NiceGuyUK Blog
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Yet more penguin shenanigansThe original site I posted for the penguin baseball game is down, so I've founded another copy, and mirrored it on my site. You can find it in the games menu on the left....
Monday, January 26, 2004
Penguin PokingHello kids, wanna poke my penguin?
[Listening to: Infected Mushroom - Overload (Deedrah Remix)]
Friday, January 23, 2004
fscking LinuxOk, so I broke my Linux kernel, and I'm trying to fix it. and I'm bored with the continuous cycle of
[Listening to: Biot - Radiation (P O W E R S H O U T ! ! ! ! Psychedelic Goa Trance) ]
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Games! (and the odd penguin or two too!)Ok, so I like penguins. So a lot of people it would seem. I also like webgames. It was only a matter of time until somebody combined the two.
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Fit as a fiddleHad a mini medical this afternoon, and the doctor told me I had a slow heartbeat - in fact, he asked if I was an athlete. Not bad for a geek that sits in front of computers and eats takeaways....
[Listening to: Analog Pussy - Go Wacko (P O W E R S H O U T ! ! ! ! Psychedelic Goa Trance) ]
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Hitchhiker's Guide To The GalaxyThat expert at finding cool online games, Starbuck, has done it again. He found an online java version of the classic Infocom text adventure, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Nuff respect.
[Listening to: Pendulum - Aphid (P O W E R S H O U T ! ! ! ! Psychedelic Goa Trance) ]
Monday, January 19, 2004
I Want To Be A MillionaireI've managed to get through to the next stage of being selected for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - I hope I get on the show, cos I reckon I could do well at that one, based on being able to answr nearly every question I see when watching it at home. Watch this space!
[Listening to: Skip - Planet Potion part 2]
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Coding with PenguinsDid my first port of one of my Windows apps to Linux last night. Its a little app that decodes PDU encoded SMS messages that have been downloaded from a mobile phone.
Basically this means that a string like 07917238010010F5040BC87238880900F100009930925161958003C16010 gets translated back into the message "hellohello". Ok, so its not that interesting but I was pleased to get it working complete with a nice little GNOME GUI for it. Still has a few little bugs, but then the original Windows version did too! You can see a screenshot here
[Listening to: Big Alec - Reality]
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
A Whopper of a hack?A bunch of bored teenagers managed to hack the wireless intercom system at a local Burger King drive-thru. One customer was told "You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead.". Full story here
[via Hawk's Blog]
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Development FeverAfter a hard morning fixing bugs in my Windows application, I'm using my lunchbreak to write applications for Linux. First thing I'm doing is getting to grips with the GLADE GUI editor. Its quite a bit different to what I am used to, but I think I'm getting there. Hopefully it should then produce something I can import into my C# project ready for compiling under Mono
Monday, January 12, 2004
Too busy to blog (again!)Our project at work has gone into testing today, and I'm the UAT Manager for it, so excuse me if my blog entry rate takes a bit of a dip, I've kinda got my hands full at the moment.....
Friday, January 09, 2004
Silly names for projectsOn Monday, our software project that we've been working on for nearly 2 years goes into testing. Projects round here have the dubious tradition of being named after shipping regions around the UK, and hence our project is called Cromarty. I just feel sorry for the poor people that get stuck with a project called Dogger...
Monday, January 05, 2004
Enter The Matrix (but only if you have enough disk space!)My copy of the game Enter The Matrix arrived today and I was hoping to install it lunchtime. Trouble is, it needs a whopping 4.3Gb of hard disk space. Shame, cos I've only got 1.68 left on my windows partition. Looks like I'm gonna have to do some creative re-partitioning work....or can I put it on an EXT3 partition seeing as I have EXT2/3 drivers mounted for read/write under Windows now? Plenty of space on my Linux partition, wonder if I can share it nicely with Windows?
[Listening to: Armin Van Buuren - Universal Religion Chapter One]
Justice gone mad (as usual)Disheartening story in The Sun about a pharmacist that was attacked and beaten unconcious in his own store. When he used the pharmacy computer records to provide the police with the name and address of his attacker, he himself got charged with abuse of the Data Protection Act. Makes me sick when I hear yet another case of the victims being punished while the real criminals get away with it.
[Listening to: Teque - Sol W Hacker v0.2]
