The German Christmas Markets Trip gallery also includes some photos of a random trip down to the canal when I think Hannah and Angela drank all my homebrew when I went off to get paper to make a fire. When I got back they were pole dancing. ‘Nuff said. The Becky’s Party gallery includes photos of one of her house parties as well as some random photos of Duncan posing with his bass guitar and some ickle year seven photos of various Chellaston boys and girls. Finally, Glasto 2003 includes a few webcam shots of Jam, my dad and I from the Leftfield tent.

All this digging led me to also dig out the legendary Punk in Drublic CD by [I quote] “Dré and Dunc Live @ Becky’s Party”. It is however, truly horrendous. Its proof that I can neither drum or sing and given that most of the tracks are played by Duncan, obviously not trusted with a guitar either. The following are a few samples of songs I think Duncan and I either wrote of made up on the spot, however Duncan was going through his Blink 182 phase and at times I’m not sure whether it’s their dirty lyrics or Duncan’s foul mouth.

The Chicken Man OST – My Friend Bernard
The Chicken Man OST – My Friend Bernard [our opener for the night and proof that I have no rythm]

Duncan and Hannah – Searching For Jamie
Duncan and Hannah – Searching For Jamie
[while Hannah was throwing up in the downstairs loo as I recall]

The Frombrero Song ‘Take Off Your Top’ Come To The Party
The Frombrero Song ‘Take Off Your Top’ Come To The Party
[don't ask]

Andre and Duncan – Come To The (Piss Piss) Party
Andre and Duncan – Come To The (Piss Piss) Party
[by far the track of the night, lovely vocal harmonies]

Oh to be drunk and 15 (?) again. It makes me cringe.

http://www.andresworld.co.uk/ajshow.xml

into iTunes under ‘Advanced’ and then ‘Subscribe to Podcast’. Just the ticket if you missed the show. Enjoy.

Now, there most be LOADS of embaressing videos knocking about this hard drive some where…

You’ll notice that some things have gone. There is no homebrew page, guestbook, forum, me and my friends sections. Many of these have not made a reappearence because they are a little dated to say the least and not really for what andresworld.co.uk is useful for. I have, however, preserved the homebrew page over in the blog section and it will exist always at this location here. Instead of a guestbook you will notice there is the ability to leave comments on both this front page and the main blog section. Anyone can leave comments and I think its more relevantfor people to comment on recent posts which will often occur with new photos than maybe to post on a guestbook randomly. Then again, if the need comes for a guestbook I’m sure I can squeeze one in somewhere.

For the mean time I will leave you to explore the new site. There isnt a great deal here at the moment. I have archived my travel blogs over at the travel section and I will do the same with the old welcome page – after all that has updates dating way back to 2001 – a wealth of information. I spose I’ll need to get the counter back up somewhere as well…

To christen the relaunch the latest gallery is over in the uni section and is of Claudio’s 21st Birthday Weekender. Dont forget also that the latest edition to the Derby galleries is Amelia’s 21st Birthday Bash, and there are videos available from that weekend up on the Andresworld youtube site.

All that is left to say is that DreFest is cracking off on the 29th and 30th of July. Everyone is more than welcome to come. Bring some beer, some food and a tent and you’ll be made. We just have to hope that the weather holds out.

Of course I didn’t get anywhere today with out my dose of trouble. Its been hot, very hot. Especially in my room in Manchester with large bay windows that catch a lot of the afternoon sun. As a consequence my PC likes to crash. I installed a new fan in it a few weeks back when I was having similar problems and that seemed to do the trick, but today must have just been too much. I installed a nice bit of freeware called Mother Board Monitor available for download from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311 which tells me temperatures of things and stuff. My CPU was running at 74 degrees celsius which caused MBM to make lots of bleepy noises so I’m assuming thats a bad thing. I’ve since taken the side off and the CPU temp has cooled to 62 degrees and the case temp has dropped from 37 to 32. What I did notice with this utility was that when doing CPU intensive work like resizing JPGs it is unadvisable to do it at 74 degrees because when your CPU hits 75 your going to get some lovely BSODs [blue screen of death for non geeky types].

Anyways. The Uni galleries are up and you can access them by just clicking the uni link in the main menu. The galleries are sorted into date descending order so the most recent ones are first – unlike the travel galleries which show the early galleries first. I think thats the best way.

Secondly I’ve transferred all my eastern europe trip photos over to the new gallery system. It was a little easier this time round than with my Gap Year photos as I knew what the problems would be straight off. Also the pics were just in one folder and not sorted by day as with my old camera. This meant I just started from scratch when creating folders for the countries and cities. I’ve decided to keep to the Trip -> Country -> City scheme of things just for continuity between the two travel galleries even though some countries only have one city or locations within them.

The blog section was completed last night as well and I posted a quick one about the world cup just to get the ball rolling [and to stop my 'now listening to' div straying across the side of the page]. Keep an eye on it, the plan is to keep this frontpage as merely an informative index to updates on the site and then insightful ramblings will take place on the blog, although I’m not going to post on this blog everytime i post on the blog. That would be just silly.

Nevertheless that wasn’t the end of the debarcle. I found that as a consequence of resizing my photos the files extension had changed from .JPG to . jpg. Not a problem in Windows, however unix based servers are case sensitive. So as I started to upload my files i found that I was just creating second copies that wouldnt be recognised by the gallery script. Oh bugger. Luckily I have on my HD a mass renaming proggy which I could just select the folder and change all the file extensions to .JPG. Nonetheless, I then found out that some of the orginal files had lower case extensions from when they’d beeen edited in the past. In the end it took a lot of FTPing and a lot of renaming to get the right files in the right places with no duplicates. So my lovelies there should now be all my Gap Year photos on the travel section whcih fit nicely on the page whilst keeping my portrait photos full size. Enjoy.

So currently music and travel are up and running [sort of]. And I’ve put in under construction pages for the other links. If anything to reduce the bumber of 404s I get on my website stats [ahuhuhuh geek laugh].