…is AWESOME.
I’d pretty much given up caring about Spore due to all the delays and all the hyper fans. However, after playing with the creature creator I am SO there. Enjoy my first two awesome creations.
To play with this brilliant mini-game simply check your favourite gaming-related website and grab the demo.
So I went shopping today at the apparently local mall of shopping and every clothes store was pumping out the latest club beatz as normal. Now I don’t mind decent club songs, I don’t quite get the connection between fashion and dancing but it’s not the songs that bother me. Infact I am quite partial towards to music of sweat and bouncing. It’s the crazy volume they play these songs at that frustrates me beyond all.
It’s so loud that it isn’t fun to listen to any more. There’s such a thing as too loud. I’m young and hip and incredibly good looking so it’s not that I’m getting old or anything. It’s just common sense to play these songs at a comfortable volume. Unsurprisingly everyone was yelling at each other because they can’t hear each other’s puny human voices over these amazing club songs.
You know how people say, “Size isn’t everything”? Well the same goes for volume, man. Seriously it’s just lame.
One store I went in to didn’t even have a decent sound system, just a little radio sitting there pumping out these bass-heavy songs with little to no bass actually being presented. This made the song crazy tinny and quite painful to listen to. I was checking myself out in the mirror (which is hard not to do, I confess) and swore I saw blood spewing from my ears. It suddenly became clear why all their stock was covered in blood.
Actually now that I think about it’s probably that the person in charge of the sound is just deaf. He’s probably the douchebag that sits in front of the speakers at clubs bobbing his head away like a retarded step-child that nobody loves. No wonder he hears static all day.
In other news, my screenshot of Infernal from way back is now directly linked to from a warez site. I should pull one of those aresholic switcharoos and put up a big porn picture or something, but being the innocent Catholic-raised schoolgirl that I am, I won’t.
Will swap keys!
I was bored at Centrelink (surprise!).
I also swapped a couple of the lettery keys around.
Now that I think about it, I feel kind of like an arsehole.
I can just imagine someone banging the keyboard thinking it’s a problem with the computer. They’ll probably try to reboot it and wonder why the keys haven’t swapped back. Oh you crazy people!
I wonder what happened to that paperclip.
I’ve upgraded Wordpress and zenPhoto to the latest version, and everything is peachy once again.
My blog works, I can post, I can edit, it’s like brand new again.
Upgrading Wordpress was a piece of piss, but zenPhoto, man. It just wouldn’t play nice.
First off, I couldn’t even log in to the admin panel on my local server. I initially thought it was bug in the zenphoto version, so I downloaded the nightly (which was slightly better, I have to admit) but still wouldn’t login. So I uploaded it to a test folder on dBaines.com and surprise surprise, I can login.
It’s probably an issue with XAMPP (latest version). Nothing but problems I’ve had with XAMPP. XAMPP can go have unprotected, unconsented sexual intercourse with itself for all I care.
When I upgraded zenphoto I kept getting 500 Internal Server errors. I assumed it was one of my htaccess’ not playing nice. After a LOT of trial and error it turns out there was something in the database that was causing the error. I still don’t know what exactly it was, but I give ZP a new table prefix, ran the install and ported over the images/albums/comments (by renaming them back 
) and now, amazingly, it works. Go figure.
You know what else does weird shit? phpBB, man. A user on a forum I admin couldn’t see the private areas that the usergroup he was in was supposed to be able to see. Everyone else in the group could see them. He had NO special or manual privileges/rights. After spending half an hour trying to debug, I removed him from the usergroup, and put him back in it. And it worked. Seriously, man. What the hell.
Anywho, new features:
As you can probably tell, I didn’t end up going with the mostly-transparent-PNG based design, simply because it ran like a dog in IE. I think it was because I was lazy and had a transparent box inside a non-transparent box, rather than just have a semi-transparent background background for the whole content area. The actual layout worked quite well in both browsers though, it would have to be the first time I had a decent design look exactly the same in firefox and IE without me needing to do anything. Unfortunately, like I said, it ran like a dog, so I’m just using good old fashioned JPEGs and GIFs.
I might actually upload the transparent one to a separate folder just to play with it. I thought it would be really need to have some javascript that changes the background/colour scheme. Because the darker bits are transparent, all I would need to do is change the page background and some link colours. BONZA, mate!
Due to the new versions of zenphoto and wordpress, I’ve disabled the themes until I’ve checked to make sure they work properly. They shouldn’t be down for too long.
I have more to post about, but I’ll leave that for next time, since this is getting pretty long, and I’m by no means a long-blogger. So stop reading now. <3
Bored on the weekend..
Uses transparent PNGs for the darker bits.
My site is considerably fucked at the moment, I realise. I don’t know what happened, I guess it’s possible that it was hacked, but whoever did it only did a half-arsed job. All my wordpress pages are gone (I have backups) and all my plugins were disabled. I’m leaning toward a program error though. ZenPhoto was unaltered, and there’s nothing screaming “hacked” like graffitied posts or anything. Perusing through Wordpress’ admin panel it seems thoroughly messed up. I guess I’m not surprised, since I haven’t updated it in a long time. But why now? What made it stab itself in the foot? Maybe the planets were just in the correct place. Oh wells. When I get some time I’ll do a full system upgrade and restore it to it’s former beauty.
What ever happened to getting games with your video card? I remember bringing home my shiny new ATi 9600XT. I unwrapped it, pulled out the driver disc and out fell a game. In that case I believe it was one of the Tomb Raider games. Sure they weren’t the best games at the time, but they were quality and really good. Another classic game I got with one of my video cards was Black Hawk Down. That was way before all the Battlefields and Call of Duties flooded the gaming market with World War II clones of each other, so the war game genre was still pretty new to me.
I purchased a new 512MB GeForce 9600GT earlier this week. Unwrapping it I was dismayed to find no game. Then I realised I hadn’t gotten a game with either of my previous video cards either. (7600GT and an 8600GT, see a pattern? I don’t. What are you talking about?)
Maybe it’s because of all the rampant video game piracy that the video game market just can’t afford to package their games any more. Maybe it’s just because I keep buying mid-range cards, that don’t come packaged. Either way, I’m annoyed. I’m going to write the government a letter. They’ll help me out!
I also purchased a new CPU while I was there. An AMDx2 6000+. Processing power of the GODS!
I just went out and bought a 22″ widescreen monitor to finally replace my old dying 19″ CRT that’s so big it hardly even fits inside the house.
I was going to put a “yo momma’s so fat” joke here and replace the mums with my monitor but I can’t be bothered.
Since the old one was so freakin’ big I now have about 5km² of desk free to use as I please.
After two decades of education it’s come to my attention that humans are visual creatures, and therefore I have supplied an image to suit your curiosity.
Everything looks so much better in widescreen.
The clarity is so much better than the CRT as well.
<3
Only four more to go!
The Baines loves you and wishes you all a safe and happy new year.
I never thought I’d see the day, but lo and behold, it’s been over a year with the same layout/design here at dBaines.com. This design, titled BreezeEasy, or Volume 4 depending on who you ask, was created in September of last year and put online on the 1st of October. Since then it’s had a few tweaks and such, as you can expect, but the core design hasn’t changed one molecule.
Considering I used to change designs almost monthly back in the day, this came as quite a surprise to me.
