Life in the geek lane

random ramblings.....

13.6.02

wow!... its a been a few days since my last blog.. damn... and i havnt even been that busy...

not much is going on... got a meeting at the uni about marking exams on friday, should be cool. Ive done it before and never had to go to a meeting, but apparently is has to be done... hrmm oh well.. its not like im doing anything else..

My PHD is all wishy washy... ive been reading madly and stuff, but its not working.. to be blunt is boring me to tears... which isnt good.. im contemplating whether to give it a miss or not. hrmm more to ponder on.

Got a visit from a friend from uni who is up from sydney for a few days which was cool, and cought up with my best mate from back at school... hrmm since around yr 4 i think... its weird how some of yourbest friends in the world you dont talk to much... thats weird.. but cool...

oh well.. im gunna go do somthing and try to get tired... blah

oh!.. been thinking about a webpage redesign... stay tuned... he he - but dont get excited... just cause i think about somthing doesnt mean it will happen straight away... dum di dum dah...

10.6.02


My news for today is that i spent some time playing spiderman on the gamecube at harvey norman, and its a great game! yup thats it... today was a public holiday.. but the computer shop was open and noone was playing the gamecube! which as far as im concerned is a crime...
I noticed that the spiderman game for PC is only $50!.. damn thats cheap for a new game...

Been doing lots of PHP... its pretty straight forward... got it pumping out of my ibook....

Been stuck in a rut with Cocoa stuff, but got it going again, thought of another idea for my infamous sportsdraw program, gee if only i could get it finished :)

Ive got another meeting with my PHD supervisor tomorrow.. bleh bleh... same old stuff...


*sigh*

9.6.02

spiderman ...spiderman.. do whatever a spider can...

Just back from watching spiderman, they had a late session starting at 11:10pm, which is kinda weird cause the latest sessions usually ends at around 11.. hrmm anyway... its a top top top!! movie... really.. follows the comicbook pretty damn well and the graphics are sweet... but not that fake that they look crappy... *sigh* really really cool... cant wait for the sequal..

Re-installed OS X on my ibook after having problems with php, anyway, i started this time with 10.1.3, instead of the public beta which i had originally on teh other and just updated. An surprisingly it did make a different... I noticed a few differences in the apache httpd.conf file between my old 10.1.5 system and my current 10.1.5 system from scratch... anyway... its running great now... very swishy :)

Got PHP and MYSQL installed on my iBook, took a little while, but i fumbled my way through. Wrote a few php pages to test it out and is all funky.. im going to start churning out php scripts.. try to do the stuff i have done in cold fusion with php... cross platform yeah yeah!!

Been having serious thoughts about my phd... and having little debates in my head... as yet there has been no clear winner but like all good debates we have the last speakers to round things up and hit me with the concluding statement... so i look forward to that. Its weird... but im not sure if its the right way to go at the moment... hrmmm dammit... ill think it over... chat to some people and see what comes out...

Still raining here... been raining since last sunday... on and off, one minute it will be bright and sunny, ten minutes later raining really hard...

Its a long weekend this weekend.. which is cool, and there is also a public holiday on thursday, its show week in Rockhampton!... i dont know if ill bother going, the last 2 years ive gone along, walked around and come home dusty with a sore stomach from show food... but i guess thats all part of it..

Im off to the beach tomorrow... gunna take a book and my ibook and do some reading/coding/thinking... i dunno how the ibook will go in the sea breeze, but i guess ill find out...

hrmmm, righto, im off to bed... try to wake up at 7 or so... i slept in till 10 this morning and that sucks cause half the day is over...

spiderman ...spiderman.. do whatever a spider can... dum di doddle dah di dah :)