Obiter Dictum

Well, now I’m in ScribeFire. It seems just now a little bit nicer. It also appears to let me manage the extra pages on my site, but I don’t know if that useful just yet. It also seems to let me keep a bunch of pages unfinished which could end up more trouble than it’s worth if my usual blogging record continues unchallenged. Hopefully though, having a blogging tool I can pop up with a tap of the F8 key could finally improve my blogging record! Now I’m starting to wonder if I could get a VIM editor for it … hmmm …

Hello.  Long time no write again.  I’ve just installed a small firefox add-on called Deepest Sender that should let me write blog posts from my sidebar instead of having to log into wordpress to do it.  It seems ok so far, but not hugely exciting.  There is another one I might try called ScribeFire as I’ve just read some good things about it.

And so am I.  Well, last I reported, I was learning C++ and looking for work.  Which was kinda combined really.  I’ve now actually got a job again and it does involve programming in C++.  The place I now work for is a smallish company called ASTC, which is where a good friend of mine works, Sergei, and he encouraged me to apply.  Good thing too as so far I’m really happy.

They (or should I say “we”) write software for engineering kinda places to emulate hardware components to test design ideas before they are built for real.  That’s the 10,000 foot view of it anyway.  Apparently the whole client side of it can be rather hush hush so I won’t mention any more of what goes on without getting written approval from my manager.  The actual job though is proving to be really good though.  I’m doing some serious work (or starting to anyway) and I’m working with some really nice people.  In fact, I don’t think there are any not nice people in the company.  I won’t say never, since that always works out badly in some comical way, but if there is a horrible person there, they are sure hiding well. The company seems very flexible in the way they approach work and hours.  The prevailing attitude seems to be that so long as you’re getting your work done and you’re not stopping anyone else getting theirs done, it’s all good.  That also means that I need to be flexible in terms of taking conference calls at odd hours with people in other countries, but that’s all good for me.

I’m also rather chuffed that I can use Linux as my development platform.  I’m running Linux in a virtual machine from Windows at the moment, but I’m hoping at some point soon to switch it over and run Linux native and Windows in the VM.  I’m also hoping to upgrade my Linux version to something a bit more recent, if my manager thinks that’s ok.

Speaking of Windows and Linux, in the last post I mentioned that I had accidently killed my Windows system and was going to stick with Mandriva for a bit.  Well, I did, then I got rid of it.  And no, I didn’t go back to Windows, I switched to Ubuntu.  I must say that it (version 8.04) is very slick.  I’m super happy with it and think I’ll just stick with it for everything.  If you’re thinking of trying out Linux, that’s the one I’d recommend at the moment.

Anyway, it’s getting on a bit and I really should get off to bed as … I need to get to work in the morning.  Been a long while since I’ve been saying that.  Hopefully this will mean getting back to regular posting as I may actually have more to talk about.  Cheers!

Well it’s been ages since my last post so I haven’t mindlessly babbled for quite a while. But it’s not from a lack of things going on to blog about. It’s because I’ve been busy, yes, busy. I’m currently now looking for work and that does take up quite a bit of time.  I think I have something that may work out, but I’ll just have to see.

I also just recently killed off my Windows system when I was trying to try out Mandriva 2008.  It’s not the installer’s fault, it was mine really.  I’m not all that worried though. I’ve been thinking of switching back to Linux again and the current Linux system seem very slick now so I think I’ll stick with it for a while and see how things go.  I’m also trying to teach myself C++ (a programming language) at the moment so using Linux seems to match that well in my mind.

Just now I’m off on a long trek up to Magil to buy mik and cream so it’s a long bus ride with nothing to do but to read Accelerated C++.

I just noticed that the super hero test has a matching super villain test. Well taking that seems to show that I don’t match the villains as well as I match the heroes (well that makes sense to me). But the villain I match closest too is quite cool in my opinion. That’s right, under the right circumstances I could be the devastating APOCALYPSE!!!!

I do notice though that my villain match is only 60% but my Spidey match is 85%. I guess that puts me more on the good side. Also that Dark Phoenix comes a close second is cool too, kinda…

Full details follow:
You are Apocalypse

Apocalypse 60% Dark Phoenix 58% Dr. Doom 56% Lex Luthor 54% The Joker 54% Green Goblin 53% Kingpin 52% Magneto 52% Mr. Freeze 50% Poison Ivy 47% Juggernaut 45% Riddler 43% Venom 43% Catwoman 42% Mystique 41% Two-Face 29%

You believe in survival of the fittest and you believe that you are the fittest.

Click here to take the “Which Super Villain are you?” quiz…