Woo first post for the journal. This should be interesting so in the words of John McClane - "Yippekaiyay".

"What's this going to be?" you might be asking (I hope not because it's pretty obvious but nevertheless I shall explain. That's how cool I am :)

This journal is going to be a place for me to post little tidbits of text to give you mere mortals a glimpse into my life. This may or may not also involve some sort of turbo-charged carrot; we shall see.

Linking to random sites may also happen. Actually this is more likely than the advanced garden vegetable thing but there you are.

Been playing the new C&C: Generals for the best part of the day. It's pretty funky game from what I've played so far - anyone who's into Command & Conquer or would like to try it out I suggest you get hold of a copy.

In other news it seems that Opera Software have retaliated against Microsoft by releasing an updated version of their browser that screws up MSN.com. Nice to see all parties acting responsibly :)

Just tried out that thing below which just happens to be an AMD Athlon XP2700+. A very tasty chip I might add, damn shame that it's crapped really.

The strange PCB/esque thing stuck onto it is part of his fridge coolant system. Stops condensation or something.

My uncle gave it to me to try out since it was either his motherboard that's screwed or the CPU, I now think it's the CPU - PC wouldn't even get to the POST screen.

Six days until ADSL o/

For some anoying reason Linux hates my hard drive. Slackware, Red Hat 8 et al just don't want to recognise my swap drive which lives in the extended partition. Red Hat goes a bit better and says that my hard drive is corrupted or something. Works for me though.

I think tomorrow I'll move all my stuff off my second hard drive and use that for a reinstall of Red Hat. Might give XandrOS a bash, it's supposed to be pretty cool.

One more thing - the RIAA is possibly the /root of all that is bad.

Got rather too drunk last night I think. I fell asleep about 3am, woke up at 8am and I was still feeling drunk. So then I continued to sleep until 2pm. I feel ok now :)

I finally got Red Hat to install happily - I just had to move a partition off my second drive and make room for it to install. Running happily now even though it was a complete bitch to get the Nvidia drivers to install.

Five days until ADSL o/

Let me just say one thing - nobody gives a flying fuck what song you're listening to so stop spamming channels with crap that nobody cares about.

In other news it seems that China continues to be a bitch. You shouldn't try and oppress a population - on day they will revolt against you.

It seems as though Google buying what basically amounts to Blogger.com is recieving quite alot of attention. I really don't see the fuss, but many people are thinking that Google will make Blogs a worldwide smash hit thing. Or something.

A 'Blog' or 'weblog' for all you unimformed people is an online journal, much like this one. Apart from that I actually made mine myself and didn't use some scabby run-of-the-mill software app to do it all for me.

This doesn't make the scabby blogs any worse than mine, it just makes me better than people who use scabby blogging software. Of course I forgot to mention I was running a blog three years ago back in the bLife days on the bNetwork far before 'blogging' became maintream.

I have decided that Command & Conquer Generals is an absolute pig for memory usage. Even though I have double the amount of RAM recommended by the game I still find Windows thrashing the page file every so often.

It's nice to know that security on airports and crew/support staff is still nice and tight.

I must say life in the American school system for people like me must be complete hell, but this article by Paul Graham really gives you something to think about.

Maybe it's because I couldn't give less of a shit about most things that life isn't a living hell...

Phoenix Technologies, a company that has been making motherboard BIOS's for as long as I can remember has recently announced that their developing technologies that will allow you to run PC-like apps at a level deeper than the operating system. Seems like and interesting idea, and is something I've seen before but on a much smaller scale.

Obviously Mircrosoft is not amused since something like this could be developed into a product that makes their Media Centre PC model obsolete.

3Dlabs, a company that I thought didn't exist anymore, has announced a new high-end graphics board using the brand spanking new PCI Express bus.

PCI Express, which recently made it as a standard, is the next-generation PCI bus which is designed to replace both PCI and AGP in one fell swoop.

