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Wine : It tastes great!

Well, I've been using the Wine application a lot lately and I've found it to be wonderful. For the applications that work in it that is. I play Eve in wine and I've noticed each update of wine, Eve seems to play a bit faster / nicer / better. There once was a day when I was not to turned on by the project, I'm not quite sure but I looked at it in a nasty way. The next release version is coming soon, that'll be interesting, it's a pretty old project that happens to stay alive and well. Speaking of projects I'm working on one of my own which is in the pre-development stage which is going really well. It's in PHP and you can read up on it at https://launchpad.net/php-event-logger >> That's all for today, hopefully I can post more frequently.

What life? The real one!

Alright I've been told I need to write about my real life in my blog from my friend and really I've been considering it. I figure I'll try it. I'll also try and keep some of my shallow facade technical stuff. Firstly to ease into it Rick & I have been working on writing a high-level easy to understand explanation of what my application is going to be. I'm really bad at trying to explain what I want an application to do. I've also made a few new friends at school lately, firstly one in my first two hours. She's pretty nice and quite intelligent. I was very intrigued to see that in debating evolution and what not, she had a basis in which to debate off of. Further more there is this gal in my gym class who seems to be trying to dry hump me at every angle. I find it rather humorous to see her try and explain her being attracted to me with out stating it. I've acutely between reading about psychology and seeing this in person; been able to note when people are flirting and what not. When you get down to it, it's really quite a few simple obvious things. Currently life is perusing on at a constant velocity and yet, nothing is truly eventful. I called out one of my teachers today for being so power-hungry. He was talking about how we're obedient when substitutes are present and I said something along the lines of "Yeah I believe all the excessive yelling and over use of your whistle has stuck with us" and mind you this guy must love just yelling at his students. I've formed a residency in my Health class which has a population of three (it's truly just a table that I try and get people to sit at). The joke is I might bring in food and band aids to say we have free food and health care. The problem with this last statement is the work to make that happen, quite frankly it's a lot of time to schedule something as minuscule as that, funny none-the-less. I've found Google's SMS service rather amazing. I now can text message Google's wonderful little SMS number and ask it what the weather is in my area which for a weather freak like me is very amazing. I have a ton of things I've done but I'm not sure I want to be Mr. Verbose so I think I'll call it a show, thanks for watching.

So I have a car.

Well, I have a car. An Acura Legend `88 in prime condition and what a car she is. I've probably as of this post driven it around for 3 or so hours and I love it. I really don't know what else to say that's the huge highlight of my week. You can look at the pictures here . Well I guess I can state more. I've joined a corporation in Eve and will be co-leading it I presume, Eve is really a lot of fun again. I have upgraded to a Caracal which is just a 101 times better than my old Kestrel. Also I've been working on the corporations website and I plan on writing a Java Eve Roster application which should prove interesting to write. Oh yes, here is what I wanted to mention, I've gotten on the Ubuntu and switched to Mandriva, last time I tangled with Mandriva it was okay but now it's amazing. Everything I needs works, and get this Eve premium and my microphones work correctly again. Some of the highlights of Mandriva is the repositories and how much more fine-tuned it is for the end user. By that I mean it has a ton of configuration tools and well pre-configured layouts and also a Global menu which finally allows me to easily have both KDE and Gnome, currently I'm using KDE which is a switch up from normal. I must say the way Mandriva has KDE configured is very clean and effective. I've been tangling with Ratchet & Clank for the PS3 lately which has proved a lot of fun. Let me return to the cleaning my car subject, I had the privileged to use a power washer after I soap/waxed the beast. That was quite a bit of fun. I guess I lost my blogging train of thought, oh well that seems to cover it all any who.

