Crumbs And Stuff

Almost forgot my desire to get posting most every day.

Things that happened today:

• Got some nice work done on the Tafres site (local at the moment), didn’t get enough to put it live, hopefully tomorrow night.
• Almost got a digital certificate installed, finally, so i can fire up SafeUpdate properly.
• Had an intense morning at work, squashing bugs hand-in-hand with a very tenacious (good) tester.
• Got absolutely POWNED by my eldest playing Bomb Battles in Mario Kart, Double Dash. He’s just getting better and better. Can’t wait for the day he’s old enough to start playing some rpgs and wotnot with me.
• Thought about the next Jaymoe build, but got scared because it’s not coming together like I want it. Need to simplify. Break stuff down.
• Did some cool work on branding Tafres. The two (Server and Client) icons are now very nicely branded. Also, got one of those favicon.gif’s for the website. Should be cool.
• Another hour on the exercise bike. Really started to hurt towards the end. My posterior was hurting much.
• Haven’t managed to play any games, but .. now .. thinking .. i’m off :).

[tags]clarion, tafres, safeupdate, mario kart, double dash, jaymoe[/tags]

Okay. I’m very trashed. Going to just list a random order of things happening lately.

- played a bit of WoW again, finally. Missed the crack-e-ness.

- played a very tiny bit of the Witcher with the new patch that lessens load times. Made it much more enjoyable. Will have to continue with that.

- movement on the Tech Evangelist role for SV (Clarion).

- decided on a revamp for Pimp My Clarion, as of now going to create it in NetTalk, host it myself.

- got the web server and basic web system functionality into the Freight system.

- almost got the Tafres (Freight System) web site finished and ready to launch. Just need to fill in some of the content.

- working on a new patch for Jaymoe. Still trying to do too much though. Changing the UI. It’s not going to happen easily or quickly. Going to have to work out which way to go.

- a new beta of Dr. Explain came out. Looking forward to getting stuck into the added features.

- actual work is getting pretty convoluted. I took some initiative and started assuming the role of Team Leader for my project. Noone has corrected my assumption yet, although had to deal with some wierdness.

- read some interesting stuff about Ruby on Rails .. 1. here and 2. here. Well, the second link has a more global topic. Warning .. Extreme Language, specially in the Zed rant. But very interesting. It sounds like a complicated mess, with massive egos and guys who don’t know much about programming, and guys who do, all fighting together over important and not-so-important stuff. Which is of course a global and lame statement. Ha ha. If you want to find out about what’s going on in the Rails community .. read Zed’s rant.

- Sword of Shadows (JVJ’s site) came out! Read it asap and loved it. This series is one of my all time favourites. Got one of the most awesome fantasy quotes ever. "Kill an army for me Raif Sevrance. Any less and I might just call you back."

- almost finished watching Heroes Series 1 through again. Just finished "Five Years Gone" last night while exercising.

- Exercising like a maniac on the bike we got as a combined christmas pressie. 30 mins to 1 hour a night, 5-7 nights a week. It’s crazy. But awesome because you can do it in front of the telly. Ahhhh. However, really cuts into .. well .. time.

That’s enough for now. Regular updates will hopefully be more .. regular.

[tags]Raif Sevrance, Clarion, NetTalk, Soft Velocity, the Witcher, Heroes, JVJ, Sword of Shadows, World of Warcraft, Tafres, Jaymoe, Ruby on Rails, Rails is a Ghetto, Dr. Explain[/tags]

We welcomed the New Year in consummate style. Wife + Kids asleep because we’d been up at 5.30 am to drive back from holidays in the country. Me hopped up on goofballs after exercising on the bike for an hour, eating a chicken and playing Sith Lords (can’t find an official site, here’s the devs Obsidian, and what might be an officialish site StarWarsKnights).

May joy and peace be yours in the new year. If you make resolutions, I hope they stick. For me, I’m going to continue doing what I always do. Dreaming up crazy schemes and hoping one of them sticks.

God Rest Ye Merry. Comma. Ladies and Gentlemen.

It’s Christmas time. Winding down. Getting ready for great piles of "not as good as a good roast" food, long afternoon naps interrupted by new kids toys, and basically letting it all hang out for a couple of days.

Except I’m winding up. I’m releasing a new version of my Freight system. While away on holidays, I had some thinking time. Bad move. But it clarified a few things. I need a product done, minimal work. Jaymoe Version 1, while crappy, is out there. It’s working as is for the moment. Version 2 was taking too much time, I had to learn too many new things.

So I’ve set myself some closer goals. A new website, a 30-day free trial version, and a Web System integrated into the Freight System. There are other more concrete plans, but I need to not be blabbing them around.

So I’m not winding down. But am still enjoying the christmas cheer.

Have to preach on Sunday at Dad’s church. Going to look at the birth of Jesus from the perspective of the Shepherds. Their fear, their searching and finding, and our response to the truth of christmas, which is that Christ is Saviour and Lord. Salvation and Kingship.

Okay, we’ve got breakfast being cooked for us this morning at work. Mmmm. Bacon. Have a great holiday and God rest ye merry!

Flight of the Conchords are .. "buy it if you find it" stuff. Took a day of watching a couple of their songs with a "they’re okay" shrug before the awesomeness hit.

Very very cool. Very. Funny as. When you hear stuff like "Love is like a roll of tape ..", and see the film clip in your head, that’s gold. Ha ha, it’s already created so many little catchphrases we use in normal conversation, and it’s only been a week since first watching.

My phone recently decided the speaker wasn’t good enough, and so I hooked up with a new one.

It’s a pretty cool one, nice camera, has apparently 8 Gig of space, and has the biggest screen i’ve ever owned on a phone. Which probably wasn’t that hard.

We just tonight got back from 7 days away, driving 10/12 hours down to and back from a lovely little city called Melbourne. If the opportunity knocked, I’d think very seriously about moving down there.

This thing made the deepest notes I’ve heard in a long time. Crazy deep, vibrating the pews at the wedding. Crazy. Very cool. Good to sing along with.