Weekend = over;

Okey so a little programming joke with the topic for the blog today but what the hell :) Just wanted to pop in and say that I've been playing alot of Madden NFL 07 on my xbox and my superstar is getting kinda good so early in the season . I really love the new play system that EA has made for this game, that you only control you character when he is on the field. Sure you could control the rest of the team when he's not on the field if you want but I feel that it's more convenient this way.

Haven't been working at all this weekend as I had hoped to do. Instead I baked some bread and went to a party where one of my friends got so drunk that the police came and put him in the arrest room at the police station until he woke up.

Ahh crap now the time is 4:24 AM on this monday morning and I have to get some sleep, I have a dentist apointment in the afternoon and I have to get some work done tomorrow. I don't really like going to the dentist now when the government has stopped paying for my dental visits. It's going to cost me around $91, and for me a poor student that's quite some money just to throw at one tooth to be fixed.

Well now I'm going to bed catch you later!

The excitedness continues

Okey, so now I have been busy working my ass off in school for this project that I am doing with my classmate, (it's still not finished but we're getting there). In the meantime I've _not_ been working so hard on that worksample that DICE wanted me to submit but I guess I blame the other project for that. I have also been in contact with another game developing company called Starbreeze Studios and I know that they want programmers, but they are a bit slow on evaluating me. Hope they can decide soon so I know if I'm going to write my master thesis or not.

If I don't get to write the master thesis anywhere I will retake some classes that aren't finished. Do the things that needs to be finished and then if I get a new shot at writing my master thesis somewhere I will probably get my degree :D

A rather short post since the time now is 1:12 AM and I really should be in bed for like 1h ago :/ so I guess I'll post more when things start to come about.

Goodby and thanks for all the fish ;)

Oh and a minor update! I finished Call of Duty 3 today on my XBOX it was awsome, like the graphics and that you got to play the missions from the different allied forces view. The game would have been even nicer to finish on my big brothers Sony Bravida "46 fullHD (1080) flatscreen TV (and XBOX360) but noo I decided to stop when I was like 3 missions from the end and thought that they where going to release CoD3 to PC but found out that they won't. So I got a bit disapointed but I finished it anyways. :)

All excited

Wow it's been a long time since I've blogged, I guess I never had the energy to update the blogg once we got there. But I did promise you that I would take pictures for documentation and so I did. The pictures of the trip will be posted in I think the next blogg. This time I just wanted to get a shout out there about this e-mail I got from DICE (all excited).

"Thanks for you interest in writing you master thesis at DICE.
We are very sorry that the process has taken so long and understand if you are not interested any more.

However if you are we would like you to submit a small worksample."

Hell yeah I'm interessted (duh!) it's a game company, although I didn't had the luck of the guy attaching the sample code nor the assignment.doc so I e-mailed him back and asked for the files. Now I'm only waiting for his answer with the attached files and I'm gonna get right to it. As of right now I am installing MS Visual Studio 2005 on my laptop and hope it can manage to work (it's a very old model).

I also got a sudden rush of homesickness ;) so I'll be going home this weekend to visit my folks, it's been a while since I last saw them. I think this weekend will be a bit confused/muddled/messy because of that e-mail. If I get the code examples tomorrow I will probably start working on it as fast as I can.

Ooh my laptop just finished the installation, I hope I can write a Hello World program without it crashing ;) Well I will try to sleep now but I'm not sure I can cause I'm still excited about that e-mail, anyway I'll be in touch.

L8ter!

Big Day

So finally the big day has come and we are now ready to go to the airport, yaye! This blogg today is getting short since we don't have so much time left before we have to go, time is now 7.10 AM. Going to go about 7.15 AM and then the great jurney begins. That journey sickness/nervousness is gone (as I suspected). I'm going to take some pictures along the way to the states (like documentation) and if I get a chance I'll update the blog with some pictures from the trip (during the trip). Ooh well now they are loding up the car with our bags, gotta go.

Catch you later :D
Cheers

Trip trip trip

Oo my gosh! a human being is not supposed to wake up after barely 2 hours of sleep but hey I did it ;) And today is the day I begin my trip towards the states with my baby brother, boy I could sure kill for some coffee right now but I don't have the time to make it. The time is now 4.57 AM and I am supposed to be going to the buss station to catch the buss to the airport around 5 AM (which seems to be about it).

That journey sickness isn't getting better as of right now but I think that tomorrow, when we actually make the trip it will be tetter ;) I set my alarmclock to wake me up at 4.15 AM and I snoozed it only once, then I got up and started my computer, took off the bed clothing and started making myself ready for the trip. Oh there the clock just turned 5 AM, time to go to the buss station. I'll write soon again once I'm in Stockholm.

Over and out!

