Life in the geek lane

random ramblings.....

6.4.02

Its 7:32pm, i just got back from helping a mate do some tiling (again/still), Ive had a shower and am feeling all neato...

The whole WWDC thing is kinda over now, it cool... Ive been working on my cocoa apps and progress has been amazingly good, Im working on the UI in IB, but its harder then it looks. I need to read some UI guidline books or somthing. Ive basically got the necessary classes and evewrything going, but have to get the UI sorted out. I think ill contact the staff member at the uni who is going and try to get any info i can off him when he gets back.mmm it will sort itself out.

Im thinking of starting a mac type user group here in rockhampton, theres a few mac people here and i just think it would cool to get one going. I think ill drop by the mac shop and sus it out. hrmmmmm.

Ive been playing a bit of civilisation 3 lately, and its kinda cool, very addictive after playing it for a while, i only play it for a short time then do somthing else.

Im constantly updating my webpage (see the link on the left), so check it out somtime.... Im kinda motivated at the moment to do all that sort of stuff, so thats cool, I figure i need some more pictures on there....

Anyway, im off to set up my ibook and get back to the cocoa! yay!!

5.4.02

well i aint going to WWDC... *sigh*... There goes all the plans.... oh well, that'll teach me to get my hopes up.. *sigh sigh*...

*wonders off to ponder what to do now*
mmmm, sitting at work, not doing a lot. I was working on some Cocoa stuff a little earlier but have done enough of that for a while.

The AUC webpage still hasnt been updated with the WWDC sccholorship stuff, hrmmmm, must soon get done. *yawn*

Gee im glad its friday, i think ill do some work on my webpage on the weekend, i need to add some more general stuff to it, my 'About me' section is kinda bland and boring... *yawn again* damn i hate 'im bored' yawns, the type that you do when you brain goes into shutdown mode cause you not feeding it enough stuff to think about.... *sigh*

oh well.... and to top things off blogger isnt letting me publish blog entries yet, so i guess this will sit on here till i can publish it...mmm oh well..

4.4.02

*stretch* Went to the chiropractor this morning, gawwddd my neck feels good now *sigh*..

Dropped the cocoe books back to the bloke at uni i know and found out that the AUC wwdc scholoships should be announced tomorrow, which is cool. He told me there were 88 total who applied, which was a shock to me, considering they have 16 funded positions... *sigh*, chances are slim, but im still positive :)

I still havnt bought a new bag for my ibook, damn damn damn, i hate when i cant decide, i need to just go do it and be happy with it, but im worried it wont be big enough, but the big one is too big... sheesh... how pathetic :)

Sitting on hold again to the telephone company, my long distance hasnt been connected yet, gawwddd it takes a long time... hrmmmm

Found some stuff yesterday to fix a big problem ive had with my sport draw app.... but after playing with it this morning it works!!, Ive written it as a C++ console app, just to get it going, so now im going to convert it to objective C and put a wonderful aqua interface on it :)... Shouldnt take too long. yay!

ok... bleh bleh... oo!, im off hold - and this lady sounds nice :) ha ha
done!.

3.4.02

yay!, my phone line is back on!!, i just have to wait a few days for the lonf distance calls to get hoocked up, geez its a sham... anyway...

mmm, i need to go shopping, but i dont feel like it at the moment, i might go for a walk to the shops and find something to tide me over for a few days...

la la da da...

yep.. anyway, that was a waste of a blog :) he he
arrrrrrrr damn i hate that... ok heres a cut down of what i said:
* i was in a weird mood last night
* i watched ROVE and its good
* I saw a few of silverchairs songs of their new album and im going to buy it

I babbled a bit about aussie bands :-
SilverChair - alternative, kinda darkish music but apparently the new album is "moving toward the white color spectrum" so the elad singer said on ROIVE last night.
DeadStar - popish / alternative, kinda lullish music... i like it
Regurgitator - alternative / generated music, not too bad
Killing Heidi - pop / alternative - hrmmm

Killing Heidi are in rockhampton at the moment which is kinda weird cause no bands ever come here, anyway, im not going, i figure there will be too many young screaming girls trying to look older and too m,any young blokes with their caps on backward trying to look like 'homies' eeekkkkk.. *sigh* damn im getting old...

hrmmm, and that was my long and rambly blog in a nut shell...

ok blogger, lets see it you can friggen work this time... and not just chew my blog up and spit it out your arsehole... piece of crap...







DAMN DAMN DAMN!!, blogger is shit!!!, i just typed out a big blog again and the friggen thing screwed it up.... grrrrrr

piece of shit!!

2.4.02

mmm, ok, rant time.... why do people who have little computer expereince buys cd-burners?!, i got a call from my mum today about somone she knows who got some bloke to install a cd-burner, and of course the computer isnt working now. The person in question only uses the computer for small things and the odd small game, and it always baffles me what people like that do with cd-burners. I consider myself a hardcore geek, and of course i have a cd-burner, but all i use it for is to 'backup' my games, burn some music on my re-writable cds for the car, and backup my current projects and data and huge colection of mac pr0n (*thhhhbt*). I probably use it a few times a week but i cant see what other people would use them for.
I mean, i go into the computer shops now and almost every machine comes with a cd burner, why!?, most people arnt going to need it, how many word documents would you need to fill a cd? sheesh.. bleh bleh, i dunno, it seems people here word about cd-burners and straight away think they need one.. bah... anyway.... people can do what they want... ill just start thnking about answers to common cd burning problems for when i get a call :) ha ha

Im feeling a bit better today, still a little dizzy and icky guts feeling, but im going ok. I have some cds (speaking of cd-burners) to send to my sisters down south, which ill do today and also have a few other things to post...

I finished off the first cocoa book i had, the "Learning Cocoa" one by Oreilly, its pretty good, i got a lot out of it. So ill have to drop that back to the owner somtime today. Then i can start on the next book i have... yaya!!!

Im still waiting to hear about WWDC, i think ill go today and buy a new bag for my ibook. There are some noce ones around, i think ill go for one of these, they arnt too bulky like my WWDC2000 one, yet they still have room for other stuff, whcih is what i want. One of my favorite aussie computer mags gave it a good review as well, so i guess you could say im sold on the idea :)

I think ill just go and do it, i seem to spend a lot of time contemplating things and thinking, when really i know its a good thing to do.. bleh... yup ill go do it... mmmm maybe i can get another cool mac poster like last time.., im still drooling over my new imac poster.. *sigh*...

gawddd, i think this is oficially my longest blog in the history of my blog... yayay!!! *grunt* sheesh..

ok... im going to find some food and get somthign to drink...

1.4.02

geee, been a bit sick the last few days, runny nose, headache.. blah blah... my phone is still off, grrrrr

I added some stuff to my webpage, a bit about some of the current projects im doing, all are at different stage and stuff, but its all good.

Getting a little excited about WWDC, i should find out soon if i get in, im a bit worried about wether i will get accepted for my phd in time, i can see it being a bit of a hurried process and a bit of a pain.. *sigh*

Ive been thinking about different stuff, and not sure which direction my life is going. I kinda feel a bit change coming up, but dunno how, i just know lots will change.. bleh bleh bleh..

ok im gone...