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Written by nickchanger the 4th of August 2010 at 19:30
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A lot is going on in these days. To much for my taste actually.
Since I am done at the university I pretty much have to get a job somewhere. That has meant making my CV and different job applications. It also meant joining what is known as an A-kasse. Not sure what it is called in English but it is something that will pay me as long as I do not have a job, pretty sweet deal. Of course they demand that I am actually searching for a job, but who would want to sit at home everyday doing nothing anyway.... wait a minute.
I am currently also in the process of moving out of my apartment in Aalborg (in just a couple of weeks). But since I do not know where in the world I will get a job yet I have no apartment to move into. So to begin with I will be moving back home to my parents. Hopefully I will have a job soon so I can move out again :P .
I have been in the process of creating a framework for websites, and have for months now been working on using that framework for this site. At the moment I only need some administration stuff and I should be ready to release it. I did, however, feel like it needed a new design as well so that might come too. Of course it has already taken longer than I expected but I just have not had the time :( .
Riot Games (the creators of League of Legends) released the "Season 1" ladder stuff, which meant the log file changed. The log file we parse to get all the data for LoLBase.net. Since my partner were visiting his family in Vietnam and rarely had any time, and the fact that it was me who originally created the parser, I was forced to fix it so we could continue the parsing of the thousands of log files we receive every day. Of course season 1 was released right in the middle of a holiday trip I was on, where me and 8 other young people (I was actually the oldest :P ) went to a summer house on the west coast (of Denmark) to get drunk for seven days straight. Yes I was drunk most of the time there and it was actually quite fun. Well, except for the fact that one of the two girls who were there got a concussion the 2nd night at could not participate in most of what we were doing the rest of the week. Pictures on Facebook :P . Anyway, I finished the parser a few days ago and the parser is currently crunching through the more than 120000 log files that was in the queue (would take around 85 hours), and it is still going :P .
Riot have, however, done something really awesome. With the release of season 1 they also released a new website both in North America and in Europe. At the bottom of the front page is a small box with the title "Community Spotlight". On both sites there is only one thing inside this box: the banner for LoLBase.net! Fork yeah! I have made something that is used and known intonationally by thousands of people! Not sure, but I do not think Sands of War reached the same amount of users?
I have also finally started to actually play some LoL again. Sucks and owns randomly atm :P . I have also bought Arcanum on gog.com. My brother bought that game years ago but I never finished it - now I will! Then there are several tv-series that are about to start or have started and finally some anime. I told you, lots of stuff to do :P .
Shit this was long... I end it with Lilim...
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Since I am done at the university I pretty much have to get a job somewhere. That has meant making my CV and different job applications. It also meant joining what is known as an A-kasse. Not sure what it is called in English but it is something that will pay me as long as I do not have a job, pretty sweet deal. Of course they demand that I am actually searching for a job, but who would want to sit at home everyday doing nothing anyway.... wait a minute.
I am currently also in the process of moving out of my apartment in Aalborg (in just a couple of weeks). But since I do not know where in the world I will get a job yet I have no apartment to move into. So to begin with I will be moving back home to my parents. Hopefully I will have a job soon so I can move out again :P .
I have been in the process of creating a framework for websites, and have for months now been working on using that framework for this site. At the moment I only need some administration stuff and I should be ready to release it. I did, however, feel like it needed a new design as well so that might come too. Of course it has already taken longer than I expected but I just have not had the time :( .
Riot Games (the creators of League of Legends) released the "Season 1" ladder stuff, which meant the log file changed. The log file we parse to get all the data for LoLBase.net. Since my partner were visiting his family in Vietnam and rarely had any time, and the fact that it was me who originally created the parser, I was forced to fix it so we could continue the parsing of the thousands of log files we receive every day. Of course season 1 was released right in the middle of a holiday trip I was on, where me and 8 other young people (I was actually the oldest :P ) went to a summer house on the west coast (of Denmark) to get drunk for seven days straight. Yes I was drunk most of the time there and it was actually quite fun. Well, except for the fact that one of the two girls who were there got a concussion the 2nd night at could not participate in most of what we were doing the rest of the week. Pictures on Facebook :P . Anyway, I finished the parser a few days ago and the parser is currently crunching through the more than 120000 log files that was in the queue (would take around 85 hours), and it is still going :P .
Riot have, however, done something really awesome. With the release of season 1 they also released a new website both in North America and in Europe. At the bottom of the front page is a small box with the title "Community Spotlight". On both sites there is only one thing inside this box: the banner for LoLBase.net! Fork yeah! I have made something that is used and known intonationally by thousands of people! Not sure, but I do not think Sands of War reached the same amount of users?
I have also finally started to actually play some LoL again. Sucks and owns randomly atm :P . I have also bought Arcanum on gog.com. My brother bought that game years ago but I never finished it - now I will! Then there are several tv-series that are about to start or have started and finally some anime. I told you, lots of stuff to do :P .
