The Inner Circle

Well I’m sat here in “87.7 Bailrigg FM”’s office doing ANRPOS and talking to one of the late night DJ’s. It’s all fun. ANRPOS is coming a long, I’m getting a fair amount of the output module working atm. It should be done by the end of the night.

I’ve not written in this for a while, I’ve been busy here, helping with normal radio stuff as well as ANRPOS. Doing OB’s (outside broadcasts) has been fun, infact just helping out as a whole has given my life at the moment a meaning.

Sitting at home hoping people will ask me for an interview is just getting to me to much.

Makes me wish I was a student again. Ho hum. Right I’d better get back to this C code.

P.

Bleh, I’ve been feeling down recently, due to various things. I think the primary reason is not having a job. I really want one now, just to give me something to do.

Sitting at home trying to work on RPOS hasn’t really helped, I keep hitting brick walls and I swear it’s cabin fever. Going up to Lancaster might help to get me away from it all. I’ll also be able to get a large amount of programming done.

But everything I’ve started recently, appart from small projects, has gone badly. The only thing that’s really worked is the EPG on narwar.net.

Was wierd a minute a go I was standing at my window, it’s very windy here atm, and when it gusted for a second it reminded me of Geocaching in Stafford with Andy, Stubbs and Millie.

It’s an odd feeling, I’ve pritty much forgotten about Millie. But something like that brings back so many memories. It’s odd and kinda sadning. Thinking of Stafford I’ve finaly managed to get my land lord to send the deposit back, that took far to long.

And then thinking of money, apparently I’m due to recieve my JobSeekers Allowance soon, AFT. If it’s not in my account tomorrow I’m gonna ring them up.

I’m kinda hoping that I’ll get to relax at Lancaster on Friday for a few days, I’ve got Johns bed for 5 days or so, so that’s good. Take a sleeping bag and a pillow and all will be good.

Oh well, not much is happening here really. Bleh, I want to be released from this fever.

D.

Weee, the revamp of narwar.net is finaly finished. It quicks ass, I’ve explained why on the front page, so I wont bother here. It just good on such a geek level :).

I’m doing ANRPOS all next week, I also need to apply for more jobs next week.

That’s about it for now, I’m just testing really.

D.

Bleh, I hate looking for jobs. It’s so depressing, out of the 5 I’ve applied to recently, I’ve only heard back form one, and that was a rejection. It makes you think why bother.

I’ve appied for 4 more today, we’ll see what happens. One is in Wigan, which is a little far, but at the end of the day, it’d be a for a few months until I could move. I guess that’s the same for all of them.

I’ve changed the way my current track playing system works, this now get’s an update GET from winamp via a PHP page, which then feeds a database. You can now look at the last 50 tracks I’ve played.

I’ve also added webcam privacy that allows me to make the webcam go all blocky, like the effect they use on TV to protect peoples faces. I’ve also made a settings system that allows me to alter all of these variables easily.

Nothing else is really going on,

D.

Heh this project is still taking a considerable amount of time out of my life at the moment, figures though. It’s a massive undertaking, maybe slightly bigger then I had initially thought, but not that much.

The project got renamed today, I decided that the second A in ANAPOS wasn’t really valid anymore, as it wasn’t just automatic, so it’s been changed to Radio. IT has more meaning for the project.

I’m spending virtualy every waking hour trying to do this, some hours are me just sat thinking about it, others actualy involve me doing code. I’ve done over 3600 lines of code now on this project, at an estimated 300,000 key strokes. I can feel my RSI a little bit today, but not really a suprise. I’ll do some power ball exercise later which will help.

I’m becoming a little bit distant with friends at the moment (appart from John, Ali and Andy, but I guess that’s because I’m working with them). I’m feeling quite distant from Aaron atm, maybe it’s just up in my head, but I’ve kinda left him to it while he’s with Kate. It’s probably just all on my side.

I need to finish the client shell for anrpos tonight, and maybe the last heard system from it too. Only got 3 hours before I go to bed though, so it’ll probably only be the shell.

I finaly feel like I’m making progress on this beast, after this stage it’ll actually be producing things that I can see (read: hear) happen.

Bleh, that’ll do for now, coding awaits.

D.