Why does Adobe Acrobat Reader not die when you kill the browser that spawned it. It happily just sits there eating about 22Mb of RAM, doing nothing. It wouldn't be too difficult for it to just check that the process that launched it has gone and that it shouldn't be there anymore.

But ooooooooooooh no >:(

I loaded up my browser, clikity-clicked onto my link to BBC News Online, and what do I find but a bastardized version to upset me. Oh well, something I'll have to get used to :(

OCAddiction have reviewed what they think is the best best graphics card money can buy. Good to see ATI holding the crown of graphics card king :)

Two days until ADSL o/

A 15 year old girl tracked down a script kiddy who used a trojan horse to steal credit card details from her home computer, and eventually got him arrested and convicted. Nice to see 'l337 hax0rs' get what they deserve.

According to The Register, NTL didn't give any warnings about the introduction of a download cap because the subscribers are too dumb to understand why it had to be done.

Great way to run a company - piss off the customers and then insult them a bit.

I wonder just how cheap are chips. Proper chip shop ones, none of that oven rubbish, or indeed American crisps. Hmm >_<

It's funny how people get so serious about playing CS. Me and Tang were just messing around, camping in the same spot for the entire map (as you do :p) and after we'd used this tactic a few times they all start saying horrible things. I think it was because it was working :proud:

Woke up this morning, my copy of the new Foo Fighters album is here. Had a quick scim through it and my first impression is that its a fairly good album, though a bit sloppy.

It is a sloppy album - it doesn't have a audible direction, it seems to just be a jumble of different songs all lumped together to form an album. A few good songs with the likes of 'Halo' and 'Come Back' and I do have a soft spot for 'Time Like These'.

Then again there are quite horrible tracks which seem like half-assed direction changes in their style.

I give One By One 4 stars. If I could.

No ADSL until Monday now :(

Just created a new MSN address which is nice. I went on a rampage with the contacts and deleted everything I didn't seem worthwhile - so now i've got about 30 contacts down from the original 120 or so. I think I'll be ruthless with this account and block/delete anyone I don't care for.

Yes I am a bastard :D

How is it that every time I go to have a crap there is only the tiniest bit of toilet roll left. THis isn't just every so often, it's every bloody time. I mean, how does whoever has been there before me use precisely the amount of paper to leave only a shred left :@

...when Red Hat annoys me. You see, Red Hat is a complete bitch when it comes to monitor refresh rates in the fact that it won't do anything other than 60hz, a refresh rate that happens to make your eyes burn after 5 or so minutes.

I tried everything, even manually overiding X's 'suto-choose' method of picking a refresh rate. So in the end I deleted X. Mmm....CLI fun. I then got annoyed so much that I deleted the Re Dat partitions. Wheee.

I'll get round to a reinstall once I've got ADSL :)

Going to sort out my college application form tomorrow, choose the courses, fill in the form, get it sent off, go to interview, get out of horrid depressing shitty pointless 6th form. Enjoy.

My last day of dialing up the internet... :)

Let me say something for all you Microsoft fanboys (e.g. #sub lads) - Microsoft is not a good company, they got so big not through healthy competition such as innovation, but through forcing manufacturers to use their products and not allow them to use competitors products.

This is not how business is supposed to be run, and that is why there was a long-winded anti-trust case brought against Microsoft. Let me say it one more time - Microsoft is not a good company. They constantly used dubious business practises to lock people into using their software.

Stop defending a bad company just because you are blinded by some sort of ignorance to any other viewpoint.

I am not saying Billgates = evil, I am not saying Microsft = evil, and I'm not saying any other software company (Apple, Red Hat) is any less evil.

I like Windows (in its current form), the NT core is a solid base - and I hate Linux/Apple fanboys who rip Windows saying it's unstable/shitty/slow when it clearly isn't. Windows 9x/DOS was a joke, a horrid piece of nonesense that was unstable and generally shitty. But then again Microsoft didn't make DOS did they.

