Saturday 19th June 2004 AD --- perl doc

Added a doc on sorting in perl specifically for sorting an array of hashes. I also added a timeline for quantum leap... I've been watching that TV series and I started to write down the leap dates for each episode, then I wrote a crazy perl script to parse my text file into a pretty color coded by season html file... Although it's not finished yet, I'm watching season five... Current Mood : Fine Music : Blink 182 - "Don't Tell Me It's Over"

Friday 18th June 2004 AD --- Updated docs

Self Preservation Society... Weird. Anyway, I updated the sphere FAQ on my docs page. There's also a search form on my docs page now, thanks to google. Current Mood : Fine Music : Blink 182 - "Easy Target"

Wednesday 16th June 2004 AD --- fsplitjoin

I updated fsplitjoin (utils to split files to smaller sections and join them back again) See my files page for more details. Current Mood : Fine Music : Graham Coxon - "Bitterwseet Bundle Of Misery"

Tuesday 15th June 2004 AD --- 1kb sphere compo game

I made a 1kb game for the sphere compo... Find it on my files page. Current Mood : Fine Music : Blink 182 - "Time To Break Up"

Friday 11th June 2004 AD --- finally linking to the ohr page

I updated my files page to include links to my ohr files page Current Mood : Fine Music : Jet - "Get What You Need"

Thursday 10th June 2004 AD --- src_tree_copy update

I updated src_tree_copy so it's easy to use and added a readme for it included in the zip. Get it on the files page, binary and source files included. Current Mood : Fine Music : Death Cab For Cutie - "We Looked Like Giants"

Thursday 10th June 2004 AD --- autorun

I wrote an autorun program for making CD's autorun index.html All you do is make an autorun.inf file with the following contents: [autorun] icon=favicon.ico open=autorun.exe Then just put autorun.inf and autorun.exe and favicon.ico into a folder and burn it on CD (you'll need a index.html too) Go get it from my files page, binary and source files included Current Mood : Fine Music : NOFX - "Take Two Placebos And Call Me Lame"

Tuesday 08th June 2004 AD --- ad testing

I'm trying out google adsense, I can't be bothered to add it to every page though so it'll only be on this one. Current Mood : Unhappy Music : The Starting Line - "Playing Favorites"

Wednesday 25th February 2004 AD --- dragon town again

dragon_town.png A screenshot of dragon town's effects (it looks so weird because some of the tiles have some effects applied, some have a different effect. Current Mood : Neat Music : Mad Caddies - "Game Show"

Tuesday 24th February 2004 AD --- dragon town

My test game that you can get with the latest binaries wasn't entirely that cool, until now. Any map that is gamma-brightness increased/decreased as you play is cool by me. Current Mood : Neat Music : Sugarcult - "Memory"

Friday 16th January 2004 AD --- rescue freddy

I worked on my game a little bit today and yesterday, I now have a much cooler minimap and made a few more spritesets for freddys_town. I also made a neat little watering-can diversion. Current Mood : Tired Music : Less Than Jake - "867-5309 Jenny (punk cover)"

Wednesday 14th January 2004 AD --- sphere

Sphere now has speex support (speex allows for small sound files designed for voice) As a test of speex I converted a bunch of wav files that take up around nine meg and made a bunch of files that take up around half a meg. Thus speex is cool. Also in other general site-maintenance related news, stopped my links page opening pages in a new window, and deleted all links that didn't work or fixed them. I also made sure all my html files had a newline at the end of them, somehow that just makes me feel better. Current Mood : Okay Music : Offspring - "The Noose"

Sunday 11th January 2004 AD --- comic

Fear my comic! (Yeah, this means you... Seramar!) Anyway, here it is: this My last comic, for those unlucky enough to miss it, was this too Current Mood : Okay Music : Veruca Salt - "Awesome"

Tuesday 30th December 2003 AD --- networking code

I've been writing a serial-cable server go-between. (A web-server that echo's everything sent to and from it to COM1.) It's for testing my pacman network game, which has an insane amount of text generated, which is then printed on-screen on my other pc. Now I just need to change my game so that both machines can be clients, with the server being the COM1 echo server... Current Mood : Okay Music : The Ataris - "Between You And Me"

