Tam tam tam! :-)

And here I am (again) ;) Today was my first day on the "couch" and it was very nice to not have anything to do at all, atleast nothing hanging over my head telling me I need to work. But I wasn't home all day, I did run some errands for my mom and my dad. Bought some paint, picked up dads dry-cleaning, dropped off moms car at the workshop and it turned out that it's not anything critical. So I guess we'll be going to Uppsala after all this weekend, it's gonna be soo fun to meet with all the relatives.

Furthermore I sent my CV to 2 new jobs and my consultant cheif e-mailed me and told me that one of her colleagues is going to contact me, but he hadn't called today so I'm guessing he'll call me tomorrow about one of the jobs I applied for. If I get it I will most probably give 100% so I don't lose this one too, then it's going to be some kind of bad aura hanging over me or something ;)

After I applied for some jobs I went out and bought a new soundcard since the one I had was a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy, I calculated that everything in my computer was upgraded but not the soundcard, that could explain the crackle in my headphones. So maybe I didn't need to buy a new pair of headphones but I wanted them anyway so I don't feel like I've wasted money on a cheap/poor product since these headphones are DJ headphones of high quality (from Sony) ^_^ A well once I installed my new soundcard the crackle actually disappeared. The soundcard that I bought was a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer

For that tiny card I got a huge box, talk about compensation for something ;) anyway now I listen to music and sounds with cristal clear sharpness or something. Now my computer is finally up-to-date (even with updates for winblows). I played Prince of Persia on my Wii and boy is that a neat game, especially when you get to fight :D since you interact so much with the character the game gets a whole different level of interest. And I also played some Test Drive Unlimited on my computer and the graphics in that game is just astonishing, although I have a pretty good graphics card my computer sacked but after installing a patch for the game it started to work better. I'll keep you posted about my job situation and maybe some game review later on, finished Rainbow Six Vegas last night so I'll probably write something about that ;) Now I'm off to bed (finally!)

Sleepers creepers :P

So whats up?

Well I worked my last day, so now I'm looking for work again but with the current request for programmers and systemadministrators out there on the market it shouldn't be so hard to find a new job. I have already sent my resume to a couple of companies so hope to hear from atleast one of them soon. I can say that I walked away with my head still high since I managed to fix the last bugs in the part of the menu I was working on so now atleast that part is functional. It's funny how things work out sometimes, I really wanted this language selection menu to work before I left work and with some effort I got it together :D furthermore my big brother called and wanted to check in on me, see how I felt and how I was holding up. I really appreciated that, felt like I had someone who cared about what happens to me even though we are so far away from each other.

On my way home from work today I stopped by one of the many computer/game/hardware stores we have here, and bought myself a new pair of real DJ headphones.

From one thing to another, tomorrow is Thursday and I promised my mom to take her car to the workshop so the technician can take a look at the front right wheel. Strange noices have been coming from the right side of the car. I hope it's nothing serious since mom and I are going to Uppsala this weekend and we where planning on taking the car. Well if the technician says we can't drive it I'll just have to call my friend and ask him if we could borrow his car (he told me that we could but I'll ask anyway).

Right before bed I watched an episode of In Case of Emergency and boy is that one of the best series I have EVER watched! I watched episode 7 and the ending of it was soo good I could go to bed and don't feel any anger that I was fired. And that song at the end of the episode, it was a song by Boston - More than a feeling and here is a cool video (thus from Scrubs)

You can find the whole song here now I'm off to bed :)

Catch you later alligator!

Well that's that

So, a bit of sad news today, I just got my 3 days notice that from Wednesday I'm out of work. Well this job maybe wasn't my dream job and one part of me feels relieved that I don't need to come back and do this booring testing stuff, but the other part kinda feels let down since I now don't have that money coming in every month. Well depending on how fast I get a new job from my consultant chief, or how fast I manage to fix a job by my self. I'm thinking of sending my resume to all the big game developing companies here in Sweden. It would also be a good thing to finish off some of the remaining courses that I haven't finished when I was studying. And during that time I'm thinking of taking a part time job so I atleast get some extra cash every month. My consultant chief told me to logon to their website and check out all the jobs that are up for grabs.

And thus when I came home and did that their database server had crashed, just my luck. But there is a day tomorrow too so I'll just check tomorrow when I get home. I didn't really feel like I was in the right place when I was working there anyway so when I look back at it I felt uncomfortable since I was hired there as a Junior Programmer but what did I really do? Test those got damn phones. I only wonder WHO is gonna test the rest of them now when I'm gone? Are they gonna hire some new talented guy and drain his ass with mobile phone testing? Or are they actually gonna do some testing themselves? Thats one of the many questions I'm never gonna get answered but frankly I couldn't care less at this point.

