So here it is, the first blog post on the new site that isn’t from majigger. It’s quite late so this’ll probably spill over into tomorrow as I wanna be thorough so I don’t have to write another blog for a good 3 months. First things first,

New Site!

I was going through a redesign for the trusty old majigger and realised that the word Majigger just looked stupid on any design I went with. So it hit me. New name!

I had a noodle scratch and thought to myself, “what is my brain?”. First point of call is a Think Tank. I seem to come up with daft ideas like my life depended on it, always when I least suspect it. But a Think Tank is structured, organised, at least to a certain degree anyway. I, however, am not. It needed more.

So I thought again asking myself, “whats something that holds stuff that is really disorganised?”. There it was. A Toybox! Of course!

So here we are. Think Tank Toybox. This is basically what my brain is. A trunk full of cool ideas which may or might not work, may be missing bits and might be smeared in jam.

The design is something I’ve wanted to do for a while as I loved the idea of having something that looks like a notepad. I don’t think it’s quite there yet, but it isn’t far off.

Next thing,

New Place!

I’ve moved to London!

This whole thing has been a big step for me, but one that I’ve grown accustomed too quite well. It’s the first time I’ve taken some life experience and put it into practice. I’ve made big changes in my life in the past, uni and such, and it’s always worked out brilliantly for me. So whilst the decision to move to London was made a bit in haste, I decided to just go with it using this experience to deal with any doubt or nervousness I might have felt. Well, it worked!

Life is great here. Such has been my seamless transition that I occasionally have to stop whatever I’m doing and take stock of the situation. This usually happens when walking around in London and I look about, see the city flying by and think to myself, “this is fucking awesome”. People are always trying new things and shit just seems to happen. Some examples of my adventures include:

• The Liverpool Street MJ Tribute Flashmob
• LUC @ 176
• Chinatown at the Roxy
• Garden Frogs
• Firefox Launch Party
• Canada Day
• The Lawn
• Rolling ankles on Primrose Hill

I don’t wanna explain any of these as I think it dilutes the point a bit :P

Everything is just so easy to do. Eating, getting about and doing stuff is all easy and accessible which generally means you have no excuse but to enjoy yourself. My new housemates who are funnily my old housemates are great (Gaz was too but a bit reclusive at times) so it’s all good.

I don’t know why but it seems to have invigorated me. I just feel enthusiastic about all kinds of stuff and this can only be a good thing.

And Finally,

New Attitude(ish)!

The ish is very important. This isn’t like finding religion or something but I feel a need to grow up a bit, for want of a better phrase. This isn’t a major change really, just little token gestures like wearing a shirt to work, not doing my hair like Wolverine and stuff like that.

It only really hit home on Wednesday when my big puter died. Now the fact that I haven’t made a big deal of this in my writing kinda points to what I mean. I will at some point soon post the twitter stream (before it vanishes) of my PC autopsy which followed a quite catacylismic PC failure the day before. What I originally thought was a graphics card fuck up turned out to be a far more serious motherboard problem. As I sat there, staring at this mess of wires, looking at what I’d have to do and pay to get this thing up and running again I said to myself “fuck this”.

It was at this point that I realised I never used this PC in the manner it was supposed to be used. I gave it all this power, to play all these crazy games and I just don’t play them. I don’t care. As much I hate to admit it, I’m really not that interested in games anymore. I never thought this day would come, but I have loads of other shit I care about much more. I have games I still love and always will love, I just struggle to be enthuisiastic about any games coming out now really. The universal constants are:

• Street Fighter IV
• Marvel vs Capcom 2
• Rock Band 2 / Guitar Hero (and all it’s incarnations)

And thats about it. There are a couple of others, but not many.

So this major shift has led me to do away with having a desktop PC at all. Today (in about 12 hours, after a nice long sleep) I’m off to buy myself a really nice Macbook Pro!

Now I will always need a computer, this will never change and I will always need a fucking good computer, this is unlikely to change either. But it doesn’t need to be big or a graphical behemoth.

Yesterday I got on the Lloyds batphone to Lord Kane and organised a loan to fund the purchase of the new laptop and settle my credits cards. In the words of Father Ted it’s a reallocation of funds but at least now I can have it “in one manageable monthly payments” like those twatty Debt Consolidation adverts say.

So here we are. Cool new site, new home and a new laptop (with a little bit more debt….meh), not too shabby really.