It's Here and its the best thing since sliced bread

The Blackbook, is finally here. And i must say that its the best thing since sliced bread.

My mate, Tunde, says it's "Sexy", personally i completely agree.

I can't believe that i waited so long to actually buy it, and i did several very sad things, which i won't admit to the video is coming soon

but enough talk heres a couple shots of it.

No Blackbook, but loads of code

Despite apple screwing with me, i have managed to make progress in other areas. Diggr, an application that i started many moons ago, is moving ahead nicely.

The Database hookups, have gone in, and appear to be working nicely. The HTTP Lib that will enable the application to be independent of the hotsync, is almost at alpha/beta test stage. All that is left is the XML parsing engine, which will be the heart of this beast, and will be the make or break of the application. The quicker it converts, the quicker the user can start digging.

Here's a few screen shots from it running live in the emulator/simulator,

The nice n' shiny Diggr Icon, the red ring is actually a mistake. I'll remove it in later builds.

The main screen, from here you can digg stories, and enter the viewer screen as seen below.

The main viewer screen, there a few bugs in it, but it should soon look similar to my lovely mock up as can be seen in my flickr account.

Quote of the Day

"Hi my supposed senior member of stuff, thanks very much for the pay rise mark, 5 to nine and F*%* off!"

With great Incresed grits comes great responsibilty

China is a long way away

Right, i getting somewhat sick of hitting Refresh on this TNT tracking page. How long does it really take to unite a boy who has waiting 7 months for laptop with the apple of his eye? Coupled with this is the distinct lack of certain people, who happened to have disappeared off to sweden/bora bora.

Meanwhile i've downloaded every single mac application that catches my eye, All 51 of them. I've cleared a space on my desk, set a back aside to carry the Blackbook as it will be known. I almost wanna call them up, and explain to these folks who i am. Programmer extreme

Well it you see a plane with a black Macbook in the window, call me i'm expecting one.


Quote of the Day

Nick "They where drinking fish and milk on the stage"
me "And you wonder why i haven't been to jumpin jaks in two years..."

No matter where it is Hemel or Solent, jumpin jaks is always crap, and a exclusively crunked venue.

Blackbook cometh

I can almost taste it, and i'm not talking about chinese niether. Expected delivery, the end of this week! Can i survive till then, i'm really not sure. But it's very cool that it comes straight from the source, and halfway across the world. I think this is a fairly good reason to take a trip to the far east...

In case your interested it is configured as such...

2.0 GHz core 2 duo
1 GB DDR2 5300 Ram
120 GB HDD
6x Dual layer DVD burner aka "superdrive",

for the pretty price of £850 after student discount.

Not bad to be the envy of most mac users out there, now if you excuse me, i need to see if i can find the plane on google maps...

Quote of the Day

"You guys need to either drop the roses, or stop walking together before someone starts getting ideas."

Couple of my mates worked over the weekend, and came home with roses, they happened to be straight homophobes, so i thought i ought to lay down the law.

Why people go out with people of the same race.

Because it's too damn hard to do it any other way!
Black and White, and vice versa works "fine", but Asian/Oriental inter-racial relationships with either whites or blacks are next to impossible.
Why? I have not the slightest idea. If you don't believe me, just look around. I've heard people say that it's often because the parents want to keep the family relatively poor, besides who wants a black person in their family, they'll just get shot.
From personal observation, i find that the racial division is no longer between each individual race, but rather blacks and whites seperated from asians(indian sub-continent) and Orientals. Personally i don't care, but it's just so damn weird.

If your wondering why the hell this is bothering me, yet me explain. Theres this girl called j, nice and all. I go to her flat from time to time, and almost when ever i go, there is someone else there, and thus far they have all been asian, and looking to "get a peice". My black flat mates find it strange that i like her, mind you i do have weird taste in women, viki, clare, ....

Maybe it has something with my drive to experiment and try out new things, who knows. I think the barrier may be home life, and social environments. How do you explain fried plantain to an asian? Scratch that, how do you explain it to anyone outside of the caribbean lot.

I don't like to think of myself as ignorant, or nieve, but the world is so badly split into factions, it surprises me that we are still here today. I guess it's a good thing that money doesn't have a race, otherwise we would really be screwed.

