Good news: Scored well paid temp job starting Monday. Have interview for slightly lower paid proper job Tuesday. Have met one of my two vague this year fitness goals - my resting pulse is now below 60 (I've got a long way to go to meet the other goal - bets on what my pulse will get down to?). Ale trailing goes well - only 6 pubs left till I have free, queue-skipping entry for all days of the beer festival.
Bad news: I broke my soldering iron trying to replace the cruddy and seized up tip.
I'd put it on some wishlist so you can all buy me one, but it's currently only available in Japan.
Summary of drool-worthy features:
Full resolution 60fps burst mode. Not only this, but as soon as you half-press shutter release, it's taking 60fps, and after you full-press, you can pick any of the burst to keep. Always get exactly the right frame of the action.
Full 1080p HD video at 60fps, with port for external mic
Hotshoe flash, and built-in that will do 7fps. Perfect for action shots of epileptics!
I've decided I really like running. Got rained on just now, which is actually nice. May die in the summer.
Now I'm going to have a shower and then comment spam your journals for I have been slack.
Oh, and last night I dreamt about climbing mountains to discover ancient relics with Tony Slattery. Only his name was Fran. The night before that I was a 3 foot high sentient bowling ball, who, after a pro-wrestler used me to score a strike, went exploring a set of angular tunnels where the gravity shifted at random and at corners. Analysis, please!
Reading people who want to hear some high energy funk should turn up to the Pitcher and Piano tomorrow evening. Big Train's Haymaker will be there for you, they're good.
Also, Leonard Cohen recently announced a world tour after a 15 year gap... I would be very interested to hear if anyone else is wanting some tickets.
It feels like I've had a double espresso. It's entirely possible my sleep is being supressed to prevent me taking over the world. I guess MI5 had the dish pointing the wrong way last night.
As per title, I'm spring cleaning my assorted junk computer parts. Odds are it's all too old and will be tipped / recycled, but I thought I'd offer it up on the off chance.
So far dredged from the depths:
Some kind of slot Celeron + MB
Two ATX cases
Two believed dead monitors (17in VGA and some soviet era Sparc monitor with adapter)
Socket 370 MB
Socket A MB with some kind of Duron (1.3GHz I think), think this board has some dodginess associated with it
Some CD drives
PCI graphics card (no, not PCI-E ;)
ISA soundcard oo la la
Bunch of assorted fans, PSUs, screws, standoffs, cables etc
I had my first private dentist visit today. Oh, the horrible expense! Still, seeing inside your teeth is cool. She thinks my minor toothache and temperature sensitivity is down to not flossing enough, giving me slightly inflamed gums, and possibly muscular tension (need new glasses). If you say you think you might need a filling, and the dentist recommends you don't have any treatment at all, it's remarkably believable. Also, a dentist that tells me the x-ray will take 0.4 seconds is my kind of dentist.
I was kind of looking forward to finding out what teeth drilling is like. Still, not *really* looking forward to it, and pleasant that I don't have to pay for it.
I've only just noticed that my phone has default templates for text messages.
"I'm in a meeting", "I am late. I will be there at", "I will be arriving at". All quite sensible and possibly useful. But a pre-written "I love you too", I find that disturbing.
A reminder that they're playing in Reading, Pitcher and Piano, tomorrow evening. According to their myspace, it's a regular last-thursday of the month gig.
I probably won't be going, as I have a bit of a fever and fainted today, sliding down a wall and bruising my face. Elegant and sophisticated!
Could people with cross-platform GUI app experience - usage or development - give me some opinions on what toolkits are good?
The major players I'm aware of are Java, QT, GTK. I'd probably favour QT over GTK, I get the impression it's more mature for crossplatform work. I also think Skype uses QT, and it actually works well on both Linux and Windows, unlike most Java apps I have used. Am I missing any obvious choices? Are any of these toolkits actually horrible to work with?
The app will be fairly basic, it just needs to do some network comms and graphics display.
