Blrg

Pretty hefty winds out there today. I think it managed to open the screen door for the cat a few times now.
In fact, I'm not sure if the cat's outside or not, at the moment...

My brother and I have been playing Starcraft on and off recently. Yeah, it's a nine year old game, and people still play it - they (Starcraft players) account for over a third of the people on Battle.net, still. Only about 3% of those don't have BroodWar (the expansion set), which is interesting: By now, most people have noticed that the Starcraft Battlechest / Set goes for about 20-30$ - even here. Oddly enough, my brother only recently got the expansion set from Futureshop, along with a copy for me (so that I would have a legal copy - I somehow have two keys spare to use, but no actual copy of SC)...
...and somehow managed to buy the French version.
(By the way, when I checked Battle.net just now, there were 48517 games in progress. Of those, 20189 were reported to be Starcraft: Broodwar games (43%)! Only 598 (1%) of them were regular Starcraft games, however. Mind you, neither comes as a total surprise: More SC games are required for more players fairly often, considering two things: People often play private games with their friends, not allowing in the general public; Also, people often don't wait for their games, as the average age is fairly low, and the average attention span is lower.)

Anyhow...
It seems I've not spoken of Wombat here yet (at least not of his currenct condition); He had a lump growing on the side (behind) of his jaw. He was diagnosed with a curable form of cancer, and is undergoing treatment. It's pretty bad for him; He can't go to work, and his work only pays him for the days he works. He can't do much and has a reduced attention span, not to mention being fatigued all the time. And his hair is gone. It's really taking a toll on him...

I'd rather: Go Play Air Buccaneers Day, honestly. A least then we'd spend time playing friendly games of 3D in-the-air-"battleship". ;P

I've been fairly quiet recently, and I'm not sure why; But don't expect me to apologise for it. It's... ridiculous. Nobody's been asking for any updates anyway.

Thanks to the database loss, I'm not entirely sure what I last posted about, though by the looks of what's on a crossposted site, I didn't say much about what was happening anyway. Thus, I'll start with whatever comes to mind, and go from there.

I've gotten a job. I'm waiting for the security check to clear, but there isn't really any reason why that shouldn't go, so I'll be starting on the second of October. Go me?
The job is with the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, and I'll be doing some database / web development for them for a few months; It's only a contract job, but it's something for now, and the job itself sounds like it's going to be just what I've been looking for -- at least I've got that much positive to say about recent events.

Going down the hill only a tad, it looks like the only effort required to restore the gallery (at this point) is to re-title everything. I've already re-installed G2 and re-added the galleries and pictures. I expect to be done the work on it by the end of this week.

Continue reading "Meh this, meh that, time for an update."

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I believe Nightwish nailed it, here:

IRC is a protocol which has been working flawlessly for more than 15 years. It simply doesn't need all that modern crap. It works and that's all most IRC users expect from it. I haven't seen a single serious IRC user who complained about "missing features". IRC has all features which are needed for a stable and relieable chat environment.