Archive for the 'School' Category

End of term, AjaxLife work, server issues

So, the school year is finally finished, as of noon today. Woo! To coincide with this, the server running this site suffered a hardware failure, and everything had to be moved over, resulting in just under three hours of downtime. Meep.

Since SL is down, AjaxLife isn’t running, and server load is much lower. And I can work on chasing some annoying bugs too. Wee. And adding features and other fun stuff.

This post has the most categories per word on this blog. :p

A real update (finally)

So, I haven’t actually posted anything here in a while, if you discount the map and angry rants. So I’ll throw everything I intended to say but didn’t ever get round to. :p

Second Life

SL has been somewhat dull recently. But it’s getting more interesting. On a technical level, it seems to run fine, except for when network/power issues knock out 400-2000 sims. I haven’t had many issues – although the grid seems to have taken to gobbling my inventory if I log off within half an hour of picking it up. And I apparently lost some inventory from ages ago that I needed, which is annoying. That was also the first piece of inventory I noticed I had lost – so I’m hoping I haven’t lost anything else.

Cirr seems to have quit permanently with limited/no explanation. Alpha and Ming transferred on Monday (after meddling with ID because LL managed to lose it). Norn vanished without notice; I suspect he forgot about SL again. Everyone’s leaving! :(

On the other hand, I still have some friends. And four people have told me that they have a crush on me. Which is odd.

TSL Profiles

I have been working (sometimes) on my new(ish) website, TSL Profiles, which is… I’m not really sure what it is. But it’s something. And I’m working on it. It currently features profile (unsurprisingly), ratings, comments, in/out-SL chat, “µBlog,” a friend list, and a public API. I also intend to add a group system at some point in the not so distant future.

School

Exams are soon. I hate exams. They mean that I have to do revision, which is evil. >.>

Also, I did the AS Computing Module 3 exam yesterday. Which was easy enough, but that wasn’t remotely surprising. Two more AS Computing exams on Tuesday, then a week holiday that will be spent entirely revising, then exam week. Bleh.

School remains a waste of time filled with bullies and perverts.

Website Stuff

Very briefly:

  • I fixed a bug in my stats, which now have over 10,000,000 data samples.
  • This server should be getting a bit more RAM shortly.
  • Updated the blog to WordPress 2.2 this morning.

Also, I’ve been completely exhausted most of the week.

On a completely unrelated note, why did Flickr send me an email informing me that “FaerieDevilish has uploaded 1 photo in the last 24.225833333333 hours?”
Is that not just a little over precise?

Brief Update

This is a brief update just to make sure this site doesn’t die like I predicted it would when I started it.

I haven’t posted anything recently, largely due to depression. And I’m not doing much better now, but at least I can actually work on things, which is a significant improvement over the state I was in last week. Which is good, I suppose. I’ll start posting here properly when my lives sort themselves out.

So, things I’ve done since my last post:

  • Cried a lot. :(
  • Started a new project-type-thing, phpsimcaps. It’s a library that allows you to interact with sim-caps using PHP. So far it can only request map layer data and upload sounds and textures. I’m having difficulty getting ImageMagick to convert to JPC at a decent quality though – any ideas? Also, animation upload isn’t going to work until I’m in the mood for working out what LL are doing to the animation to make it play properly. (Currently you can upload animations, but they won’t play back). I might make a separate post about this some other time. Maybe.
  • Upgraded my server with the extra RAM and HD space it needs (no more random segfaults or disk space errors, woot! :D )
  • Improved my stats site in order to make pages load much faster without putting any real load on the server. (Compared to having to locate and average tens of thousands of numbers every visit)
  • Thought about life, got depressed, and sat in a corner doing nothing. And I went to school sometimes too, where I sat slumped over my desk doing nothing.

So that’s my update for however long. I’ll post again when I feel better.

Snow day!

Woot. (For the first time in five years)

Help!

Gah! Too much homework!
Continue reading ‘Help!’

A wandering aimless post

First off, school is evil. But mandatory, at least at my age in my country.

I don’t really have any good reason to say that school’s evil today. I didn’t have much homework, and Games (read as: “stand outside for two hours freezing playing hockey”) wasn’t bad, since it wasn’t actually freezing for once. But then I left my gloves behind. Oops.
I do, however, have to produce some IT work by later today, and I have no idea what. Just that I’m really going to be in trouble if I don’t get it done. Best be doing that after I finish typing this, then.

Continue reading ‘A wandering aimless post’