http://jasarien.com A Developing Software Developer Wed, 07 May 2008 23:07:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The scenario: You're minding your own business, probably sat at home on a quiet weekend watching some TV when there's a knock at the door. You answer it and immediately you're poked in the chest by someone you don't know! "Poooke! Hi, it's me! John, from school! Remember?". You have no idea ... http://jasarien.com/2008/05/07/why-is-it-ok-online/ So as inane conversations go, this one tops most. We do, indeed, PHAL. http://jasarien.com/2008/04/29/phal/ Big thanks to Rich for driving me to Cardiff to pick up my newly bound dissertation! Look! All that's left now is to hand it in and get my degree! http://jasarien.com/2008/04/16/behold/ I don't think about the future as much as I should. And I'm definitely not very good at planning my own future. I graduate this summer, which forces me to face a fork in the road that is my future. (I was gonna write 'destiny' there, but it sounded far too ... http://jasarien.com/2008/04/15/the-future/ I guess you don't know... What I'm trying to get across is the feeling one gets when one has just finished bashing out 17,000 words on one topic. 20,000 if you want to get pedantic and include every title, contents, code snippet and appendix. That's correct, I've finished my dissertation entitled ... http://jasarien.com/2008/04/15/its-like-whoa-you-know/ Just watch, I'm not sure words can convey the epic-ness of this one. Thank whatever higher power put physics and games in the same melting pot. http://jasarien.com/2008/04/15/epic-betrayal/ For those that live under rocks, the title is a quote from Family Guy. So I took the plunge and bought myself an XBox 360 after the price drop. It was too sweet a deal to miss out on. I've been spending quite a bit of time on it since I got ... http://jasarien.com/2008/03/24/its-mah-turn-on-the-sexbox-an-her-name-is-sony/ Terminator, Star Wars AT-AT Walkers, War of the Worlds! It looks like us Humans are going to be packing our bags pretty damn soon.... http://jasarien.com/2008/03/18/so-many-movie-references-so-little-time/ When my Macbook Pro isn't being used, it usually stays cooped up in my bag, waiting for the time when I'm at Uni, or at a friends house. Sometimes those visits can be few and far between. I'm only in Uni one day a week. So my thinking was that instead ... http://jasarien.com/2008/03/17/why-the-macbook-pro-makes-a-decent-server/ There are screams echoing over the interwebs that Apple is mass-rejecting applications for the iPhone Developer Program. However, this is a classic case of people overreacting or just being plain stupid. The e-mail people have receive goes a little something like this: "Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. ... http://jasarien.com/2008/03/15/iphone-developer-program-status/