Happy New Year Everyone! For 30 minutes ago…
And I hope you all saw some fireworks. The Google homepage had a countdown and fireworks.
I didn’t get fireworks though. Here, I had lightning. Lightning is nature’s fireworks!
Today was too hot… It was over 40º Celsius here. Also, it’s going to rain. Rain + this hot = Thunder Storm
Yep, just felt like complaining about the heat. Oh, and it’s New Year’s Eve. Which means fireworks. And hopefully a cool evening. Because otherwise it means fire because it is so hot a spark could set all the grass outside aflame. Probably should have mowed the lawn before, but it’s a hill and lawn mowers don’t like me.
Also, yay I updated a blog!
Well, another year has gone by without too much happening. We’re going well.
I’m sure I had something I wanted to post about, but I forget. Oh well.
Anyway, I enjoyed Christmas, got to see most of my extended family. People are coming for lunch at my place here soon, siblings and another. We have a barbeque now so it should be good 
I actually did have that job I mentioned in my previous post, and it is good. Hope I manage to keep it… (Or maybe I shouldn’t have said that because I think one of my boss’s might look at my website every now and then :P)
Also, I’m going to be doing Summer School (of my own choice) so I don’t have to do a certain subject later on. And I can do other subjects earlier. And generally mix-and-match my entire degree What fun.
It is now the 26th aniversarry of the TCP/IP protocol, so I hope some of you at least tried the move to IPv6.
And my browser based RPG I’ve been making for a while (don’t know if I mentioned it here though) is taking shape. I’ve even started on the Quest system (I was going to do that a year ago, but did other stuff to it like the PvP system instead) which should be good when finished. Especially since players will be able to make their own quests (although that is mainly to make it so I don’t have to keep coming up with new quests. Again, I’m lazy)
Anyway, I’m sure I had something meaningful to say, but I can’t be bothered remembering. Maybe it’ll come to me later. Hope you enjoyed some fireworks.
Happy New Year!
Well, haven’t said anything for a while.
I did end up seeing Wall-E in cinema as it was such a great movie, but only got around to going once. I’ll buy it on DVD at some point I’m sure.
I think I might have got a job, which is good.
Second semester has been over for a while, hoping I passed.
And I have a new computer. And it is nice. I can actually play new games
And I might be making a game or three with various friends, which will be good if we actually get around to it.
And lots of other stuff, but I can’t really be bothered saying.
Well, recently I had the opportunity to watch Pixar’s new movie, Wall-E. I realise that the people over in America got to see it in June, but us over here in Australia are meant to have to wait till September.
WALL-E is an awesome movie. I actually had written a very long post here, and then I realised that I’d sumerised the plot quite well, and that I didn’t really want to spoil it too much for anyone who may not have been lucky enough to see it yet. The movie doesn’t include much dialog, but the characters all express themselves perfectly. It includes a lot of themes, such as with polution, overdependence on technology, etc, but most of that I think isn’t really significant to what the film is. It starts with the world post-apocolypse, but it ends with a message of hope. But the world being saved by the two main characters was really more of a side-affect: It happened because of love.
I can’t really say what should be said about this film, it’s hard to describe with mere words and I’m not all that good at this anyway, the only realy way to understand it is to watch it. But when you do, remember that this is a film about a little lonely robot left alone on Earth, who’ll do almost anything for love.
I have finally finished exams for this semester. This means that I will no longer procrastinate. Which is probably silly, because I could have used more study. Still, I have a decent chance of passing everything, so hopefully everything will be fine.
Although, over the last few years I have noticed something: I spend most of the time in exams looking around the room and thinking things that have little to nothing to do with the subject of my exam (mostly game ideas and how much time I waste in exams) and pretty much everyone else seems to work through them constantly. Maybe if I did that too I would go better in my exams. That and if I could actually remember what I had studied. A lot of things I had reread only a few hours before my exam, and even wrote down and did example problems, I forgot in the exam. However, one piece of trivia that interested me for a few minutes a couple days ago because I couldn’t remember seeing it before I remembered quite well (I think I passed that question), so I don’t really get these things. Maybe I should try to figure out how my mind works, and then I’d know why I remember some things and not others, and that would improve my studying. Not procrastinating would also improve my studying, but that is too much like effort.
