Rambling of a Coder

New Life

Sunday 19 June 2011 at 3:04 pm

So I know my posts have been very sparse on here, What with mini status updates on facebook and in all honesty a quiet slow and peaceful life on the island. I haven't particularly had anything to say, Been fishing a few times and awaiting the summer arriving on the island.

I did take a few interesting shots the other night around 2am which i thought I'd share with the world.

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Three O

Wednesday 01 September 2010 at 01:58 am

So, during the recent celebration of my birth and the stark fact that I have begun my journey into my thirties. Someone asked i think jokingly “So what are you going to-do now that your no longer a kid.” I laughed it off, here i thought i stopped being a kid years and years ago… At the very latest at least when my own son was born, but it seems nope.

But the question seemed to stick in my head, I’m not exactly sure why. But i don’t really have that many things going on in my life, and in all honesty I’m actually pretty happy with it. I don’t work as much as “Normal” people do, but that's through choice because i don’t have any interest in working that amount. I’m classed as “Lazy” which i feel is unfair over, sure I’m not your most active person (understatement) but if i have something to-do. I do it. Just the whole concept of “Normal” working outs irks me, i have no interest in it. Give me some room and let me provide for my own family myself, Don’t expect me to sit somewhere for 8 to 12 hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week. It doesn’t work for me, i can’t live like that.  Throw in living and dealing with a child with a disability, and neighbours who can spend 4 or 5 days a week fighting from 10pm right through to 5am, then ask that person to try and work a normal job. See how long it takes for them to snap

Either way, I’m happy with my life and once we move house. Which we will be very very soon, I’m sure it will only get better

These were all initial thoughts of mines to the original question, and yes i internally answered it with the above. But really it doesn’t come over as an answer, it comes over as a bunch of excuses. Why am i making excuses? So the stark and honest answer to this is:

“I’m going to continue my life the way i have been, I’m going to finish my degree’s and then I’ll probably continue on exactly as i am. Why? Because i enjoy it, I’d be a liar if i said that i wouldn’t like a bit more work or to be working on some sort of lasting legacy. But the work will come when it comes, and i already have my legacy”

If they’d asked what i wanted to do in the next 10 years, I’d have been an easier answer

• Finish Degree/Degree’s
• Move out of Central Belt
• Start providing family with our own food/energy
• Actually finish this blog design
• Get married finally

Just some basic things I will have done, maybe kick about the idea of having more children

Hopefully this gives an insight into me from this view, but if its not been glaringly obvious. Money or wealth holds absolutely no interest to me. Just about every one of my happiest memories in life happened when i was living below or on the poverty line.

and to finish it even though the post is after my birthday, “Happy birthday sis”

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New Milestone

Wednesday 14 July 2010 at 9:31 pm

The Second milestone for my course M253 was finally released on Tuesday, Its looking like its going to be a fun few weeks working through this one. Quite a lot of work involved right from the onset, Really going to have to get stuck in as a team. We also have to pair off in 2’s, and each person has to be in 2 groups. But not grouped with the same person, So i was bored waiting on the delayed meetings and wrote a little JavaScript program that does exactly that. It seemed to go down well when i shared it with the team, at least it released some of the tension that had been building over the course of our latest IM meeting anyway,

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Blitzcoder won’t rest.

Saturday 19 June 2010 at 10:49 pm

So i stumbled across a thread on Blitzbasic.com the other eve when i was bored and thought I'd look in on the blitz community and see what was happening.

Now, i dunno why but at least twice a year this topic appears in some form to me, either via email or some other method. For either a Blitzcoder revival or me making some archive out of the backup i have, I’m not really sure why.  Yes i remember the blitzcoder years fondly, it was a great laugh at the time and introduced me to some really amazing people, a few of whom i still keep in regular contact with too. But i have absolutely no intentions of going back to those days in any form, And certainly no interest in making some sort of searchable archive of the old site. Yes, i could pass my backups along and someone else could do it. But i won’t. Not because I’m selfish, but because that would require me to actually do some work on the backups to remove stuff, etc, etc. Can’t just pass people’s personal information onto any old person out there, Even though that information is now years out of date.

Actually quite a few people made it perfectly clear that they didn’t want there information passed on when the site died to and became codersworkshop or whatever came after. And i will maintain that promise to not pass on that information.

So please, PLEASE, just stop asking for it. It’s never going to happen, well i wouldn’t say never but I’m never going to-do it. One of the other people who had access to backing up the site may, Though i don’t know if anyone else actually did.

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