Sunday 21st December 2003 AD --- mng code

Currently I've been writing code to produce mng animations, and it's hard to understand how 13.7 megs of images becomes a 32.5 meg animation... But that's my insane test, it passes the sane test with flying "smaller than gif" colors. Update: The 13.7 meg images to 32.5 meg animation test is weird. It's 105 images, 79 of those are png, which will make a 99.7 meg animation. (Smaller than the 10.2 meg collective of those images.) Whereas the 26 other jpg images, taking up 3.42 meg, is where the extreme filesize is coming from. Which means I'm taking truecolor lossy jpg's and creating truecolor non-lossy png's. In short, it's not good. I can either make use jpeg or figure a clever way to 256 color and palettize the images. Current Mood : Okay Music : Michelle Branch - "Here With Me"

Wednesday 10th December 2003 AD --- lwrcase

Down with uppercase! Long live lowercase... Kill off a few vowels and you have: lwrcase I made a utility to convert uppercase filenames to lowercase filenames for Wild-Tiger, I cleaned it up a bit and uploaded it onto my files page. Current Mood : Okay Music : Pitchshifter - "Please Sir"

Thursday 04th December 2003 AD --- C/C++ function typedef doc

Partly because I was trying to find out how to typecast pointers to functions and call them, I wrote a document on typecasting functions in C/C++. Current Mood : Fine Music : They Might Be Giants - "Number Three"

Thursday 27th November 2003 AD --- google rankings

My google ranking for "Flik" is now fourth, and under "vascy" I'm first. Go me. Current Mood : Fine Music : Papa Roach - "Time And Time Again"

Tuesday 18th November 2003 AD --- m3u_windows_to_linux script

I made a script for converting winamp style m3u playlists to something xmms can play. All you'd have to do to use it is put it in your winamp folder and change the drive/mount points listed in the file... I also started making a program to make state diagrams, it works but not yet entirely useful or portable. It'd be more portable if there was a better way to draw text to an image. Current Mood : Fine Music : They Might Be Giants - "Rythmn Section Want Ad"

Saturday 16th August 2003 AD --- new cds

I just ordered a bunch of CDs, including albums from Modest Mouse, Aquabats, They Might Be Giants, Save Ferris and Five Iron Frenzy. I order them in bulk so I don't have to pay so much for postage and packaging. Plus it's fun to get more CDs than you can possibly listen to at once; now and again. Current Mood : Okay Music : Modest Mouse - "Paper Thin Walls"

Tuesday 10th June 2003 AD --- taginfo

I wrote a script to read mp3/ogg tags for sphere, it's part of my "flik_scripts" now... It's on my files page, just so you know. Current Mood : Fine Music : Reel Big Fish - "Suckers"

Monday 09th June 2003 AD --- new doc about js regexp

I've added a new doc, about javascript regular expressions on my docs page, enjoy. Current Mood : Fine Music : Reel Big Fish - "Brand New Hero"

Friday 30th May 2003 AD --- updated flik scripts

I've reuploaded the set of scripts I have, now including a minimap image generator and a sort of neat global_object script... Current Mood : OK Music : Less Than Jake - "The Science Of Selling Yourself Short"

Tuesday 08th April 2003 AD --- perl rocks

perl has to be one of the best languages I ever use. For example, I wanted a script to open my bash history file and clear multiple entities, so I could scroll through previous commands alot easier... I looked around to see if it had already been done, I was thinking of an actual bash script, something in the form of a few commands and a pipe and a redirect or some such. I wasn't really sure if it was possible in a line, so I wrote a perl script to do the task, it compiled and ran first time and did it. Woo. Although I admit it can get ugly... s/([^c])ei/$1ie/gi; # i before e except after c Current Mood : Neat Music : The Ataris - "My Reply"

Thursday 20th February 2003 AD --- just so you know

Just so you know, I've started working on sphere, so if you think of any features, free free to email at: vascy@hotmail.com or better yet, submit your request to the sphere's sourceforge site. Current Mood : Okay Music : Tom McRae - "The Boy With The Bubblegun"