And time for a thrid statement of a fact - Microsoft is not a good company, stop defending it with rubbish claims.

Just woke up from sleeping for about 2 hours or something. Feel like shit, can't get back to sleep. Headache. Ugh...

Good golly it's fast :D :D :D :D

Don't ask about the title, it was the subject for some random porn spam.

College application has left the building! Put myself down for AVCE Info. Technology (2 A Levels) and A Level Psychology (something different :p). Just have to wait for my interview dates now, drop Physics, blag my way through the rest of the term, and I'm off, away from the horrible, shitty, depressing lump of annoyance that is my school's 6th Form College.

Me = Win (Y)

My name is Huw and I do school-related work at 3am. There is a hole in my soul.

Fwazzle.

Just installed Apache, set up port forwarding, and got my PC's web server running happily at http://pc.wuffle.com. Fun.

Turned Apache off for now as I was just testing some things out :E

Did my Art exam thingy today, finished off my Soviet flag design - it looked very cool imho :proud:

I think because I've missed assloads of school she wanted to bitch at me since teacher mentality is something like 'you not in = you done no work', a flawed presumption I think. I went on to produce a large lump of work, she went a bit sheepish I think.

Heh, smelly teachers.

I go to bed at 03:00, and wake up at 08:00, feeling like shit. Don't know why, just my fucked up sleep pattern in action I think.

Anyways, today was Huw's Red Hat 8 fiddling day I think, sorted out NTFS mounting, compiled the NVIDIA drivers into the upgraded kernel I installed, configured some of the hardware that was missed on the install.

WineX is a complete bastard to get going, so I've left that for tomorrow maybe. Once I've got CS running on Wine I can dump Windows then :)

Oh yeah, here's what I spent yesterday producing in Art:

It measures 3ft x 2ft so it's pretty impressive :E

Just tried out some of those iron-on tshirt transfer things. Worked pretty good, I'm pleased :)

Very little work, quite a lot accomplished (Y)

Just sorted out something I've been meaning to do for a long time - I've now set up automatic creation and retrieval of Wuffle.com database backups to my PC. Tis pretty nice, and now I don't have to make the backups manually anymore :)

Here I am, in school, whoop-dee-doo :(

I wonder what would happen if you combined cheese with a horse.

Dean: "A cheesey horse".

Dean = win

Tonight a created a proper flag made out of thing cloth material and many printer transfer sheets (too much bloody ironing for my liking).

Measures up at around 60cm x 40cm :)

I also now have somewhat of a fan channel (started by Raz) at #bluetooth on Quakenet IRC :O

My new printer came this morning, a quite lovely Canon i850. Tis very fast, much quieter than my old Epson, and even printing photos on plain paper is very impressive.

Good thing about this one is that it uses USB2, so it doesn't eat up 100% of my CPU like a dirty old parallel port printer does.

I think I'm going to like this new printer since it basically just printed a photo - or at least something that looks exactly like a photo you'd get back from the film developers.

I tried printing on a sheet of 4x6 glossy paper that came in a sample pack with the printer. It's really impressive :)

Slept for the best part of this evening, so I think I'm going to be up for quite a while yet, or maybe not. Depends I think.

It was funny, I wandered into school for the two afternoon periods, which I thought was fair enough since I'd spent the morning waiting for the new printer (which was needed desperately) and setting it up and shit.

Anyways, my form tutor Mr. Meade had an amazing bitch session, something about how school isn't some place where you come and go as you please (despite 6th form is entirely voluntary I might add). I never knew I 'come and go as I pleased' - if I went there I was there for the day.

Then some attempt at a threat was tried which cosisted of him basically saying that I would have to 'face him' and there would be 'hell to play' if I carried on. I'm not sure but I think teachers get annoyed when they don't see any emotion out of you when they're trying to rattle you - my wadump.wuffle.comys of just staring with eye contact at them and nodding a bit gets to them I think.

Bit of tra-la-laa imo, very odd.

