So I have been busy recently hence the lack of effort devoted to this blog. Sorry... I have been slack and I am planning on updating more often from this point forward.
Firstly I have been working on about seven projects at the same time. The first is that I have been contracting myself out occasionaly to work on automated captcha decoders. The work is fairly interesting and a practical application of what I did for my thesis in my honours year but is somewhat questionable from an ethical standpoint I guess... please leave feedback below to let me know what your thoughts are on this.
So otherwise I have been coding up a lot recently. I have been playing around with search (again) and creating highly vertical search's designed for specific websites. I figured since there are so many websites out there which have search on them wrong (like this one for instance) I could make something which does it right. You never know someone might end up actually using the service.
I have also been working on the second iteration of my Wausita website. I will blog when I get it going properly later. Might combine it with the previously mentioned idea and see how we go.
Anyway that might do for the moment. Will try to update in the next few days with the latest news.
Oh and just for interest, Scottish Whisky is always spelt without the E. Irish Whiskey is alway spelt with it. There is your random fact for the day.
Published on Wednesday 03rd February 2010
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Drove out there on Saturday to pick up an ebay purchase. Anyway while there I took a few photos and this is the one I liked the most. Thought I would stick it here for people to have a look at.
Published on Sunday 17th January 2010
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Ok while im not as extreme in my views on free software as Richard Stallman I so like to use free libre open source software where possible. Not so much because im a tight arse (although that does factor in) but also because I like to ability to fix bugs or add features when I need them. Sure I have never had to do it before, but the thought that I could do it was always comforting. Well finally I needed to do such last night. I was playing with pChart which is a PHP charting library. I wanted to create a Pie Chart which would display not just the % of each slice
but also the actual value. Sadly it didnt support this functionality. So I opened the correct class in trusty Notepad++ and added two lines in the correct locations and everything is as I expected. Now I get the Pie chart I want.
Ahhh the beauty of Open Source software (where open is not just a look but dont touch affair AKA Free Sofware).
For those interested the lines in question are in pChart.class in the drawPieChart functions.
elseif ($DrawLabels == PIE_VALUE_LABEL)
$Caption = $Value." - ".$iLabels[$Key]."\r\n".
(round($Value * pow(10,$Decimals) * $SplicePercent)/pow(10,$Decimals))."%";
Published on Friday 15th January 2010
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Will add some stuff in here about the hike a bit later. Suffice to say at the moment that all was good.
Published on Monday 21st December 2009
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Yes it has been a while since I did one of these "what I did on the weekend" aka "boyter is pandering to himself again. BTW if you run that word through a dictionary use the lower tastes definition, not the other ones.
So anyways lets being with the LAN, the photos of which can be seen below. Quite successful for Toohey and a win in my opinion as well. Im not going to go into it too much since those who read this blog were there anyway, but here goes with a list of highlights.
1. Arriving before the heat began, and then promptly ducking off for a swim in the ocean which was awesome.
2. Poida! (for those not in the know he has been hinting at coming to a LAN since 1999)
3. Free beer!
4. Rune, which is always fun and amusing to play.
5. JKII. Possibly my favourite game of all time and one what I am happy to play all day long.
6. The insane amount of fog on the way back.
So yes was quite good. Now on to the weekend. Saturday consisted of... you know its interesting. I was discussing this with Lisa last night and we cannot remember what we did. Suffice to say based on the heat odds are we were inside under the A/C for a majority of the day. Sunday was a little more interesting. I rocked into work to catch up on some tasks 
but left at 12. Lisa and I then decided to visit the fish markets. Picked up some prawns (crystal bay ones too!) and rocked back. Thankfully it wasn't too hot and I broke my anti drinking policy by having two ice cold Coronas while eating the prawns with some fresh bread knot rolls with butter, avacardo salad and tomato basil mixed with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Quite a good feed actually.
So after this Toohey and I arranged to duke it out playing Command and Conquer 3 over the net. I had to lookup my EA id password thing but thankfully this wasn't a huge issue. I havent played the game in quite a while so it took a bit to get back into it. Thankfully the skills did not desert me and I managed to scrape a few wins. One of the more spectacular losses was when we adjusted my handicap to 80% (higher % means less hit points on your little dudes). Toohey then proceeded to rape me using a nailed baseball bat. The kill count alone says it all. Toohey managed to kill 447 of my guys, while I managed to kill 17 of his. Rather a large arse whooping. Thankfully the next game we reduced the handicap to 40% which was still a bit out. Quite good though and never got too slow or anything. Looks like a LAN game winner.
So yeah, if anyone has C&C:3 and wants a game comment below. I also have Kanes Wrath if we want to try that.
BTW Toohey im thinking 45% is probably a better handicap.
Published on Monday 30th November 2009
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