Took some cars out for thrashin last night (well I didn't, I was just a passenger, bastards wouldn't let me drive their cars coz they thought I'd blow something up, jeez you blow up one persons gearbox and you get a bad rep for life). It was fun, haven't been out to do shit like that in ages (as most of my friends drive these poofy little riced up piece of shit show cars that they are to afraid to take out and thrash).
The first car we took out was a friends Mitsubishi lancer (it's a piece of shit, been tellin him to sell it and by an s13 or a v8 or maybe a series 4 or 5 rx7). I've been at him for ages to take it out and do a touge run in it. It was sort of fun but scary, man that car's got some shocking understeer (he really needs to upgrade the suspension, tyres and brakes), even though we weren't really going that fast (only about 130 - 140km/h, which isn't that fast for the road we were on) I was freakin out coz all the bloody thing wanted to bloody understeer off the bloody road through just about every corner and almost put us into the bloody trees. Tried to get a video of the run on me camera phone, but it didn't come out real well.
Later that night I went out with another friend in his new Toyota Carona wagon that he bought to use as a run around while his wrx is off the road gettin some more work done to it. We decided to take it bush bashing as me friend had never really done any before (he's bloody 24 and his never takin his car bush to do some dowies, driftin or just tryin to jump stuff, sad! but then again his never really had a decent car to do it in before coz all the cars he's owned have been crappy show cars). It was pretty cool, made the car over heat though, and it end up breaking down after we got back into town, which was a pain in the ass, spent ages fixin it then I had to push start the bloody thing to get it goin.
Can't wait to get my licence back now!
Have to bloody work again tonight, it's ridiculous, it always feels like it's Friday night, the rest of the week goes but so quickly that it feels like every time I wake up its bloody Friday again and I have to work. I only work their 10 hours a week now and it still feels like I live there.
But that's not the worst part of working at woolies, its the embarrassment of working there. I have to lie about what I do so people don't find out. It'll be like, your talking to some hot chick you've met and the conversation will eventually come around to what I do for a living and I have to make up some bullshit story, because if you tell them you work it woolies they're like "oh" (in a very unenthusiastic/disgusted sort of manner), and then look for an excuse to stop talking to you and get the fuck out of there. A friend of mine didn't believe me, so I proved it last night when a chick asked me where I worked, and sure enough I got the "oh". And its not just the chicks, everybody looks down on you if your a lowly supermarket worker.
I've got to get myself fired!!!
Just got to think of a cool way to do it, one idea I've had was to go and open a box of condoms up and fill the frangers with mayo and then just go and peg it at a few customers or somethin to freak'em out. That ought to do it.
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Wednesday, 28 March 2007
Other people are reading this
Wow, other people who aren't in this class are actually reading this crap. scary.
DAMN PHP SCRIPT WON'T WORK!!!
Recently I started trying to teach myself PHP, and I've been doing a lot of different tutorials. The one I'm working on at the moment is on how to build a simple discussion forum (in sams teach yourself php, mysql and appache in 24 hours), now I have followed the set up of all the databases and code exactly, I've checked it about a hundred times to make sure all my syntax is right, but it still won't let me insert data into the database. i can extract data and display it, but I can't fucking put it in. It's bloody driving me nuts trying to figure out whats wrong with it.
The only thing I can think of is that the syntax in the tutorial is wrong, so thanks a lot sams, I give you free publicity and you give me a tutorial with the wrong fucking syntax. Now I'm gunna have to go and read a whole bunch of other shit to try and figure out how to build the right syntax to make this bloody thing work.
The only thing I can think of is that the syntax in the tutorial is wrong, so thanks a lot sams, I give you free publicity and you give me a tutorial with the wrong fucking syntax. Now I'm gunna have to go and read a whole bunch of other shit to try and figure out how to build the right syntax to make this bloody thing work.
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
built a flash site (sort of)
finally had a go at building a website using flash and actionscript, its not actually on the web but I still think it is kind of cool for my first try. now all I have to do is finally get myself a coppy of flash for my computer at home so that I can get some more practice.
I'm really starting to look forward to learning XML so that I can use flash with databases so that I can build dynamic flash content. well I'm not really looking forward to all the XML/database stuff, I just think it would be cool to be able to develop dynamic flash content and to do that I need to learn the XML/database stuff.
I'm really starting to look forward to learning XML so that I can use flash with databases so that I can build dynamic flash content. well I'm not really looking forward to all the XML/database stuff, I just think it would be cool to be able to develop dynamic flash content and to do that I need to learn the XML/database stuff.
