Jul 29 2005

Deadworld

In the hopes of getting this into a routine, heres another post :)

So, recent updates on events etc. That job I was hoping for along with the rest of my housemates (and Anthony too) is no longer available this year because they are using an automated system to do it (I wonder what gave them that idea). So, it looks like I’ve only got my boss’ website to work on for money now, which I am still having problems getting straightened out with Nominet.

Went out with Grif and Charlie and played some roller hockey in an empty carpack out of the way near the running track, took a while to get there but its a perfect size and surface to play and a guy who works there doesn’t mind as long as we leave around 5pm’ish, which is fine by us. We played 1 attacker vs. 1 goalie and 1 defender. I was attacker first against Grif and Charlie and boy was it hard, plus being out of shape made things that much harder. So after about like 20-30 mins my heart was hurting and I was literally out of energy… Charlie offered to switch but I said 1 more attempt. After sucking up the last of the energy I had I went full out and managed to out manuevre Grif get into a shooting position and fire the puck towards the goal only to be deflected by Charlie. Unfortunately in my extremely weakened state, I when I went to catch the rebound my muscles gave way and I just collapsed onto the floor, where I laid for a good 5 mins, before I could even attempt getting up. Going against 2 at once is really hard. Anyway, after that we switched. After all of the playing (and Grif and Charlie elbowing each other in neck and ribs), it was approaching 5 anyway so we decided to grab some drinks and head home. Charlie did go for one more attack, but I managed to charge him and ram him off the puck… bit ruthless by my standards but I was fun :D Was a fun game :)

Also, I replied to one of Toby’s posts having a go at Steve for being such a scary freak. Not only was that post completely lecherous (is that spelt right?), it was completely off-topic and his intentions are plain to see. It’s his girlfriend man! DAMN! :P I reckon he’s only interested because she kind of has the whole black/dark persona going. Anyway, it’s a bit mean but its just creepy the way he justifies himself.

Lastly, I have just finished a game of Necromunda with Ben, Mike & Charlie. Was a great scenario Ben, well done :) I love Necromunda, it’s a great game. I may complain a lot if my gang suffers, but ranting makes me feel good :) Besides Ben and Mike have it in for me due to my gang having insanely high stats :P so they are purposefully trying to get them seriously injured :P

Anyway, enough blogging for the moment, back to UO! :D

Jul 26 2005

Not my fault :P

Yea, so I’m told I should blog more lol, well I guess nearly every post on this is actually a post saying “I will blog more” and then I never do, but I guess I’m the kind of person that doesn’t like wasting time pondering over recent events and publicly announcing them and my feeling on them. Well since blogging is the new black, I’ll guess I’ll try… just to please my mates.

So yea, I’ve been ill recently and just really got out of the worst of it (thank god), and as Mike quite rightly put… men complain so much more than women when they are ill… It is quite funny how much I was whining and complaining over the last few days, Mike kept track of the intervals between them and it average around every 10 mins heh. Well what can I say… I’m a pansy when I’m ill, I’m sure I’m more susceptible to the common cold than others are, but I’m sure they think the same thing.

Things I am currently doing include: Playing UO (and staffing for a friend’s UO shard as well as scripting for it), Playing Necromunda (and scripting a php/mysql system that stores gangs, their members, stats, equipment, etc. which is beginning to take shape) & Trying to get my Boss’ website sorted as Nominet are being bastards and refusing to release the domain so I can register it with an ISP agent due to my Boss going limited recently and they haven’t ammended their details (grrr).

Things I’d like to do if I had more time: Sort out this website finally, actually get a decent layout/theme going that uses CSS well, as shortly after I created this, I immediately disliked it. I’d also like to start work on my Evolution Simulation program I gotta write for my final year project, I consider to be an interesting topic but I am having trouble finding time to do it, or get started on it since it’s gonna be a BIG project.

