Cruise
Have to post from a ship in the carribbean. I dont care if my spelling is bad. Its been great. Check the flikr Feed for the photos. More going up in the next day or 2. See everyone on wednesday or thursday.
Out of time
Bye 
Done with College
Its a screenshot
Well i havent graduated but the thesis is finished and I have left the country. On holiday, not permenantly. The projects website is up at Wiisualisation. The site covers the whole development of the project which also included learning Objective C. That was tough, never even looked at it before but it all worked out in the end. Had to have a look at developing a plugin for an application where there was no API and no access to the existing classes.
Cork Lan so “CLAN”
Smart eh? So i finally got around to organising this. Been on my mind for quite some time and now its gonna happen. 70 to 100 people, 24 Hours loads of games. How can you loose. I’ll tell you how. Be the guy organising it. Dont think i will have much time to play myself but i am doing it for the fun and the love of playing game. God knows its not for the money.
Anyway, the site has gone live. CorkLAN.com. Now i do use live in the widest possible sense. It is entirely devoid of content and the registration system is broken but its something. I am picking up the flyers tomorrow and the advertising is gonna start in earnest. First place is midLANs.net. Its a bigger and more established event and its on this weekend. That means a chance to get a good look at the network and what they have on offer. Its running for the full 48 hours. Unfortunately i wont be able to go to the whole thing. Gotta be back here on saturday. I’ll try catch some sleep before driving back but it should be an excellent night. Read more…
Busy Busy Busy
So its been a while since the last post and this is my fast post to give as many excuses as i can as fast as i can. Thank you Zapp Brannigan. So here it goes.
First I have been oh so busy writing stuff up for my project and have a healthy blog going for it. No you cant see it and i know how much you really want to but the answer is still no. Well actually the answer is maybe later when i am all done i will make it publically accessible so the worldcan understand my fury.
Second excuse is the site has been having a few issues. Just one or two though. Seems I had an old forum lweft running and its was getting a tad outta hand. Sorry to anyione who was using it but to be honest i am pretty sure all the posts were just spam. If you would like a new forum in which to play please leave a comment and i will be appy to oblige. Though this time i might just try and keep an eye on things.
Third excuse is Games. I got rockband and it is excellent. I am truly loving it. I am even buying songs. Got into the hall of fame in the world tour mode and now its time for the long slog to get at the endless setlist. 58 songs and know break, I better get a real life medal for that. I am also still not finished GTA4. I never get the chance to just sit down and play it. I am about 20 hours in and At this stage i kinda just want to be done with it. I might do a review of both of these games at some stage for kicks.
Fourth one is kinda related to the third. The PSN. I love my PS3 but I have to admit it falls short as a games machine. That said the PSN game are far and away better than most of the drivel on the live arcade.there were two recently that i got purely on the originality of their ideas. Echochrome and elefunk. I am too stupid for echchrome though and I am in no way an engineer. Still having great fun with both though. Now Pixel Junk Eden has just come out too so I gotta give that a whirl. Supposed to be great as a multiplayer game, all i need are some friends [SAD FACE].
So to make up for this i am going to play around with the sites layout. I am also doing this because Theses Saturdays at work with no testing are a killer.
UPDATE: Yeah, thats not going to happen actually. I am feeling a bit lazy and the quick switch caused the comments to break. Sorry. I’ll think about it thoug and make a less half assed attempt another time
MSc Project Started and Mr Foott Got a new Toy
So i have started on my project properly now. Working on some interface stuff. I am gonna be using the Wiimote to control some 3D models hopefully. Its all being developed on a Mac so I gotta get up off my ass and start learning Cocoa and Objective-C. They really dont look too bad and XCode is doing a pretty bang up job of handling the whole development side so no real complaints outta me … yet, trust me they will be a coming. These control structures arent too bad but everything i have been looking at has criminaly poor commenting. I think it might just take a little longer to learn all the syntax and figure out just how i will get this whole thing done. Still at least i have started and i am familiarising myself with the task, i set a goal of having something running 2 weeks from now and we will see how that goal is holding up this Friday/Saturday.
In a completly seperate topic of which nobody will be interested in Mr Foott finally got himself a car to be truly proud of and may i say it is fair pretty. I took a few picks with my Phone, tried to put its camera to the test and its didnt do too bad. The pictures are after the break and the few i had a bit of a play with using the simple filters in photoshop are in my flicker photostream or just use the photos link above and wander on to the “Stuff” folder. Use whichever and hopefully pass some of your day. The original photos are in a gallery after the break.
