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Friday, November 11, 2005

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I also updated the links page, click the yellow "link" up at the top here -^
I'll set it so it can be resized, but not now, now is time for beer! Beer and games!

Atually not quite yet... still waiting for it to download, about half done and hate to get into another game in the meanwhile. I'm stuck in NFS Underground 2. I've gotten really far, I'm about to go to the next "level" of courses and races, but have to beat 1 of 2 races... and I can't beat either. I can't upgrade my car any more until I go up a level, either. I guess I made a bad choice in cars.

In any case I'm hopeful about the new one. Jay is always saying he doesn't like Underground "because it's at night, I don't like racing at night..." well this one's durring the day, and there's cops!

The other one was missing that "I'm not supposed to be doing this" feel like EVERY OTHER NFS GAME EVER. So looks like they're going back to that, and that's good.

I'm not getting an XBOX 360, but I may get the newest PC games to make me feel better. This system ought to spank the 360 for another year or so, if I compare price it ought to last 3 times as long as the XBox 360. Maybe it'll last twice as long at 1.5 times the quality, yeah... that's it.

I spent all day coding today. The boss was out, and I was feeling inspired. It was a very relaxing day given the past week. It was nice to just do my own thing, there were a few people who were having issues, but nothing major, and nothing I had to do right then.

I have been making a chat tool for the company, modifying one, rewriting it... I took 3 different winsock based text tools and combined them into 1 with specific notifications when a message comes in to each, redesigned the application, and just gone done compiling all the help for it this week. It seems like the work is never ending. Just when I think I've got it ready to go... the boss comes up with more things we should add to it.

It's not necessarily bad, just never ending. I added HTML help, real Windows help instead of cheap "hey, this window pops up when I click the big HELP button" kind of help. Now I can add that to any application I make.

I realized today that the HyperLINK application doesn't even do what it's supposed to. It's missing some major major changes I have been doing with the new program: QuickLINK. It works with the code I've been trimming down for my LINKs page. I've now separated it into a scrolling links page and an image display/animation slideshow sort of thing (used it on the Teagno Construction Site heh, that's amusing now that I'm writing it out.

So umm... to sum up (damn this is a long post) - work is good, I'm doing a lot of fun stuff, learning VB .NET/2005 as I perfect VB6. Still got a looooong way to go before I reach "professional programmer" status, but maybe next I'll tackle arrays or go back to school to at least knock down a VB2 course.
School would be good, might as well finish up. I've already lost credits I'm sure, but would be good just the same.

posted @ 18:50

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Yeah... I'd much rather feel like I shouldn't be doing something during the day, than completely legal at night!!

By Jay, at Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:51:00 AM