Bannanaz

Bannanaz, eh? Long. Smooth. Tasty. Yellow. Could be something else, except if it's yellow, you might need to see a doctor... Yet I digress. Banana's are actually my most favourite fruit. They're so yellow and have a nice texture. That, and their immense power as a phallic symbol. That's pretty full of win.

Right. So what can we do with bananas? Well, you could eat them. That would be boring though, wouldn't it? Instead, you could make a smoothie. Loads of ice cream, loads of banana, little milk, blend it up and you're done. Tasty. but still boring. So here are five other things you can do with a banana!

1. Wear it:
   One obvious way comes to mind... but you could probably also sew banana skins together to make a nice raincoat. Or a shirt. Or something.
2. Sex toy:
   *cough*
3. Start a banana-rights group:
   Collect together all the bananas you can find, theft possible if necessary*, take some photographs of their terrible conditions (one of them tightly packed together should be enough to bring a tear to the eye of even the most devout opposition) and make a lot of money giving interviews about said terrible conditions on TV.
4. Make a Pottasium bomb:
   Bananas are high in Pottasium. Pottasium is reactive. Put two and two together and you have a plentiful supply of explosive foodstuffs! Can be used in conjunction with idea 3 - take people hostage and blow them up with the very things they opress!
5. Start a multinational corporation:
   Use bananas as empoyees! I'm sure their average IQ is greater than that of your average American...
   

Mmm... Chocolate chips...

I was stumbling around the internet today, and I happened to come across this article, giving a little experiment to show the speed of light. I must remember to do that experiment myself some time. Exclusively for the scientific value, I swear. Nothing to do with having to eat the chocolate afterwards...

Oh yeah, and this is interesting too.

I call shotgun!

A firm observer of the rules of shotgun, I attempted to call shotgun on a short road trip. A lift home to be precise. However, I was thwarted by someone saying something to the effect of:

"You can't call shotgun! I can't see the car!"

At this point, I was, obviously, disheartened at the fact that I had lost my right to shotgun. Furthermore, I decided to take a good look at the rules, and discovered a passage that shows that I had shotgun rights after all:

The Line-Of-Sight Rule
In the situation of the deed being a hike or other extensive outdoor activity, you may not call Shotgun until the automobile is within your sight. This rule needs only to be used when the passengers are outside for a long time and have traveled long distances from the car, as with a day of snow skiing.

I'd have to say this is quite obviously stating that, as the "deed", specifically an exam, has been done inside, the line-of-sight rule doesn't apply. 'Nuff said.

Jack codes in Delphi!

Jack Bauer, in his infinite wisdom, seems to have learnt some rather impressive coding skills. As commented on here, Jack definitely seems to be a pretty good user of Delphi. Hell, he was able to use a part-written media player he wrote to tell that an EMP was going to go off. Damn. I'm impressed.
What's next? Dieing and coming back to life? Oh wait.

Do a barrel roll!

Was googling around and happened to find a blog entry that intrigued me. Guy doing a barrel roll while pouring ice tea. Works under the laws of physics, but is still pretty damned impressive:

Gaming in Linux

Wow, seems I'm doing an entry that actually has a point. How rare.

Anyway. Gaming in linux. Although generally not people's preferred gaming platform, Linux is anything but incapable. Generally, there are two ways to go. You can either go for native Linux games - Darwinia is a personal favourite of mine, running on Windows, Linux or Mac OSX - or running Windows games via some sort of emulator*, my personal choice being Wine, or a variant like Cedega. There are, of course, some steps common to getting games working either way, specifically getting drivers for your graphics card working properly. I won't bother explaining about my experiences with this. If you can't use google well enough to find some help, I'm not sure if you're ready to use Linux...

* Wine isn't actually an emulator, more of a compatibility layer. Emulator's easier to explain.

Native linux games? There's a few out there. As I said, Darwinia's my personal favourite, and there are also a couple of other games from the same guys, Uplink, which is available now, and Defcon, which is awesome and coming soon. There's also a couple of the more "mainstream" games, like Quake 3 Arena, Neverwinter Nights and Unreal Tournament 2k3 which have been ported onto linux. Generally, these are pretty easy to install, but if all else fails, you can always google for a howto... There's usually one around for any problem you'll have. Check linuX-gamers for that.

That said, good native linux games are still pretty sparse, at least compared to Windows ones. That's where Wine comes into play. Once again, I'd best point you to linuX-gamers or WineHQ, as I don't feel like going into detail over setup details. Cutting a long story short, Wine lets you run a lot of windows software under Linux. Often badly. And with setup issues. But still, it's better than nothing. And if you're willing to shell out a little, head over and have a look at TransGaming's Cedega program. Designed specifically for gaming, they've got a reasonable list of games that run quite well, Half Life 2, Civilization IV and Guild Wars to name a few. So, um, I guess that's about all I've got to say on the subject. Now go. Install linux and, most importantly, play.

