equivocal ramblings

During the first year of college, I was assigned a project–CS114, HTML & JavaScript. Now, it was a really simple thing, but the sheer stupidity of the thing made me neglect it, and now, at the end of year two, I have to finish it. In fact, I have to finish it by the 25th of this month.

Starting tonight, I am on a marathon–develop a real estate type website, use liberal amounts of JavaScript, and then document it. Yes, it’s one of those. My classmates enjoyed this task apparently. They must have, as a few of them turned in a binder with a page count in excess of 500.

This of course included a printout of the actual source code for each and every HTML, JS or other file included as part of the website. Still, that means that they managed to write about 200 pages of documentation consisting of mostly debugging/testing… for a basic HTML/JS site.

What this all means is that till the 25th, I have no life.

Today I went bowling for the first time as a result of rain ruining baseball plans. I scored a 69, and a 68. I even got a spare and a strike in the same round :P

I’d resisted all suggestions to go bowling in the past, but I found it really fun, and definitely want to do it again.

My arm hurts though.

It is now 2:38 into the new year. Hmmm…

I’ve decided to listen to every single track in my music collection — about 3000 items right now.

Now, it is as good as written in stone that I am not going to like every song on the album. Would you keep the tracks you’re never going to listen to for the sake of completeness, or not?

Assume you didn’t buy this on the iTMS, but rather ripped them from CDs just in case you’re factoring in money spent.

Blogcritics.org: Why Going to the Movies Sucks So Bad is a nice take on the (sometimes) ordeal of having to go watch a movie…

Quite a long while ago, I really enjoyed The 5th Exotic by Quantic. Today, I rediscovered the album — the phrase “Sometimes a man has to a very long way…” kept repeating itself in my mind, and I couldn’t remember where it was from, or what the ending to that sentence was. A quick Google search and I found it.

Listen to the samples they’ve put up, maybe you’ll like it.

Update: Ahem. Apologies to the planets for the ill-formed link…

I gave hosted publishing a try over at Wordpress.com, and after checking it out and trying to work with it, I’ve decided it isn’t meant to be. Something about not being able to choose my software, my own design, my own customisation, my own code if I so chose… it just troubles me.

Maybe I’m just spoilt, having good hosts, and free reign of the server.

A month ago I got a new Nokia 6630 3G mobile phone in place of my dreadfully obsolete and damaged Motorola C330. I just sold it today, and am placing my order for an iPAQ 6365. Ah sweet touch screen, here I come.

What have I been up to? I don’t really know myself. I’ve been working a little, but mostly I’ve just been sick. Ahh yes sick. No, no. Not the flu. Lets just say that I’m no quite sure what it is, except that it has a lot to do with chronic migraine, nerves and other fun neurological stuff. All that painfully fun stuff.

On a more positive note, I’ve been watching Lost recently, and am almost done with the first season. I love the way the characters all have such varied pasts. It is a little sad though to watch as they kill them off one by one.

With that, I think I will leave you now for another month or two.

“Open up Internet Explorer, go to Tools->Internet Options and clear all cookies, downloaded programme files and the history please. Alright. Now, please disconnect from the internet, turn off your modem for 15 minutes, and reconnect. If you still experience problems, call us back.”

“But… I’m on DSL/512. I shouldn’t be getting these low speeds no matter what.”

“Yes sir. Please turn your modem off for 15 minutes and call us back. Now, is there anything else I can help you with?”

What was my original complaint? I called up and explained that for the past month I’ve been having frequent disconnections, and reduced bandwidth to the point where dialup looks good. I’ve run their craptacular tests for bandwidth, and scored a consistent 142 kbit/s. I ran it three times as the page requested, took the average, and … what do they do? Tell me to delete my cookies.