Tuesday 28th January 2003 AD --- joysticks

I managed to add a vague joystick support to my menu object, hurray! Current Mood : Fine Music : Pilfers - "My Time Now"

Saturday 25th January 2003 AD --- near death

I believe I just had a near-death experience, or atleast a brush with death. I went to turn off the gas fire, and the pipe came off. It started hissing like mad, and after around 15 seconds or so, I managed to put it back. Now, the smart thing to do would have been open the door, and windows and just wait, but oh no, that's not what I thought of doing. I turned the fire on, and it lit first time (for once) and boom, a huge burst of fire, making me swear and think "oh no, my computer!" In other news, I have grown a wisdom tooth. It's very painful and it had damn well better make me smarter for it. Current Mood : Shocked Music : Pilfers - "Lay"

Tuesday 14th January 2003 AD --- lots of coding

Today, I got up at around 7AM and just started working on the map engine and editor; and lately it's hard to believe that morning even exists, let alone that you can be productive during it. Current Mood : Excellent Music : Nada Surf - "Blizzard Of 77"

Tuesday 07th January 2003 AD --- more small error fixes

I've made quite a few updates to my docs, changing errors and just all round improving them, like my warp doc and my files doc for one. Also, rescue freddy is going pretty nice right about now, I've been going around the maps improving the graphics and just adding more random, things that you can do. I'm hoping to make the kind of game where you get upset because a insignificant plant doesn't do anything and you go round trying anything and everything. Current Mood : Alright Music : Motion City Soundtrack - "Don't Call It A Come Back"

Sunday 05th January 2003 AD --- a doc error-fix and more docs

Someone pointed out an error in one of my docs, I fixed it. Also I recently killed off my menu tutorial, and now it's in a terrible state. So I wrote a very small menu tutorial using the system menu. As I was doing this, I found some docs in my docs folder that I just never uploaded. Oops. (No doubt they have errors in them too.) So enjoy. Current Mood : Fine Music : Motion City Soundtrack - "The Future Freaks Me Out"

Saturday 04th January 2003 AD --- I've started 'rescue freddy' again

I've started working on rescue freddy again. I was coding away on the game that me and akumapan seem to have pretty much stopped working on altogether, doing the battlesystem, and I thought to myself... "I should combine the neat things of this battlesystem and the rescue freddy battlesystem together." So that's what I've been doing now. Current Mood : OK Music : Pilfers - "Mr Exploita"

Monday 16th December 2002 AD --- javascript chess

I've been writing a javascript chess game, even if you don't like chess, it's fun to watch the AI battle it out against the same AI. My goal here is to create an AI that can beat me at chess, so even though it's stupid now, I'll make it better soon enough. Also I shouldn't really call it AI (artifical intelligence) because listing valid moves and randomly picking one of them isn't intelligence at all, it's just knowing the rules well enough to play. Current Mood : Good Music : Bad Religion - "Stuck A Nerve" Modest Mouse - "Bankrupt On Selling"

Friday 22nd November 2002 AD

I made a perl script that makes pretty html files from java source code. It's called (surprisingly) javatohtml and it's on my files page now. Current Mood / Music : Expressionistic / Green Day - "Basket Case"

Thursday 14th November 2002 AD

I never update my website anymore, I'm just too lazy. Current Mood / Music : Lazy / Nada Surf - "Mother's Day"

Tuesday, 27th August 2002 AD --- did someone ask for a cardgame tutorial?

Anyone that uses Textpad should have a look at the sphere syntax definition file I made... If you need help on 'installing' it, look on my files page. Current Mood / Music : Fine / Mindless Self Indulgence - "Backmask"

Tuesday, 27th August 2002 AD --- did someone ask for a cardgame tutorial?

I wrote a cardgame tutorial thing, it sucks, but you can read it anyway. Current Mood / Music : Productive / Less Than Jake - "Is This Thing On?"

Monday, 26th August 2002 AD --- kitty den

Yes, I made a den for the kittens. Yes, I may have too much time on my hands. kittyden Current Mood / Music : Fine / Bad Religion - "You've Got A Chance"

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