I've got a bit of a procrastination problem. For example, I have a series of exams starting tomorrow, important exams, and yet, here I am. I can't shake it. I was determined this morning to write some essays and prepare for the English exam, but here we are at 6:30 PM and I've only done a bit of coding all day. I've managed to procrastinate despite very slow internet and stopping myself going on the more time-sinking websites. It's quite an achievement really. I suppose I could possibly get
So that's the holidays over. My last school holidays. What did I do? I got a new phone. I wrote and published an Android app. I had several ideas for hardware that I have no way to act upon. Studied a bit. Went out for dinner with friends. And tomorrow, school. Two weeks, then exams. Eight more weeks, then more exams. Then, university applications, freelance work, real life. My eighteenth birthday. University. Then what? It's all happening so fast. The final year of school is designed to str
I'm back because I need to sell my sets. It's unfortunate, and I'm very sad it's come to this, but I must, because I'm moving and I haven't any space to keep them. I'll probably stay, because if there's one thing I need now, it's more distractions. I feel like I have been gone over a year - I came back after the upgrade, but I just stopped coming soon after. But so much has changed, even in the time I've been gone, three months or so. I'm nearly finished high school, I've turned 17, I've rele
I love seeing how wrong people were back in 'the old days', ie. the 90's. So you could imagine how fun it was for me when I found this ancient website telling people all about screens. I find it hilarious that there was a time when a 1600x1200 resolution was "Terrible" on a 14-inch monitor. I mean, a DPI of 142 is nothing compared to say, the Retina display on the iPhone 4S, or the 720p HD screens on the upcoming Galaxy Nexus and HTC Rezound, but it's pretty good for a (albeit tiny) monitor. It'
This morning came the release of Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot. I rushed to install it, left in a hurry for school, and arrived back to find it pretty much done (it had to pause to ask my permission while I was at school). So now I have Oneiric. Cool. It brings signifcant improvements. Skype, for example, loads about three times as fast. The settings are much neater, and Mac-like. In fact, it has a bit of a Mac OS feel to it, what with Unity. But that's good, because Mac's user experience is fant
Here is a list of things I cared about that happened in the break: Doctor Who (it was BRILLIANT). Two thirds of year 11 (a reasonably good year) (also lol it took ages to come back). I started my last year of high school. I started making an Android app. I decided what I'm doing in university (Computer Science and Chemistry double-degree) My phone is practically destroyed. Android 2.3.2-2.3.7 and 3.0.1-3.2 came out, and 4.0 comes out on Wednesday The iPhone 4S was underwhelming. Steve Jo
I've found two so far.
Chromercise - First I thought it was a new Chrome Short, but it was pretty obviously April Fools. Quite funny. I'm not in the US so I couldn't try getting the finger bands, unfortunately.
Gmail Motion - Frikkin' hilarious. Especially the words the motions produce. Top stuff.
Anyone see anything else?
Rav
They're discussing the 3DS in the DS topic. Did they discuss the DS in the GBA topic, too?
Why don't people realise that the 3DS is not a new DS, it's a next-gen handheld?
I got some hands-on time for the 3DS today.
IT IS AMAZING.
AMAZING.
Also, some info from my conversation with the staff guy at the event:
- He told me to expect an 8th-Gen Nintendo home console at E3 2012
- He also said that 2012 will be a "big year in gaming" (emphasised on Nintendo)
- The 3DS has a 200MHz GPU (I think it was GPU) underclocked at 133MHz
- It's also got a (I think he said "low power", maybe dual-core) CPU, which is for MULTITASKING (YAY!)
- 64MB of RAM
- Browser
Let's start off the year with some trolling, shall we?
If I timed this right, as I'm sure I have, this will be the first blog entry posted from 2011 on BZPower, assuming no premier members live in NZ or Japan and also plan to do this.
Since I live in Australia, I have the opportunity to post this entry during 2011 while the rest of the world is still in 2010. When I posted this, it was between 5 and 8 AM in America, and around 1PM in Britain. But here, it was 2011.
I don't actually hav
And possibly my last entry in a year with two 0's in it, how exciting!
Well, I had better make it of some substance. I'm not going to do a recap, or anything like that, no, no. I'm going to make this good.
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2010 was fun, but 2011 will be better. There's a novel idea.
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If anything, I think 2011 will be one higher than 2010.
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Predictions: Death and taxes, and possibly other things as well.
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I'm going to be the first person on BZP to post a blog entry from
You're probably all familiar with the PlayStation Phone - A Sony Ericsson phone with built-in PSP functionality:
It's a cool concept - it runs Android 2.3, Gingerbread, with full slide-out DualShock-style controls, and a PlayStation app, which I assume will include a games library à la the PSP Go.
I read an article the other day (yesterday, actually) which was complaining that the PSPhone ought to not be running Android, but instead, should be running Sony's own proprietary OS, because i
