front of him, but i don't know their names, we communicate though signs, and "cuz".

Now if your like me your thinking you need a life why don't you find a picture of "N" to show us how good your taste is, well i would love to, but there are alot of clubs in town, so it might take me a fair old while, but if and when i do i'll put it up. Check out that don't stay in site, they got pictures of everywhere including good ol' Hemel Hempstead.

Till another day, later folks, and no i had too much work to do tonight, so nothing happened, ^_^

Quote of the Day

"Every time i hear someone say that, it hurts my Va**na."

I think some people tend to over exaggerate things, just a little too much.

Broken in the best, fixed in the rest

Evening, i finally fixed the site, unfortunately it's now broken in the best browser to grace the web :(, firefox. I might even just change the whole thing now that my photoshop skills are getting so good. Higher hacks has published the second article on hiding your bit-torrent traffic, it was written by new mate josh, who lives over in the states.

Apart from that site repair, just know that i am very busy, and tired. The later might have something todo with that 5am stint, i did on monday ^_^ memories...

If we all remember that "girl" i spoke of like two weeks ago, well i her number, twice, it's a long story. Anyways i don't know what to do with it, i'm sort of low on funds, but i thing i might see if she wants to go to this place called the "orange rooms" which is like a jazzy kinda hang out place, you know what i mean. There's an event happening there on thursday so if i can clear my calender, i'll try and make it happen. But i'm in no rush, i got work coming out of my ears, degree related and personal. No Job, but you guys know how the mind of jon works (well sort of).

T|X is great, so great i thought about sending it back, cause it had too many features. This scanning for wifi hotspots is getting serious now.

Finally tonight in great student fashion, i'm gonna eat toast and watch a movie, in the last couple days i've consumed about 20 hours worth of Sopranos, that show is the best. Sadly i've never even watch the godfather, or goodfella's but this like all of them times 2.

Quote of the season

"Just when i thought i was out, they bought me back in"

Don't mess with Soprano's, they have a vowel!

Photo dump

Imaginative title, don't you think. Remember i promised to go photo mad when i got my new pda, well it's here, and thanks to the fact that bluetooth is much more fun than crappy irfa, heres all the photo's a failed to put up before, enjoy

Who would have guessed that people from the UK are caucasian, and here was i thinking we were all negro's...

From dusk till dawn.

Linux will one day rule the world, you heard it here!

That's what i go to school for (It's SLR if you didn't know, £412,000 On the road, donations welcome)

Jon can actually cook, Here we have a lovely dish, of BBQ Chicken breast(asda) with egg fried rice(me), total meal price appoximately £1.75!

Des does Countdown, R.I.P. Richard Whiteley.

Sometimes, you just can't make it all the way to your bed.

One of the many parks the "litter" Southampton city centre.

You ever get that feeling your time is finished?
It's here, i will control the world, bluetooth or wifi?...
Bubble wrap!!
you pay more, wait a year, and it still turns out bigger than the last one, so much for miniaturazation. It's T|X time...

Quote of the Day

Teacher "You look like a business minded individual, is that what you would like to do in the future?"
A "Well i actually wanted to run the whole country, but ok"
Teacher "Right..."

One of my friends/classmates is very serious about becoming a zimbabwian president, and he makes no scecret of his intentions. Hey, as long as he doesn't knock down houses and throw out caucasians, he's got a chance.

Whoa, i'm busy

Yellow people, this having a life stuff is hard work. i've been quite busy. Helping my new mate, turned rapper mc "Gadget Boi" get himself and his ablum out there. I finally ordered my T|X, it comes tomorrow. Higher Hack's goes live today, if i'm honest i still haven't finished the first piece, it just needs a few screenshots to be complete. I have to do some washing. I got to prepare for tomorrow's lectures, plus a need to start on my seminar tasks. Fun all round, nothing like being a busy guy. In the mean time, i need to be creative for my employers Sudhian, plus for higher hacks, and play need for speed underground, and tell people how to get around tv liesensing laws.

I just finished apply chrome to my rides, so i need to get on with some work, when i get my T|X i'll upload some of those photo's on my phone, i got one of a SLR yesterday! So as i've wasted the morining i need to make my evening more productive to say the least, i think i'll leave the washing till tomorrow, wash and play with my T|X, sounds nice, i wonder if they have netstumbler for palm....

