I think today was the first time I actually was thrilled that I go to university... like actually THRILLED!



I went to a seminar hosted by Microsoft on Game Development with Managed DirectX. And it was probably the most enlightening thing I've ever participated in at school.



I was stunned at how simple it is to make a 3D game... well the simplicity is in creating and 'painting' 3D images on the screen, not at the actual game programming.



As a result of attending I got a free copy of Visual Studio .Net which is pretty awesome, and I got entered in a contest to win a copy of Halo2 (one copy per seminar is being given out, so my chances are pretty good).



All-in-all a pretty kick-ass day.

Incase you did or didn't notice, I was up late tonight working one some java applet goodness.



Well, it didn't TAKE me all night, i just started late. So, go take a look in the upper right of the screen for the clock! it moves now, yay...

I heard this word in my humanities tutorial today. And the instant I read it I realised what it was.



Recapitulate re·ca·pit·u·late - to summarize briefly.



What are the first 5 letters of that word? "recap".



This was a very profound realisation for me, and I think its the only thing I really took with me from that class, the rest was something about some book by a guy named Darwin.

I spend the better part of this afternoon testing to see if my videocard supported a dual monitor setup. I always suspected it did, but never knew for sure until today.







The first thing I needed to do was FIND a second monitor. I decided to use my TV in the other room, so I gathered all the rca cables I could find and connected them all together. Then I hooked up my videocard to the tv and after a bit of tweaking it detected the screen. So, I had successfully extended my desktop over 2 screens. Only problem was the TV is in another room, that wasn't very practical.



So I setup my other computer with the ATI multimedia center software so I could watch TV on it, but instead of feeding it a cable signal I connected the RCA cables to it.



The next step will be to purchase a new monitor, a real one not a tv screen, and stick it beside this one so I can really enjoy all the perks!

... turn and face the strain.

Here the strain may be on your eyes. I've made a few changes here, namely the blue to grey gradient here, and the checkered background:



The background is VERY temporary, and probably won't survive the weekend. I've constantly got new ideas popping into my head while I'm driving to school so who knows when it'll end.

One thing I know for sure is that the way that the website is designed right now there are WAY too many files to do the relatively few functions I need to do. There are rougly 3 files for each function (post, edit, and delete - for blog and guestbook posts). I need to compact these files somehow. I've got an idea of what to do, but it won't affect any of you at all, this is all backend stuff.