EVE Online

I've never been one to be playing computer/console games. I had an Atari back in the day, wanted a NES though. Either way that was the first console I had until the first Xbox which was chipped four hours after purchase and used as a media center and not a console. After that I bought a Nintendo DS two years ago, and the DS is now my little precious DS, never leave town without it.

So what am I getting at? Okay, less then a year ago I was really really bored, I had purchased a laptop that actually could support some gaming, and I started looking for something to play. I ended up with EVE Online - a sci-fi mmorpg. I played until somewhere in April, when I moved and was without broadband for a while and decided to cancel my subscrription until further notice.

Yesterday I was really bored again, I reactivated my subscription and downloaded EVE Online again, so I'm online for at least a month, and have been kicked out of my corp :( (quite obviously due to inactivity). I'll probably be playing mostly between 0900-1600 CET, so if anyone else going solo wanna team up for a while feel free to make contact ingame (Aerti).

My favourite radio

The N800 has a built in FM tuner, just connect a headset to the audio jack and listen through either the headset or the built in speakers (the latter is more comfortable of course). However I have not used this feature too much, talk radio is, well, a whole lot of talk. Enter - Last.fm, if you don't know it, go get up to date.

There is no official Last.fm client for Maemo (the N800 operating system, based on Linux), but since Last.fm is a very open piece of radio, people are allowed, and encouraged to make their own clients. I have tested two programs for the N800 that lets me listen to Last.fm. One is Canola 2, which is a multimedia circus where Last.fm is available through a plugin. Canola is a heavy piece of software and eats up your battery and screen.

That is where Vagalume came in as a sweet sweet replacement. It's neat, it's plain, it's just for Last.fm. It's actually very close to the original client in functionality, which is perfect when you just wanna go to sleep with your N800 on the nightstand streaming your loved tracks over wifi.

This is a screenshot of Vagalume, I kinda stole it from the developers website so I have no clue who the artist is :P

You know you are a little preoccupied when...

... you don't notice you took a photo of a puddle of soda with cables in it until two days later. I noticed the puddle pretty much just after I took the photo, but not as a result of taking the photo. I was playing around with the Nokia N800 I recieved on tuesday, and didn't notice that my bottle of soda was malfunctioning. Luckily no devices were harmed during my "neglect".

Paper, Scissors, Rock 4 Maemo

Wheeooh. Newsflash - I'M BORED! They say necessity is the mother of invention, then I say boredom is the cousin of reinvention. I just uploaded the resulting code from the past few days' not so idle hands. I've been expecting a Nokia N800 in the mail the past week, and what is more appropriate then writing a game for it, and having it ready the day before you expect to be picking it up at the postoffice?

It's late, and I haven't really looked into the details on actually deploying the game, not that that was any of my intention, I just wanted to have some fun. The code is horrible, i'm not a C wiz, and certainly not a Gtk or GObject wiz either.

Anywho, enough late night (early morning?) rambling from me. Catch you all some other day. Here's a link and a screenshot.

http://code.google.com/p/paperscissor/source/browse/#svn/trunk/maemo

Project Euler

Thanks to pr0nin for linking me to Project Euler. And as for an explanation of what it is, here is the first paragraph on the site:

Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.

I am by far a math genious, I nearly flunked it in school, and the language I know best is PHP, so I decided this would be a great opportunity to learn a little more mathrelated stuff and more Python at the same time. I started last night, and I've solved three problems allready. Quite fun once you get it right.

I'm psyched!

The previous weekend sported the start of Stargate Atlantis season 5, and the coming weekend brings the return of Psych, with season 3. Now if only the preairs (1, 2, 3) we all love and like get picked up, the world will be a wonderful entertainment provider for a few years more.

And kids, if you take your 42" out into the sun, remember to use sunblock, or you will fail epically and become pink as a shrimp.

Pages.lignu.no

So, as I mentioned in the last post, I was playing with Google AppEngine. I've been working on a simple notetaking application, which currently supports BBCode for formatting. It's quick and simple, and notes can be public or private.

Now, this is still a very pre-alpha plaything, but it does work just fine. Any suggestions and comments are welcome. Bugs are probably plentyful. All access, except for viewing public pages, require you to login with your Google Account. AppEngine developers only get the e-mail address/"UserProperty" to use in their database, authentication is done solely by Google - so your password is safe. (Note that using Google Accounts for authentication isn't a must, developers can write their own methods, or use other existing ones).

I made a demonstrationpage for people to see what the result of a publically shared page will look like. It's very basic, however the option to use stylesheets will be added. Also there's a small help page with details on which tags are available.