HippyCentral

This really clever person (who happens to have only just finished school) made a web-based SL client.

As I have a lotta respect for anyone who has the patience to wade through the mess that is libSL (read OOP heavy c# and no docs/time to help strangers), I attempted to congratulate her. Unfortunately the system itself was down, and I chose my words badly. I think I got flamed.

Read the comments and decide for yourself

Don’t hold it against Katharine though, she seems a decent enough sort. Go visit her blog if you’re curious. It’s at: http://blog.katharineberry.co.uk

Please don’t just visit idly though – I don’t want folks to think she’s desperate for the traffic – she’s obviously not.

“Careful” wording really isn’t my thing, is it?

Why bother paying for drugs or alcohol (which are the same thing really) when a simple virus can give you all the same effects?

Yes, the Hippy’s poorly. It’s affecting my balance, so I get a free 10 minute rollercoaster ride after making a coffee.

On the up side, I’ve got everything working on my ‘puter now. I’m all linuxxed up. And as everyone around me is investing in Macs (now they can install Windows – makes no sense to me) I decide I’d get the best bits of MacOS on my desktop – without all the licence problems, and for free.

Here’s a busy screenshot and a much emptier one . Oh and the bar at the bottom really does stretch and animate just like MacOSX.

Yes, this is really geeky – but it took me a while to get it right, and I’m proud of it. Besides, daytime TV is only interesting for so long…….

I’ve had a comment about the “too cool for IE” logo at the bottom right. To be honest, I’m not even sure how many non-ie visitors I get.

What do you think? Do you look at this site in a “standards compliant” browser? Do you get to see the little logo? Do you like it?

Answers on a postcard – in the comments box.

Your feedback may result in changes to this site – how’s that for interactive?

Humans are basically lazy.

This is my expert opinion. I know, because I am one – a lazy human. After helping yet another friend recover from a database meltdown – with no backups – I’m reminded of this fact.

Even though he’d tweaked and prodded his (rather fine) site, and crafted some classic posts – he hadn’t backed it up. Hadn’t even looked at the backup stuff. Until disaster hit. After he recovered – losing all his posts – he backed up immediately.

So did I! First time I backed this blog up. Told you I was human.

Anyway, now he’s back and posting, go have a look at his blog (www.thekolblog.com) – based around the browser based game – Kingdom of Loathing (kol for short). Incidentally, I’m “HippyJim” in game, let me know if you join up!

Or not.

To be honest I didn’t expect that anyone would bid, but shantia911 has, and she won.

Well done shantia911. Hopefully we’ll be hearing from her soon.

It’s official!

In moving my blog from Blogger to WordPress I took advantage of a little script included with wordpress to transfer everything over easily. I used a modified version that kept the comments (it’s not often I get ‘em!). I had a bit of a problem with it, and on reading the comments on the developers blog, I worked out a lot of other people did too.

To cut a long (and technical) story short, I worked out what was wrong by using my usual debugging process.

I’ve posted my findings (and the fix – which actually fixes the problem rather than working around it like the other folks had suggested) on the developers website, along with the wordpress wiki, so it’s official!

I’m now a proper programmer. I can go on to rewrite windows and make it work, and create my own variation of Linux called “HippyNux”. Once I’ve got my phd, that is.

Then I’ll build the worlds first sentient computer, which will take control of all the world military installations and I’ll be single handedly responsible for wiping out the human race in a nuclear holocaust.

Or not.

UPDATE: The programmer has just let me know he’s going to add the fix to the download when he gets the chance. Whee! Fame at last!