eXonyte's Realm

March 1, 2006

- 12:51 AM - Late note

When you first turn on a Nintendo DS it asks for your birthday. I always wondered what sorts of things the games would do with that information.

Well, it turns out that the DS's startup sound is a bit twinklier, Pictochat advertises that it's your birthday, and most of the games I have don't do anything special. However, Feel the Magic and The Rub Rabbits both tell you "Happy Birthday!" when you get to the title screen. I know it's pitiful, but that made me smile :)

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February 28, 2006

- 12:42 AM - This is just wrong

In checking out SomethingAwful's Photoshop Phriday feature as I usually do, I came across the first picture on this page.

*eXonyte shudders at the thought*

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February 24, 2006

- 5:15 PM - And someone has a message for Bill

Boo!

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- 5:14 PM - Steve has a message for you

"I need a shower."

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February 21, 2006

- 2:01 PM - Happy birthday Zelda!

Today, The Legend of Zelda celebrates its twentieth birthday. I would have posted links but i am on my cell phone. Discuss.

EDIT: My phone apparently uses GET to post forms. Or it's URL-encoded instead of multipart/mixed. Fixed it... eXonyte, you should add a checkbox that runs urldecode() or whatever the function is on the fields, that only shows up when the U-A contains "LG" and "C" and "2000". Name it "Fix Ziggy's phone". I'll write the code if you copy it over from SVN ^_^.

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February 20, 2006

- 1:36 PM - mIRC 6.17 released

For any MSNers still floating around this site, I submit for your approval this excerpt from versions.txt:

Quote (versions.txt)

48.Added support for display of UTF-8 text as unicode in status,
channel, query, and other windows, and in nickname listboxes,
window titlebars, switchbar, and tooltips.

The display of UTF-8 can be enabled for all windows in the
Options/IRC/Messages dialog, or individually for each window
via the Fonts dialog. The Fonts dialog also has an "Encode"
option that encodes outgoing text in UTF-8 based on the
script/codepage selected for that window.

Note: The Encode feature is selective, ie. it only encodes the
parts of an outgoing message that are not already in UTF-8 format.

Added $utfencode(text, C) and $utfdecode(text, C), where C is the
script/codepage ($window().script) of the plain text.

Added $isutf(text) identifier, returns UTF-8 status of text, where
0 = not UTF-8 (contains invalid UTF-8 sequences), 1 = seems to be
plain text, 2 = seems to contain valid UTF-8.

Note: mIRC does not convert incoming UTF-8 into the local codepage.
Server text is stored internally unchanged. This enables mIRC
(scripts, etc.) to work fully with UTF-8 IRC servers that allow
UTF-8 in channel and nick names.

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February 14, 2006

- 12:47 AM - Happy Single Awareness Day!

The holidays are over and now that you've just about gotten the fact that you're miserable and lonely out of your head for more then 5 minutes at a time, February 14th rolls around and suddenly a fresh outpouring of love and sentiment is there to remind you that you have no one to share those feelings with. Single Awareness Day (sometimes called Valentine's Day for unknown reasons) does have it's purpose however... so go out and buy yourself a big heart shaped box of chocolates and sit at home in the dark stuffing your face with them! Other recommended Single Awareness Day celebrations include:
-Drinking... a lot.
-Pigging out on things other than chocolates... ice cream and cookies for instance.
-Watching sappy romance movies.
-Crying.
-All of the above!

Remember, just because you're alone and miserable doesn't mean you can't have a good time! (Okay.. yes it does.)

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February 9, 2006

- 10:57 PM - THIS IS BETTER

HAHAHAHA

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- 9:03 PM - This is funnier

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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- 8:50 PM - Mr. Pibb + Red Vines = Crazy Delicious

Original
Parody - Advertises Mars Hill church

funny.

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February 6, 2006

- 10:46 AM - C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs

The graveyard of past (failed) experiments.

Just a thought ;)

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February 5, 2006

- 3:03 AM - Geeks' Night Out

Tonight, a rarity occured. eXonyte, Paradigm, and myself were all able to get together with a few other friends to have a few drinks and play pool. There was much laughter, fun, and even a few stunts. I'm officially recommending that we designate a date when all visitors of the site who live near other visitors get together with said visitors who live near them for a night of drunken antics and general fun-havingness (it's my word, but you can use it.) Then, we can all post our stories about our own little Geeks' Night Out.

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February 2, 2006

- 4:03 PM - IE7... continued

Well, as promised, here's my somewhat short review of Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2. There are no images because I am a lazy bastard.

After installing, which was surprisingly fine, I launched the browser for the first time. The very first thing I noticed was the absence of a menu bar (File, Edit, etc). This immediately made me uneasy and takes away what I see as a staple piece of a part of software such as a browser. You're probably expecting me to now say "but there's a clever alternative they've added" - but there isn't. You're left with no menu bar, and no alternatives. Worrying.

The next obvious thing is the addition of tabs. This is quite well designed and works pretty much bug-free. The tab selector is neat, slick, and does the job it's required for. The graphics and icons (such as forward and back) are also pretty sleek. On the same level, there is a Home, Favourites, Print, Page, and Tools menu.

Another thing that I noticed after a while is that the rendering engine seems to apply some sort of anti-aliasing feature to all text. This makes the asthetic value of web pages increase somewhat, but I don't know what sort of CPU implications it holds. I don't know if it's possible to disable it; I actually prefer it the old way. Clever feature, though.

Just like in Firefox, there is a "Google" search box next to the address bar. Does what it says on the tin, nothing groundbreaking about that. You can add search engines to it as you please.

Also, PNG alpha transparency appears to work fine now. About bloody time. Don't really need to say anything else about that.

(To be continued after I have performed some further CSS tests.)

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February 1, 2006

- 7:46 PM - IE7

Well, I'm not going to take my usual anti-Microsoft attidude and bullshit you - IE7 is actually good.

Yes, you heard me. It's good. I'll do a mini-review of it later.

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