I *may* officially drop Physics tomorrow, but I don't know yet. I really want to but maybe getting something in Physics could be useful - I have yet to research the requirements of a few University computing courses.

I've made a screen grab of my current desktop, which I think I'll update every so often or something.

Updated the links page a bit, added some webcomic links and did a little tidy up :)

I must've slept funny because it feels like my diaphragm has been stabbed several times 'IN TEH FACE!!!1', man is it painful.

Bloody hell it hurts. I move, it hurts, I stand up it hurts, I sit down it hurts :( :( :(

Doubt I'll be in school for the rest of the week.

Ow :( :( :(

It seems that Physics is not a requirement for any Computer Science uni course, so therefore it's bye-bye Physics :D

Been sleeping all evening again :/

I dunno why, I'm sleeping alot lately.

I've created a little GIF animation that replaces the address bar icon if the browser supports it (Mozilla does ;)). Here's a little video (200KB) which shows what I mean.

I've just made a rather nifty Mozilla splash screen :proud:

You can grab the proper bitmap image here.

That's a rather nifty key fob I just made out of a southbridge CPU I ripped off an old P4 motherboard I had lying around :D

Damn thing was a bitch to get off, the 10 million pins on the bottom can really hold it onto the main board.

Feel like crap right now, bad throat :(

"How's things in Disneyland?" I ask my feathered chum Samba.

"Great!" he replies, "But I can't find the atomic warheads."

"They're by the gift shop next to Generic Ride Number 3." I tell.

"Cheers." he says while walking off.

&lt;spd-dmn&gt; lee: hows the baybee
&lt;Virtualee&gt; spd-dmn She's great! Growing so fast!
&lt;spd-dmn&gt; aw
&lt;spd-dmn&gt; got any pics?
&lt;spazzer&gt; has she sprouted appendages yet?
&lt;KK-&gt; lol
&lt;spazzer&gt; don't babies grow like potatos?
&lt;spd-dmn&gt; ahaha
&lt;spd-dmn&gt; spazzer you're on crack, buddy
&lt;spazzer&gt; you mean they DON'T?
&lt;spazzer&gt; they come out with arms and legs?
&lt;spazzer&gt; shit
&lt;spazzer&gt; i have a whole new respect for women

I should get the lovely Apple Pro Keyboard I ordered in the morning :D

Here, read a book:

Apple keyboards are nice :)

I got hold of the Domo-kun movie on Drew's site, increased the brightness and then recompressed it to Windows Media format to make a file less than a 5th in size of the original.

You can grab the higher quality Windows Media 9 version or the generally lower quality Windows Media 7 version (best bet is to right click and choose 'save-as' on the link).

Why are there monsters abusing my shoutbox? I really don't want to limit it down to one or two shouts per IP per day...

Been doing a little testing with PHP and I've come up with ZIP file creation via PHP which is something that'll come in handy for the images section I've been meaning to get round to.

I just saw a website ad that said 'GET HARD' in big red letters. Scared me I tells ya.

I'm never going on the WSJ site again...

I've actually started work on the back-end stuff for the images section, dealing with file uploading into the database, don't expect anything soon.

I took it by pointing a telescope at the moon then placing my digital camera to the lens. Not bad for a first go so I think I'll have another bash at it tomorrow night if it's clear.

I'm getting better at it :D

Some cutey pet pictures.

Retrieving an image from the database is working (check out the image URL) :)

I *may* go to school tomorrow.

It will be a shock...

Bleh.

Since the weather was fine I went for a day trip with my parents to Port Eynon in the Gower. Managed to take some fine photos like the one below.

It's great that I now have a day devoted to me. A gift usually reserved for historic events and patron Saints is now something I can claim too.

My mother must be proud....

Didn't go to school today. *shock*

Done a little bit of site maintainence, now only I can use the name "Huw" in both comments and the shoutbox, and I can make unlimited number of comments and shouts. Go me.

Have a hospital appointment tomorrow, seeing a specialist about my knee.