Thats my racial rant for the day

if you wanna see pictures of the ever so cute j, and or anyone else that i've met thus far, check the flickr account. Till another time later

Quote of the Day

Teacher, pointing to T|X "You can get a version of Maple for that?"
Me "I'm fine with excel, really"

This damn weird set logic and generally weird maths is getting on my nerves.

Date Sickness

This epidemic is taking over the world, people left right and center are finding that they are no longer to entertain, their dates due to a mysterious sickness, some say it has links to freshers flu, others are doubtful saying that it may "pre-loseritist".

We spoke to one victim, Jonathan, from Southampton. "I asked this girl that i like round to dinner, but after cooking for her and one of my mates, i found that i could not summon the strength, to even talk to her let alone eat my own cooking."

We'll have more on this series of events in the near future...

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Check out the new flickr pics, that i put up, most of them are of southampton, taken on my precious phone. Speaking of precious, it's taken me a week to work my way through lord of the Rings return of the King. 3 hours just isn't something i have.
This post is coming at ya form my Super T|X with it's amazing keyboard, and the GPRS hook up via BT (aka i love beening a geek).

Take care till another time.

If only i had the magik stick...

Howdy, one and all. I do still blog once in a while. Where can i start ... well i give you a break down of the last couple of weeks

• I started a weekly pro evo gathering - www.solent-proevo.blogspot.com
• I'm obessed with someone (no it's not chloe, think fitter than)
• My macbook purchase will be taking place soon
• i spent £400 in my first month in town
• I got so drunk i was still drunk the morning after
• I'm Aparently cool in some sort of capacity.
• and funny too, like when did that happened
• I've geeked out way too much

Thats about it, keep your eyes on the flickr account as the pictures, will keep rolling in, maybe even a few of J (that isn't actally a code name), it's a actual person, seriously.

Right i'll catch u all later

Quote of the Day

Schuester "My friend at the apple store can get 40% discounts"
me "Does your friend mind doing me a favour... "

The macbook is coming!!!!!!

I Believe i can fly

Well i finally got my student loan, which is nice to have after 12 months. Works great, i have yet to visit the "house of g*sh", (their words not mine). My macbook purchase is now so close i can almost taste the black apple.

But the really big thing, is that i brought a RC plane, turns out i'm a pretty crap pilot, but i'm sure the kills on Ace Combat 5 knew that already.

Anyways i'm back in the big bad city, this weekend so i might try and do some catch up with work with all of you.

Till then, later

Quote of the Day

Chris"You ever thought about doing stand-up?"
Me "Not really, i cant be funny on demand, if i try it's not pretty."
Chris"What do you mean?"
Me"Why did the chicken cross the road?"

I leave the stand-up to keith, i'm a situation man give me an in, watch me work...

I want a Black MacBook Bad, i mean like, crazy bad!

Afternoon, As usual i've found some gadget that i want really bad. In this case, it's a girl, who i fancied last year, who i met again today, and haven't stopped thinking about her since a Black Macbook...
This think is wheel kicking good, i went to john lewis just so i could stare at it, and wish i could hug her it.



In other news i'm making friends, my whole flat gets on pretty well, their are a few quiet people. We go to the movies, play pro, did i mention that they are all boys, yeah, i got screwed again.

Otherwise all is good at the moment, i got my Job back, and got to do a stock take, yip pee. I built a entire site called DownTime, which is getting a nice reception thus far, it's kinda like a community portal, where people can share and rate media, and chat in the community forums.



Enough plug'n, i'm off to chill to cool "soundz" before i head to bambuu bar, check for me on dontstayin.com

Later
Quote of the Day x1

Lester "I was looking in my wallet, and i found this girls driving license, i looked for her name in my phone, and it was there, but i don't remember ever meeting her!"

And everyone wondered why i loved it so much, classic stories like that of course.
Quote of the Day x2

Tunde "Do you believe in sex before marriage?"
Jay "Yeah, but that was different, before they had condoms and S*&%"
Me "But you know that church doesn't believe in contrapception, right, which sorta destroys your whole loophole"
Jay "Yeah, but it's still different"

Jay will try and have sex with pretty much anything that moves, nice guy thou.

