My name is John Large. I am a qualified Web Developer & all round geek. After completing a Degree in Web Development, I went on to work in the Web Design industry as a developer. After a couple of years working in the industry I became disillusioned with the whole corporate environment. This is an industry dominated and controlled by marketing types who wish to make maximum profit from minimum service. As such I decided to to leave the corporate web development world and concentrate on my own flavour of web development. I now produce sites for myself, and for various customers, but work solely on word of mouth (and word of internet) basis. I do not advertise my services as such and now only take on projects which I feel are for a good cause, or have a positive ultimate goal. The past few years have been enlightening and I look forward to a future free of corporate influence.
I also started back in Academia in 2007. Studying for my Masters degree was a great experience, and I relished being back in the Intelligentsia so to speak. It was nice to be doing things for myself again, and every new challenge I met with enthusiasm and gusto. I Graduated with a PGc, PGd and an MSc with Merit in Computer Science from Manchester University. I intend to return to Manchester University soon to complete my PhD.
I now spilt my time between Manchester, England & Dundee, Scotland with my wife Vicki. Our days consist of reading, researching and improving our small business ventures. We have a few big projects in the pipeline which also keep is very busy.
With this blog, I hope to vent my frustrations with regards to Web Development issues, and similar internet based rantings. It will also be a place to showcase new projects and inspiration as well as profiling my ‘year without spending’ project experiment.
A tough year without spending? Lets see!
Hey your xbox looks great and i was hoping you might be able to help me. I installed the chip in my xbox ( xecuter 2.6 ce Xbox ver 1.6) and i plug it in and when i turn it on with the chip turned on it just turns off and on 3 times then turns on and theres no picture? I don’t know if that means my xbox is broken or i messed up the instal but i can ‘t find anyone to help me on this. Hope maybe you can help me. Thanks,
Greg
Hi Greg.
By the sounds of it, you either have a problem with how your chip is flashed, in which case I would reflash the banks on your chip. Either that, or you have a loose connection somewhere. I would reflash the chip first and try that. Does it boot with the chip turned off? If it does it definitely suggests a flashing issue. Remember your drive needs to be either the original locked drive, or a larger drive which you have locked.
Well, well your namesake but fortunately not a doppelganger!
Well Hello John Large. It is weird to find someone else with exactly the same name
Hi John,
I just wanted to drop you a word of thanks for your excellent article on getting Samba working on OS X Lion. Not being able to access my test videos from my mac on my media player was a bit of a pain to say the least. Your article was really clear and straightforward to implement.
I added a link to your article to the main forums on the media player site as several other people were asking similar questions.
Thanks again!
Yours,
Keith