Should be fun.

Oh yeah, Unreal 2 has a rubbish ending. It's taken me all of about two months of slow playage to get to the end and it was underwhelming to say the least. Looks nice tho.

Server admin is fun :)

flarg

Remade the Willybums.com. By remade I mean simplified the HTML and uploaded the bum invaders game Raz put together.

It's not finished yet and has a few bugs and no sound but win all the same :D

Servers playing up a think. Makes everything a bit odd. Some pages work fine, others won't load at all.

Server seems to be back 'with it' so I've added a few more pictures here and there. Of course there's always the better repositry of stuff at dump.wuffle.com.

Also cleaned up a lot of the image section code, now image titles aren't displayed in catergory view, and clicking the image while in the individual image info pages will open up the high-res version if it's available.

Just been through and checked the site for standards compliance, found some errors and sorted them out; 100% XHTML 1.0 :)

April Fools day has ended here, woopee shit.

April Fools day, what another pointless waste of time and effort.

First off, RH9 is not a mega-improvement that would be suggested by the jump from 8 to 9 - if anything this would be an 8.2 release. Everything's more refined, the new features that the Bluecurve environment introduced with RH8 have been improveed (Mozilla 1.2.1 now has the lovely font AA running as default for example).

The install process is much the same, answer this or that, set up the partitions (a process that doesn't barf on my PC like with RH8). The post-install setup routine that runs has been given a slight facelift and minor improvements (it now not only detects my sound card but also has it working), but as with RH8 it still can't detect my generic RealTek-based NIC, I have to resort to typing in the memory and IO addresses manually to get it picked up, not a big deal for me but this would essentially kill a Linux newbie.

The menus in RH8 were, to be honest, a horrible mess, with items not where you'd expect them, and some programs placed in multiple times. In RH9 this has been improved drastically, with all related things together and no more 'Extras' menu.

As with RH8, there's no MP3 support bundled in, as well as NTFS read support, and as ever there's no hardware accelerated Nvidia drivers in the distro. All these things can be fixed easily, especially the latest Nvidia drivers which were a complete joy to install compared to the earlier releases.

The usual array of applications are here - OpenOffice for word processing/spreadsheet etc., the GIMP (used to take the screenshots here), Mozilla, Evolution, XMMS, X-Chat etc. - pretty much everything most people would need.

So far so good, Red Hat 9 isn't a revolution like RH8 was but there's an ass-load of bug fixes and application updates all rolled up into one nice and stable package.

Compiled and installed MPlayer, so I can now watch Windows Media files among others, got Unreal Tournement running like a charm.

Marvelous.

Just installed the Mozilla 1.4 Alpha, everythings pretty swish. Drag and drop bookmarks folder at last :D

Upgraded the Red Hat 9 install Mozilla 1.2.1 to 1.3 and kitted it up with the lovely Breeze theme and installed the Prefbar add-on. All running to my liking now, marvelous.

Just added a load of photos, some taken today and some that I've had hanging around for a while.

Oh my word, what the hell is this. I mean, he (Jamie) actually made this? It's great how he actually tells you what he's going to talk about and the 'hit counter' which is just the text 'hit counter' is a lovely touch.

Why is it that when I get back to my desktop from playing CS or something, I always find a nice array of IM windows asking 'Are you there?' and the like. Just as I type a reply I notice a problem - they've gone offline - woo yay.

If you want a reply you can't just log on for 5 minutes then disapear.

When I am forced to watch MTV2 this is what I see. How much useless shit can you plaster the screen with?

The success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

- TV/film/music quotes
- Quotes in gerneal
- Sayings
- Anything unnoriginal
- Names using irrelevent extended characters
- L337 h4x0r names
- rANdoM cAPs nAMes
- Nicknames stating protest at something
- Nicknames of 'Alternatives' trying to be cool
- Pretty much anything but your own name

What's the point in having a nickname that's three lines long? It just makes a mess and it's longer than most IM messages.