Second Time Southampton

Nothing too long winded too say, except, that southampton rocks as we are all well aware of. I made some stuff with PHP, which has some promise. But we'll have to see how that goes.

Missy Elliot is coming to town. this saturday, apart from that south is south, and west is east.

Quote of the Day

"Could you hack into the FBI?"
After a brief pause "Anything is possible"

My skills natural talent are starting to be noticed

сотый столб 2

Turns out my blog is called russian space station for a reason. What is this reason, i'm not quite sure myself, but what i do know is that Hold On is used in the mother land. Yes folks, my lowly first hash at development, is semi-popular in russia!

So here is the proof!

It's a Russian Palm Handheld, site that lists my application, my name, and my email. In fact thats how i found it, by googling my email address (don't ask).

Incase your worried that it's some sort of big russian mail order brides site heres a picture


In other news, i off to uni in two weeks, and i can't wait. Although i could swear that last time i filled out this part correctly, one can never be too sure...


Plus cause i'm open like that, i'll be living on the ground floor of the Camilla Block in Lucia Foster Welch, room 004. So if you randomly googling peoples rooms, welcome and i'm the guy next door, Index this! Hell, what have i got to lose, i'm know in a russia for petes sake.

BTW the title means 200th post in the language of the motherland And no, the motherland isn't south london.

Quote of the Day

Tim "It would be helpful, if you didn't mention how awful the press ads are, as we would like them to stay around beyond the first day"

I can't help it if i'm too real It was a joke first time, Ele liked it Not that her opinions carry any weight in my head what so ever...

Code Snippets

Having learnt PHP like yesterday, i decided that i might most some of my code. This function converts file sizes to user friendly Gigabytes, Megabytes, or Kilobytes.


//Convert bytes to higer values
function byteConvert($INPUT)
{
$temp = $INPUT;

//If it's over a Gigabyte
if ($temp >= 1024000000){
$temp = $temp / 1024000000;
$temp = round($temp,2);
$temp = $temp . " " . "Gb";
return $temp;
}
//If it's over a Megabyte
elseif ($temp >=1024000){
$temp = $temp / 1024000;
$temp = round($temp,2);
$temp = $temp . " " . "Mb";
return $temp;
}
//If' it's over a kilobyte
elseif ($temp >=1024){
$temp = $temp / 1024;
$temp = round($temp,2);
$temp = $temp . " " . "Kb";
return $temp;
}
//If' it's under a kilobyte
else
$temp = round($temp,2);
$temp = $temp . " " . "b";
return $temp;
}
?>
Enjoy

Wine isn't that bad

No, this isn't about some alcholic adventure that i had over the weekend however i hear those maybe back in fashion with me heading back to uni. In fact this one is about my continuing journeys with Ubuntu Linux. Now first off i have the coolest desktop around, it spins, ripples, rotates, tints.



What we have here is Handhand basic, with the palm os Emulator for the Palm TX running natively in linux, with zero hacking. The only problem, is that the api call made by Handhand basic, for the fonts in the app preview pane, is unsupported by wine, so the fonts are screwed up some what. Otherwise it's kinda sweet. It compiles, and does all the things you expect, as for the emulator just works, rotates and does all the shiny stuff.

In non 1337 news, i return to university on the 23rd of september, i will have a little get together, hopefully even get Ele to come along,(how exactly that will work is another issue). Till then i'll send out E-invites :)


Quote of the Day

Caption

Return of the MAC

This isn't so much for you guys as it is for the people/devs in the 1 src forums, but this is how i roll develop my apps.



What your looking at is my Sweet XGL Ubuntu Linux twinview Desktop (I like adjectives). On the left side is VMware running Windows XP Pro, inside VMware is HB++, my palm dev IDE of choice. On the right side is the documentation running in swiftfox, an AMD athlon xp optimized version of firefox for nix.

The Real purpose, of this is to show my new application "MAC" which stands for Musical Alarm Clock. It's very early beta, but i wanted a name, so name away.

Quote of the Day

"It was like they just lifted the 13 quid off me the minute i walked through the door, it's the perfect crime, i had no recourse!"

Don't see Miami Vice, no matter how cheap you are the cost!

College Dropout...