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
Improving My Designs
The other week in class, we had to do an assignment where we had to recreate 3 web page designs, 3 A3 magazine spread designs as well as doing 3 original web page designs and 3 magazine spreads of our own and then present it to the class.
After this exercise, our teacher, luke, recommended that we keep up this practice to improve our designs. To that end I have started to collect a range of screen shots of various web sites that I visit, so that i can attempt to recreate them. I have tried to choose a rather eclectic range of sites that are designed for a variety of applications (e.g. e-commerse, video sharing, flash etc) so that I can become well versed in a number of different styles of sites.
On another note, following on from my rant about how much i hate working at f$cking woolies and why I can't seem to get off my ass and actually do something worthwhile and constructive, I have finally got off my ass and started developing a plan to get my little business venture off the ground. Not sure how I'm gunna handle studying full time (especially with all the assignments and stuff) and trying to get a business off the ground, but we'll see how I go.
The important thing is that I get out of F*&KING WOOLWORTHS!!!!
After this exercise, our teacher, luke, recommended that we keep up this practice to improve our designs. To that end I have started to collect a range of screen shots of various web sites that I visit, so that i can attempt to recreate them. I have tried to choose a rather eclectic range of sites that are designed for a variety of applications (e.g. e-commerse, video sharing, flash etc) so that I can become well versed in a number of different styles of sites.
On another note, following on from my rant about how much i hate working at f$cking woolies and why I can't seem to get off my ass and actually do something worthwhile and constructive, I have finally got off my ass and started developing a plan to get my little business venture off the ground. Not sure how I'm gunna handle studying full time (especially with all the assignments and stuff) and trying to get a business off the ground, but we'll see how I go.
The important thing is that I get out of F*&KING WOOLWORTHS!!!!
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Why do I put things off
Haven't had much sleep lately, been having a little dilemma about what I am doing with my life, or more to the point, what I haven't been doing.
I was at work on Friday night putting up with all the crap that I usually put up with in my crappy job, and suddenly I was overcome with this feeling, a feeling that I have only ever felt once before when I finally decided to quit my previous job at Cargil. All of a sudden I found myself asking, "why am I putting up with this crap" and "what the f?#k am I doing wasting my life in this f?#king Sh#t hole of a place".
So now I find myself with a big decision to make, to quit my job or not to quit my job.
This lead me to ask a few more questions about the way I've been spending my life. For the past several years I've been wanting to start my own business, a business that could potentially make me a very wealthy person. I also happen to be in a position where I could actually manage to pull the resources together and get this thing off the ground.
But I DON'T!
Instead I seem to put things off, find excuses to delay doing something. Why do I do this? I'm not really sure. I'm going to have to give that one a bit more thought. But the real question is will I ever get the motivation to get off my ass and actually put something into action.
I was at work on Friday night putting up with all the crap that I usually put up with in my crappy job, and suddenly I was overcome with this feeling, a feeling that I have only ever felt once before when I finally decided to quit my previous job at Cargil. All of a sudden I found myself asking, "why am I putting up with this crap" and "what the f?#k am I doing wasting my life in this f?#king Sh#t hole of a place".
So now I find myself with a big decision to make, to quit my job or not to quit my job.
This lead me to ask a few more questions about the way I've been spending my life. For the past several years I've been wanting to start my own business, a business that could potentially make me a very wealthy person. I also happen to be in a position where I could actually manage to pull the resources together and get this thing off the ground.
But I DON'T!
Instead I seem to put things off, find excuses to delay doing something. Why do I do this? I'm not really sure. I'm going to have to give that one a bit more thought. But the real question is will I ever get the motivation to get off my ass and actually put something into action.
Thursday, 15 March 2007
CONSERVAPEDIA the funniest site in a long time
I'm not really sure if this site is for real or just some kind of joke, but apparently it is an encyclopedia for american christian extreamest nut jobs, but either way it makes for some extreamly funny reading. checkout http://www.conservapedia.com
Create User and Tech Documentation
Wow! This is a boring subject, it should still be pretty easy to pass, but damn it's boring! Might have to go and check out conservapedia again and have a bit of a laugh at those dumb ass religious nut yanks. Funny funny stuff. might put up a few links to other people blogs who are in my class a bit later too. They might not write as much pointless crap as I do.
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Listening Skills
Today we worked on music listening skills, which basically revolved around watching some movies (American Beauty and The Shawshank Redemption), to see how sound is intergrated into these films.
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
rss intergration
Today I am working on intergrating an rss feed from digg.com into a sample web-page using a simple javascript. I'm basically just using this so that I can work on my css skills by styling an external feed.
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