Just added the images from my little galavant todaywhich can be found here and here.

Going to have a shower now, and sit on my ass for the rest of the night.

College interview tomorrow, should be fun. Not nervous, it's not like they're going to reject *me* for an AVCE in computing.

Went to my college interview, and what a waste of time it was. Seems that some almighty moron in the administration dept. didn't think to give me an interview date when the I.T. lecturer was actually available.

Wasn't completely wasteful, had some forms filled in and got some information and grant forms and stuff.

Then I decided that since I payed for a 'go anywhere you want for the day' ticket I got on the bus to Cardiff and mooched around there for a while.

I can smell cooking.

On any old forum when the usual topic of posting links to your own site comes up, it's nice to have one of the best due to all the Geocities 'welcome to my homepage' crap that most people have.

Screw them all. Hard.

As I type this I'm watching the trully momentous images of the US Marines that have just toppled the central Baghdad statue of Saddam Hussein.

Nade has added Willybums to the UrbanDictionary. Wheee :D

Added a cooly-o new stats box that shows what I'm currently playing.

If you're going to IM me and then disapear offline almost instantly, and if you want an answer to whatever you ask me, email me instead. Ok?

There's a chat show on TV right now where todays 'entertaining theme' is "I Hate the Way My Parent Dresses". This show consists of multiple moany little spoilt shits bitching that their parents wear leather trousers and the like.

I mean wtf is wrong with these people. They're parents brought them into the world, fed and clothed and housed them all their life and now the unrgateful bastards moan at how they dress.

DON'T BURN YOUR PENIS!

Here's a reminder that sometimes it's for the best that we don't have all the news reported to us.

Why do I not have a 400ft mecha as my slave?

I go to bed at 3am, wake up before 9am. Somethings not right.

Just rolled my own Phoenix build to get font anti-aliasing working. All lovely now :)

My sister convinced me to go on a jog with her. Over to Cyfarthfa Park, round the lake a few times and the walk back. Knackered but I think I accomplished something.

damn hippies.

I really shouldn't have done all that running yesterday. My knee feels like someones stabbed it several times with a nasty spoon.

I've created a nice little how-to on how to install Windows TrueType fonts in Linux. It's now linked in the 'words' section (finally has something :D). Hope it comes in useful for some random google searcher or something.

I got bored, so I thought I'd make a little page with Jesus giving out advice. Here it is.

Apparantly nowadays 'degenerates' is considered 'shakespeare':

Huw: man these degenerates are annoying
Rob: yes, muchly
coolgul4: wot wot wot
coolgul4: plz no shakespeare language
Huw: ?
Rob: hahaha
coolgul4@: modern english

Today I was going through the horrid Qbasic program for my AS Computing course, and I was thinking to myself as I was finishing off the file system functions "Qbasic is shit, I wonder if you can use whatever you want, I could knock something together in PHP in no time".

So then I went hunting for the WJEC course specifications, and no, it doesn't say you have to use Qbasic, any 'high-level' language will do. So all I have to do is get that written easily, document it (do that while writing it) and then re-write the system analysis crap to fit the new end result.

I am the winner.

Super-duper-pooper

There.

I've added two images I found of Joey, who was Fluffy's sort-of-twin-brother.

Been working away at my PHP AS program. Almost got flat file adding/editing/updating/viewing cracked for one program section, once that's finished it won't be too hard to just modify the code to suite the other sections.

Just watched the Bownling For Columbine documentary by Michael Moore. If you haven't seen it you really should.

Just found this out while reading the AS Computing WJEC doc:

"The implementation should include an outline solution, with modular blocks set up with links, with at least one module being taken to a working end....The module(s)implemented for the prototype system should be fully functional, but will lack some of the sophistication that you would expect to see in the fully developed coursework...which should be included in CP6."

Which basically means I don't have to do any more programming work :D

I also did the User Documenaion today, all 12 pages of it; covering the download, installation and configuration of Apache and PHP on Windows alogn with how to get my scripts running.

