Ooo, nice

So I found out that the bands played before Slipknot today will be Machine Head and Children of Bodom! That was much better than expected and I'm sure it'll be a great day today because of this.

Leaving in about 10-20 minutes from now so I'm just sitting here ready to go... Can't wait...

Gaming on

Started playing Fallout 3 today and so far it's a great game. I just got out of the Vault 101 and my character is about to start the real life now. The way the game is created is very well done, with the different options you get when you make your character for example. With all the good reviews and rewards it's been given, I'm sure it'll be this good through the whole game.

I've also played some Guitar Hero 3 lately and been able to complete a few more songs. I'm only playing on Hard and it's about time I finish that level to reach Expert. Sure, I can play on Expert right away, but I rather finish the Hard level first.

Haven't had time to try out the new Mudlet release yet, but I know Heiko has done plenty of work on it since last time. I will do this as fast as I get to speak with him again. It all looks good so far anyhow and I'm sure Mudlet will be one of the best clients out there soon enough.

Tomorrow awaits yet another concert! This time it will be Slipknot! dun dun dun duuuun. We're heading up to Stockholm again and it'll be one fun day once more! Can't wait.

Testing, testing

Been quite busy with Mudlet for the past few days. We're having good progress though! And damn, it's so fast - I think it's the fastest client I've seen so far. We'll see how fast it'll be once all the debug code is out of it and we've made even more speed optimizations.

I'll be starting to build a new healing system for Imperian once we got the basics done, which might happen today if I'm lucky and Heiko (the coder) is able to find time to it.

And to something different... I was able to beat a few more songs on Guitar Hero 3 last night! Felt really good cause I hate not getting any further in that game and getting stuck on some really hard song.

Going to work tomorrow and the whole weekend. Getting tired just thinking about it.. But something that will keep me going is my girlfriend who will get here tomorrow and stay over the whole weekend. Miss you so much!

Work in progress

Today have been a busy day on the testing part. I've been able to compile the latest version of Mudlet and I'm able to use the client to connect to a MUD and using the current features it has to offer. They are not many right now however, but will be more and it grows all the time.

As for me, I'm trying the thing out, finding bugs, reporting and suggesting new ideas or improvements. I will be the one designing the Lua API, so any kind of Lua thing you can do to control Mudlet in the future will be something I've helped with.

I'm really looking forward to see this client improve and I love being part of the whole thing now - this was certainly nothing I expected to happen.

Neat

So I had a talk with the lead coder of Mudlet and after a conversation about what I'd like to see in the client and questions about how it was going and all that - he thought that I'd be a good choice for designing the Lua API.

And here I am now, compiling the programs I need to be able to work with Mudlet. From being a simple user waiting idly at the side and reading the forums for possible progress on the 1.0 beta, I am now part of the team.

For me that's great, as I can help create a new client that everyone can take use of. It'll be a pleasure and I'm really looking forward to get it all started now!

Mudlet and Sakari 2.0, here I come.

Stability

Alright, so I had a little Ubuntu moment again. But now I'm back on my good old WinXP and Ubuntu once again went down the drain. I tend to go back to WinXP cause everything I do on my computer works with no problems and easy configurations, so compared to Ubuntu it's heaven. No more sitting wondering what the hell I need to do to do something I can do in WinXP with a simple click on the mouse.

Right now I'm guiding my three hours for this week. It will be done just before the last home match starts for our local fotball (soccer) team - Kalmar FF! If we win this we are pretty much guaranteed a victory and we'll be swedish champions after the last game that plays out the 9th November! A great achievement for our small city.

My last day off today - going to work tomorrow evening. Back to my crap job... I'm looking around for a new one now though and hope to get something before christmas, because I can't stand working with this anymore...

Oh and I'm pondering once again if I should buy myself a new TV or a new Computer. It'd be nice with a new badass computer, but I don't have that many games that I'd play on it anyway. A new TV and some new console games might be more fun at the moment. Plus being able to watch movies on a 40-42 inch LCD screen is quite nice!

I almost forgot! I downloaded Red Alert yesterday. Westwood have released it as a free game now as part of a celebration of 13 years of success. Have a look at the news and download the discs yourself!

Home again

And so I am back from the trip to Stockholm. Shinedown and Disturbed was great to watch and I'm looking forward to the Slipknot concert we're going to in about a week!

Something I did today, after I got 4 hours sleep after the long car trip, was to install Ubuntu again. This time I upgraded to 8.10 and it's working great so far! Really happy with the switch this time. Yes, I said I wouldn't do it until Mudlet was out, but damnit, I couldn't wait.

So right now I'm just playing around and learning some here and there in the process.