Java Posts...

Well, my recent two posts about writing a game in java have been abject failures, not only have they not garnered any views (16 in total) but they've got me bored with them.... There is a part 3 scheduled for next Monday, but after that I'll not be pushing myself to generate more on that genre.

Instead I've been looking at SDL in my favourite guise C++.

I have used SDL 1.2 before, but this time I'm looking at the new SDL 2.0, as well as the SDL Image extension.

I think combining that with my image processing with CImg may result in a very powerful way of laying out graphics, 2D initially, but we'll see.

In personal news I'm so very busy, and Dude is not well, he has Lung Cancer, so he's not got long with us.

Killer Curry

No, no killer as in "good, killer as in really its tried to snuff out my life.

I worked late at the office Wednesday, didn't get in til past 10pm, so the wife just said, heat that curry up - she had had the other half...

I thought she'd cooked it and I just needed to heat it up... wrong, I heated it up, but it was uncooked, being a curry however, it tasted fine...

Oh holy mother mary - I may not have believed in you 24 hours ago - but I'm pretty sure I saw you on the edge of our bath laughing at me as I prayed to the porcelain monster and shat a whole camel through the eye of a needle.

Needless to say I've not been at work today, I've been at home, I feel much better just now, but as I've been laying here and throwing up there, I've been churning code over in my head, I am midsteam of a high pressure project at work and I need to get this part of it gone and done, I even left my machine on and running at work... I was that into the zone.

Hey ho, lets hope I sleep like the grave tonight, then I might have a fighting chance to get up and get on with things tomorrow.

Man Flu

I feel thoroughly drubbed over, I'm sat at work right now, staring at lines of code wondering why the fuck am I here.  The reason for this isn't some deep mid-life crisis, its not some in-fathomable coding glitch either, its the simple fact that I've got a cold.

In Britain, and I guess elsewhere, when a man has a cold he gets short sharp shrift as regards sympathy... "You'll find sympathy in the dictionary somewhere between Shit and Syphilis" as the saying goes.  But also here in Britain there's this rule of not bringing illness to your work colleagues.

So this morning I phoned in to HR and said, "I've got a stinking cold, I can come in, but I'll give it everyone, what do you want?"... They told me to come in.

There we go, here I am, and I've now been to the kitchenette - good luck anyone touching the taps, the coffee machine or the water cooler!  I did wash my hands, but still, good luck.  I'm also coughing and sneezing over my desk - so anyone wanting a document off me is going to get a short barrel of snot.

Consequently, because I was ill, I spent most of yesterday in bed - or being made to do things by the wife - whom would not let me rest...

So I missed this:

This is the second "offer" from them I've missed, I missed out on the gold for fights the other week, and I missed out on this, the reason being illness, but also the current economy has left me feeling lack lustre towards playing at all, its too costly to play the game at the tier I have access to.

I've effectively stopped playing, until they fix the economy there, but its cutting my nose off to spite my face, I would clearly have liked 24 hours of premium.... maybe not yesterday as I was so ill.