Me = Win.

Today I've been pulling all my art work together ready for tomorrow when I'm actually going into school.

*shock*

Well I went into school, and amazingly pretty much sod all happened. It really puts the pointlessness of school into perspective when I've not been there for ~2 months, yet when I go back I find I'm not behind and I've up to date in my work.

Was knackered as hell yesterday, hence lack on any updates. Bite me.

I've think I've recovered most of yesterdays stuff with the posts I've made this afternoon so all is well.

Still knackerd now. 4am bed times and 7:30am wake up time for school three days in a row isn't good. Thing is I can't get to sleep, not tired like that, its more exhaustion than anything.

Hope another battle with insomnia isn't heading my way.

Just found out that the Phoenix file locking bug has been fixed. I am happy.

Woke up at somewher around 8 this morning, I must've looked at the clock wrong because I thought it was 1pm until I switched on BBC News 24 and the 10am update came on.

That means I fed Tabby the wrong food - can o' meat instead of buscuits.

I'm sick of people posting 'cool' things on forums that are so old it's annoying. They think they're the best for posting a link to whatever it is. Gah.

Just completed a massive news-posting fest, have fun with all the links etc.

It's annoying when I leave my computer for a bit, come back and find that I left the music player running and it's playing one of the many dgod awful songs I have on here.

Harry Potter books are instructional manuals of witchcraft woven into the format of entertainment.

Just been typing up some hand written work - my ability to touch type scares me.

Just created this funky little panorama Quicktime VR file from a test I did yesterday. I think Bob's in there somewhere.

Just added some new photos, mostly to the Merthyr section. Too much damn humping.

I feel like crap. Urgh.

*cough* *sneeze* *nose runs* etc.

Caught something from going to the dissdeased bloody school on Friday I bet. I bet FIFTEEN FUCKING MILLION PUNDS. Yeah. I win. You lose.

Still sick as a parrot. As sick as parrots get. Apparently they die alot.

Posted some news links. Have fun.

Think I'm on the mend now. No headaches yet to day, just a slightly stuffy nose :D

I've realised that I've accomplished nothing all week. No coding, no work, nothing.

Woops, left this go stale for a bit.

Anyways, been playing GTA: Vice City, cracked the game in a little over 19 hours of play (non-continuous), it's good game overall, but just seems like more of GTA3, nothing too special, but nice enough regardless.

Went into school this afternoon, I still have some mounting work to finish for art, but it's no problem and piss easy. Got a Key Skills exam tomorrow morning, which I couldn't care less about.

Woopoopooopwooo.

Woop woop.

Had my secondry interview for Pontypridd College this afternoon, basically just a formality since I was already accepted. The computing lecturer guy was a funny/strange man, nice enough though. Just went through what the course involves, blah blah blah.

Happily chatting away in IRC, and the status tab starts flashing, so I click it, and I'm shown this rather odd error message:

Now, using my reasoning that just doesn't make sense.

Had an eye test today, the usual report - nothing's changed, your eyes are still crap, see you in 6 months, we'll phone you when a new pair of glasses are ready to replace your ones that have been trodden on a few times too many.

Bought two bottles of yummy sounding/looking wine and a new pair of jogging bottoms for me to wear around the house, because its comfy that way.

As part of my 'rip every CD available to MP3' program, I've realised one thing:

Where the fuck is my Matrix soundtrack and Matrix music score CD!?

Driving me crazy, can't find it anywhere.

Hate it when you download a Perl script that's 'just what I needed!', and it turns out to be riddled with bugs that really shouldn't have gotten through, forcing you to spend a while sorting it out.

That's called being a bastard.

Just came back from The Matrix Reloaded, and I proclaim Gallery seating in UCI Cardiff Bay cinema quite exquisite, but onto the film itself...

