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Some sort of uber epic catchup thing

Si — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:40:50 +0000

Well, it would appear that now my exams are all over, it would be a good time to get back to something that has been majorly ignored, and that would be my blog. I mean, when is the last time I actually wrote something in here that is of some use. Oh, so long ago that you can’t remember?! Well, thats my point proven.

Unfortunantly for some, my exams are more important than other stuff, including the failed Pic-a-Week, that unfortunantly is postponed until futher notice. Yeah, I know, I must suck and be fail or something but pah, sod it, I don’t care, you’re getting new websites soon, which should be awesome

So now for some content, what have I been filling my time with? Well, exams are what take the number 1 space in wasting time as I have had 8 lovely (not!) exams in 18 brilliant(-ly boring) hours. I swear thats almost more than there at the end of Sixth Form, and well, that declares the end of that. How did they go? Fine. (I hope!) Results are on next Friday (19th) so it will be one last trip back to Bristol for that before I run away going “dammit, I only got x% in this exam” (hopefully higher than the pass percentage ) Apart from that, Lolgasm recordings have taken up some time, even more now considering that it seems each episode, something else goes wrong in Audition so maybe it’s time to just give up on that. After all these exams some time is due to just doing sod all. My flat mate and I went to Bristol Zoo, it was quite cool. Got some nice pictures, look at the spam-a-lot-gallery if you wantto see them (oh and see the Fail video ) (note to self: dont write turtle or tortoise you will ALWAYS be wrong).

Exams over, I’m back at home. (barely!) Two bags that weigh OVER NINE THOUSAND grams each (well about 20 each) carrying 3 miles to BTM wasn’t the most fun in my life. All of my body aches and stuff which just makes the day go wrong. When I got home it’s starting to spend. Ordered my new laptop, my new graphics card, RMA’d (for refund ftw) my old graphics card and bought a new wireless adapter. Yeah Skillers, not quite a tx2 (more like your model) but for the price feck it I’m happy. Then hell came. . Thus concluded Friday.

So, when does my stuff arrive? Monday for the laptop, Tuesday for the gcard pickup, friday for the gcard and wireless arrival. I will soon be back in business. But wait, I hear you cry (Dragon) how was I playing TF2. Well, for saving buying a Techious Subscription for other people, TF2 and L4D on my dads pc is in order (@Will_Anderson lol ). Now to not spend anything else (until Wii Sports Resort comes out of course!)

Plans for the summer, well theres three projects on the go, spage, SiBot and AdminBot. Yes, the server is self-aware (well will be when I’m done ) MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I HAS BUILT SINET . Then comes the TECHIOUS LAN 09! Bring it on bitches I PWN J00. Folding will hit a full going over here (at 2500ppd atm 24/7 (and thats just on one pc)). Finally (of course) will be trying to see all my friends alot this summer (unless this bs fude bs starts again :@). Oh yes, I am also planning a special new mp3 release, my voice artist show Morally Objectional?)

There has never been a better time for anything in life to happen. The interwebs will be our friends (and other technorubbish). I hope this small reply is good enough for you, and I will be writing alot more from now on (I promise!)

Arrivederci!

University Unpacking part done

Si — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:41:00 +0000

Right, this is part of the main unpacking done, obviously knowing me, the first thing I’ve tried to do is to try and get my computer on the internet. After fiddling with their security software, I’ve finally got it online, and it seems quite fast. I haven’t tried Steam but hopefully that should work later. If not then that’ll be me out of TF2 games for a while, though more importantly for Techious we’d better hope it works for skillers tommorow because if it doesn’t then that really is the end for Techious’ server, being that he pays for most of it.

Spore, spore, spore, spore, spore

Si — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:24:27 +0000

Is it just me or is every other advert on TV for spore at the moment. Apparently it is the best game in the universe or something. And yea, I want it, but I can’t afford it. Cheapest I can find it is £26.99 on Play.com and I can’t afford that dammit. So, I’m still stuck with the free creature creator until I can either find some money or it comes down in price (both happening would be the most ideal situation).

However, I sense the curse of buying games will follow me. It seems any game I buy on release is almost half the price a month later, and any game that I don’t buy in the first month will remain like that for the next million years or so. Being I haven’t got spore, chances are it is going to be one of the latter, especially with it being the huge hit it appears to be. I mean half my Steam list is on spore, and well it’s not even on Steam, thats just people that launch it through there. It’s currently 4th on the Xfire most played game list, and being it’s not even been out for a week, thats some feat! Only trailing between COD4,2 and WoW (wow that rubbish is popular).

My computer is running well, apart from I only get a framerate of 5-10 when I forget to turn folding@home-gpu off (6 hour work unit ftw!).

Left4Dead coming out in October, that shall also be awesome, can’t wait to see what Valve have done to pimp the Source Engine some more, though it seems that soon Source might be having a huge graphical upgrade, so DX10.1 might come in useful for ep3 More games to buy, just great. Now let me work this out, if I don’t eat for the next 3 months while I’m at Uni, I can afford to get spore and l4d. I know, I’ll try this new votey thing and see what the two people who read this thing I should do!

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In other more home news, my photos site is down (noooooo) while I upload all 1 million gigabytes to the new server. It’s about 40% done so should be back up and running by the end of the week. And don’t worry Reedy, your blog’ll be back up soon enough!

Moving to Uni on the 27th. That is going to be one heck of a shock when I move in, though a bit of TF2 or HL2DM might take the edge off No more matches though, I think last night set that we are screwed with that, and with the admin plugin kicking the wrong person :/ yeah, I think we need a bit of work all round,

That’s about it, hopefully enough for you to spam comments on Skillers