Shit this was long... I end it with Lilim...
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Written by nickchanger the 14th of February 2010 at 10:54 - Last updated the 15th of February 2010 at 19:36
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Today, the 14th of February, has its name from an almost completely unknown person who is believed to have lived during the third century. During the 18th century some fake stories came up using Saint Valentine as the patron for lovers and Valentine's Day where born. Today it is mostly "celebrated" in America but flower shops, greeting card companies and restaurants are doing all they can to introduce this tradition in Europe too ... for obvious reasons (no not love dumb ass :P ).
Now for the news. I got three, two of which coincidently involves love. Let's start with the third...
As expected Steam had a sale on Trine (75% off), so I bought it and completed it this morning. It is not very long but it is damn cool, with only a few extremely annoying puzzles ;) . J0k3 have asked if people could beat his finishing score, and I tried too. But of course I could not do it, but I was not that far behind IMO :P .
Now for the first "love" subject. Two days ago my good childhood friend Ste finally proposed to his girlfriend through the last 2½ years, AC, and she said yes! Congratulations to both of you!
Second "love" subject. Today Angels and Airwaves (AVA) released their third album called... LOVE. (far fetched but still :P ). Tom DeLonge (Blink-182, Box Car Racer and AVA) have expressed that this album is the best thing he have ever done. That is aiming quite high as almost all of Blink and the two first AVA albums are just awesome. LOVE where released as a download for free and through wikipedia I found a way to download it yesterday (through something called fuel.tv). Maybe I had expected more because of Tom's statement or I have just been to excited about it cause I were just a bit disappointed when I heard it. However, I do believe that the songs just have to grow on me and eventually I will probably love them as much as the previous AVA songs. The album is still quite good and I can only recommend it to basically everyone. Now I am just waiting for the release of their movie, also called LOVE, that is "coming soon".
*UPDATE*
As expected the songs just had to grow on me. Check out a screenshot from my WinAmp media library showing my ratings and a possibly scary play count? (done within around 48 hours)
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Yet another boring update - as I have been to busy to do any interesting writing with a twist.
I have made small updates to several parts of the site. None of which have any great importance, so no fun there :P .
The game list have had even more additions including both Max Payne games, and all three Company of Heroes games. Both through Steam, which of course does not work as it should, so Company of Heroes wont start :/ .
J0k3 have "forced" me to take a look at Trine. It looks interesting, but I am gonna wait to see if Steam feels like having a sale on it in the near future (else it would become the most expensive game I have ever bought through Steam :o ).
As mentioned in my last entry, I were playing around with a match and player statistics website for League of Legends together with my group mate, Døng. It is now online and going great! Already contains almost 33000 players in over 6800 matches. We have called it LoLBase.net and it works by having players upload their log files from the game. To make this process easier we have also created a small upload application (finally I can use my skills in C# for something used by someone else than me). These log files contain a lot of information about the played games. In less than a month the database for this site have become more than 30 times larger than for everything I have done on 109.dk ... in the last several years. We will continue to add features to the site and maybe some day it will actually become general knowledge in the LoL community ;) . Oh and of course you can also see my stats :P .
Now why did I call this entry for "Exams Update" when I have not talked about any exams at all? Good question... I passed both my exams this semester. Only have one semester left and one exam - and then I have a masters degree in Software Engineering! yeah bitch!
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I have made small updates to several parts of the site. None of which have any great importance, so no fun there :P .
The game list have had even more additions including both Max Payne games, and all three Company of Heroes games. Both through Steam, which of course does not work as it should, so Company of Heroes wont start :/ .
J0k3 have "forced" me to take a look at Trine. It looks interesting, but I am gonna wait to see if Steam feels like having a sale on it in the near future (else it would become the most expensive game I have ever bought through Steam :o ).
As mentioned in my last entry, I were playing around with a match and player statistics website for League of Legends together with my group mate, Døng. It is now online and going great! Already contains almost 33000 players in over 6800 matches. We have called it LoLBase.net and it works by having players upload their log files from the game. To make this process easier we have also created a small upload application (finally I can use my skills in C# for something used by someone else than me). These log files contain a lot of information about the played games. In less than a month the database for this site have become more than 30 times larger than for everything I have done on 109.dk ... in the last several years. We will continue to add features to the site and maybe some day it will actually become general knowledge in the LoL community ;) . Oh and of course you can also see my stats :P .
Now why did I call this entry for "Exams Update" when I have not talked about any exams at all? Good question... I passed both my exams this semester. Only have one semester left and one exam - and then I have a masters degree in Software Engineering! yeah bitch!
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Written by nickchanger the 27th of December 2009 at 13:28
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Another update here in the middle of the holidays.
First, the League of Legends tournament. We lost our first match and was therefore out already after the first round. But we played well. It was a fairly equal fight most of the time, but the other team was just a bit more prepared with a greater strategy. We also did a couple of stupid things where one of them even led to a complete whipe, which the other team used to push one of our inner towers. I have not played much LoL since then because of all the holiday stuff, but me and Døng have started a new website which will feature LoL statistics - more on that at a later time.
