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End of the holidays

Well, the holidays draw to a close, which is both too bad as well as quite good because I started to miss going to school, funilly enough.
Here’s a list of what I did over the past few days:

Impressive, isn’t it?
I did absolutely nothing!

Well no, I did do something.

I created the program you see depicted to the right. Marvelous, isn’t it? I wanted to create a game similar to C&C Red Alert. I figure it shouldn’t be too hard: The view is not isometric or 3D, just your regular grid. I wanted to do it because Red Alert is cool and I wanted to program something and learn how to use SDL. However, I have to think things through first. Just recklessly throwing code into a .c(pp) file (as was my original plan) doesn’t produce very clean and efficient code (in more than one way) :).
Unfortunately I have so far been unable to compile and build FreeCnC, an open source remake of CnC and Red Alert by ‘IRC-semi-friend’ prencher and some other guy I don’t know. That’s a shame because I wanted to try contributing to that (but actually the project is rather dead according to prencher).

So, as I said, I miss school. Not so much because I miss my classmates (heck I don’t hate seeing them again but I don’t miss them either :p) but more because, like I said earlier, I tend to do NOTHING during the holidays. School is what makes me active, especially because I like doing the stuff I have to do for this school I go to.

Moved to a new server, I have

Yes indeed, about a day or two ago I moved to Yoda.
Although the host is still the same (Owen Rudge) his hosting company (Zernebok) moved to new servers in… The Netherlands!
This means that the site is quite a bit faster for me, and what’s more important than that, eh?

Funilly enough mr Rudge appears to have opted to take colocation at Eweka, which is also my usenet provider! Small world. But certainly a good choice if you ask me, because their connection is very fast (looks like they’re connected directly to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange)

So, day two of my holidays. Didn’t do too much yet. Slept till about 1:00 PM, got behind my PC, played some games, and that’s about it. Think I’ll go work for school later today. I still have so much to do!

Holidays

Well, it’s what we call Autumn Holidays here in the Netherlands.
One week of chilling out

Or perhaps not.
Firstly, I have to work on my portfolio for school so I can advance to the next ‘block’ which will feature Relational Databases and SQL as a course. I’ve already read through the book (interesting read) so that shouldn’t be too hard.

Furthermore, I’m working on a project for a classmate (or actually his father) where I have to convert a program to a web application, so I’m quite a busy bee.
None the less I think I’ll have some free time.

In another news, I’ve lately been using usenet a lot. Newsgroups are great for… aquiring things. Hmmhmm.
I wonder if my ISP will notice the increase in bandwidth usage.

Oh, and I’ve been playing around with Ubuntu 5.10 “Breezy Badger”, even though I already had the Preview installed for a month or so.

Cool bands

Well, lately I’ve been listening to WoW Radio. To TotalBiscuit’s shows to be precise, Blue Plz! and Ironforged.

Blue Plz! is a show where TotalBiscuit discusses what’s been going on in the World of Warcraft, with a good bit of humour in between, and every now and then, a song.
Ironforged is part of the show Downtime Downunder, which broadcasts when the servers are down for maintenance in the US.
This show features only non-mainstream metal music. And it rules! You can make requests and TB has a huge collection of songs I had never heard of before.

Through the shows, I’ve found some cool bands I had not heard of before.
Lately I’ve been playing Dragonforce, which is some extremely cool speedmetal.
And today I found Lacuna Coil (the name does ring a bell but I had never listened to it before) which is pretty sweet as well, from what I can tell.

And now for something completely different.

I recently came to the conclusion that I actually enjoy going to school! How rare. I’m just having a great team in school, which is nice.
Although I’m slightly getting swamped in work at the moment (mainly because I tend to not do very much at school itself :P)