What’s the advantage of working at a school you ask? SCHOOL HOLIDAYS!

Yep it’s that time for me again where I find out just how boring life can be without a job. It’s not all bad though, I get to work on this pretty looking website of mine a bit more. I have once again pulled the audioscrobbler music played script off my page because of constant downtimes of audioscrobbler.com. I’ve decided to take another angle and send and store the music I play directly to my own website, which is much quicker and much more reliable, and the cool thing is I can do what I want with the information I’m collecting. I found a nice little winamp plugin called CGIAmpInfo A nice basic script where you can send the information of the current song playing to any given URL. It sends the info like it submits a form, so you can use that data how you like. I’m in the process of working on the PHP script, but my plans are to simply display my last 10 tracks played on the sidebar, I’ll store the information in my MySQL database, and hopfully once I have the basic script down I’ll start working on something that can display a good stats page of the music I have been playing. Should be quite good once it’s finished. I also need to look into why weather.com doesn’t send the correct image information anymore. On top of that I want to add some more scripts to my PHP scripts page, and get some more work put on my portfolio page, I may even finish an old flash version of this site I have half finished from a year or so back.

ETF - Power Through Teamplay

Righteo I’m on a roll now, here’s a game I’ve spent WAY too much time on the last week or so, it’s a mod for the free game (that’s right completley free and with no Army recruitment brainwashing motive) Enemy Territory and it follows on from many other popular Fortress games, Quakeworld Team Fortress, Team Fortress Classic and Quake 3 Fortress. It’s a teamplay capture the flag game with attack and defense specific classes to choose from. A really fun game to play online with some good fast doof music in the background.

The Creatures in my Head

I’m just testing out my bookmarker thing that’s with my blog script, allows me to quickly post URLs that I think are cool.
First linkage honours goes to Creatures in My Head, a cool little cartoon site where one guy draws a little critter everyday, and they are really cool. I’ve made the odd background for myself and other such things using these cartoons. If I ever get a tattoo, it could quite easily be one of these critters.

I had the Music Played Script taken down for the past few weeks, Audioscrobbler have been doing some work on their servers and there has been quite a bit of downtime. To work around this I’ve put a timeout setting to the script so that it doesn’t effect the load time of the site. In the near future I’m going to add MySQL functionality to all of my RSS scripts to save on load time, and they will update every hour, instead of every time the page loads.

I’m also working on the rest of my scripts so that I can put them on the PHP scripts page, need to make MySQL table scripts and other such things for them to make them easier for others to install.

My Portfolio page will be updated quite soon with some Multimedia examples including a flash application download. 2 Weeks break coming up, so plenty of time for work on the site!

Thought I better post something since it’s been a while. No point really posting anything if nothing is happening though.

Was in town (Geelong town) tonight for a few beers, was a good night and a bad night to be in Geelong’s CBD, it’s O’week for the uni students so all the pubs are crawling with people who can’t old their alcohol at the best of times. Found ourselves locked up in the Preston surrounded by the O’week types, was good for a laugh. It did dawn on me though that I have reached the age where I am too old to mingle in with the O’week stuff like I did when my mates were at Uni, kind of depressing really. That quickly went away when I was walking past the vomiting masses when heading home.

Oh and a new fan dangle script on the left there show’s what music I’m playing while I’m at work and on my computer, coolness.