Things I SHOULD be doing: Getting a job, I’d quite like to work doing the job that my mates did last year setting up new students’ computers for the network and stuff. It sounded fun and they got quite a bit of money for it too, so I’m gonna try rally everyone up and see if we can all do it this year together. I should also try and get tested for dyslexia since it can be genetic and my brother suffers from it… and when my brother helped me proof read one of my essays, he said that I more than likely had it as well (a nice way of saying my essay sucked balls… but to be honest I couldn’t even understand what I had wrote either). The advantage of getting tested for dyslexia is that if I do actually have it… I can get my grades boosted up along with more time in exams and a free iPod… yes Grif… I will be getting an iPod too HAH!

Anyways, that was actually moderately fun… I’ll see if I can keep regularly blogging, will need my mates continually having a go at me so we can get our blog planet thing going strong.

Now… Harry Potter or more Ultima Online? *logs out*

Jul 24 2005

The God Program

In the beginning there was the computer. And God said

%>Let there be light!
#Enter user id.
%>God
#Enter password.
%>Omniscient
#Password incorrect. Try again.
%>Omnipotent
#Password incorrect. Try again.
%>Technocrat
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Sunday, March 1.
%>Let there be light!
#Unrecognizable command. Try again.
%>Create light
#Done
%>Run heaven and earth
#And God created Day and Night. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Sunday, March 1.
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Monday, March 2.
%>Let there be firmament in the midst of water and light
#Unrecognizable command. Try again.
%>Create firmament
#Done.
%>Run firmament
#And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Monday, March 2.
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Tuesday, March 3.
%>Let the waters under heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear and
#Too many characters in specification string. Try again.
%>Create dry_land
#Done.
%>Run firmament
#And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Tuesday, March 3.
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Wednesday, March 4.
%>Create lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night
#Unspecified type. Try again.
%>Create sun_moon_stars
#Done
%>Run sun_moon_stars
#And God divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Wednesday, March 4.
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Thursday, March 5.
%>Create fish
#Done
%>Create fowl
#Done
%>Run fish, fowl
#And God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that creepeth wherewith the waters swarmed after its kind and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw there were 0 errors.
#And God logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Thursday, March 5.
#And God logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Friday, March 6.
%>Create cattle
#Done
%>Create creepy_things
#Done
%>Now let us make man in our image
#Unspecified type. Try again.
%>Create man
#Done
%>Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth
#Too many command operands. Try again.
%>Run multiplication
#Execution terminated. 6 errors.
%>Insert breath
#Done
%>Run multiplication
#Execution terminated. 5 errors.
%>Move man to Garden of Eden
#File Garden of Eden does not exist.
%>Create Garden.edn
#Done
%>Move man to Garden.edn
#Done
%>Run multiplication
#Execution terminated. 4 errors.
%>Copy woman from man
#Done
%>Run multiplication
#Execution terminated. 2 errors.
%>Create desire
#Done
%>Run multiplication
#And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in Garden.edn
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
%>Create freewill
#Done
%>Run freewill
#And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in Garden.edn
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
%>Undo desire
#Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
%>Destroy freewill
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
%>Help
#Desire cannot be undone once freewill is created.
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
%>Create tree_of_knowledge
#And God saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in Garden.edn
#Warning: No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
%>Create good, evil
#Done
%>Activate evil
#And God saw he had created shame.
#Warning system error in sector E95. Man and woman not in Garden.edn. 1 errors.
%>Scan Garden.edn for man, woman
#Search failed.
%>Delete shame
#Shame cannot be deleted once evil has been activated.
%>Destroy freewill
#Freewill is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
#Enter replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
%>Stop
#Unrecognizable command. Try again
%>Break
%>Break
%>Break
#ATTENTION ALL USERS *** ATTENTION ALL USERS: COMPUTER GOING DOWN FOR REGULAR DAY OF MAINTENANCE
AND REST IN FIVE MINUTES. PLEASE LOG OFF.
%>Create new world
#You have exceeded your allocated file space. You must destroy old files before new ones can be created.
%>Destroy earth
#Destroy earth: Please confirm.
%>Destroy earth confirmed
#COMPUTER DOWN *** COMPUTER DOWN. SERVICES WILL RESUME SUNDAY, MARCH 8 AT 6:00 AM. YOU MUST SIGN
OFF NOW.
#And God logged off at 11:59:59 PM, Friday, March 6