First point, it isn't like the first film, almost a completely different direction. It's just full-on, non-stop action, fight scene, fight scene, action, etc. Not that this is a bad thing, just that it makes the storyline waning at best, as if they removed all the intelligence from the first film and replaced it with kicks in the face.

The fight scenes are magical, very entertaining, but sometimes they drag on for too long. It's also very easy to tell when they use computer generated images and when it's 'real', but it's not too distracting to remove the entertainment from what's going on onscreen.

The film doesn't really go anywhere until the last 20 minutes, which is something I really don't understand, and it ends very abruptly, obviously showing that this and the third instalment are really just one continuous jaunt.

The Matrix Reloaded is definitely worth seeing (either in the cinema or other methods ;)), but you will probably feel underwhelmed once you leave the showing. Maybe the third film will clear things up when pieced together with this.

Woo yay, found my Matrix OST and score CD's. Hidden in a box in a box on top of a cupboard, damn beasties.

Ordered up a new network card for my laptop, which has been returned to me as my sister's home from uni. I'll have a nice little IRC/IM machine next to me :)

I sort of crushed the network card I had for it so.... ^_^

Fun with skinning Windows.

Now I'm off to pick up my new pair of glasses.

So I go down into town, along to the opticians, burning in the sun, and it turns out they're closed.

Bastards.

Added some pictures to the images section, so go hunt them down if your bored. Gonna start rolling out the new stuff I've coded over the next few days, still a bit of finishing and testing to do though.

You can now view an archive of news items by clicking on the News Archive link and selecting the range of news you want to view, or you can click on the pre-defined links. Have fun.

Just watched the film 28 Days Later, nothing quite like a good ol' British flick to get rid of the bad aftertaste from The Matrix Reloaded.

In other news, its bloody warm.

Gave the GTA3MTA multiplayer mod a whirl today. It's pretty cool, and definately has potential after more developments. All I could really do was knick a car and ram into some German, launching him 10 metres into the air. Good stuff.

If you pop over to the images section you'll see that there's a nifty new thing that lists the 10 most recent images added. Enjoy.

In other news, it's still freakin' warm.

Me, Rob and John went up Dean's house last night. I got impressively drunk, which means free hugs for all.

Spootle is best person ever for taking advantage of my auto-accept of DCC files and sending me funny asse film while I sleep. Computer Boy is just so damned funny.

IT exam in the afternoon. Fun.

It exam came and went. Woopee doo. Physics tomorrow afternoon. ehehehe.

Done my last exam, out of that school forever. Yippee.

Site should be faster overall now, especially the images section. MySQL needed its equivilent of a defrag.

*site tweak*

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My new hard drive turned up today, the 80Gb version of my Western Digital JB 120Gb Special Edition drive. So I spent a few hours setting up the new drive layout. The 80Gb drive become my main drive, while the 120Gb has been reformatted and has replaced my 40Gb swap/storage/backup drive.

Plenty of room for stuff now :D

Got bored this evening. Have fun.

Haven't had time to try out the hard drive I molested last night, I'll get it done tomorrow I think.

Updated Breaking Up The Drive with the results of testing it after my experiments :x

Well I had a bit of fun with those magenets from the hard drive I took apart. WM9 vid for all those retards who don't know how to upgrade.

Did a nice fresh install of Red Hat 9 today, and then installed Ximian Desktop 2 on top of it. Smooth.

I'm starting a major code overhaul and rewrite for Wuffle.com which will make things easier for me in the long run.

Wheeeeee.

Had fun today installing Debian onto my laptop, getting it sorted and then setting up IRC BNC's and ident servers etc. on it. Woop woop.

DeX is still alive and sends presents of a musical kind :)

NTL have fantastic customer service.

You may notice that a few design things are changing, it's me doing it. If any changes make it looked badly screwed up then you're almost certainly using Internet Explorer so go get a better browser or something. Works perfectly in Gecko based browsers, and Opera doesn't have any nasty problems, only IE.

It's annoying when you're hungry but you can't decide what to eat so you end up with something pathetic like a cookie.