So, I’m looking at that nice list of goals I made in my last post and feeling a little bit disappointed with myself. I’m behind on all goals, except fast food. Though I haven’t been perfect at avoiding fast food I’ve definitely cut way back on eating out. And to be fair things haven’t been as simple as they should be. Right after I wrote my post I got sick and then a few weeks later I moved my girlfriend from San Diego to Kansas in 3 days. So there has been a lot of things going on. However it has all settled down, and now the weather is getting nice out. Yet, I’m here no where ready to run. So that means it is time to kick some lazy butt and get into gear.
Programming/Game development wise I have been somewhat sidetracked, but I do have everything setup on my linux install now so it is ready to go. Python plus pygame: check, subversion: check, music and rhythmbox: check. I must say that I am more and more amazed with Ubuntu everything “just works.” I plug in my camera, and boom it asks me if I want to import all my pictures. I put in a blank cd and bam! Do I want to make and audio cd or a data cd, and once I’ve made my choice I’m presented with a very simple interface to do whatever I chose. I have to say Serpentine is easily the best music cd creator I’ve ever used. There is absolutely no fuss or anything involved. I even was able to get my gamepad working in mame simply by plugging it in. Of course getting mame set up was a huge chore, but I don’t blame ubuntu, I blame the mismash of information and partial tutorials and the fact that I run amd64 on making nothing easy. However I’m happy to say that I did prevail and am now considering writing up a post about the steps I followed to get everything in proper order.
I have nothing more substantive to post. There are a lot of software releases coming out soon that I am excited about. The major one is Firefox 3. Somehow throughout Firefox 2′s life span I’ve solely used the windows version, though apparently the linux version of FF is terrible and an afterthought (no offense to the wonderful people who made it, I’m just repeating what I’ve read and have experienced recently). FF3 plans on fixing most of that. Also the next version Ubuntu (due in April!) looks to be completely awesome. Ars Technica did a review about all the new features. I’m mostly interested in the sound features and getting caught up on other developments that have not been backported to Gutsy yet (*couhg* new pidgin releases *cough*) Anyway, I need to catch up on some sleep if I am to get any of these goals started soon.