Dean Clinton

Our Wedding

Well 17 days ago, my long-term partner Wayne, and I, got married. It’d been on the cards for the past 3 years, and it was well worth the wait. It started at 11:15am on the 2nd of August, where we actually had the service at Georgian House, Lancaster. It was in attendance of just under 40 [...]

How Not To Get Customers

Well that was weird; I just got MSN’ed from a guy trying to sell his services to me - it was kimdesignernext@hotmail.com … I couldn’t remember where I’d heard the MSN name from before, and then it came to me. I’d previously been spammed by this user before, trying to sell their outsourcing service to [...]

Sleep Problems

Those of you that are close to me, know that I have sleep problems. They vary from sleep walking, sleep taking/arguing to not actually being able to sleep. It started a few years ago, when I was living above a public house (aka Pub). I somehow sleepwalked all the way up the middle of street in the [...]

How to make Toad In The Hole

Toad in The Hole (serves 4) 8 sausages (or 4 large ones) Mustard 4 tablespoons of beef dripping OR lard 115g / 4oz plain flour Large pinch of salt 4 free range eggs 300ml / half a pint milk 2 tablespoons of fresh thyme leaves / sprinkle of mixed herbs Small tablespoon of freshly ground black pepper To make the batter, sift the flour and [...]

HostNine Review

A day in the life of a HostNine Client ain’t all bad.. (But it wasn’t 100% what I wanted) 19 Hours ago (last night), I decided to take the plunge and sign up with HostNine as a Reseller. I’d spent an hour looking around the site, which I was very impressed by. I logged into the LiveSupport Sales [...]

Blackpool Pride

I attended Blackpool Pride yesterday : click here to view the pics.

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Glasson Dock Maritime Festival

I have just returned from Glasson Dock’s Maritime Festival (2007). I thought it was brilliant! It wasn’t only aimed at Children, but there were plenty of things for the Kids to do - they had stalls that had Kid’s things going on, and a Punch & Judy Show. I’ve been reading up, and it turns out that [...]

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Synthesizers

This week, we learned about synthesizers, and how to modify the sounds outputted by the Loop system - whether it be tempo, pitch and so on. Sorry, no demo this week!

Learning Loops

Well it’s been a couple of days since my first college lesson on Sound and Music Technology. In the first lesson, we were learning about loops, and how to use them. Loops are usually used for making the background music that you hear behind vocalists. After the first lesson, I have managed to produce the following MP3 [...]

Wordpress 2.1 Upgraded..

Wordpress has just released 2.1.1 of their 2.1.x branch.. which I’ve upgraded to. New Releases: 2.1.1 and 2.0.9 Weâ€™ve got a new bugfix and security release for both of our actively maintained branches of WordPress. Version 2.1.1 includes about 30 bug fixes, mostly minor things around encoding, XML-RPC, the object cache, and HTML code. Itâ€™s available for [...]