I am currently working on a project called MusicJam. When i say working i really mean waiting. You see I cannot get PEAR working on my VISTA laptop. I have decided therefore to install Fedora in a VirtualBox so that i can run all of my code off Fedora and bring it all together on Vista.

This would seem like a good enough idea, but because of my lack of internet access my attempts to download Fedora 9 have all been in vain. I have been downloading (if you could even call it that) Fedora on and off for the last week and a half at an average speed of 56 kbps ! Even now as I write I am in Mc Donalds stealing both their Wi-Fi and their electricity for the sole purpose of downloading Fedora.

When i get Fedora installed and PEAR working properly then i will begin to do construct the fondations of MusicJam. You can check out the brilliant site as it is at http://www.musicjam.eu.

So for the moment the project is all talk no action. But I am looking forward to starting! The whole idea of MusicJam is to make a place for musicians to socialise and to organise jamming events. This will be achieved by creating various sub-domains – one for each area that asks for one! For example the first one will be available at http://monaghan.musicjam.eu. It seems like a good idea to me, but also a steep learning curve for a beginner programer like me.

I’ll keep you up to date with its progress.

Hello,

As my first post on my blog i would like to get it out in the open that i absolutley HATE printers.

Yesterday someone contacted me, they offered me €300 to do some printing work for them. You may think that is quite steep, but they wanted it for the next day and also i would be up all night getting it finished.

So fair enough, i as a student would gratefully do anything for €300! After school i went to buy some ink, then i went home and installed it….. the printer said:

Cannot Recognise Ink
Please insert Magenta: T07013

But the problem was, the ink i had meet those standards. Just a little frustrated i rang “the oul’ doll” (my mother) and asked her to bring me back into town to get more ink….

I went back into the shop and they concluded that it was a faulty cartridge, so they replaced it for me. I went home again and installed the ink again only to find the same f***n error message. I stayed up all night and tried everything i could but i still could not get it working!

Eventually I gave up and that left me minus €40 (for the ink) and plus one very unhappy client. I paid good money for that printer – only two weeks ago – and it better not be a hardware problem. I know of others that have had simular problems with printers….

Before I die i entend to make a printer that actually works.