I can't change what has happend but I sure can change whats gonna happen in the future. So in spite of everything that has happend I'm gonna give 100% the last days and keep my head up high when I leave them. In that way they can't think anything bad about me without thinking that I actually walked out with pride (or something like that). Blah tired of writing about that stuff, now on to more interesting stuff like BioShock yes I said BioShock :)

This past weekend I bought it and installed it as soon as I got home, ate some dinner first and then started to play it. The recommended system for playing this game is:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo
RAM: 2GB
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 512MB (or other Direct X 9.0c compliant cards with 512MB)
Sound Card: Something that works with Direct X 9.0c

And to all that I can only add that that is the specs for my currently owned computer so the game did actually run in full resolution with very little lag or no lag at all (depending on the environment). I'll post some in-game pictures later now I'm off to bed :D since I still have a job to go to tomorrow bleh.

A small edit to the BioShock game, here is a link to a trailer I really like. Just take a look at those graphics (yummie!)

Later!

Frightening and enlighting

A new day, and more work. Well at work there is not much hassle, I go in, sit down at my computer have my cup of coffee, eat a sandwich and read the news. When I logged on to MSN I got a message from an old classmate telling to watch a movie that has been posted on the net. I thought sure why not and so I clicked the link and started to stream the movie, after 5 minutes I noticed that this movie was 1h 56m 23s long!!! Why did he want me to watch a movie that long and as I listen and watch further I get enlighten in how from early history to todays presence of how people with power are manipulating the society to "walk" in the direction that they want. And thus this movie explained a whole lot of interesting stuff that has been on the "table" for a while.

A Warning to all! I reject all accusations towards me, if YOU click on the link then I'm not responsible for any actions you may do/take, and thus I can't be held responsible for anything since YOU clicked on the link!!! I'm just spreading the knowledge of someone elses work!

And when the legal stuff is out of the way here is a link to the movie http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Man what a booring "job" I have atm, I don't have to use my brain on what I'm doing, most people would maybe want that kind of a job where they don't have to hassle their precious minds but I'm quite the oposite, I want to use my brain especially for programming since I "slaved" through 3 YEARS! of games programming!

Well well look at the time it just flies by ;) time to go home and hit the gym! Todeloo ^_^

Up and down

Or sideways! Mostly anyway you want :) Last night I got cought up with helping my friend configurate his big brothers new ADSL connection with wireless connectivity at home. We where supposed to play some on my Wii-console when I got back from the gym but I got a call from him when he asked me if I could bring my laptop and help, it shouldn't take long it just needs some quick configuration. Sure everything evolving computers takes just a few minutes to fix but we got stuck there trying to enable all kinds of security for the wireless connection. And once that was done we heleped his big brother to understand how to rip his own CDs so he could put them onto his mp3-player.

The time flew away and I ended up home alone with no friend to play with since his gf called him and asked when he was coming home. Boy those girlfriends that just can't go to bed alone, I wounder how they did it before they met someone? Now I'm just complaining and some may think/say that "you'll just wait until you get yourself a girlfriend of your own..." (yeah I don't have one... atm) but I can tell you this even when I find myself a new girlfriend I'm gonna lay down some rules, if she doesn't like it then fine, I'm not saying that I don't want to compromise but there are certain interests of mine that my girlfriend has to respect and don't nag me.

Well as people say: I'll cross that bridge when that day comes. Now it's time to head home and maybe I'll swing by my friends place with my Wii-console.

Over and out!

Test after test

Pretty much, thats what I do all day ;) Test the client on the phones we have. Soon done, boy that's gonna feel so good. A little in between I take a small break and watch some interesting videos on the interwebs :) below are some I really liked.

I just might (maybe) go and see this movie ;)


This 'Human Slingshot' was pretty funny too


When I get home today I'll burn some Wii games to try on my Wii, since most of my other burnt games aren't working I'm starting to think that it is the burner/discs that are faulty. So I bought some new Verbatim DVD+R and DVD-R to try on.

This just in... I know your gonna love it, I did :D

The day after...

So this is the day after my birthday (yes it was yesterday the 14:th) didn't post yesterday since I didn't have the time ;) I got my Wii modified with a WiiKey :) But now I'm only curious about the noname DVD-Rs I have at home. The Wii will play the Zelda game but when I start to play CoD3 or Mario Party 8 then I get a disc read error, very annoying. So after reading on some forums and asking at my previous job I figured out that either Verbatim or TDK works, DVD+R has to be burnt using a certain booktype in imgburn and at a slow speed of 1x-2x. So just to be on the safe side I bought Verbatim DVD-R and DVD+R to test on the releases I have at home.

