Tamino

I apologise, deeply, before making this post.

It has been a while since I have blogged, as I'm sure that anybody that actually reads this blog has noticed.  I'm trying to get everything sorted - all my coursework has to be in THIS week, freeing up a lot of time from now on, free time that I intend to spend working on a project of mine, that I have discussed with just one other person, and am almost ready to start on.  But before I start work on this, and continue blogging, I need a change.

For the past few months, I have been using blog.com, as my blogging portal.  At first it worked perfectly fine, but now it is unstable, laggy, and rather infuriating.  If I am to post on a regular basis, I am not going to spend half an hour trying to load the post editor page.  I'm sure the majority of you already know where this is going.

Put simply, I am moving my blog.  And yes, I can hear your groans now.  Those that actually follow this blog (There must be, what... 2 of you?) will probably realise now that I have had 5 blogs in the past 18 months.  But this is vital, and there is no way around it.  Blog.com is far far too limited.  The choice of styles is lacking, the lag is getting to the stage of being unbearable.

I am even more sorry to the 3(?) people that have a link to my blog in their sidebar, having to constantly change it all the time.

So, what makes me so sure that I will keep at the next blog?  Well, I'm not.  I thought blog.com looked absolutely wonderful when I first joined, as I do with my new blog portal.  I cannot blog with blog.com any more.  I cannot blog with Serendipity.  I cannot blog with xanga.  They have all become too laggy, in the long run.  I have faith with my judgement that this change will be for the better, though.

My new blog can be found at the following link.

>>> http://mindez.wordpress.com <<< 

This IS the last change, and I'm going to make the new blog WORK.  Despite the doubts that I'm sure that you have. 

Huh?! What happened to the word wrap on the previous post?!

This is rather ridiculous. I have no idea what caused it or how to put it right. Or whether it will happen again - we'll just have to see by posting a long sentence like this one, that wraps over several lines, to see whether it will wrap as horribly bad as in the previous post. Yeah, I think that's long enough now. *post!* Edit: Okay, maybe it's not. A few more lines oughta do it. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi pretium placerat dui. Donec quam velit, vehicula ut, vulputate et, lacinia in, lacus. Aliquam erat volutpat. Aenean auctor eros id orci. Cras ut nulla. Suspendisse potenti. Proin in erat. Cras arcu tellus, mattis dapibus, tristique sit amet, iaculis quis, libero. Donec ultricies est. Nam eget sapien. Vestibulum et odio quis ligula nonummy semper. In ut elit eu dolor tincidunt porttitor. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Quisque nunc. Mauris eget felis eget neque pretium ultrices.

Well, as you can see.. it didn't word wrap horribly. I have no idea what caused that o_O;

This editor is weirdly.. terrible.

*groan*

Also, my fonts appear to have been put right.  So everything's fixed now, hopefully.  Doy.

[Er.. I only found out after posting this that fonts.. don't actually make that much difference on the actual

Ah, what kind of example am I se--WHAT IS UP WITH THIS FONT PLEASE?!? ARGH, do I have to change EVERYTHING around here?! Wait, is this thing still on? Aw dammit.

Anyway, that looks better. I, uh, think this is what it should have been. Okay, now we can begin.

Ah what kind of example---...Oh, oh, now this is just great, isn't it? I press enter and all the.. *sigh* Wow, this sucks. *grumbles* Testing testing testing...

Right, working now? ...Oh, for God's sake. I give up. I'll just post in this font, annoying though it is. For some reason fonts appear to be defaulting to this, and revert when I press enter. Strange.

OKAY, NOW WE BEGIN:

Ah, what kind of examp-- OH, OH, WHAT THE HELL? YOU WANT TO WORK NOW?!? YOU'RE GIVING ME THE RIGHT FONT AGAIN RANDOMLY?!? OH, WOW, THIS IS JUST GREAT. JUST WHEN I GET USED TO THE OTHER FONT, AS WELL?!?

*sigh* I can't work under these conditions. And it just changed back as well. *cries*

Alright, I give up now, for real. Whatever the hell font it wants, I'll use.

