Speckled Green

This is a post. Just to show that I haven’t completely forgotten about my blog. Yeah. Back to learning python. I can’t believe that Ben managed to learn it in just a week or so. I can barely get my head around its different syntax and stuff (even though its syntax is as simple as english), it’s just confusing me more than C# is at the moment.

Is useless. It’s horrible. It equalises relative to the current audio. When I had a song playing with the full range of sound being played, it was quiet with the bass being amplified, the treble amplified and the middle being normal, just like I set it to (Rock preset in iTunes). But when it came to a section which was mostly higher register, it suddenly became HEAPS louder, and the middle register stuff in it was louder as well!! Also, the equaliser kept on changing the volume even in the same section. It sounded as if I was turning the volume up and down in time with the drum beats and guitar strums, which I wasn’t! When I turned off the equaliser, the effect left, and when I tried it on iTunes (both with equaliser on and off, and on different presets), iTunes didn’t have that stupid problem and played the pieces perfectly… Seriously Microsoft! Get your game together!! The equaliser never did this before!

Yeah, great work whoever made this CFW. Can’t remember his name. Only a few things I don’t like about it which unfortunately has me turning back to the stock firmware on my phone.

• Battery life: battery life reduced rather much. In just 3 hours the battery dropped 2 bars. I’ll be checking up on that though, just to see if it’s a fluke on my side
• Connectivity: well, now 3G internet doesn’t work, and Ovi store isn’t compatible =[

Otherwise, it seems to be a pretty good firmware. The version I’m using now is a lot better than the previous one I found (well, he did make that one nearly a year ago…). The settings all work, the effects are brilliant, the CPU speed seems like it’s actually working (still only 443MHz though), the framerate of apps has been increased, and it has a lot more features now… but despite all this, I feel uneasy, and the loss of 3G internet, and a shortened battery life, just adds to it. I guess the feeling comes from uncertainty and the fact that it’s new.

However, I’d love to have this custom firmware, or at least some of its features, in the stock firmware…. maybe I could cook up my own using this guys work?? Don’t really want to distribute it. All I want are a few of the features (more like some off the apps he added with it). Hmm…. might take a bit of experimenting, but I should be able to do that…

Someone please explain to me why my blog is no longer blocked by the DET portal (at least for Seniors), while other’s blogs aren’t?? I mean, just last year, it was classified as “personal/blogs”…

Anyways, I’m gonna get back to doing my software stuff =]

Wow, I’m enjoying it so far. Definitely looks good guys!! All I’m gonna say about my life at the moment is that it’s going to the cold end of the year, but worry not people. I’ve already had my flu jabs and gone through a cold. So I shall not get sick on you anytime soon. Maybe next year =P

Oh, and the assignments are annoying me a lot. How have the older students put up with this?!

Yeah, I capped myself on the internet. “What?! On the beginning of the holidays??” you might ask? Well, it’s the end of my billing month, so, On Monday, I’ll be fine again =]

However, until then, I’m stuck with dial-up speed internet, courtesy of Telstra Bigpond (I wonder why Telstra & Optus don’t provide off-peak, and count up-loads as well as downloads, when their competitors, who have to buy data plans off them anyway, are willing to do that?). So, when I try going to my blog’s homepage, I realised how slow it was to load without broadband speed internet. I was considering what I should do to lessen the impact of the download times and stuff, but I couldn’t come up with much.

I mean, I’ve already tried reducing the quality and size of the images, the javascript and CSS has been minified as much as I can without having to resort to a program to minify it more (is there a program to do that?), and I’ve tried to leave as few files as possible. Although I guess I could find a way to cut down just a few kilobytes, it’s not gonna make much difference at all, it still takes forever to download the stuff for some reason.

I mean, using a simple 1×10 pixel image as a background for the sidebar buttons and getting them to be repeated to create a solid bar, you can’t get much smaller than that without forgoing the appeal of the image. I guess this is just a problem faced with modern websites which thrive on the broadband speed so common now with internet users with large downloads (maybe ignoring the majority of the mobile phone users still on older plans).

Regardless, I really don’t know why the browser is continuing to try and load portions of the page I’m on. The server connection has timed out whilst it was trying to load the info (although it hasn’t realised because some setting on the server probably let it have a really long timeout…)

And I’ve watched Alice in Wonderland (in 3D) twice now. I reckon, for a Tim Burton movie (he’s odd in my opinion, and I only like some of his movies), and for the extremely odd book, it was a good movie. I love the soundtrack. Must get a copy of the soundtrack…

Oh, I have many things I’d like to put up here for my blog, but I can’t be bothered right now. I’ll do it later, another day when I have better internet.

Anyways, I’m gonna post this now, and say:

Happy Easter Guys. Remember the real reason for this time: that Jesus came to Earth not just to do fancy miracles and impart good morals, but to take our place on the cross of spiritual life, so that we wouldn’t have to go to hell and pay for our sins.

TTFN, Ta Ta For Now!

There’s some Indie music out in the world that I like… I wonder how I can go about acquiring copies of it… problem with Indie bands is that it’s hard to get a hold of copies of their albums, especially if they’re not in your country (or not handing out free copies over the internet like some of the do…).

Talking about indie, I was surprised to hear that one of the iPod Touch 1G ads was actually a buffed up Indie ad made buy a guy who posted it on YouTube. He had made his own version of an iPod ad, and the people at Apple like it so much that they contacted him to work with their advertising team to make a version for TV.

I have a small moment where I can post something up.

Physics is really bugging me, and so is the English practise essay… homework, why do I leave you to the last minute?

I’ve finally added the mobile version files of my theme (Repose, not Changing) to my template folder on the PC, now I’ve just go to work on them. Right now they are an exact copy of the normal files, just with a different name. Added what I hope are working calls to the theme so I can get the files when I finally field them. Hope I don’t kill the mobile device when I load my site with them. Sofar, all I have is the annoying emulators on the internet, or my brother’s iPod Touch to test it on.

I hope to get the Nokia X6 later in the year as my mobile platform to work off (cannot be bothered with Windows Mobile, whatever version you have, or BlackBerry or PalmPre, along with Android, as I have absolutely no access to them. So iPhone/iPod Touch, and maybe later Symbian^1 or Symbian^3 browsers are all I can work for right now). As it has a smaller CPU clock than the iPod Touch, I guess it’ll be my base platform.

So, I’ve got this ahead of me: to turn off the sfx for jQuery UI, to create a stylesheet suited for mobiles, to decide whether to keep background images on mobile or not, to come up with custom page templates, to make comments slightly neater, and to fix up the webpage size. Nice… and I’ve still got school on top!

A synonym for calm, rest, respite. Also the name of the new theme I’ve been working on. Something I’d like to experience (mentally) once again one day, now that I’ve started school as a senior student… rest, calm… repose. I feel so… mixed up inside. Different things. But the thought that I’m not free of the large number of books… why do I need two seperate books for Chemisty? A Theory book and a Practical book?? I suppose I’ll see the point later.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/16/noughties_review/

Pretty interesting article which perks the memory, in my opinion.