The Grax Domain

29 Apr 2008 Three Part Nightmare

The other night I had three dreams. But instead of blogging about them I thought I would try something different and vlog about them instead.

So after making notes, doing some recordings on my crappy digital camera and uploading them onto YouTube, this is the result:

22 Apr 2008 Questionable horoscope

I just so happened to noticed what my Horoscope says for the day on me iGoogle:



I may be reading too much into this but... Is it me or does today's horoscope for Cancerians sound a bit... homo-erotic?

20 Apr 2008 RSS feeds are now fixed

Oh dear. Looks like little Grax was a bit silly...

It would appear that people we unable to leave any comments on my site if they were to click through to a page via an RSS feed, with claims of odd 404 error pages. It happened a few times before in the past and I kinda ignored it, but it wasn't until Vixx came along and told me exactly when it was breaking (thanks again poppet) that I actually investigated some more. Why did it break? Well I'd rather not say... *grumble grumble pointing to the wrong URL grumble*

But good news! It was a simple fix to fix and I fixed it. So now it's safe to leave comments if you enter via an RSS feed. It's all going to be alright. Come on now, don't be shy.

So to celebrate, and because Elyse tag me and everyone else to do so, I'm gonna do one of those Meme thingys.

Here’s how you play: Once you’ve been tagged you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random facts, habits, or goals about yourself– at the end choose 5 people to be tagged. Don’t forget to leave them a comment saying (You’re It!) and to go read your blog. You cannot tag the person that tagged you. Yes I copied and pasted this paragraph from Elyse's page.

1. I'm very much a listener rather than a talker. I love listening to other people talking about their life.
2. I'm a shy guy that hides it through silly confidence and blunt honesty. Like everyone else I bet.
3. I believe that you can do anything (and I mean anything) you want in life, whether it be good or bad. You just have to be able to live with the consequences.
4. At my worse I used to weight 18 stone (252 lbs) and have a crappy beard to try and hide my fat neck. Now I'm a relatively healthy 13 stone (182 lbs) with optional clean shaven or manly stubble.
5. I feel that finding the right partner is more important (and much harder to do) than getting the right job.
6. I like to flirt badly with people, things like "That's a lovely dress, it would look good on my bedroom floor". I find it comical and easy to do, especially when you know that nothing will come of it. And really, people like to hear things like "You've got a really pretty face".
7. I've managed to get some people I know to call me Grax rather than my real name. I'm tempted to start introducing myself to new people as Grax and see how many people I can get to call me Grax.
8. I like to go out of my house to do stuff. For example I like to go to the office to do work, or I like to go to a gym to exercise. I don't like doing things like that at home because there's too many things at home to distract me, namely the Internet.
9. I find watching snooker or darts on the TV quite enjoyable and quite relaxing. Much better than any other sport on TV
10. After wearing temporary tattoos and colour contacts out in public I felt like I wanted people to come up to me and make comments about my appearance. Therefore a goal I could try is I'm going to try and approach more people that look plain different and compliment them.

As for passing this Meme on I think I'll pass it on to..... YOU!

Yes you!

Well go on then. I haven't got all day.

19 Apr 2008 The new look and the wedding: The photos

I mentioned earlier this week that I attended my Dad's second wedding and that I was allowed to post up some photos of the big wedding day. Well after a hefty set of "I'm really bloody busy at work getting the demo stuff ready for demo day" with hints of "I've just got to squeeze in my ass-grooving lessons" and "wait, how does Flickr work again?" I've uploaded some photos for all to see.

It's not all the photos from the wedding day (I didn't get permission from everyone that attending the wedding) but it's the best selection of the happy couple. You can see the second wedding photo set here.

But here's one of the photo's to wet your appetite:


Did I mention how proud I am of my dad? ^_^

15 Apr 2008 The new look and the wedding

So I went to my dad's second wedding last Saturday and it was pretty fantastic.

My dad met this woman a few years ago and, to cut a long story short, she proposed to him last summer and he accepted. The date was set; 12th April 2008. Now my dad is not the usual kind of dad (as people who have seen and met him will clarify). He lives in London and he is kinda cyber-goth... or cyber-punk, I'm not too sure how to classify him (if he is classifiable at all). So the wedding was not going to be a traditional church wedding, but more like... a fancy dress party.

Therefore I wanted to do something different with my look. If I was to turn up to the wedding dressed up like I normally do I would have stuck out like a sore thumb. So after a couple weeks thinking about it and with some consultation from my dad I came up with my outfit for the wedding. And here it is:




It's amazing what some hair bleach, white contacts and temporary tattoos can do for a guy's look huh?

So I was ready for the wedding and eager to take part in the fun. This is what happened next.



However there is good news. I have been given permission by my dad to post up some of the photos of the wedding. As soon as I dust off my old Flickr account I'll be able to share with you more photos.

9 Apr 2008 Let me see you stripped down to the bone

Happy CSS Naked Day everybody!

To celebrate this day of web geekery I'm exposing to you all what only a few people that can be arsed get to see. Now you get to see what this site is made of, whether you want to or not!

Of course you can always change the layout to one of the skin selections below.

6 Apr 2008 Freaky April Weather 2008

So I walked out my front door today and I saw this...


... and this...


...and this...


... I mean what the hell???


It's the middle of Spring. We shouldn't be confronted with this much snow in Britain an this time of the year...


Still it did make me smile. And I thought "Ah well, when in Rome..."