Archive for December, 2005
December 31, 2005 at 9:45 am · Filed under Uncategorized
The year 2005 has been one of the hardest years of my life on all levels. However the last few months have saved it and I’m pleased to say I’ve got through another year pleased in the knowledge I’ve made more friends than enemies and that I can make plans for the future again without looking at the past. I’m not going to concentrate on the lows as Mark Higginson says on his site “It’s just a ride”. Instead I’m going to have a quick word on the personal highlight of the year for me.
The biggest highlight of the year has to be my mate Gavin Flack’s Wedding and of course the stag do. First off the Stag Do was over in Amsterdam with Andrew, Billy Gavin and of course myself. We ended up in this dodgy hotel, which was barely fit to be a stable yet, alone a hotel. The two nights we were there or was it three…I really do not know, however it was amazing. One of the great moments was the four of us next to the cannel drinking Heineken on a sunny day at the Hard Rock Café. The funniest moment was when we had the giggles in the middle of Amsterdam while it was pouring down. I seriously couldn’t stop laughing because Billy just kept making me laugh so much. Another cool time was when we were just chilling again in this nice bar. We were playing pool and darts and was just good to spend some time together. Lastly but not least our friend Billy utilised the local red light services for his first time and broke the seal. No longer was he flying first class on Richard Branson’s Virgin Airways. Back at home….
Of course the wedding was fantastic! A really happy happy happy day. The church service was brilliant and followed on by a great reception. I shared the table with Andrew & Kirsty and Jo & Tony. Billy performed an excellent speech which I did write myself simply because I heard Billy’s speech beforehand (luckily) and apart from offending and confusing everyone it was good. However take nothing form his deliverance, it was simply amazing! The evening ended up dancing to Ghostbusters, body popping and eventually partying down to some drum and bass at the Crypt with Becky, Sam, Katy and Billy with my usher suit on. Quite frankly a top time!
December 28, 2005 at 10:45 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Well what can I say? Hastings and St. Leonards On Sea have been hit with a snow storm. The picture to the left shows what St. Leonards Warrior Square station looked like this morning about 7 a.m. If you would like to see a few more photos that I took while waiting around for an hour and a half then click hee for the pictures of snowy St. Leonards On Sea (2005).
I’ve been checking the information directly from the train service provider “Southern Railway“. I’ve also called them and they guy was friendly but the best excuse he could give is “I’m sorry but it’s due to the icy conditions.” But what exactly is the ice doing?
Anyway the Telegraph talks about why it’s snowing etc. etc. and how the trains are affected.
December 26, 2005 at 1:08 pm · Filed under Music, Session
O.k o.k it’s my first ever mix I’ve uploaded and it’s not brilliant by a long way but I wanted to get something up to record my progress (if any) and allow friends and any other peeps to have a listen at how bad I can be on the decks. So enjoy and any feedback is welcome….maybe not hahahaha.
Download The Session mix by Addam Hassan
(Length: 49 minutes and 31 seconds, Size 56.6 MB, The file is in .zip format and includes the .mp3 file as well as the cover)
December 24, 2005 at 8:39 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Living on your own has some great advantages, but the one factor above all is the freedom. I can do what I want when I want. So when I get a text message at 5:26 AM on Christmas Eve saying…
“Hi mate have a good Christmas and new year. Let me know how ur getting on x”
I’m already up! Playing on my Mac waiting for a DVD to burn and a torrent file to be completed (which by the time of finishing this post should be fully downloaded). I wasn’t sure who the text was from and with the little ‘x’ on the end it either had to be a girl or one of me mates from university. So I text back to find out who it was and low and behold it’s me old mate Davey B from Oz. It was so good to hear his voice after the year I’ve had and especially the last few months. I don’t mean that negatively, I just mean my life has been spread over two towns. It’s almost like having two lives…and to be honest I treat it like that. It’s kind of fun but tiring.
Anyhow…Dave and I had a great chat about when he would come on back home to the mighty UK. Sad to say he’s looking to stay over there and fair play. Why on earth would you want to come back to the UK when you’re in Neighbours and Home & Away Land?…Think about it.
Anyway just before the conversation ended I said to him to check out this site to catch up on what I have been doing etc. There and then I come to the question ‘Where is Addam Hassan?’ Looking through the recent posts I’ve blogged about everything apart from me. SO I’m planning to get some posts up about what’s been happening in my life recently.
On the same note Jonathan Stewart found some old posts from Freshhome, back in the when I was at iNet Publishing and a little before that I think as well. So I shall be posting those but they will be backdated so you may have to search for them or I might even link them in here for you.
UPDATE: There are a few posts so I’m just giving you the links to the months where I posted:
December 22, 2005 at 11:56 am · Filed under Uncategorized
This is a Bit Torrent Guide For Mac OS X Clients. We’ll be looking at what software is available and where to download files for your Bit Torrent client.
What software / client do I need to start downloading .torrent files?
There are many Bit Torrent Mac clients to choose from including:
Transmission (BitTorrent) (Download Client)
Transmission is a Bit Torrent Mac client available to download for free and programmed from scratch in C.
Naturally Transmission runs on Mac OS X as well as BeOS, Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD. However only the Mac OS X release has a graphical interface. Not to worry though BeOS and GTK+ interfaces are in the pipeline.
As with some of the best software on the Mac, Transmission is opensource much like other Bit Torrent Clients for Macs.