Anyway i got work to get on with, later folks

Quote of the Day

Caption

Jon's a writer!

My first article got published today! You can see it here, It's called "Breathing life back into Socket A". If you know nothing about computers, don't bother to try reading, you'll feel more confused. Anyway, thus far its getting good feed back, which makes me feel good.

I haven't posted that much this week, cause i've been busy getting "my legal" on. this course requires sick amounts of reading, and if i want to make worth my while i gotta read, a lot. I'm talking 10 pages at least per seminar, and these people haven't heard of fonts larger than 10! Hugh amounts of information, and dates to consume, like the Police Criminal Evidence Act 1984(revised 1992 according to jonathan 2 of 3). Anyway it's tough to stay with the class, mainly cause i allowed myself to fall behind slightly, either way Uni is no joy ride unless your doing a "mickey mouse" course, sa my grandfather would have called it.

By the end of next week(hopefully long before then) i should finally have my T|X, and should be able to put my faithful clie to rest. But wifi calleth.

This weekend, i got more washing to too, a couple of trips to the library, a trip to John Lewis(hopefully to drop three figures on a T|X :)). And thats about it, but right now i'm so tired it's hard to even get excited, i got some weird pics to post, so i'll do that another day, i'm gonna scan though my warez collection and watch some movies, later

Quote of the Day

Teacher "If you don't do the work, you'll fail and won't be come a solicitor"
A "But i wanted to be a fireman"
Teacher "If you keep this up you won't have any choice but to be one"
A "Yeah, thats what i want to do"

Sometimes, being a general "joker", lets you down when you are trying to be serious

Apparently it rains a lot in Southampton

A whole lot, I got soaked right though, in fact my coats so wet it's in the shower, in fact better go get before the milk thief gets it. Actually I literary just checked it, it's still wet.

Enough damp. Higher Hak's is coming on nicely, still no content yet, but with the stuff I'm doing on a daily basis it won't be like that for long. I came up with a fairly clever way of designing sites from the ground up, so I'm gonna try and apply it here to see if it actually changes anything, and stops the posts from ending up halfway down the page, annoying don't you think.

Well still no sign of the big fat check from Tony, which is nice cause I'll be starving this time into two weeks, This statement was sponsored by the British Labour party.

tomorrows my big day off, however as I've been hearing the best way to get though a degree (when it's full time at least) is to treat it like a job. Therefore a 9-5 affair, which makes a lot of sense, cause what are we gonna do when we leave? So tomorrow I'm gonna try and get all my work for the week done, you gotta take this investment thing seriously.

I might however break this up by indulging in some "techie porn", or at least that's what Adam calls it. He dropped like four thousand us dollars on a laptop, a desktop and a Video Ipod, but hey if you got the cash, why not. It compares the process of getting a new computers, to porn. It's the smell according to him, I think it's more like going to grandmothers for Christmas, there's loads of cake, and you can't eat it all, but your gonna do your damnest. Then after eating to excess you go to bed 2am cuddling you new device....
Where was I, yeah hopefully I'll get my T|X this week, if you knew the pain that my once glorious Clio has become you would understand why I'm looking forward to this so much, not to mention portable wifi, now if only I could get Bit-torrent for palm os...
Plus I just thought, who wants to get together and donate cash so I can but a 12" powerbook, it's only a grand, if each of you give a hundred quid I'll have it in no time

Oh, though it's not like me, using your various "sources" check out this song by Freeway called "You got me" featuring none other than the diva that is Mariah Carey. Good track, in my humble opinion.

What ever happened to the whole date thing? Well I haven't since the person in question, but I assure you all in typical Jon fashion I good lists of witty remarks that will get me slapped in the face that are bound to sweep her off her feet.

Oh yeah, and I actually implement that design over on Higher hak's so check it out and tell me what you think, I know it's broke, work with me here people.

Anyway until another day take care, and enjoy life, look after each other by sharing music via p2p, and come back tomorrow!

Quote of the Day

A "You should have seen it, there was blood still dripping out of it, I wouldn't have eaten it, but you know, I was hungry" B "I thought it was gonna jump out of the plate like" Me "Just as well I missed dinner then"

Raw beef is very bad, but I'm hungry... Cook your food people