Both Steam and Good Old Games are having large holiday sales and this year I treated my self to a few games from gog.com. Duke Nukem 3D, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project and the two Earthworm Jim games are now part of my game collection. Sweeeet.
Nothing else new have happened - big surprise :P - and my next blog entry will most likely be in the new year, cya then.
Happy new year and all that.
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First, the League of Legends tournament. We lost our first match and was therefore out already after the first round. But we played well. It was a fairly equal fight most of the time, but the other team was just a bit more prepared with a greater strategy. We also did a couple of stupid things where one of them even led to a complete whipe, which the other team used to push one of our inner towers. I have not played much LoL since then because of all the holiday stuff, but me and Døng have started a new website which will feature LoL statistics - more on that at a later time.
Both Steam and Good Old Games are having large holiday sales and this year I treated my self to a few games from gog.com. Duke Nukem 3D, Duke Nukem Manhattan Project and the two Earthworm Jim games are now part of my game collection. Sweeeet.
Nothing else new have happened - big surprise :P - and my next blog entry will most likely be in the new year, cya then.
Happy new year and all that.
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Written by nickchanger the 11th of December 2009 at 12:08
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Holy crap its been a long time since my last entry :o . I had planned a couple of entries but I have been too busy to actually write them :( . So this is just an update basically to tell the world, like it cares, that I am still here :P .
So what have happened since my last "update". Not much actually. School have taken up a lot of my time since we are only two in my group this semester and we are still writing almost as much as we did on any other semester, where we were six people. We plan to finish next Friday so we can relax in the Christmas holidays. This year, I will be going home to my parents, what a shock, and stay there for Christmas and new years. As far as I know we will spend Christmas eve in my brothers apartment, we did the same four years ago in mine. Last year we abolished gift giving, but instead added the game known in Danish as "pakkespillet", translated to "the gift game" I guess. We play it with cards which means that in turns we pick a card that tells us what to do basically. Usually the game is played with a dice that when you get a 6, you can pick whatever gift you want. This game of course means that I have to bring several small gifts, as it was not hard enough already :/ .
The same day I wrote the last blog entry I also started played League of Legends. The DotA clone game that does it much better than both DotA and HoN. It is well structured, clean graphics, and kind of fun. Together with some guildmates from my World of Warcraft guild I have been playing several premades over the last few weeks. We were supposed to participate in a tournament last Wednesday but it was pushed because of patching and problems that followed. So now it will start on Monday instead.
I expect we have a chance to win the first match but will most likely loose the second. The reason is that we still have not really figured out a good strategy (champions, lanes, jungling, items, etc) that fits us well yet. I doubt any of our opponents are reading this but I still wont be telling more until after the tournament :P .
As my time was not limited enough already I have also started to re-watch Gilmore Girls. Stupid, stupid, stupid :/ . But I pretty much had to since I have already re-watched Family Guy, American Dad, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Coupling, Firefly and Futurama this fall. I have also started to regularly watch The Daily Show, great fun and a bit of news.
So... incoming cheesy effect: Merry Christmas ... and all that stuff.
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So what have happened since my last "update". Not much actually. School have taken up a lot of my time since we are only two in my group this semester and we are still writing almost as much as we did on any other semester, where we were six people. We plan to finish next Friday so we can relax in the Christmas holidays. This year, I will be going home to my parents, what a shock, and stay there for Christmas and new years. As far as I know we will spend Christmas eve in my brothers apartment, we did the same four years ago in mine. Last year we abolished gift giving, but instead added the game known in Danish as "pakkespillet", translated to "the gift game" I guess. We play it with cards which means that in turns we pick a card that tells us what to do basically. Usually the game is played with a dice that when you get a 6, you can pick whatever gift you want. This game of course means that I have to bring several small gifts, as it was not hard enough already :/ .
The same day I wrote the last blog entry I also started played League of Legends. The DotA clone game that does it much better than both DotA and HoN. It is well structured, clean graphics, and kind of fun. Together with some guildmates from my World of Warcraft guild I have been playing several premades over the last few weeks. We were supposed to participate in a tournament last Wednesday but it was pushed because of patching and problems that followed. So now it will start on Monday instead.
I expect we have a chance to win the first match but will most likely loose the second. The reason is that we still have not really figured out a good strategy (champions, lanes, jungling, items, etc) that fits us well yet. I doubt any of our opponents are reading this but I still wont be telling more until after the tournament :P .
As my time was not limited enough already I have also started to re-watch Gilmore Girls. Stupid, stupid, stupid :/ . But I pretty much had to since I have already re-watched Family Guy, American Dad, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, Coupling, Firefly and Futurama this fall. I have also started to regularly watch The Daily Show, great fun and a bit of news.
So... incoming cheesy effect: Merry Christmas ... and all that stuff.
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