Well I should make at least 1 chrimbo blog before its too late

Just got back from christmas shopping with Grif, I was looking for something for my brother, didn’t get anything though, but I have scouted out 2 possible good presents for him. Diablo 2 + Expansion (If I can bloody find the original, looked in every game store, they only have the expansion… fucking idiotic if you ask me) or the “Cool Thing” I spotted in random gadget like shop… I’m hoping the game shops might restock tomorrow or at least bring some copies of D2 out of storage, if not I’ll have to request it and if they don’t have it looks like “Cool Thing” it is. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Anyways, going home tomorrow (thursday) for xmas but hopefully I will be back before new year. So if I don’t see any of you before I leave… Have a merry chrimbo, and if I can’t get back into Cardiff, an awesome new year

Jargon

Ok, Obviously it isn’t gonna be 2005 for much longer, but I’m still desperate for a decent LAN party.

WOPR has had quite a bit of work done on her, lots of dedicated server apps ready to run and I’m still developing a simple web based launcher for them. I propose somewhere in the last week of January, for Winter-een-mas!

Directly after exams before we settle down into the new semester is when we should make our move, and this time it’s going to be a proper LAN party lasting overnight at least (no leaving early ). Who’s up for a slaughterfest for the suggested date range?

Let me know and this time it will happen
Jargon

Oooooohhh, I’m so funny

So I’m back from fun factory, last one before christmas, was lots of fun. They played queen at end of night, the leg-ends! Plus this irish christmas song that everyone appeared to know but me, heh. Oh well.

Charlie went over Steph’s, and me and Grif took a trip to spar for food (would of gone for chips and cheese but both needed toilet desperately bad). Anyways, all in all an excellent night saw lots of people there we knew (Charlie & Grif’s hockey friends, Toby’s Mike as I like to call him since we already have a Mike in our household, etc). Was very crowded, lots of pushing and shoving going on… which I contributed a lot too

Damn I love my new site and I have big plans for it yet, heh.

Jargon

Woooo!

After a few days intensive coding, new site is in a state in which it can fully replace the old site (due to the fact I didn’t really do much work on the old site). I am loving this site more and more as I work on it, next step would be to get the gallery up then maybe a files area, then start working on a portfolio or something.

Anyways, I’d appreciate any feedback anyone has to offer… if you find any problems please don’t hesitate to post to inform me.

Now I must rest and play some DoD Source.
Ciao, Jargon

Argh, I swear I’m going to go nuts any second now!

For the past 5 or 6 hours (I’ve lost track of time) I have been tweaking the .htaccess files on my new site… and damn is it getting on my nerves… I have made 0 progress, I hate apache. The concept is simple, I want it so that if a visitor comes to the site’s root directory, it will be redirected to /blog/ and yes I know I could simply do this in php with a header(“Location: …”) command, but I know .htaccess files are designed to do this kind of thing and I want to use new stuffs for my new site and make it as efficient and well made as possible. However the only thing I’ve managed to achieve so far are about 1000 “redirect limit reached” alerts *sighs*

I’ve tried every possible combination (or so it feels), it basically works on a regex principle. If the address matches a regex pattern you specify then do something useful. But alas, I can’t get it right… I’ve got the .htaccess file working and doing some other cool things for my new site, simple things mind you, but at least I didn’t use WordPress to automatically generate it for me

Well I suppose I better keep trying, think I’m gonna look for more tutorials/examples on t3h interw3bz0rs…

Ok, so I have just managed to crawl from beneath the overwhelming tower of coursework that I have been set lately. All coursework, all deadlines met, yay me and I was thinking about the way I completed these courseworks. I think every piece of coursework this semester has been a night before, and in all but 1 of the courseworks (think there were 5 or 6 in total), I had to pull an all-nighter to finish. The thing is it isn’t because I ran out of time, I genuinely work better at night and if you can do it in 1 night then why not the one you HAVE to do it. In secondary school you were always under the advice that you shouldn’t leave it to the last minute. But it works fine for me

Anyway, I’m so used to skipping sleep for a night that I’m beginning to wonder why we let our sleep patterns be controlled by a spinning planet. I sleep when I’m tired and when it is conveniant. I guess it all boils down to conveniance, its easier to see in day light and thus easier to go about everyday things. At the moment its 4:42am and its not because I am playing an addictive computer game or finishing off some coursework, its cause I want to go ice skating at 7am at Winter Wonderland. I would never be able to get up at 7am (you probably saying cause I go to sleep at stupid hours, which is a fair accusation) unless it is urgent. Even staying up this late and getting used to a late sleep/wake cycle doesn’t prevent me from getting to my 9am lectures. I move my sleep time all over the place I guess my body is beginning to get used to the lack of routine hehe. So, ice skating at the crack of dawn outside is gonna be cool. Charlie is still awake as well… but he DOES have coursework hehe, I thought I would stay up and sleep later after I got back.

Well thats enough about lack of sleep. I am also working on a new design for my site (AGAIN, yes i know ), this time it is Quake orientated (I just hope i don’t get sued for copyright infringement). If you want to take a gander while it is still in development its currently running at http://new.jargonia.co.uk (replies dont work there yet) but I would be grateful for the feedback on this side of the site.

Jargon