Ok, maybe I am d...
» Written on December 23, 2008 at 10:45 PM «
But who says dying means the end of all things? As Left4Dead proves, this is not the case.
In truth, I’ve been playing a little too much, eating a little too often, running and exercising too little, and it’s resulted in predictable changes in my lifestyle: I’m now a slob.
A slob who may still be playing Team Fortress 2 and more recently, Left4Dead with reckless abandon, but still a slob. I’d normally make the obligatory ‘content’ post which would mostly comprise of several photographs taken recently, but I’ve come to realize that it’s a wasted endeavour, seeing as it’d be much more productive to post them on forums or elsewhere and actually get some constructive feedback, rather than enshrine them on some meaningless server for all time.
The Gallery is n...
» Written on November 23, 2007 at 1:36 AM «
Like, for real this time. Seriously. When have I ever lied to anyone? I mean, in this paragraph?
Lame Portal puns aside, after painstakingly spending an afternoon re-learning my already limited PHP knowledge, I also had to fuddle around with the WordPress documentation, which, while admittedly written in a decent manner, didn’t exactly lend itself well to catering to one who might actually be interested in actually using WordPress to control a site instead of a mere blog.
I guess you could also say that I suck at PHP, which could actually be a real possibility, considering my math preliminary examinations didn’t exactly have smilies all over the paper when it was actually returned to me. In fact, one could say that there were frownies as much as there was a big, fat “fail” written all over it.
I will talk about exams some other time, though. For now, though, I will focus on the more pressing issues of life.
Back in business
» Written on November 21, 2007 at 11:48 PM «
Well, I’m finally back.
After a long hiatus I imagine that I’ve probably fallen off the face of Google, but now I can finally focus on getting my e-reputation up into Chuck Norris territory all over again. At least, for the month until I have to conscript myself into the military.
I’ll be back with a (finally) working gallery soon. In the meantime, I’ve just finished my final ‘A’-level exams and with it, set myself on a path of arduous ambiguity, or, as others might say, there is work to be done. In the meantime, I’ve been making a lot of changes, such as finally upgrading my WordPress installation and working on the back-end of things, along with settling on a final design for the About section. I kind of knew I would be wasting my server hosting when I bought it, but whatever. It’s my domain name, and no one else shall have it now.
For now, though, excuse me while I fire up Team Fortress 2, Bioshock, The Witcher, Gears of War and World in Conflict. And I’m not even talking about the Playstation Portable yet. Oh no.
Has it been that...
» Written on March 26, 2007 at 5:27 AM «
I really hadn’t noticed. Time does seem to fly past when things start to merge into one long, never-ending chain of events, be they good or bad.
In the meantime, though, the site hasn’t really received any makeovers like I had intended to perform right after my Common Tests. Let’s not talk about that, though. Instead, we shall talk about technology.
This is momentou...
» Written on March 15, 2007 at 9:25 AM «
This occasion is, indeed.
I have only just bid farewell to my faithful host of 2 and a half years, Sitesled.com, in favour of my new host and domain, which, if you managed to find this post, (since all the links on the site are now broken) you’d probably know by now. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time now, I’ve even mentioned it here a couple of times, but today! Today is the day my new debit card comes into play.
Print this site
» Written on February 12, 2007 at 11:15 PM «
Or view it on a handheld. It’s been specifically tailored for such mediums now, though the beauty of that single attribute, media="handheld". Or print, I really don’t care. I just know my site’s accessibility just took a momentous leap into the highest of rankings.
Though, perhaps, not to the Sony Playstation Portable’s Netfront browser, which will actually be the subject of this post, along with its inherent parent element, the PSP. (Developers, see what I did right there?)
Anyway, I’m pretty much pissed at the state the PSP is in at the moment, with the downgrading and homebrew scene being more active than usual, after the discovery of the GTA: Liberty City Stories exploit that still lingers in firmwares recent. I’m almost appalled by Sony’s hypocrisy, their apparent harsh stand on homebrew being complemented by their pathetic attempts to stem its growth. In fact, I’m seriously considering purchasing a copy of GTA for this very purpose, though the prices for a suitable copy (the unpatched version) kind of range in the extravagant to the are-you-fucking-kidding-me range, the fault of greedy Singaporean capitalists who somehow think charging 70 bucks (about 35 USD) is justified for a game that’s about as old as my mom.
OK, maybe not as old, but you know what I mean.
Back on track. So anyway, if you didn’t know, my own PSP is of a certain shade of ceramic white, and unfortunately, it’s one of the newer ones, meaning the dreaded TA-082 motherboard. In other words, it’s not conducive to being downgraded. Until now, that is.
However, while I am an avid supporter of homebrew development and anything that has to do with open-source, I am not supporting a culture of piracy. While I do look upon Sony’s proprietary UMD format with great distaste, I feel the evils of piracy do have bigger fists.
I am, however, still an avid supporter of common sense, and Sony deciding to brand their product, which can be held in a single hand as a device meant for screen purposes, is not, unfortunately, common sense. Don’t believe me? Try viewing this site on a PDA and a PSP; you will notice the immediate differences almost immediately, barring the visually-challenged. This is, of course, a mere smite compared to the regular fuckups that Sony regularly manages to perpetuate upon its consumers, but as a web developer, I simply fail to understand why, or how Sony can even imagine that their beloved handheld device does not qualify as a handheld, and must instead receive the same rich content that would normally be siphoned to its older brothers and sisters, which, if I daresay, seem to have about 100 times its processing power.
And that’s not even taking into account that the PSP browser crashes when it runs out of RAM, which is not really in abundance, if you know what I mean.
And when my 3-year old XDA can display this site using the proper CSS stylesheet attributed to it and a much-touted “next-gen” console cannot, it gives you pause to think about the branding behind both products. You are then led to conclude that perhaps, the latter of two companies would be completely fucking retarded.
I love my PSP’s games to death, I love the PSP’s potential media capabilites to death, heck, I even love the PSP’s design. I’m even willing to forgo that second analog stick that was omitted from the design, but really, if Sony really doesn’t want me to be one of their customers, I’m going to have to go right with that presumption.
You may find me scouring the streets for an unpatched, un-price-hiked copy of GTA LCS very soon. Short of bricking my PSP, I’ll probably be chucking away those remote controls around the house and using L1 to watch the latest season of House.
Except that we don’t have House anymore since Season 2 ended. But that’s another issue for posts forthcoming.
This country sure is at the forefront of technology. Just like Sony.