Ah, what kind of example am I setting by not following my New Year's Resolution? It states quite clearly there that I must continue blogging. Hrm, well dang. It's been a hectic few months, anyway, so I've not had much chance. For starters, I've been attempting to set up a proper

I am, though, a straight A student. In all 5 mock exams that took place a few weeks ago, I got all A's. This scares me, given the rather terrible results that I got last year on my AS exams. And the results of the January module exams (Bloody hell, that was ages ago, have I really not updated for that long?) have been returned to me:

Physics - 90/90 - 100% - A
Further Maths [Mechanics] - 95/100 - 95% - A

So naturally I'm pretty pleased with these results. I'm predicted an A in every subject. *squee*. That is... provided I get this coursework finished. It's all due in for next Monday, and I have two things to do - the write up of my Electronics project, and task 3F on Computing. Task 3F, though, shouldn't take very long. It's just making and carrying out a test plan for the program I wrote. Simple stuff.

I also have an XBox 360. This has been one of the best purchases I've ever made, and I say this from the heart. I love it. I'm really getting into console FPS's as well. This time last month, I abhorred them. But now, I'm working through 3 - Prey, Gears of War, and Farcry - and am loving them. The controls seem a lot more natural than I first thought.

But, I'm kinda going off track. This was only meant to be a really really short post. I've posted this because my

However, looking at this, it may be more effort than it's worth.

I leave with a quote, spoken by a truly great human..oid.

"I'm back. And I'm bad. Obviously within certain preset parameters." ~ Kryten

Yes, Perplex City is over.  The Cube was officially found at 4:30 AM, last Sunday morning.

Congrats to the winner.  *sigh*

This could so easily have been mine.  If I'd only gone down to Wakerley Wild Wood... If only I'd thought I'd had a chance.. If only I'd taken my metal detector down.. I now learn that, despite the 10-20 people that went down to Wakerley on Friday and Saturday, none had a metal detector.  Believing the Cube to be unfindable with a metal detector, but no, I posted on the Perplexorum about this on Saturday.  And the reply was negative ("Oh, we've been told it can't be found, etc. etc."), but then Adrian Hon (One of the organisers) replied and told us that no, I was right.

So in conclusion, if I'd gone to Wakerley, taking my metal detector, on Friday or Saturday..  I would have just won £100,000.

C'est la vie.

Pictures of the item that has been RIPPED FROM MY LIFE:

http://www.argn.com/images/Receda%20Cube%20-%20sm.jpg
http://www.argn.com/images/Receda%20Cube%20Close-Up%20-%20sm.jpg 

Ah well.  A new Perplex City website goes up on February 14th, Season 2 Wave 1 comes out on March 1st, and there's going to be a big "Found: The Cube" partay on February 24th, which I'm going to go to, in London! ^_^  My second ever Perplex City meet.  Hoorah.

Oh, also... Cube 2/3?  I sense foreshadowing...

A quick poem I wrote regarding Tuesday night's Ascendancy Point event in Perplex City. YAY for bad poems!

On Thirtieth of January,
when night fell round the land,
Kurt and Vi went to the Point
to give Scarlett a hand.

On the way they met poor Caine,
who, speculation said,
would end up messing up their plans,
but he went and helped, instead.

Inside they got, and first we had,
to confuse the systems so.
We played a game of Mastermind
before the team could go.

And then they split, to aid their cause,
Kurt, Fitch, and Caine (Team A).
Vi and Frye and Harrison,
did go the other way.

Team B came across a guard,
with video feeds, sublime.
Unfortunately, lag was high,
so that took some time.

Meanwhile, team A needed us,
to call, and to persuade.
This we did, eventually,
and the day was saved.

But as team A was nearing the end,
a guard stood in their way.
Oh what, oh what were they to do?
But then Caine saved the day.

Both teams met up, their missions done,
Ready for the end.
Hopefully, they would reach their goal,
and be able to help their friend.

Floor 110, at last,
and here the Third Power was seen.
One last puzzle, to test our worth,
to enter bay 17.

Harrison climbed in the vents,
and set up our way in.
But oops, it seems there's an error,
we need more puzzles to win.