Today I've been testing alot of phones, some of them work flawlessly others do not :( but I just report in the bad ones with what went wrong or didn't work. And the ones that do work I test them fully and write it all down in this test document we have to follow. Pretty easy work but still I could be doing more fun stuff like programming :/ my CTO has promised me that I can do some programming once the testing of the phones are done and ater our release to our first customer has been done. So I'm looking forward to work here in the future, since there is going to be more programming tasks up ahead :)

Well time flies and today I have to hit the gym since I ate alot of cake last night :P after the gym I'll probably try out some Wii games again to see if I can rule out my noname-branded DVD-Rs. Smell you later alligator ;)

My opinion of the Wii

Soo after a long evening of playing on my new Wii what do I think of it? It's a hell of a sweet entertainment system, I started of with the Wii Sports (doesn't everyone do that?) and after playing every game on that disc atleast 1 time I moved on to Rayman Raving Rabbids and buy was that fun, the controls are simple to understand and use. The gameing experience is very satisfying because everything you do in the game is based upon the interactions with the controls. For instance "you" run around with your plunge gun and shoot rabbits, when your empty just shake the nunchuck and you'll reload. Another event you have to aim with your Wii-mote and then shake the nunchuck to close a toilet door (your keeping watch over 4 doors).

After that (workout) I continued with the game Red Steel, and I must say that I was impressed by how you control your character. Click on the name to see the trailer for the game. And it's pretty much the same that they show in the trailer, you make a movement with either the nunchuck or the wii-mote and your character does the same thing in the game. The game is in first person so you only see the hands but it's very well done. If you tilt your hand while holding a gun, your character also tilts the gun.

Today my muscles in my arms are sore, but that isn't going to change the fact that I will be playing today too. My mom called me today and asked if I wanted to play golf on Sunday with a friend of hers and my baby brother so I said sure I can do that. But then I remembered that I haven't played golf since I started studying at the university. So today after my workout at the gym I'm gonna grab my golfbag and head down to the course/range to hit some balls to get the feeling back again, it's just like when you learn how to ride a bike it sticks with you for the rest of your life but without training you gradually get worse ;) So that's what I'm gonna do once I get home after the gym. Then after that I'll probably play some on my Wii or fix the website. But now I'm off so see you later s**kers! =)

Finally!

And so here we are, the day my life changed ;) got an text message which says that I can go and pickup my brand new Wii :D once I got that message I ran down to Webhallen which is a generic computer/game/console store and bought a wii-mote and a nunchuck. I'm also thinking of buying a WiiKey so I can play backup games but that is a later matter, Ooo look at the time only 5 more minutes and I'm out the door and on my way home :D

I'll maybe take tomorrow off ;) (or maybe not). This post wont be so long since I don't want to be at work more then I have to :P But I will for sure get back with a full evaluation of the console once I get out of my wii-coma ;)

Gotta run!

Okey a fun video that I saw today enjoy!

There wii have it ;)

Okey okey so today I decided to buy myself a new console and guess which one it was? ;) But ofcurse it is the Nintendo Wii :) Both my baby brother and my friend has an Xbox360 so I don't really feel like buying one right away, but no one else of my friends has a Wii so I'll be the first one to have it :D Boy I'm looking forward to see the advice-note from the postal office, then I'll be running to them and fetching the console as fast as possible. I bought it online and right after I purchased my order I called customer service to ask how fast I could bee expecting the delivery and the guy says that at the latest this Friday, that will be super since then it's weekend and boy I'm gonna play :D probably buy some beers and invite some friends and we'll go nuts on it :D

Heard that the plane from Chicago (which my big brothers wife and their kids where going to take) was delayed :( hope that everyone got home safe and sound. I guess they'll be tierd as hell and probably sleep through the whole day ;) During their flight (and always at the last minute as it seems) I made a first attempt to make the website for aisleofblooms.com hope that they like it :) I got the template from webpagedesign.com.au. There now I don't have to have the link on the template since someone is reading my blog and could click on the link to their website :D their templates are totally free of use check it out.

Here is a link to the campaign where I bought my Nintendo Wii

Back to work I guess, have to test some more phones before the deadline which is coming soon (I guess). 'Goodby and thanks for all the fish'

Xbox 360 vs. Wii

Yepp that's the question that I ask myself. This weekend I was with my friends and played/tested some xbox360 games, I must say that I really like the console alot. But the interaction possibilities in the Wii are outstanding, I'm blackballing the PS3 since it only has the powerful engine but not so much to do with it. Also Sony "stole" the idéa that Nintendo had developed for the gameplay interaction, such as the Wii-mote and Nunchuck. Sonys pathetic try to add the motion sensor into their controler only made the gaming experience "worse". Now I can't say that for a fact but after reading a bunch of reviews and looking at some comparison-videos, I still blackball the PS3 for it's lack of newthinking hardware, the PS3 is just like the PS2 only upgraded.