And they said idolizing musical artists is bad for young people, didn't hurt me...

Quote of the Day

Looks at dual 19" monitors, Two PDA's, Two SE Phones, 5.1 Speakers, stacks of CD's...
"I got too much stuff"

Ebay anyone...

One of those days

This one of those few times, when i can sit down and say, i had a good day. Mainly because the blane of my existance for the last couple months, the DTF redesign got the nod from the general managers. By the way, never leave for a meeting without making sure the site actually loads first. Anyways that was great.

In another news i've fallen in love with a Comedy/Drama Called "Weeds" which comes on skyone, check it out, i'm burning a copy of season one for a friend.

I've also finished learning C, now and i'm moving onto Java, which i've done a little of, already this week. The Gung Ho learning starts next week.

Plus I've got photos from my Brothers wedding, i did create a site just for them, however these aren't exact professional shots, just some nice ones taken on the 750.
Nothing Like a Sun Flower
In the Limo on the way to the Reception
From the otherside of the ribon
My Mum worked for two days to get all the flowers done, but compared to what other members of the family did it pales into nothing-ness.
Blue Roses?
The Church where they got married, thats my cousin Helen, who was the offical photographer
My Brother, and my new Sister in-law, Tamara, the Brides step mother's head, and the cheif brides maid's head, Elair(E-lie-la)

Quote of the Day

Ele "I didn't have a boyfriend for like a year, and then my mum just asked me if i was a Lesbian, because if i was she was ok with that."

It's always nice to have the support of your parents no matter the issue or circumstance.

Alternative Quote

Dave "Stacy doesn't mind if i play games, she just goes and plays Need for speed"
Me "Where do you find these girls?"
Dave "I don't know they just flock to me"

Uncool cats need not apply in daves world, party on, excellent...

All nighter

At the moment it's something to4 in the morning. I've been up for about 21 hours. Currently we're in the flower market in vauxhall. I got some pics to boot.

So far i've eaten some great BBQ chicken. Had a arguement with my brother about crap,
Not slept.
Tried and failed to loop through putting values in a grid object.
And now we get to buy flowers.

fun fun fun

Wedding Photos, 1st set

For those of you who are big on wedding photos, here are a couple (Three actually). All taken on my "new" SE k750i.


The Freshly married couple posing for pictures with friends. The Bride is my Cousin CollettMy grandfathers, sisters, daughters, daughter, they took the pics at a place called Coombe wood. The Groom is steven.


This is at the reception, As you can see the "top table"; featuring my cousins sister, Colleen; My Uncle Cleveland and Aunt Norma. Plus the best man and the grooms mother.


Lastly, Cake cutting time. Not bad pics for a phone.

Expect more on this theme, as my brothers wedding comes next week. Plus i'll throw up the rest of this photos on Flickr, for any of you crazy wedding=clock ticking people.

Quote of the Day

My Dad "How old are you now?"
Me "19"
My Dad "Oh, i thought you were 17"

An example of perfect parenting

I found what i want for christmas

Now where to get $300k from ...

Donate va Paypal

Treating my friends better

As an introverted person i tend to treat those around like crap, at least in my opinion. I spend a little to much time with my beloved PC Blu-ray or Blu-buntu, Depends who ur asking, trying to work out how exactly a stream socket connection works, rather than getting pissed down at the pub, not that i associate drunkness with friendship.

My point is, that i kind of hide myself away, buried beneath my work (self-imposed or not). I would like to apologise to all of my friends if they ever thought i wasn't very "friend" like. I imagine that most of everybody will wonder what i'm on Poppers and LSD, but this sort of just came in to my mind.

Plus this wouldn't be a sterotypical blog without me whining about some sort mental, and personal issue...

So that is basically a "in" to say invite me to every party going, cause i'm a crazy nergo, who's wild and exciting, thanks to those of you who have pretty much always been there for me , with or without knowing it.

^_^

Also i found this post in my archives, i thought i ought to update it...


Taken on my ebayed k750i

Now if you excuse me, i must dash to bed, i have my cousins wedding to goto tomorrow.
This post has been rated R; Raving nutter of a programmer

Quote of the Day

"We better stop talking about bombs, before someone gets the wrong idea"

Tim and i often drift a little off topic...