end of an experiment::05.14.2007+00:13
It was about this time last year that I started the web-based multi-user notepad project. Only a few days after I started the project, I found out that Google had gone and made their own web notepad, and it even had a Firefox extension. Slightly dismayed, I trudged on and in the span of about a week, it was done. It wasn’t the greatest thing in the world, but it worked, and it was powerful. I had originally wanted to just make the project a database front-end where i could just dump text. However, I decided a few days before I began that I should make it multi-user and add in access control lists. Through this project, I started to write complex MySQL queries, and I just had an enjoyable time. I still like the idea of having access control lists, and I’d love for that kind of functionality (or at least multi-level passwords) in a blog. I ended up ditching the notepad for Tomboy because apps on one’s computer are so much more convenient than web apps for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, I don’t have a copy of the source for the final version (this site still has a copy of the not so final one), so I apologize to anyone who is saddened by this.
tired::04.10.2007+13:08
After having been a student here for nearly two years now, I find myself longing for something that I once had. One might say that I am not trying, or perhaps that I have social issues, but I do not believe either to be true in any sense. What I am longing for, is a sense of camaraderie.
It appalls me that everyone here seems to be beyond having comrades. Our friendships are purely mental, the words and ideas make us feel as though we belong together, but that is where it ends. Do we have a love for each other so deep that no matter what hardships our relationships are battered with, we will always be friends? Do we care for each other so deeply that we would put our lives on the line for each other or at least stop being selfish for one damn minute? No, of course not. This is RPI, a collection of approximately 5000 students, most of whom have either no personality, or are incapable of functioning in everyday social situations.
There are those of you who might feel hurt by this. If that is the case, then perhaps we should talk about it because being passive aggressive is never a good thing.
So yes, welcome. Welcome, to RPI, where camaraderie doesn’t exist, and friendship is only skin deep.
unwanted realism::04.07.2007+15:10
RANT WARNING
I for one, am fed up with the current trend in next-gen game development. That is, the extreme overuse of normal, parallax, and specular maps, and also the ridiculous trend with faking HDR by blurring that makes it look like someone has smeared petroleum jelly all over one’s display.
rss feed added::03.10.2007+00:41
I created an rss frontend for the blog. It’s available by clicking on the link in the menu to the right.
new personal blog::02.28.2007+21:35
This is where my personal blog is going (for now at least). It’s running on a very modified version of uber that uses a database instead of flat text files. Hopefully, this will turn out to be an optimal solution. One might ask why I’m not using a piece of software like Wordpress or Drupal. The only answer I can think of is that I don’t know. I just felt like rolling my own.