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 currently working on a project: a card/cardboard Kanohi Ignika. It's going great so far, I've got a prototype pic about a week old:
Since then I've made the top have a more stick-out thing, like the real mask, and covered the top in black. I've also done a scale version of the actual front of the mask, so I'm gunna stick that on and use cardboard for the guy. And the stripes.
So yeah, look forward to that, I'll post more pics when I'm finished or I have another decent WIP stage (it
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
I notice the board has star ratings for users. I don't think this is a good idea.
What can one possibly gain out of being given a bad rating, with no reason. If you do leave a rating on a person's page, what are the chances, really, that you'll leave a comment explaining why you gave them that rating? With other things, such as artwork, or blogs, or videos, the chances are much higher. I would not 'one-star' a person, because that is just plain mean. Imagine how degrading it must feel to be a
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'
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
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 was going to make an entry about Google Instant and Google Scribe, the cool new stuff. But then I saw this DOUBLE RAINBOW outside. Took some photos on my phone:
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So yeah. I'm on exam leave again. Got lucky this time, the rainbow heralds my 6-day weekend. =D
EDIT: The funny thing is, the weatherman had said there'd be 'strange weather', and my mum said "What sort of strange weather?", to which I replied "A double rainbow, of course!", and I was RIGHT! I must be a p
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
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
I'm working on a Mata Nui MOC right now. I've got so far the lower torso, that is, hip and pistons up to the bottom of the chest. It's massive. Here's a pic (linked) of Toa Mata Nui lying down next to his former lower torso: Here
This will be a hard project.
I haven't posted in ages, so I thought I might as well.
My dad's put parental controls on, so I only have access to the computer 4 hours a day weekdays, 14 hours a day weekends.This is annoying, because it's the 4 hours of my day that nobody is online, that is, 6PM-8PM GMT+10
The End of Time Part 1 airs tomorrow, and I'm hoping at least SOME friends turn up to watch with us. If they don't, they should at least come for Part 2. The annoying thing is that (probably because of TV channel comp
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
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
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
You know that song, I am the Doctor, from Doctor Who? Yeah, you know the one, the main one? Plays all the time. Anyway, I thought it might be fun to reverse it, and it was! It's a great song forwards and backwards. Here's the backwards version, I'm calling it rotcoD eht ma I:
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Sound dips sometimes coz of how it was
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
