Author: chuma

I like how the construction crews on Sheppard ave. spraypaint on the sketchy temporary sidewalks. Sometimes it’s arrows with big block letters that say “Walk Here”, other times it’s an arbitrarily drawn orange line on the ground with “look” written next to it.

This is a bomb website where people describe where they work. In honest words. It’s fairly refreshing, actually.

Song: Guster – Happy Frappy
See today’s subject. That’s basicially what Saturday was like: it made very little sense. Lots of things happened, some good, some bad, some weird.

Released NewtDump today. I’ve been working on it on and off for a few months now. It’s finally become release-worthy. yay me.

In case you haven’t noticed the menu, I’m now a member of the BlogCanada webring. w00t!

I fixed the pictures. Rejoice.

This morning I woke up and realized that it was the weekend. Slowly, other things dawned on me as well: I don’t have to get up if I don’t want to, I’m all alone in the house, I’m going out this evening. It was rather different from what I usually do in the mornings now: jump up, give my alarm clock (read: cell phone) a whack, jump in the shower, etc etc until I get to work at around 10 to 9. Hrm.

I think I need more caffeine still: I had a cup of coffee and two Penguin Mints and I still have a headache.

NO!!! IE4 is NOT an IMAGE EDITOR!!!!! RRRAGRAGAGHH!!!

Song: Barenaked Ladies – McDonalds Girl
This is a truly bizzare song. I am in love with a McDonalds Girl / She has a smile of innocence so tender and warm / I am in love with a McDonalds Girl / She is an angel in a polyester uniform. It also has a short hip-hop interlude in the middle. It’s not on any album. There she stands behind the register / She’s taking orders from the Saddle River Little League / If they knew how much I wanted her / Their homeroom teachers would have to send them home for a week

Right now, /. is down, and so is PlanetNewton, meaning no news and no NewtonTalk mailing list. So really, I’m bored. I’m testing this script that’s going to run on a server (but I know it’s going to work fine) and then I have nothing to do. And it’s raining like a mofo right now. I did get paid though 🙂

Okay, so my script failed the first time through, but I fixed it now, really I did.

No, I still haven’t rotated the photos on the pictures page yet. I’ll get around to it tonight, I swear.

version 0.1 of the OPN #/. map is up. I got smart this time and generated it with xplanet and made a markers file with everyone’s ICBM coordinates 🙂 A few people are a bit off, but they’ll be fixed soon.

Oh, I forgot to mention that on Monday my university approved the new Bachelor of Computing degree! w00t!

What keeps me going.

Song: Chemlab.org internet radio
mmm… internet radio good. Chemlab is good because they have an excellent selection of electronica that is perfect to administer systems by, and it’s also all-request so you can go to their website and add a song to the playlist.

I decided how I’m going to render out the OPN #/. map: xplanet and a marker file that has people’s location and nick. On top of that will be some kind of imagemap to link to their profile. I’m just going to have to figure out the ICBM address of everyone now 🙂 Time to get cracking…

Christ. I was almost late for work today, as my alarm clock was suddenly 20 minutes slow. But when I looked at it again at 7:30, it was back on time. Bizzare.

Well, this cements it. Time for me to start saving for a Dreamcast.

Raging Search looks cool, but I think I’ll stick to <“a href=”http://www.google.com”>Google for now.

Well, let’s get lootin’.

More substantial news later today (maybe even updated slashmaps)

I added to the Archive page some really, really old sites that I did a long time ago. I only added them because the directories were still hanging around.

I released my script Poor Man’s Blogger today. Check it on the Code page.

Okay… I decided to scrap the Writings section because anything I write and want people to read will probably go right here. So it magically transformed into the Archives section containing all of the older posts. Stuff will get moved out of here and into there whenever I feel like moving it.

I will be totally redoing the #slashdot world-map tonight – I got some kickass maps from the National Geographic web site last night. Yes, I will be including people who are not in North America, as well as all the people who e-mailed me today.

If you’re wondering what all of this #slashdot stuff is, it’s an IRC channel on OPN where I hang out regularly. Check moath’s page for people’s bios.

This guy has a huge collection of Newton related links, including a link to Newton Resources. What a cool guy 🙂

I started using MeerKat to try and orgainze and focus my news intake. mmm… news. Of course, I still read BBC World regularly, and try to watch it every night.

I had a really, really weird dream last night. It made enough of an impression that I think I can remember most of the details right now. Look here.