Archive for May, 2006

Comment Spam!

Published
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Jasarien
on May 21st, 2006
in Computing, Every Day Life and Lost
. Closed

There seems to be some *expletive deleted* knob-end (or a program written by a knob-end) going around and spamming my blog with comments. Look here. I will say this once. I will say it only once.

I AM NOT INTERESTED IN ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO OFFER ME!

is that clear? No viagra, no poker, no free virus scans, no PC health checks, no free organic food diet supplements. Got it? Now fuck off.

Ahem!
In other news, LOST is nearing the end of its second season and I simply can’t wait for next weeks two-hour special season finale! I have never been so engrossed in a TV series like this. I’m afraid to say anything about the show incase someone who is watching Lost reads this and is only following it on UK times. I’ve been watching it with the ‘Mericans, since season two didn’t start until May over here. Season two started in the USA, just as season one was finishing in the UK.

I’ve ordered the novel Bad Twin, written by an author (supsected to be either Stephen King or another author I forgot the name of) ghosting as Gary Troup. Bad Twin was the manuscript Sawyer was reading in Lost (I don’t think that counts as a spoiler because it’s not elaborate enough). It’s part of the background reading material for the Lost Experience alternate reality game. Very fun, very interesting and totally Lost related :P .

Oh by the way, if you don’t want any spoilers, don’t visit the site I linked to up there. Spoiler heaven if you’re not current with USA Lost. Anyway - three words and an exclamation mark - BEST SERIES EVER!

{sings}
I love my Mac! ‘Cuz it’s so dependable, so sensible, so beautiful!
{/sings}

Seriously, I haven’t used Windows for longer than five minutes since I bought this hunk of sexy Apple-product. I’ve already managed to get the games I play most running on it without having to go out and buy physical Mac copies. Except Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne. But that doesn’t count anyway, because I never owned them in the first place, and the Mac version comes with the PC version on the same discs anyway, like WoW. And Diablo. And Every other Blizzard game. Lol.

Finally, if anyone is interested, I have an AMD Athlon64 FX-57 (2.8ghz) for sale. E-mail me if you’re interested and I’ll see what I can do. Failing that, I’m gonna eBay it anyway. There’s also 1gb of Corsair PC4400, 2.5-3-3-8 overclockers RAM, an MSI-K8N SLI Platinum motherboard, a Lite-on DVD-RW± drive and a 485W Enermax Power Supply Unit. So yeah - if no-one wants them - eBay.
(If you’re wondering what happened to the 7800 GTX… Well I’m still saving that for Rich, but if he doesn’t want it then that’s going to get eBay’d too.)

Willish Translator 1.3

Published
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Jasarien
on May 15th, 2006
in Computing
. 0 Comments

The Willish Translator is already in it’s 3rd revision.

I have to credit Will for this revision. He brought up the question “Why does a = 1?”. Well the answer was simple…. wasn’t it? the ‘a’ key had nothing to its left, so we had to give it some value… Me and Rich didn’t think hard enough though, because Will quickly suggested having a = l, q = p, and z = m. In my mind (now that I think about it) that makes perfect sense, and I wish I had thought of it in the first place.

Mine and Rich’s original logic was that since ‘a’ has nothing to its left, we would go one to the right instead. That gave rise to the first problem. Using that method, the letter ’s’ in Willish could be translated into either an ‘a’ or a ‘d’, and the compiler didn’t like that at all. So we assigned an unused value to ‘a’ - 1. This then gave rise to the problem that if one was to used numbers in text, the 1 could be an ‘a’ or indeed, a one.
To skirt around that problem, me and Rich decided that numbers in Willish must be written in their worded form. This seemed to work for a while, until Will brought up the subject.

Will’s logic is that if you go left from the ‘a’ key and keep going around the keboard, the next letter key you’ll reach is the ‘l’ key. Same holds true for the ‘q’ and the ‘z’ keys. I did a quick bit of thinking as he mentioned this, and it occurred to me that if you translate anything into Willish using the old method, the letters ‘p’, ‘l’, and ‘z’ never appear. So why not make them useful?

And so we did :) Thanks Will. You’re more intelligent than you let on sometimes! ;)

The Willish Translator v1.2

Published
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Jasarien
on May 14th, 2006
in Computing
. 0 Comments

Hey,

So I wrote a program :) hehe.

I thought, “I’m on a computing course, learning C++, and I’m not putting it to use!” - so I created the Willish Translator. I’ve made it available via this website, so go to its page to read about it. It’s nothing special. A console based application that translates a sentence into Willish, and back again - if you so wish.

I’ve made the source available too, so if you’re that way inclined you can take a peek and modify it to suit your needs…. lol.

So… yeah.. thats about it :)

Kittens!

Published
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Jasarien
on May 9th, 2006
in Every Day Life
. 0 Comments

I forgot to mention, since I was pre-occupied with other things, that “Little-Kitten” (I swear, my cats don’t have real names…) gave birth to 3 little kitties! Me and Sof did take some pics, but they’re still on her Digicam at the moment, and I can’t be arsed to get them yet. But rest assured, they will be posted.

Also, on a not so light note, Sof and I had a trip to Ystrad Mynych last night to see the Emergency Vet. After the cat had given birth, she still seemed agitated, and was breathing heavily, and wouldn’t keep still. We had a feel around and we could feel something that resembled ‘kitten’ still inside. I swear, it was still wriggling. But, however, after examination by the vet, and an x-ray, it turns out she was just lightly constipated.

Great. Awesome.

We drove across half of Wales (getting lost at one point) and payed extortional out-of-hours fees to be told that my cat couldn’t poo. The vet was nice enough not to charge us for the ultra sound scan though.

Better safe than sorry eh…? :)

The Fucking Nerve…

Published
by
Jasarien
on May 7th, 2006
in All Out Rants
. 0 Comments

Dave? You are a royal twat. Do you know that? Why are you so high and mighty? Get off your fucking horse. Not everyone worships you as their God. What the fuck do know about when I started using Linux? I didn’t even KNOW you when I started using Linux. I had a friend in Croesey Comp named Daniel Williams that I knew from Primary School, who used it as a webserver. If anything I picked up the interest from him, not you. Also, when I did a weeks work experience at South Wales Computer Repair I used one of the employee’s laptops which had Redhat 6.0 installed. Don’t give me that bullshit.
World Of Warcraft? My friends Dan and Will were playing it, and I bought it to join them, hence why I joined Dragonblight with them, and not the server you were on. ALSO I bought the game before you fucking did. You hypocritical wank. You owned a gun… whooty-fucking-doo! Now when anyone else buys a gun, are you going to accuse them of jumping on YOUR bandwagon? Is every Linux user after you only a user because you are? Is every Mac user only a user because you are?! No. Neither am I. You are nothing to me. I didn’t buy ANYTHING to impress ANYONE. That’s just your view because you think you own the fucking world. Well fuck you.

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