Oh yeah, personal note, another exam over. And another one tomorrow. Bah.

New Stuff.

 Whether or not anyone's been paying attention, I've been bitching about computing needing something new for quite a while. Well, as I discovered while surfing today, there are a few things you can do. (Just a note for windows users, you're stuck without stuff like this. Serves you right.)
Recently, I moved onto Ubuntu as my operating system. Some linux enthusiasts may disagree, but it's nicely organised, and simplifies a lot of the hard stuff. As default, it's not installed, but I learnt about a very nice music playing app called amaroK. Organises everything very well. That was step one.
Step two. Compiz. What's compiz? Compiz makes your computer look the way it always should've done. Alpha blended title bars, rotating cube desktop, stretchy windows. So many things have been thrown into this window manager. On top of that, it runs pretty smoothly two. Hell, it's usable on the heap I call a PC, so who shouldn't be able to run it?
Other than that, only other thing worth meantioning would be Wine. It lets you run windows software under linux. Sometimes. 'Nuff said.
On a final note, it be the exam period now. Got an exam tomorrow. Damn. Well, goodnight.

I'm tired...

 I'm tired. So I'm going to go to bed soon. But first I'm going to see how well this thing works.
From what I've observed through life, it's probably better to tell people how you feel. Despite this, most people, including myself, never bother. They simply coast through life, getting blown around by the currents of what other people do.
So yeah. I got thinking again. Sucks, doesn't it? Wish people would just tell me what they're thinking... I may be offended, but I'll try hard not to hold it against you. Much.
Oh yeah, and I changed the look of the site. What ye think?

What

Damn. I'm confused. Would someone please give me a detailed description of what the hell is going on?

Seriously though. Can someone please tell me what the real story is? No idea if anyone who knows what's going on will even see this. But, in the rare event that someone does, please tell me what the shit is happening. And yes, it involves my personal feelings. Now go. Tell me. Email me or something. 

Reporting on life

Oh, hi! Looks like someone looked at my site. Possibly not though, you never know.

However, I can say that life looks to be quite happy at the momeny. Happy happy happy. In fact, on this fine evening, I've been bloody ecstatic. Frisbeeing. People. Other happy things. Yay.

Additionally, the hosting's sorted out on this site for about another six months. What does that mean for you? Oh, just a good littering of good space on the intraweb. Yay.

 

A news post

 So, I put some news here! Yay!
Well, life seems to be going on. Some intriguing email going on. Hooray for that.
Also, I must point out the newest addition to my links! CLICK IT. Or don't. Or something.
That's all for now.
(Edit: The top one. Not the bottom one. In fact, bottom one is gone. Ha.)

Freelance

Well. I'm low on money. And I can write PHP sites quite well, so anyone who wishes to have one can now contact me with what they want, offer a sum of money for the construction and development and I'll see what I can do \o/

So uh, on with anybody who actually wants to pay me \o/
 

Stay Hungry

Well, now time for inspiration from Fozzy - Stay Hungry. Well um, I'm hungry :s
Anyway, I hath returnethed! Back from Wales, there was plenty of rain there, but that's normal, right? Back to job hunting for a while, and um. What else can I say? Oh, hello >_<
At the end of this entry, I'm listening to Reel Big Fish - Average Man.

Start Something

So um, time to think of something to say. Well, as a complete coincidence, I shall, today, be drawing my inspiration for the first time from the song I'm listening to. Happens to be Lostprophets - Start Something. On that theme, I'm going to start doing this regularly. I just hope I don't get caught blogging while listening to Electric Six.
Anyway, I'm out on holiday sometime this/next week - I'm not really sure, I never do listen to my family about this kind of thing. I do, however, know that we're heading up to north Wales, Shell Island to be precise. Nice little camping place, probably the only place in Wales where it doesn't rain 80%+ of the time. While I'm up there, however, you'll lose my superb blogging abilities, so I'm afraid you'll have to find another blog to read. Either that, or you can look for some archived posts of mine somewhere on my site.
By now, I'm listening to Lostprophets - To Hell We Ride, and thinking about stuff. Want to know what? Get over it.

Silly Spaces RSS//Mirrored

Well, I'm just trying to slap the RSS into working right. Props to Trows for working out which word was censored.

Well, I've got a mirror working now! That's about it for this post, other than this.
Currently listening to Nightwish and doing very little.

Moving my blog, it would seem

Well meh, I feel like storing my blog on MSN now, shouldn't be a problem though, I'll be able to syndicate it all onto my own server, with the added benefit of no database load. Woo.

Anyway, back to the normal stuff. Finally got my music organised and getting a load of music back onto my collection, go me. Also just got back from France and had a chance to meet some people, if you're reading this, hello!



Currently listening to some Good Charlotte and updating a few things.