I know its been said on the about me page, but I thought i’d reiterate just what this site is here for, and what it actually means to me.

This site was actually started in my late school life, but under a geocities free website account. That was where I learnt the extreme basics of HTML, buy creating pages on there and looking at the code it generated. At the time, my brother was learning about web design by reading PHP books and books on MySQL. He then got his first website, and I thought to myself, I want something like that, my geocities looks crap compared.

When I was 17, I purchased my first domain, worminater.co.uk. The site was originally going to be for a blog, and this has been kept throughout the various transitions the website has been through. I then decided to use the site as an experimentation ground for various things, galleries, music players, download server, code practise etc. Ultimately, this site never actually had a main purpose, it was just there.

Earlier this year, I decided to do a complete overhaul. The first thing was to sort out the code that was there, and then work on a redesign. This was achieved within a week or 2. I then decided that the site needed some content. Rather than do what everyone does these days, and host crap that has no purpose, I asked around, to see what people look for, but can never find. The BME Pain Olympics came up trumps, along with the Church of Fudge, and comedy porn coming in third. And so I set out to find and host these clips.

Alot of hosts out there, that do have the above clips, would often remove them after complaints. However, having no direct comment system, and only a ‘contact me’ page where the user was forced to input details (not to mention that the IP and location of each comment made is given to me apon reciept), it kinda deferred people from moaning too much. At the end of the day, hosting these is not illegal, and it drives ALOT of traffic to this site.

And so this is where it started. I then decided that I’d upload the ASOT soundtracks, partly so I could listen to the music from any PC then, and also because they too, bring in traffic, although not nearly as much as the BME Pain Olympics. With a bit of advertising on the right places however, this could have the potential to be alot higher. Just about finding the time really.

A few weeks ago, I thought I’d look back on another website I did to make some quick cash, (www.tastybanana.co.uk). This site made me about £50, which goes to show that bedroom companies do actually work. I looked at the design for that, and decided to use it for my worminater.co.uk website. This enables me (in the long run) to add more content to the home page, and, when I create pages that don’t have thier own category, for instance, the spinning cock page that was added a month ago, I can create a clickable image file that will go to this page. In site advertising, if you will.

And so, it brings us to what the site is today, and how it came about having what it has. The content of this site, specifically the videos, is not on here because I personally like them, fact is, I don’t. The BME is pretty disgusting, even if it is fake, and I certainly don’t get turned on by people shitting on eachother, and eating it.

The guides btw, are there for comedy purposes, and to add some randomness to this site, if it isn’t random in its content already.

On a side note, there will be some modifications of some of the pages soon, i’ve got a few ideas of some more guides to put up, and I have some more music content to add, pending copywrite clearance, which shouldn’t be a problem. As always, i’ll update the main site when something is changed.

And on another side note, you may have noticed alot of blog posts have been removed, this is because I no longer want them on here, i’m living my new life now, I don’t need to reflect back on my old one. I’ll blog about that though, another time.

First blog post in a while where I haven’t sworn much, i’m attempting to cut down, I swear far too much at the moment and its not good :/

Enjoy, and remember, any suggestions/comments, let me know

M

Such cheek, Asus belive they can con me out of £100 in laptop value? I think not. Do they not realise I keep reciepts and know the market value of most components out there? I guess not… then again, why would they?

My laptop had a purchase value of £580 (inc VAT) nearly 2 years ago. They are replacing the laptop with a new model, which only has a value of £450. Although its an upgrade, its purchase value is lower, meaning I can claim better, or they can refund me £130.

I’ve been trying to speak to the person dealing with my case all morning, only to be told she is constantly busy, so i’ve just emailed her with the details of 2 laptops that I will accept. - Links open in a new window. If they dont open, disable your popup blocker.

http://www.morecomputers.com/TechDesc.asp?pn=F5SL%2DAP130C  - Link no longer valid. The laptop was rather swish though.

http://www.asuslaptop.co.uk/products.php?cat=56

The bottom laptop is the one I am aiming for. Yes, I know the value is £120 over, however, reduce the memory to 2GB and lower the HDD to 250GB (what they are offering me), and that will reduce the value by £100, making it about £30 over… i’ll pay that. It glows green, I want it

So I got an email response back. The laptop being offered isnt any of the above… however, I’m not going to complain, because quite frankly, its almost as good as the second laptop I’ve shown up there.

UPDATE

The specs are as follows:

OS: Vista Home Premium
Model: F3SG
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100
HDD: 250 GB
Memory: 3GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G, External 256MB VRAM
Bluetooth
Camera

Lets also add in the fact it picks up digital TV, along with up to date wireless technology, and a lightscribe dvd writer. I am most pleased.

Value of this laptop? Around 650-700.

I’m quite pleased to say the least… can’t wait for it to arrive.