More puzzles solved, the lights go out,
we hear only noise.
Vi and Helena were both ready,
and so were all three boys.

In they rushed, with single shots,
and then it was a blur.
Something happened, shots were fired,
it all caused quite a stir.

Six were killed, on that night.
They will all be missed.
Except for sneaky Third Power guys,
who'll probably be quite pissed.

Harrison, and Fishcook, also paid the price.
But Caine and Scarlett were okay..
As well as they could be.
They'll live, apparently, anyway.

Oh Harrison, Oh Harrison,
you will be missed I know,
by all at the PCPD,
but it was your time to go.

Scarlett, Kurt, Caine, and even Vi,
will live another day,
Without them, to be honest,
it wouldn't be much of a story, anyway.

"Oh Lettie! Lettie!" cries Vi,
her tears streaming down her face.
But now it was the time to leave,
and get out of this place.

It turns out Caine was there as well,
tortured by the Power.
But in the end, he was a real help,
and was truly a hero of the hour.

So off they went, to hospital,
where Scarlett sits right now,
Hopefully the Third Power,
Will stay away, somehow.

The final thing to happen, friends,
the final clue, hooray!
And we find out it's buried here,
England, upon the Way.

Hopefully, perhaps very soon,
the Cube may just change hands,
and then, my friends, we'll raise a toast,
to the best Cube hunter in the land.

Anyway, anybody that cares will notice I've not blogged for.. a while.

This is because I officially have a Wii. Yes, I do. It's also partly due to the fact that there's been nothing to blog about. I'm still working hard on my Computing, electronics, physics, maths, etc... Blah.

Okay, show's over.

(Also, my rival got an A on task 1. I got a B. Ooh, you win this time.. *twitch*

Me: 2
Rival: 2

Grr.)

Happy Wintereenmas, one and all.

I have tennis elbow >.< My elbow is in such paaain.

OH THE PAIN!

*sigh* As for anything else, I've started on my first book of the year :o It's "Another Life" [Torchwood novel]. I'll review it when I'm done, I guess.

Also, has anybody here ever done three dimensional trigonometry and triangulation? Ugh. I spent the whole day doing it (Perplex City event puzzle), and my answer is about 400 metres off everyone elses. So I guess I'm wrong.

*sigh* I like Perplex City, but I just feel like.. I'm sitting here, and just.. not helping at all. I'm just cheering on everyone else, saying "Oh well done", passively reading blog updates.. But today.. I really tried. I really did. I got it wrong, but I tried. And I'm going to try next time, as well. Until a puzzle comes along that I can do.

*sigh* I'm so useless in this.

I have... a Wii.

I'll see you in the summer. 

I've started another blog. So I'll have two on the go from now. The other one, though, is a Perplex City blog, for In-Character views of the goings-on in the Perplex City ARG.

This one will, then, serve as my main 'life' blog.

I have discovered Ultrastar, as well. If anybody's seen SingStar for the PS2, it's the same kind of thing, but it's PC and you can make your own tracks. So woo, I'll have something to do (When the rest of the house has gone out. Pssht, like I'd sing with them in the house. Pah!)

I also discovered SingShot, which is an online Karaoke site. It's not got a great selection of songs on at the moment, but it looks promising. The only thing that's really bugging me about it is that.. as soon as it becomes popular, you'll be able to sing something, then.. within mere minutes, nobody will ever find your recording. Which may or may not be a good thing, I don't know. But I think sites like SingShot only work when they're a [relatively] small community.

Well, I'd best get off and do my Electronics homework for tomorrow.

Have fun.

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To Earth operatives: Package aboard, in transit to secure facility. Not long now.

 

In future, I must remember not to turn my headphones off as I get on the school bus.  Listening to Linkin Park blasting in my ears is a damn sight better than the shouts of "Fat bastard!" and "Oh my God" as they desperately squeeze in to the side to allow my massive fat mass to find somewhere to stand.

 Yeah, that's all I've learned today. Except that I absolutely hate commenting code.

These comments are making my code ugly =( My nice pretty code ;-;  Ah well.