Speckled Green

Well, those two days were sure eventful. At Sean’s house on Thursday, Ben & Sean were busy working out the coding behind the ATM and getting it to work. I have just read an email from Sean saying that he’s finished putting it together, and now I just have to come up with an acceptable GUI design for them to conform to. Ahh… time to let my imagination roam free. Except I have to remind myself that it has to be doable. So, that will cause several ideas to be immediately ruined.

It was an enjoyable day, with Ben and his MacBook and a school laptop, Sean with his desktop plugged into the TV, and me borrowing my mum’s laptop. Ben certainly had the most resources =]  And when it came to deciding what we would have for lunch (Sean’s mum gave us a choice), since we were running short of dice, Ben even wrote up a script to randomly choose what we would eat for lunch!!

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Nothing new to talk about, except that I now have ALL the achievements for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox 360!! Took some time, didn’t it?

Now, because I felt like it, and I’ve been working on it for several hours this morning and last night, here is Changing 2.1!!

Officially released at 9:00am 15th Jan, 2010. 6 days, 1hr & 50 mins after the last release. My fastest ever release!! Then again, all I did was change the sidebar, and remove the random title coding because it stuffed up the page… I’ll have to find a way to work around WordPress for that…

You can download the rar file (104kb) here

It’s been almost a month since I last posted something on my blog, and in that month, I’ve done my school certificate, badly went through my piano exam, had a get-together at Ben’s place, and played plenty of games.

Not much that’s happened really.

My piano exam was last Tuesday (17th November). Didn’t do as well as I should’ve. Didn’t practise enough though, so that is my own fault. Not pleased with my result, but I’m happy I passed and that it’s done, finally.

Thursday saw the Band ‘Christmas’ Concert, with performances from all the bands in the school, plus a few other groups. It also, sadly, saw the farewell of our Band Conductor/Master for the last 11 years. Bye Mark!! We’ll miss you (well, some of us will at any rate)!

After my piano exam, I haven’t really been bothered doing work much. Playing games a lot, reading books, playing what-ever-I-feel-Like on the piano…… Friday arvo, I went over to Ben’s place to have a celebration of sorts. Also there was Don, Lok and Simon. Mostly all we did was play Halo 3. Once again, Ben and I dominated, unless they forced us to play solo while they teamed up. Then it was much harder. But Ben and I still got nice scores (even if neither of us won). For hours we played, stopping only for food, drink, monopoly, and for all the others except Lok and I (who didn’t feel tired at all) sleep. On that thought, I didn’t really feel tired till I had been awake for 36 hours straight………. Finally went to bed at 9:41 pm, which means I had been awake for over 40 hours. Tiring.

But, besides playing games all night/morning long, my brother has finally got a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the Xbox 360, and so I’ve been playing through that (I really suck at it… maybe I’ll be better when I learn the levels), and watching my brother playing online multi-player games. Definitely looks, feels and sounds awesome, and is a step up from CoD4.

But now I gotta go to Church, so I’ll just end this post here and now. Besides, I don’t really have much more to say, except that having only 5 hours of sleep before being awake for over 36 hours makes me feel really tired (unless I get distracted, or have caffeine!!)

P.S. This post is the 256th post by me, Ant! BTW, 256 is 2^8

Darn you Karan. And anyone else I know with Halo Wars…

Yeah, so, it came out at like 9pm Friday, and costs around $100 and all that. I don’t care. I WANT TO PLAY THE FULL VERSION!!! I’m tired of the Demo already… The plot sounds good. Still waiting for the soundtrack. It got soldout in about 1 week… how is it that popular?

Anywhos, besides MSY, what good computer stores are there in Sydney? Prefferably in western Sydney… I’ll have to go looking.

Tuesday 10th February, 2009. USA. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is released to the public. NNNNOOOO!!!!!! WHY DOES EUROPE HAVE TO GET IT ON THE BLACK FRIDAY?!! THAT INCLUDES AUSTRALIA!!!!!

Already people have finished it. Already the plot has been written up on Wikipedia. As I write this, I remind myself, only a few more hours untill it’s out in Australia and New Zealand. Stupid ratings board. Now Australia has a toned down version of the game… Oh well, still a great game. Edit: THE GAME IS 12GB LARGE?! AND IT STILL DOESN’T END?! Read more »