Well not mine, but Nintendo’s. I have achieved nothing approaching such this past weekend, took it incredibly easy. Which was much needed.
Anyways, to business. Details starting to emerge about the revolution, it is the size of 3 dvd cases stuck together, it has wireless controllers and wireless broadband connections, and it is called revolution. That is it. It is not THIS unfortunately, which is a fake, but an awesome fake that should exist, in a fair and just world.
Have now downloaded Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst for the PC, and now they have the servers set up, will hopefully be playing that tonight. Suspect it will mainly be nothing new until the actual launch, where they will bring out a whole round of new content, but will have a bash and start building up a character I reckons. Has a new team function, which is essentially Clans for PSO, will be looking forwards to trying that out
Have been reading up on XML etc today. Bit perplexed actually, understand the basics of it, what I don’t get is how I am required to use it. Need to have a good hard think about that today, see if I can get it to come together in my head.
It would be wonderful if it was the weekend today. Round about now would be ideal.
And finally, firefox 1.0.4 is now out, definitely worth updating, get the latest security fixes you need to have.
Have slept well for what seems the first time in ages, and thus the brain and suchlike are behaving far more like they are supposed to. Which is a lovely and wonderful thing.
Need to start getting my head around XML and 3-4 other related technologies very soon. Have almost finished the first phase of my main project, which has only taken I think about a year and a half. Ouch. That’s time I’m never getting back you know.
awake. Very poor night’s sleep. Dreamt I was in a bus crash, caused by a suicidal bus driver. I was ultimately fine, but it was still a bit odd.
Having my usual listen to fighting talk on the BBC’s listen again site. This is a show built for me, sport, humour, rubbish, it is all there. Oh and Bob Mills quite often too.
As I said yesterday, I need to get my thoughts together. I am learning some javascript, and finding out more about greasemonkey, css and dhtml. It is all starting to fit together, especially when I start to see Opera using greasemonkey scripts, and the Tiger OSX build for Macs introducing the Widget, which is not a funny plastic thing in the bottom of a can, but a tiny app written in Javascript and dss which gives you a small chunk of functionality you can call from anywhere.
Basically, there is something in it. Where I am personally interested is in adding functionality to web pages, take a resource that someone has created, and give it more. As an example off top of my head, I like the imdb site for finding out details about films and actors. But it is a bit plain, and you often don’t get a photo of the actor (if they are obscure). This is fine, it has been designed to deliver information quickly. But I could write a script potentially to redesign it to my tastes. I could alter the look and feel of the site, and also say run a query at the same time on google images, and display the first 10 pictures it finds all in one page. Possibly.
geekily interesting stuff anyways
Wow, I have a lot to write about. Unfortunately it is all geek stuff, don’t worry,
I haven’t got anything exciting to tell. Will try and get this all up over the
next few days.
Right, first up then is del.icio.us, which is a social bookmark manager. Save sites to here as your favourites, look them up from any computer. You “tag” bookmarks, which means that when you save them, you enter keywords at the same time, which groups them together by theme nicely. You can then also easily see what other people have saved under the same theme.
Now this is all very nice on its own, but you can also do a lot with it under Firefox, such as right click to add any site you are on, and a sidebar with all your current bookmarks. Lots of .rss feeds on the site too, something I always like to see.
I will explain more about the Firefox stuff soon, but in the meantime have a look at del.icio.us/flotsky to see mine. May well link to that directly for my links section too.
Sorted out for a trip to London tomorrow to see some mates. Hoping I can fit in a visit to Cybercandy which is basically my favourite sweet shop in the world. Hoping I can finally find in stock the holy grail that is white chocolate reeces pieces. I could always order off the site, but in some ways I enjoy the randomness that is the shop, you just never know what you are going to find there. Pocky goodness too.
highly unawake today, am mainlining coffee at the moment in the hope that it vaguely rouses me into conciousness. Would be helpful. Have the ipod on my playlist of top flotsky songs, again to try and engage my brain.
I think I am going to try and reawaken my interest in reading, and I think I am going to start with the basics, get a new copy of breakfast of champions and dive back in. I am shamefaced to admit I have only read one book this year, Douglas Copeland’s Microserfs, and even then I really should have read that several years ago. I actually found it a little depressing, in that even Microsoft sounded a fun work environment to me. Don’t take that the wrong way, very good book.
Got a nice bonus this month from work. Very pleased with that, some funds for a holiday and some stuff. Have invested a princely £30 in a 1GB USB key that means I can finally set up a project I have fancied doing for ages, namely a bootable version of linux on a USB key, so I can carry a whole operating system on my keyring. Bit o’luck I should have that to play with tomorrow night.
Have been enjoying this site, A blog of an occasional East Enders writer . It reads a bit like Ed Reardon’s Week, which is a cracking comedy on radio 4 about a hapless writer. Obviously this chap is somewhat more successful, but still worth flipping through the archives for a few gems.
Quality : HD
Title : Get Out
Director : Jordan Peele.
Writer :
Release : 2017-02-24
Language : English.
Runtime : 103 min.
Genre : Horror, Thriller.
Synopsis :
Get Out is a movie genre Horror, was released in February 24, 2017. Jordan Peele was directed this movie and starring by Daniel Kaluuya. This movie tell story about A young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend’s cursed family estate. He finds out that many of its residents, who are black, have gone missing in the past.
Slept badly again last night, got an early night, and then was kept awake for a few hours by the mother of all storms. It was very windy, one of our garden chairs was halfway down the garden this morning, almost in my new crap rockery, or crockery as I now think of it. Still, good to see the plants I put in there at the weekend are still looking alright. I was worried the wind might trash them somewhat.
We are off to see a friend of S for a night tomorrow, and then as we are passing through London, are hoping on the way back we can get into Tate Modern for a few hours. We went there a couple of years ago and loved it, so hopefully now a lot will have changed there. Other than that, hoping sunday to finish off the crockery, get the top level dug out. Once that is done, there is a large pile of leaves and earth to be sifted and sorted out, then I can think what to do with the top bit.