What is it about American gamers that causes them to spout so much shit, for no apparant reason? I rarely ever hear a British gamer start chatting shit to other people for no reason, let alone spent 5 minutes whining about being killed, with a method they dont like.

I tried Vegas 2 online the other day. Got into a game, team deathmatch, and straight away, I kill an American gamer. The next 5 minutes, I didn’t know whether to turn my sound off, laugh, cry in despair, or scream into a pillow.

The moaning that followed from him, was astonishing.

worminater omg i wanted pistols only omg worminater
*someone else kills him with an auto*
OMG guys what are you doing pistols only omg, omg i dont believe it, omg, this is so totally uncool guys, *dies again* omg, stop using autos i wanted pistols only for me, omg…

Its like seriously, please stop complaining, and play the damn game.

If you want pistols only, host your own game, and restrict automatic weapons. Problem solved. Otherwise,  please shut your kiddy gob, accept people will use whatever weapons are available, and play the bloody game how its meant to be played.

American kids, the bane of all gamers lives. American adults on the other hand, I have absolutely no problem with.

To all who have contacted me via the contact form in the past couple of days, could you please resubmit the contact.

There was an email filter that was incorrectly set up, and was therefore blocking ‘All’ email addresses with .com and .co.uk

If you emailed directly, you would also have not got through. There would have been no bounce back informing you it hasn’t reached. This problem has now been sorted, obviously.

I have added a calender to the sidebar of the blog. Its not the one that is built in with wordpress. That one just displays posts you have created. This one displays events for the month. Its a bit rubbish in the sense it doesn’t let you go through to different months as a general user, but it achieves what I want it to do, so its staying.

Bit empty at the moment… all shall change soon

Lovely place isnt it, home of gambling, overnight marriages, and general money loss. Its also a criminal empire.

I got Tom Clanceys Rainbow Six Vegas 2 a few days ago, and this game, is immense. Been playing it quite alot (as you do…) and i’ve unlocked some pretty neat stuff. Mainly camo and armour, but thats not the point.

One of the things I loved from the old game, is the fact you can stick your face onto your character, and get some pretty stupid impressions on it from that. This one however, lets you do that, but it doesnt give quite the same affect as before. The faces shine too much, and seem somewhat flat, compared to how they used to look. This isn’t much of an issue anyhow, since I dont really play it online anyway.

I like the way the new combat evolvement system works, rather than having to win everything online, the things you do in single player now count towards your game points, so you can unlock things like that instead. Its pretty handy considering half the weapons are all locked at the start. Another things I noticed what that it seemed to acknowledge I played the old game, and unlocked some stuff accordingly, whilst promoting me of course Only got about 8 levels up but still quite handy. I think i’m now about half way there. It does take quite a long time.

Half way through the game too now I think, story line flows well, however I feel they could explain a few things a bit better, as I can’t remember the story line fully from the old game, so they should have explained that and how this one follows on. At the start, your brought back into action with what seems like trainee noobs, as they cant do shit and cry about the slightest things.

But still, good game so far

To all who view…

I’d just like to point out that this site does have more to it that just the BME pain olympics. Although the selection is limited, i’d like to point you towards some other popular/rare videos that I have obtained.

Church Of Fudge

2 Girls 1 Cup

Harry Potter Robot Chicken - Ok so its not that rare, but i’d like to get this some more advertising

Lastly, for those that are completely oblivious, I am also uploading all the ASOT (A State of Trance) soundtracks onto my site. These are all produced by Trance DJ Armin Van Buuren.

ASOT Tracks Listing

A general all time favourite one of mine, is episode 350 at the moment, so give this one a hit if you have a spare 7 hours.
ASOT Episode 350

I’m going to be visiting some of the incoming links in the next few weeks to see what kind of community visits this site, and will try and adapt the sites content accordingly.

Cheers everyone for your continued bandwith usage and support. You’ve managed to get me 2500 uniques last month, and this months bandwith usage exceeds 30GB.

Good things its unlimited isnt it

If theres anything you’d like hosted on this site, be it videos or music, give me a shout and i’ll see what I can do.

It was bound to happen, that i’d someday blog about this… and here it is. I’m going to write about how much I love command and conquer, and then i’m going to write about how EA have ruined it for me.

Let me first start off, that I started playing command and conquer (tiberium Dawn to some) when it was first released. I would spend hours building a base, abusing the silo bug (you could store tiberium in a silo costing 150, and sell it for near 1500, then build a new one and so on…). I’d complete the game over and over again, and this was at the young age of around 9. I was, what some might say, a gaming genius for the game at the time.

Then, Tiberian Sun appeared. I was so excited! I got the demo as soon as it was released and would play it non stop. The Titans and wolverines got me excited, and the thought of Kane reappearing made me happy. So you can guess how happy I was when I got the game for real. I actually started the compaign as GDI first time, to prolong the anticipation of being NOD, and seeing how there story unfolded.

