The Misadventures of Dan
Peer into the mind of Dan as he tries to build an MP3 Player for his PDA and searches for the next thing in his life be it an electrical engineering job or graduate school.
Thursday, July 03, 2003
.:3:11:43 PM:.
Error 2503
For the past few days I've been trying to help Annie out with some of her problems. It seems as if every time she tries to install something on her Win XP Pro but it fails and spits out an error. I checked and wouldn't you know it, Microsoft's website was actually helpful! I know! I'm shocked too! So after we found out that her computer was living the year 2165, 162 years in the future! we changed it back and now it seems to be working.
In keeping with all this tech support theme, I decided to try and install Frontpage 2000-what a horrible interface! I mean maybe I'm used to Macromedia's Dreamweaver interface-it just seems much more intuitive. The Frontpage interface just seems cluttered and directionless. Then there's the references, and standard code generation-this alone is enough reason to stay with Dreamweaver. It just makes sense.
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
.:1:31:25 PM:.
An Apology from Canada
A truly Canadian Apology to the USA, courtesy of This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC Television:
"Hello. I'm Anthony St. George on location here in Washington.
On behalf of Canadians everywhere I'd like to offer an apology to the United States of America. We haven't been getting along very well recently and for that, I am truly sorry. I'm sorry we called George Bush a moron. He is a moron, but it wasn't nice of us to point it out. If it's any consolation, the fact that he's a moron shouldn't reflect poorly on the people of America. After all, it's not like you actually elected him.
I'm sorry about our softwood lumber. Just because we have more trees than you, doesn't give us the right to sell you lumber that's cheaper and better than your own. It would be like if, well, say you had ten times the television audeince we did and you flood our market with great shows, cheaper than we could produce. I know you'd never do that.
I'm sorry we beat you in Olympic hockey. In our defence I guess our excuse would be that our team was much, much, much, much better than yours. As word of apology, please accept all of our NHL teams which, one by one, are going out of business and moving to your fine country.
I'm sorry about our waffling on Iraq. I mean, when you're going up against a crazed dictator, you want to have your friends by your side. I realize it took more than two years before you guys pitched in against Hitler, but that was different. Everyone knew he had weapons.
I'm sorry we burnt down your White House during the War of 1812. I see you've rebuilt it! It's very nice.
I'm sorry for Alan Thicke, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Loverboy, that song from Seriff that ends with a really high-pitched long note. Your beer. I know we had nothing to do with your beer, but we feel your pain.
And finally on behalf of all Canadians, I'm sorry that we're constantly apologizing for things in a passive-aggressive way which is really a thinly veiled criticism. I sincerely hope that you're not upset over this. Because we've seen what you do to countries you get upset with.
For 22 minutes, I'm Anthony St. George, and I'm sorry."
Tuesday, July 01, 2003
.:8:04:28 PM:.
Happy Canada Day!
Yes indeedy its the anniversary of the confederation of Canada. All things considered, I live in a great country. Its never boring, from -30C to +30C, I've seen it snow at least once in every month (thankfully not all in the same year). Haha I feel like breaking into a rant... "I have a Prime Minister, not a president". I love Canada, just the other day I read some complaint that there were no Asian Males in the news in the states... and I almost started to think that the same was occuring in Canada only thanks to CBC that's not the case :). Its thundering like crazy outside, I'm not sure if there's going to be fireworks :(
I came across this article where I loved the line "To be perfectly honest, I didn't have a theme in mind when I wrote that tongue-in-cheek story" Yes its true! Writers do not necessarily write with a whole theme and character development plot explicitly planned out! Ha!!
Monday, June 30, 2003
.:11:05:39 AM:.
Why didn't I think of this sooner!?!
I was saying to myself the other day:
"Furious-D, (cuz that's what I call myself ;) what was a vintage
based-on-a-movie-game that you loved? Why Tron of course!" I replied to
Furious D. You had to use your imagination to fill in the whole 3d
perspective based on this little coloured line moving around, but it was
all good. Well, times have changed :P
and its better looking competitor:
glTron
.:12:53:27 AM:.
2D Java Game Engine
Came across this earlier today. It looks really nifty, and might just suit what we need for this project in the works. Originally I was thinking of just going straight into the whole ActiveX, then I remembered that Blender also had a game SDK. The only problem was that none of the people were too keen on using 3d. Ideally the next big game, in my opinion will be something that connects phone users with other phone users or desktop/laptops. This of course means using a server and probably doing it in Java since most phones can play java applets (or it should be a recompiled). This also means a whack load of networking stuff, and bandwidth might be crazy. I think it could be cool though, chatting (via SMS) is already there for the taking. The next level definitely has to be some sort of game. Simple yet playable across the network. If only...