Until I wake up again (sleeping for a week to recover from exams is sounding really good).
Today (The 25th of May), was Towel Day.
As I’m sure you already know, Towel Day is a tribute to Douglas Adams (that awesome guy who wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) So, on Towel Day you should take your towel with you wherever you go, because you should never forget your towel.
For more information, see http://www.towelday.kojv.net/ and http://www.towel-day.com/en/
Well, second week of Uni, and I’m on the computers because I got bored waiting for my next class. I think I’ve started out ok, but you can never be sure until you get your marks back.
A few interesting things (a part form uni) have happened, like shearing sheep, but not all that much.
Also, text books are really expensive. Like really expensive. And the lines in the bookshop are really long… Well, those lines should have gone down a lot this week, so getting stuff will be easier.
I have been able to maintain contact with most of my friends since starting Uni which is good, I even have a couple classes with some of them, which is better. I’ve also met a few new people, which is also better.
And some other random stuff. Anyway, I should probably go to my tute…..
I haven’t done much of anything for ages so I decided to write on this thing.
Things that are happening are, I’m about to start uni (which might be scary, I’ll figure that out next week when I start), the domain name needs renewing (I really should do that now…), I haven’t done basically anything I was going to do these holidays, And I realised that I haven’t read Alice in Wonderland or Winnie the Pooh (a long with various other books that everyone seems to know but not all that many people seem to have actually read), so I might go and get them out of the library while I still might have some free time for reading.
Also recently I started using the Irrlicht engine for 3D stuffs, and i’s pretty cool. Mainly because I managed to get it working easily, CrystalSpace, DarkGDK, etc, liked refusing to work. As in CrystalSpace didn’t like installing properly or didn’t want to be linked to, and DarkGDK was complaining that it wanted the August edition of the DirectX SDK…. I had the January and November ones, and I couldn’t be stuffed downloading the August one just to use an SDK I’d probably move away from anyway. And I also had problems coding directly to DirectX and OpenG (I give up easily when example code doesn’t work)
Anyway, Irrlicht is a cool engine. I got it working within 5 minutes (when I knew nothing about the Visual C++ IDE I was using), and within another 10 or so minutes I’d made my own 3D program of a character standing on a terrain by using bits from the tutorials. It was very nice and easy-like, and I might even make something with it if I’m not too lazy.
Happy new year!
I hope everyone has had a good year last year, and an even better one this year!
It’s also the 25th anniversary of the TCP/IP protocol, which is the protocol that runs the Internet. ARPANET switched over to TCP/IP as their standard on January 1st 1983, and the Internet hasn’t looked back since.
Since it’s TCP/IPs 25th anniversary, maybe it’s a good time for the world’s servers and clients to finally make the switch to IPv6. We’ve been using IPv4 for 25 years now, now not go to the next version?
The difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is the number of valid hosts that can be connected. IPv4 addresses are 32 bits, which is equal to 4294967296 unique addresses. IPv6 addresses on the other hand, are 128 bits long, which is 4 times that, which is 2^128 or 3.4028236692093846346337460743177e+38 (that e+38 means times it by 10 38 times)
So, we aren’t going to use up the IPv6 addresses in a hurry. But don’t think we won’t use up the IPv4 addresses for a while. In 2003, the director of APNIC stated that the available space would last until about 2023. Personally I wouldn’t be surprised if they only last until about 2014. So the quicker we switch over to IPv6, the less hassle it will be in 5 to 20 years time. And don’t worry about having to wait for all the servers to switch to IPv6, IPv4 and IPv6 have been working together without the public seeming to know anything about it for some time now. I just think everyone should be using IPv6 a lot more than IPv4, since as much as we may hate to think about it, IPv4 isn’t going to last much longer as the main protocol of the Internet.
But still, hope you had an excellent New Year, and perhaps make it a New Year’s Resolution to start using IPv6 if you haven’t already