Sam D King

Something dawned on me today when working on my ongoing project to create a lightweight, completely from-scratch PHP framework (I've blogged about this several times if you care to catch up).

Hi, I'm Sam, and I like boxes.

One of the most notable points Mac users have latched onto when testing out Apple's new OS release, Lion is the fact that Apple have decided we've been scrolling the wrong way all this time.

Rioting has gripped the capital of the UK over the past 3 days, seemingly following the shooting of a 29 year old man from Tottenham, London.

I've never really had what you might call a "long" commute to my place of work.

The Vaccines' debut offering, What did you expect from The Vaccines?

The Great Escape festival descended on Brighton this weekend.

I'm fresh from watching Catfish on More4 this evening, a 2010 American Documentary film that follows the relationship between a 24-year old New York photographer and a 19 year old Michigan woman and her family over Facebook.

It was weekend of achievement in the world of sport, on rather opposite ends of the spectrum, with the coveted Grand National on the Saturday and the Brighton Marathon following the day after.

After a rather long time, I've finally finished a stable version of the CMS I've been building for the past 6 months or so.

I was fortunate enough to be given an iPad recently.

The Strokes are back on the scene, five years after releasing their third album First Impressions of Earth.

I've always loved Little Britain for its daring and unique comedy.

After almost 18 months, I've finally bitten the bullet and invested in some paid hosting for my domain SamuelDking.co.uk.

I've been rather busy the last couple of months having a go at building my own PHP CMS, modelled on the MVC design pattern.

On Saturday 11th December at Brixton Academy, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club performed their 1000th show since forming in 2001.

I saw Ratatat at the weekend, and, like a lot of artists in my music collection, they are a band I know due to a couple of songs I discovered by them years back.

In the second of tonight's posts, I want to get down a few more of my experiences from New York City.

I've decided to break my 20-day lull with a double-post.

I write this on the train back to Brighton from London after an evening being entertained by funky blues rockers The Black Keys.

It would be quite easy to lump NBC's new show 'The Event' into the fairly standard FBI 'big secret' American format of television show, à la Flash Forward.

I haven't been looking forward to a film as I have The Social Network for quite some time.

If, like me, you often find yourself reading an article on your iPhone in bed, it can be a little annoying when you're on your side and the iPhone's accelerometer tries to compensate by changing the orientation and going into horizontal mode.

It's taken me far too long to figure this bug out, but I'm pleased to announce I've finally nipped it in the bud.

I love comedy, it's all I really tune into on TV these days, with the possible exception of True Blood.

When learning the ins and outs of web design, after learning the obligatory HTML and CSS, the next logical step for most is learning a server-side language; the most popular choice being PHP.

A quick to post mention Coda, from Panic: 'Shockingly Good Mac Software'.

I've never been able to decide how much I like Arcade Fire.

I went to see The Mountain Goats at Koko in London last week, and after my last disappointment when photographing live music, I decided I would definitely try to get some snaps.

Two posts within a week with an Apple tag - I'm at risk of being dubbed a fanboy - although it seems I may have already adopted that status.

People love to hate on Macs.

I've always silently despised the Maybe option when RVSPing to an event on Facebook.

I've just finished watching the live feed of biffy's headline set at the iTunes festival and as much as i love the music the band produce, they lack something live.

I write this blog entry for several reasons.

I don't pretend to know anything about fashion, nor care, but this summer there's something I want to put to men everywhere...

I'm a little late off the mark on this one, I've been away from home, in Essex for the past 2 days.

Last month Apple announced the new iPhone, excitingly named the iPhone 4.

If you're a Strokes fan you may have noticed the strong rumour floating around the Internet yesterday that the band will be playing a secret gig in London under the guise 'Venison'.

After just watching the last ever episode of Flash Forward I can't help but feel a little disappointed at its demise.

Another brief post to bring to a certain song to everyone's attention.

A Busy schedule and broken Internet at home are poor excuses for not blogging.

One of the first things I noticed when I first got a laptop was - plain and simply - the onboard speakers stink.

A website was recently brought to my attention - Clients From Hell - the name pretty much says it all.

As a follow-up to my previous post urging you to experience Black Rebel Motorcycle Club live, I was eager to learn the band has announced more dates at the end of the year.

To anyone who isn't a photographer, the title of this won't make a whole lot of sense.

Wow!

They said a picture is worth a thousand words.

You can be excused for forgetting about a post I made over 6 months ago, predicting how this season would pan out in the Premier League.

...It's good music.

As a follow-up to the 2-week temporary filing work at Sureterm, last week I was back at the company, doing a single day of work.