I am tired.

God damn, I'm tired. It's 11:30pm and amazingly, my mark was a 78% on that first assignment for English. I was pretty sure I'd get at most a 60% (considering my last paragraph is only a sentence long, 60% seems about right), but wow! I can't believe she gave me that mark!

On a more serious note, I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and enjoyed it. It's hard to look at many lines of code all day. I'm afraid I'm going to burn out or something...Let's hope not.

Anyway, KonSort/GNUFilter will be coming soon. I just have to add the Boost C++ library for the moving/copying and just figure out some GUI (Graphical User Interface) things. Qt makes life so much easier.

And now, good night.

I am tired.

God damn, I'm tired. It's 11:30pm and amazingly, my mark was a 78% on that first assignment for English. I was pretty sure I'd get at most a 60% (considering my last paragraph is only a sentence long, 60% seems about right), but wow! I can't believe she gave me that mark!

On a more serious note, I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and enjoyed it. It's hard to look at many lines of code all day. I'm afraid I'm going to burn out or something...Let's hope not.

Anyway, KonSort/GNUFilter will be coming soon. I just have to add the Boost C++ library for the moving/copying and just figure out some GUI (Graphical User Interface) things. Qt makes life so much easier.

And now, good night.

Best output. Ever.

outStr , your , KNIFE , that , will , FIGHT's , want , just , love , meet ,
It makes sense which is the most amazing part! I should enter it into a programming poetry contest or something.

Best output. Ever.

outStr , your , KNIFE , that , will , FIGHT's , want , just , love , meet ,
It makes sense which is the most amazing part! I should enter it into a programming poetry contest or something.

Cryptic (maybe crappy?) lines

Chaos smells like decay,
And the universe smells like flowers.

Those are my two cryptic lines for Friday.

Cryptic (maybe crappy?) lines

Chaos smells like decay,
And the universe smells like flowers.

Those are my two cryptic lines for Friday.

Question for the Day

How long do you think a website (or anything else) can continue to survive without creative and thought-provoking content?

Question for the Day

How long do you think a website (or anything else) can continue to survive without creative and thought-provoking content?

Party person, she is not.

Opinionated - I'm not much of a party person

Wow. That's exactly how I feel, even though I haven't really been in that situation. A friend of mine said something like "don't knock it if you haven't tried it" but I think that's absurd. I don't know if this is a logical error on my part or not, but if we applied it, it would seem like we couldn't talk about anything. For example, religion and politics would be completely out of the question to discuss...
"You've never been a member of [insert religion, or cult, here] so you can't tell me it's stupid or anything"

I'm just rambling right now. It's Sunday night, my pretty straightforward and simple English assignment is only a quarter, if that, done and I haven't gotten much programming done. Overall, this weekend was a waste except for Maus. Now that's a good Holocaust survivor's tale. The art is great and reminds me of Dick Tracy. Argh, back to work.

Party person, she is not.

Opinionated - I'm not much of a party person

Wow. That's exactly how I feel, even though I haven't really been in that situation. A friend of mine said something like "don't knock it if you haven't tried it" but I think that's absurd. I don't know if this is a logical error on my part or not, but if we applied it, it would seem like we couldn't talk about anything. For example, religion and politics would be completely out of the question to discuss...
"You've never been a member of [insert religion, or cult, here] so you can't tell me it's stupid or anything"

I'm just rambling right now. It's Sunday night, my pretty straightforward and simple English assignment is only a quarter, if that, done and I haven't gotten much programming done. Overall, this weekend was a waste except for Maus. Now that's a good Holocaust survivor's tale. The art is great and reminds me of Dick Tracy. Argh, back to work.

Wonder Drug? Blah.

Wired News: LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?
I have never understood the appeal of drugs like LSD, pot, coke, etc. Does anyone want to volunteer and explain it to me?

Moving on then...I've discovered Qt, possibly the best GUI. It's great for RAD and reminds me of Visual BASIC. For example, I've already coded a GUI for GNUFilter and the major features are in. I'm amazed that there are sockets and file info objects. Just wow...I wish I had started coding using Qt earlier.

And the final thought of the day, The Wind in the Willows is an excellent book and everyone should read it. The end.

Wonder Drug? Blah.

Wired News: LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?
I have never understood the appeal of drugs like LSD, pot, coke, etc. Does anyone want to volunteer and explain it to me?