Well all that complaining leads me down to whether I'm gonna buy a Wii or Xbox360, I love the cotrols in the Wii but the xbox360 is the ultimate multi-media console whilst the Nintendo Wii is the best game experience console since you get to interact so much when you play (thats what it is basically built for to let the player interact with the game as much as possible).

Here is a comparison trailer of CoD3 on all 3 consoles and I can only say that, yes the Wiis graphics aren't astonishing but that isn't what counts when you talk about the Wii. Trailer at GameTrailers.com

One of the games that I'm most interested in on Wii is Red Steel this video shows partly game partly the gamer and how he plays/interacts with the game.

Damn it, it's so har to choose :( I really want a new console but I don't know which one, if I'm going to think financially smart I should buy the Nintendo Wii since it is much cheaper than the Xbox360. But then yet again, if I wait a month or 2 then the Xbox360 will probably be cheaper to. Well well guess I just have to wait and see what will happen in the near future ;) have to pay off the loans I have first before I buy a new console :P

Only 45 minutes left until I can go home, boy it's been a long day (or atleast it feels like it). C U!

Fast but slow

So another week has passed now (soon anyway). Today is friday (yaye!) and after work today I'll be heading home and hitting the gym. Cardio workout... a well it's not that much fun to workout but atleast I get in shape :) This week has gone by pretty fast since I wasn't at work this monday (came home from Turkey) but still today has been a very slow day. Just been testing different cellphones if I can download the client and run it it's OK but if it's not doing that then it goes on a special list that we need to attend to once every phone is tested.

Returned my new Bluetooth headset that I bought yesterday since my phone isn't capable of playing music on it, I can recieve calls with it but not play music and that is the main thing I'm using my phone for (playing music). So I went back to the store, returned it and instead of refunding all that I have paid for the headset I bought a new one that I was sure of was going to work with my phone. And I also upgraded my MemoryStick Pro Duo from 512MB to a 4GB card and I still got some money back ;)

Time flies when your having fun they say but I'm not having fun today at work so the time doesn't fly by me today :( anyway I'm off in 15 min ;) The weather is cloudy and maybe rain. Depending of someone pokes a hole into the clouds. My baby brother came by and visited me today, got some new energy out of that since he wanted to go to the 3 store that's right across the street from my office so I joined him and got some fresh air. Hmm I think I need to warn my big brother that this is his last weekend before the "storm" ;) when his wife and kids comes home. I have already installed my computer in my old room and I'm going to start building the webpage for my big brothers wife once I get back from the gym today.

Well well look at the time ;) it "flies" by and it's almost time to go home (hehe) so I just need to fix a few things and then head on home :D Catch you later!

New interesting games!

So during the slow hours at work today I was browsing youtube and found the "archive" of E3 movies from this years E3 show. The videos was from GameTrailers which has covered anything new in the gaming world. So I started watching these movies of best strategy-/online-/sports-/action adventure-/first person-/3rd person game. Alot of new games are coming that I want to try/buy. The list is as follows:

- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (1st person shooter)
- World in Conflict (Strategy)
- Assassins Creed (3rd person action)
- Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (1st person shooter)
- Skate (Sports)
- The Darkness (1st person shooter)
- Bioshock (1st person shooter)
- Far Cry: Crysis (1st person shooter)
- Madden NFL 08 (Sports)
- Medal of Honor: Airborne (1st person shooter?)

The videos at youtube

Well as you can see there are many games I want to try out :) And I will probably try them and write about them here. Also for the record I'm thinking/planning to buy a Nintendo Wii, I love that console with all it's functionality, especially the controls. I guess I'll be upgrading my graphics card to a DX 10 one so it can show me all those yummie graphics that the games nowadays offer :)

The last game on the list is a game that is what I think revolutionary, since when you deploy a mission it never plays out the same way as last time you played it. You are able to plan the strategy ahead and then execute it :) Really looking forward to these games. My wallet is gonna bleed money ;)

Well soon it's time to go home, once I get home I'll pack a bag and hit the gym. Yesterday I signed up for a whole year, so now I can go and exercise everey day in the week and "any" time during the day. It feels good to start getting in shape.

Maybe a cup of coffee and I'll be able to endure the last hour of work before I go home :) Later skater!

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Ooh yeah gonna do a little wohoo since it's my 50th post ;)
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