So I’m currently a couple thousand feet up in the air on a Virgin America flight to San Francisco from Boston and Google are doing this cool thing where they loan you a Chrome Book for the flight, apart of this, you get free wifi on the Chrome Book, whilst on any other device you need to pay like $12.95. I figured out by faking the User Agent to be that of the Chrome Book, you can get free wifi.

TL;DR : Set your browser User Agent to this:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS i686 1193.117.0) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.66 Safari/535.7

On Safari do it like so, make sure the Develop menu bar item is enabled (Do this in the Advance tab in Safari Preferences), then click on the Develop menu, then into User Agent, click other and copy and paste in the above browser agent string.

This tricks whatever is handling the wifi into thinking your computer is a Chrome Book and gives you free wifi as apart of the programme they’re running with Google!

Enjoy my friends!

Print. Cut. Fold. Glue. Admire. Repeat.

Basically recently got addicted to papercraft, do it most nights after supervised study. tough to make, pretty to look at, awesome to photograph and CHEAP! Favourite one I’ve so far is the cartoony style ‘Link’ from Legend of Zelda:Windwalker.





And here is my collection of what I’ve done so far….

Heres a link to my papercraft album on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jameswhelton/sets/72157625223884156/

Yeah Im that prick…

Got my hands on these, scans a patient (88 and fought in WW2) of my dads gave to him, uploaded the PDF for all to enjoy! My German sucks, but I’m pretty sure what they’re saying is sinister!

Note this full quality scan is 53MB! If you want to view a lesser quality version, click here

got some footy today, threw it together.

Wassup?!??!…. Im saying Wassup to a website…. god I’m going insane….

I made my first Icon. I followed this tutorial, did it in photoshop and changed around one or two things, it ended up looking kinda like HAL, but its cool like that!

Any who, here is the finished product!

Im done for. Im doomed. Its all over.

I’ve gotten soft.

See back in the day, 7 months ago really, I used to learn and practice my frontflips and other things on grass and concrete. Because of this I was on my way to achieving ‘Urban Ninja’ status. Having no fear of scaling things, or frontfliping off/onto stuff. It was pretty epic. Then my friend dropped me on my neck while I was learning backflips. Since then I’ve been unable to do learn stuff on ground, now just going to a gym and training on soft crash mats. This is bad. Why?
You may say “well you’re learning in an safe environment”, true, but at the cost of being versatile in where I can do these ariel tricks. It also majorly stunted my progress. Where’s I would learn side flips and try them every day out back, I now wait a week and only get about 5% better each time. I also have the time to attend the gym with the equipment I need, what with supervised study.
So really I am stuck, being a ponch and learning stuff so slowly.

What’s the solution?

Hurt myself on ground to toughen up. Basically I’ve found by just diving and throwing myself on hard floor and grass, I am getting more used impact!

Before long I’ll be ripping out those butterfly twists and return to my former trek to being an Urban Ninja.

Saw this outside my school…

Right, so it was my 18th yesterday. I got a whole load of cards, all funny and personalized, however they were all hallmark or similar branded. One you can look at, keep on a shelf for 2 weeks and trash (we all do it), yet one card I received really stood out to me. My friend Siobhan (http://koelphotoblog.wordpress.com/) gave me an awesome card, not just because she drove out just to give it to me even after her friends bailed, not just cause she wrote it in pirate speak (Pirate themed party), not because it woulda taken a long time to make,  but because it was just so damn cool! I mean this is the coolest, nicest card I’ve gotten.