Moving on then...I've discovered Qt, possibly the best GUI. It's great for RAD and reminds me of Visual BASIC. For example, I've already coded a GUI for GNUFilter and the major features are in. I'm amazed that there are sockets and file info objects. Just wow...I wish I had started coding using Qt earlier.

And the final thought of the day, The Wind in the Willows is an excellent book and everyone should read it. The end.

My day has been made.

For every 10 Eric S. Raymond rants, there's 1 good piece of writing. Or something like that. Here's what ESR has to say about HTML hell. There are a few types of hell and I'd like to point out two of my favourites.

From Design Hell, we have...
unreadable text/background combinations
    The world is full of clowns who think their text pages look better in clown makeup, clashing colors galore (your typical garish-background idiot also pulls this one a lot). The magic words these losers need to learn are "luminance contrast". Your color sense is between you and the Gods of Bad Taste, but if you don't stick to either light text on dark backgrounds or the reverse, you will drive away surfers who like to be able to read without suffering eye-burn.

And Style Hell...(The first two from that section are best, but I'll only paste one here.)
angst and pretentiousness
    We were originally going to vent our spleen at black backgrounds, until we realized that black is not the problem. It's the three overlapping populations of losers that compose 99% of the black backgrounds on the Web that are the problem. These are (a) cooler-than-thou art fags, (b) angst-ridden adolescents, and (c) the kind of coffeehouse trendoids who actually believe subscribing to Wired makes them hip. Clue: angst and pretentiousness are boring. People who spew bad poetry and/or make a fetish of writing in all-smalls and/or traffic in fuzzy images of mediocre avant-garde art should slit their wrists or join a commune or do anything else that will keep their self-indulgent sludge off the Web.


Congrats to ESR for writing something that has made my day. He basically finishes by saying content is king. Just like the 9rules blog network..."If content is King, think of us as the Royal family".

My day has been made.

For every 10 Eric S. Raymond rants, there's 1 good piece of writing. Or something like that. Here's what ESR has to say about HTML hell. There are a few types of hell and I'd like to point out two of my favourites.

From Design Hell, we have...
unreadable text/background combinations
    The world is full of clowns who think their text pages look better in clown makeup, clashing colors galore (your typical garish-background idiot also pulls this one a lot). The magic words these losers need to learn are "luminance contrast". Your color sense is between you and the Gods of Bad Taste, but if you don't stick to either light text on dark backgrounds or the reverse, you will drive away surfers who like to be able to read without suffering eye-burn.

And Style Hell...(The first two from that section are best, but I'll only paste one here.)
angst and pretentiousness
    We were originally going to vent our spleen at black backgrounds, until we realized that black is not the problem. It's the three overlapping populations of losers that compose 99% of the black backgrounds on the Web that are the problem. These are (a) cooler-than-thou art fags, (b) angst-ridden adolescents, and (c) the kind of coffeehouse trendoids who actually believe subscribing to Wired makes them hip. Clue: angst and pretentiousness are boring. People who spew bad poetry and/or make a fetish of writing in all-smalls and/or traffic in fuzzy images of mediocre avant-garde art should slit their wrists or join a commune or do anything else that will keep their self-indulgent sludge off the Web.


Congrats to ESR for writing something that has made my day. He basically finishes by saying content is king. Just like the 9rules blog network..."If content is King, think of us as the Royal family".

Hello hello

I was Googling for my name, OMouse and my real name, and I found a two interesting things. First, there's someone else that has the nickname omouse. You can check out their blog here. And the second thing is a Java applet that draws a house+helicopter for Computer Science back in grade 11 (I'll dig up the link later).

Cousin biking
This is a picture I just recently uploaded to Flickr. I leveled the image using the level tool + gray eyedropper in The GIMP. It did wonders for the colour. Before, everything was a bit bluish and now it's just right.

And the final thing I'd like to add is something about MySpace. There's an article that's pretty well done that outlines (I guess) the rise of the founders of MySpace.

Hello hello

I was Googling for my name, OMouse and my real name, and I found a two interesting things. First, there's someone else that has the nickname omouse. You can check out their blog here. And the second thing is a Java applet that draws a house+helicopter for Computer Science back in grade 11 (I'll dig up the link later).

Cousin biking
This is a picture I just recently uploaded to Flickr. I leveled the image using the level tool + gray eyedropper in The GIMP. It did wonders for the colour. Before, everything was a bit bluish and now it's just right.

And the final thing I'd like to add is something about MySpace. There's an article that's pretty well done that outlines (I guess) the rise of the founders of MySpace.