The Status in which I have statustized

Lately I've been playing around with Facebook and to my amazement they have a java development section. I'm going to see what I Facebook app's I can write with Java. If it works as I think it will, I'll be able to make Facebook apps without having to learn PHP which looks pretty rough from what I'm used to. I've also been playing a lot of eve which is starting to become very interesting. I'm still in the same cheapo ship but my skills are starting to make that ship powerful. I've also been twittering like mad and I'm still loving the Flock web browser. I found a Facebook game called AntRush which is pretty fun. It's a strategy game that doesn't require full attention which is pretty nice even though with flock I'm on all my social networks quite a bit. I was pretty amazed the other day to find this cool web service which tests your words per minute : http://labs.jphantom.com/wpm/ . I did pretty good seeing as this isn't the keyboard I usually use. I tried the Iron Man ps3 demo which was alright but certainly not the best demo I've played. Kinda repetitive game play. I think the customization of weapons which they've included would be neat however they took that bit out of the demo thus making it a one time play demo since it's very repetitive. However there was this one 40 or so MB puzzle demo I tried, I can't recall the name right at the moment however it was about EchoPerspective maybe was the name however it was a perspective game like those art styles you see of optical illusions except turned into a game, it was pretty interesting. Still playing Pain, good buy there. Not much else to say, I did get owned at my LUG when I tried to explain the frame work of my Socrates application which I'll be putting down for a few months till summer since I don't have the time or care to develop that application at the moment. I do plan on writing a facebook application like I said early I'm just not quite sure which one. I was planning on writing a basic counter with an image and simple description for world histories IGA thing. Another project I plan on doing is writing a simple GUI front end to jmePhysics engine which would prove a challenge but more than probably worth it. Sean and I have been trying to work on Teen Linux Lounge except he's a power n00b and can't get his microphone's to work so probably another week with out a TLL episode which seems to be killing the community, I hope we can keep the community going however advertising ourself as a Podcast doesn't work anymore thus leaving us as some teens who use Linux and hang out in IRC. The school's Linux front is slowly progressing which is nice to see, hopefully we can convert a few more people in the latter months of the school year. Now I'm really done.

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My Blogging

Well, I've revamped sjsayers.com and I've been using Flock lately. I will be micro-blogging because I feel it gives an easier sense of the term blogging allowing me to post short comments, and thankfully twitter loves that sort of thing. I have started a blog for MrServer which should be fun to write and I have also been playing around with Flock if I hadn't already mentioned that [comic relief] I will probably put my uber rants here and anything to long for my status which Twitter is, I'd reword the micro-blogging in fact to status blogging, a list of things your doing or thinking, where blogs seem to be used for long opinions on subjects or very well written how-to's. I've been uploading quite a few YouTube video's lately, my favorite would be TeaTime which is a rather silly video about me drinking Tea. Other things I've done today would be work on skills / mission run in Eve, I'm trying to fully deck out my Kestrel before I even consider to switching to the larger Carrier or Cruiser, such similar names but it is the Cruiser I talk about. Facebook made me happy today, as I realized how integrated my stuff is on it. It's very neat to see my last.fm charts and my latest twitter status. I believe that is all for today though, so good bye :)

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UFO Day

Today I wanted to do a review on a game called Saga but I don't think I've played it long enough. However to the real story, today is the 60th Anniversary of the Roswell, New Mexico UFO intervention . After watching a few hours of documentaries on the History Channel you can come to notice that even if there isn't aliens the government tries their darnedest to cover up any idea, just making it seem more plausible. If nothing was their why would they go out of their way to deny it. Which then makes me think of two things. Either they are covering something up or They don't want to say "We just aren't sure." And if they are covering something up, Why? If the citizens knew would they really be in that much shock. Possibly. Could it cause anarchy, un-likely. Since if you really think about it, as far as we know, this universe is Infinite to a certain degree. I say that because we know their has to be an end somewhere, but as far as we know, that 'somewhere' is un-godfuly far away, and near impossible to describe in one adjective. Think of all those solar systems, we can't be the only planet out there with the required things to create life.
Plus UFO's have been in text since the ancient days. Now I personally am skeptical on most accounts but some seem plausible. I believe that if UFO's have visited Earth, we need to learn as much as we can about them, build defenses and hopefully get a good relationship with them. One good out come of E.T. would be our world would be united. No more wars would go on because now we'd just be a planet, why would we need war when their are much more advanced things out there that we need to learn from. On the bad note, if E.T. can get here, they have the technology to decimate us. Hopefully some day our governments will be honest with us, till then we can just guess.