Click here to download the Bit Torrent client transmission
The next torrent client for the Mac OS X is Bits On Wheels. The creator (Nicolas Berloquin) claims that “Bits on Wheels is the first 100% Native BitTorrent client for the Macintosh. (And) It is completely written in Objective-C and Cocoa.”
It’s currently free to download and provides some very interesting 3D views and detailed information about the torrents your downloading. Looking through the support forums though it seems that there are some technical issues that may not have been resolved in the latest released version.
It’s worth having a look and seeing if it fits your needs. I for one will be downloading this Bit Torrent client to test it out later. However for now I have had success downloading torrent files on to my Mac with Bit Torrent OS X.
Bit Torrent OS X is the original client of them all. It’s free to download and very easy to use. It’s also available to Windows users. A great Bit Torrent Guide for Windows users can be found at http://www.themanfromdelmonte.co.uk/bit-torrent-guide.
You can download Bit Torrent OS X from http://www.bittorrent.com as well as search for .torrent files.
Once you have downloaded and installed your Bit Torrent client on your Mac the next thing to do is start downloading your files.
How to download .torrent files to your Mac OS X
This is the easy and hard part of this guide for you the user. The fantastic thing about using torrents to download files rather than peer to peer applications such as Limewire (which is a great program) is the faster speed of downloading and the ability to find larger files such as movies and games.
Searching for your file is as easy as using Google. The first site I started using was TorrentSpy.com which I found surfing via Dan Goodwin’s xBox 360 site. I have also singled this out becuase it has a directory structure which drills down to Mac specific torrent files.
Once you have found a file you wish to download simply click on the Download Torrent button. Now you not downloading the the movie or game but a file holds the information about where and how to download your file. Now don’t look in to this too much. All you really need to know is where you saved it.
Open your Bit Torrent Client For Mac OS X and then open the .torrent (the file you have just downloaded form TorrentSpy) file using your client e.g Going to the tool bar and selecting File > Open.
You should then see your downloading to start. Naturally if you have any problems consult the Bit Torrent client manual or website.
Now here comes the hard part….Waiting for the downloading to complete. Once downloaded you should be able to run the game, watch the movie or listen to that mp3 straight away.
Let me know how you get along and if you have suggestions of more resources, be it more Bit Torrent Clients for the Mac OS X platform or new torrent sites please do get in touch and I’ll try include them here for others to view.
December 21, 2005 at 1:16 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Google (the search engine) have published their “Google 2005 year-end Zeitgeist“.
What is this?
Well it’s an “aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google”. Google go on to say:
“Considering all that has occurred in 2005, we thought it would be interesting to study just a few of the significant events, and names that make this a memorable year.”
The Google 2005 year-end Zeitgeist focuses on five main subject areas (click on the subject or graph to see more information) :
There is loads more information available at the Google 2005 year-end Zeitgeist… Fun stuff
December 11, 2005 at 7:46 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
O.k a little worrying but I was searching for a php gallery creator / maker and spelt my search incorrectly. As per usual Google comes along and says ‘hey no worries did you mean this…etc.’ Thankful for this polite correction I click on the new search and low and behold Google comes up with a page saying
” We’re sorry…
… but we can’t process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.
We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your computer is free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google. ”
Is that weird or what? For your information my computer is virus free and low and behold I was able to do other searches but when I did the whole routine again…Bang in comes the same page.
Weird but true ladies and gentleman…weird but true.
December 8, 2005 at 10:22 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Would you like to display your own icon aka favicon in the address bar when your visitors view or bookmark your web page?
Well adding an icon (favicon) to your website is simple and easy. Follow these quick easy steps and you’ll be up and running no time….
- Open your preferred paint package with a 125 pixel x 125 pixel canvas.
- Now think of a design for your icon (favicon) that you would like to use and paint away.
- Once you happy with your new icon design save it as a .gif or .jpg file.
- Then visit a place called HTML Kit. It has a great tool for making icons online.
- Once you’ve followed their online instructions all you have to do is upload you new favicon.ico to the root of your site and bang! All done
It took me just a minute to do it and if your wondering what my icon is all about let me explain. I wanted the icon to have some meaning and I knew I wanted it blue to match the site. At first I thought I would create my icon or favicon as I should call it with the letters FH for freshhome. That didn’t look good so I thought I would use the year I was born. That didn’t look to hot until I thought about rotating it 90 degrees. Now it looks like a face plus it still has the number 80 there. That’s about it so get cracking on making your own icon (favicon) for your website.
December 3, 2005 at 2:06 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Well I had a great idea for Google Maps API but there is a problem for UK users not being able to get the longitude and latitude. After hunting around on the Internet I found the answer I needed so before I launch in to my great idea (which I won’t go in to right yet as I need some data from Jonathan Stewart) I thought I would start off with putting Charles Road (TN38) on to the map.
Now the next problem was putting the Google Map API script in to Blogger. I already had the script working on the server (my server) all ready for publishing so I just copied and pasted the code in to the post only to find out that Blogger does not allow javascript tags. Shame, but you know what I am not going to slag of Blogger as I’m seeing people who aren’t techincally minded get in to publishing thier own content. How long they will keep it up is another matter.
Anyhow I thought what I could do is create a seperate PHP file and then use the PHP tags in the post to pull in the script. (At the moment of writing this I have yet to try it out so hopefully underneath this sentance you will see the TN38 on the Google Map). This didn’t work so I decided to use a IFRAME tag instead.