I was really suprised at first to see CABAL, the NOD AI, and that it had an actual face. But I soon forgot all about that as the story line began to immerse me. The NOD storyline was better thought out IMO, in Tiberian Sun, and in the expansion, Firestorm. The fact CABAL goes rogue in Firestorm, it completely blew me away. I was constantly going ‘NOOOO, and at the same time, going ‘cabal, your cool’.

In all, up to C&C Tiberian Sun, it was my favourite game, i’d play it nearly every day, and i’ve perfected the art of symetrical base building in 5 minutes. Yes, I play it too much, and no, i’m not easily beaten.

Then came Tiberium Wars, the first C&C produced by EA. They’d made the game of what appeared to be a reformed Generals gaming engine, ruined the look of the tiberium crystals, and made the story line absolutely terrible. They answered no questions that people had from the previous game, and appeared to have written a completely irrelivent storyline. The only thing that did continue, was the Tacitus, and the alien race’s existance. All the original units had disappeared, except from the harvester of course, but even that had a redesign. I thought it was a rubbish addition to the C&C series, it ruined it for me.

Then the expansion to that came out.. Kanes Wrath, where they outsourced the developement to a company who specialise in simulations, and ruined the game further. Granted, the storyline was somewhat interesting, but it was still pretty rubbish. With major balance issues and terrible bugs, it was total shambles. It took them 4 months to get a patch out, because there was ‘not enough people’. Basically, if you apply logic, they had to read through the entire source code to find out where the outsourced people had fucked up, fix the errors, test, fix bugs that still existed, and rewrite alot of code in general to fix all the other bugs that people had found. Having worked in a job where I’ve seen how long it takes to develope software, 4 months does actually sound around the write mark for fixing something this huge. If the fact was true that there was no team to patch it after the first month, then it makes it even truer, as 4 months is a bit too long really, it should be nearer to 2-3 months.

Now, another pet hate about C&C 3. They removed walls, they removed pavements, they removed subterrainian units, they removed the sensor arrays. WHY! Why on earth would you remove stuff that made the game complete in all the previous ones, and when people hound at you to add them in again on a patch, you refuse and give shitty excuses? It makes no sense. Bases are left wide open, and you have to spend so much more money just to defend every single angle, because you cant stick a wall in there.

As a general strategy game, C&C 3 does well, but as a carry on to tiberian sun and westwoods work, it fails, miserably.

A short note about my weekend.

BEST EVER. Period. Got to spend the weekend with my gf Katie, amazing person if you havent already heard

11-07-08 to 13-07-08… a memorable weekend.

Our survey says…… SHIT, and heres why.

Acquired an OEM version of vista to try out. During the installation process it crashed not once, not twice, but 5 times. The first time it crashed 83% extracting files. The next 3 times it crashed after deleting a partition and starting the install. The 5th time, it crashed before it even finished loading the install screen. I would like to note that on the 3rd crashed, I tried a different CD drive. The DVD itself, was fine.

So, after finally managing to get it installed. I loaded into Vista Ultimate 32 Bit. No less that 2 minutes into it, it decides to restart itself with no warning whatsoever. Ok I thought, maybe it was part of the process and I should be more patient. But no….

After loading back in, I go to look at what drivers need installing. Before I even get that far, its freezes. Reload number 1.

Check drivers, see SATA Bus Handler needs updating. Creative SB XFI needs installing, and I need to install my wireless drivers. Not as bad as XP then.

Insert CD for network drivers. Autoplay comes up, I say yes to running the install. Crash.
Reload 2.

Start install again. Half way through install, it crashes again.
Reload 3

Start install, yet again. This time it finishes. After removing the CD, it crashed again.
Reload 4

Loaded into it again. Insert Creative CD. Start install. 22%, crash.
Reload 5

Try creative install again. 56%, crash.
Reload 6

Try yet again. 3%, crash.
Reload 7

Get drivers online. These work. Network drivers no longer recognised. Go Vista.
Reinstall network drivers. Completes, then crashes.
Reload 8

Open IE7 to visit Asus website. Loads the front page, crash.
Reload 9

Load the page again, click on download. Crash.
Reload 10.

Attempt download of files. Crashes every time.
Reload 14 (I tried 4 times).

Gave up on the SATA handler, not important.
Copy documents from backup HDD to the Vista install.
Copies 4 music albums, crash.
Reload 15.

Try copying data again. I do this 7 times. It crashes every time.
Reload 22.

Stick XP install CD in. Install XP. Back in business.

This is why Vista is shit. Its full of bugs, crashes with no explanation (not even a blue screen :O ) and even Bill Gates himself admits its a load of shite.

Will I be upgrading any time soon? I think not.