Journey nervousness

And so it has come down to be only 1 single day left before I start my trip to the states. I haven't packed my bags yet (going to do it as I type this blogg), alot has happend since my last post. I have been working kinda hard in school so I can take the time off and really relax when I am visiting my big brother and his family. One interesting thing is that the project that I and a classmate are working on has gotten a response from a developer at the University of California, we are all excited of this and hope that the information that he is willing to share can aid us very much in our project.

Wooa so now I have packed most of my stuff, got some before and after pictures that I'm gonna upload as soon as I'm finished writing and packing. I only have some minor problems with the packing and that is that I have packed everything but a few presents in one big suitcase, the problem is that I wanted to fit my big backpack in the suitecase to be able to just check-in one case instead of 2 since the backpack is empty. I think I will have to reorganize some stuff to go in the backpack.

I'll be updating this blogg from the states to so who ever wants to read about the trip can do it and see some of the pictures that I will be taking, and now I'm off to bed, since I now only have 3 and a half hour to sleep I think I'm gonna cash in them so I atleast are a bit rested for the big trip :)

Two pictures as promised, one before and one after, enjoy :)

(Before)


(After)

Dreams and Violence

So I went to see the new bond movie this friday (as I wrote in my previous post) and after that me and my friends had some beer and played some games until the early hours of the day. So I have been struggling to turn my day/night clock back to normal, hence get up around 8 am and go to sleep around 12 pm, well last night I had a very strange dream. I dreamt that I was in a fight with some bad guy and suddenly I had a gun in my hand so I fired one shot and hit him, but for some unaccountable reason I decided to start dreaming about my dad (I love my dad very much), and the dream sort of continues in slow motion, and when I see the bullet hitting the bad guy it is actually my dad that got hit.

Since my band is so strong with my father I started crying for what I had done, and I could hear myself weep, and then I woke up with tears running down from my cheek. I figured it was all a bad dream and decided to call my dad once I woke up again. The day goes by and I haven't called my dad, then something freakish happens. My dad pops up out of nowhere on msn and starts talking with me, woundering how I'm doing and so on. I pick up the phone and call him immediately, and so we talk about what's been happening so far in my life and about the trip I'm about to do with my baby brother to the states (all excited!).

We talk for about an hour and then I have to study so I tell him I have to study and he says that he is going downstairs to watch some tv, and so we hang up. After that I felt better, actually I felt alot better as soon as I heard his voice :) I think that the reacent playing of some violent games might have caused me to get in a fight in the first place, why my dad came in to the dream I have no clue. A well from one thing to the other, I just finished playing through Half-Life 2 (again!), and now I'm going to try out Half-Life 2: Episode One and see how that turns out, kinda excited since I love "never" ending stories or stories that after the real big action is done you can go a bit further and see how the aftermath of what you did turned out.

Now I'm off to bed since I have been awake for too long already, I have a written exam in the morning and I hate to get up early, since that is what I'm going to do I should have been asleep atleast around 10 pm. I'm supposed to wake up at 7 am, I'll probably snooze a couple of times and then run to scholl as always ;) Well well nighty then :)

Yours truly!

Movie and some gaming

Yaarrr there maties!

So I have had a fun day today, started with my alarmclock which I snoozed 2 times and the 3rd time I thought I snoozed I acctually turned it off, I was just going to sleep for another 5 more minutes (the time was 8.30 am when this occured), when I woke up again the time was 10.30 (I swear it felt like I had just slept for 5-10 more minutes. Anyhow I get up and rush off to the bathroom to get ready to go to school. When I came to school my lab partner was already there reading about the exam we are about to have on monday in Cisco CCNP1 (not too fun to read about but it's good knowledge). After lunch my lab partner decides that he is done for the week and goes home, so I finish reading what I have started and then I just didn't do very much.

"Time flies when you are having fun" they say, well the time got to 7.45 pm and I and some of my classmates are heading downtown to go see the new bond movie (Casino Royale), damn that movie was mighty good. I highly recommend it (well I am a bond fan after all) ;) When the movie is over we walk to the student pub and hade a few beers, then we went back up to our classroom and sat down to play some computergames. Did that until 4-5 am then we got tired and walked home. So now here I am, sitting here in my wounderful computer chair and typing this blogg. My eyelids are getting extreamly heavy so I think... no I don't think I'm going to hit the sack asap, so I guess I'll write a line or two tomorrow :)

Good night (or god morning since the time is 6.30 am now)!

X days and counting!

Soon soon very soon I'll be on a plane sipping (insert drink of choice here) and chillin', because when the plane lands it will be in Chicago (no rush it's just a lay-over), the next plane goes from Chicago to Seattle just 2 hours later, then when the plane lands me and my baby brother are going to meet our big brother since he is coming to pick us up. I'm looking forward to this trip every day, and every day I count down till the day I leave this rutten hole they call town (Skellefteå, Northern Sweden), the weather is great when it's great but at the moment the snow is melting since all of a sudden we got degrees above 0 and it rains too :(

It couldn't be better then to leave this all behind me when I go, I'm probably gonna smile all the way down to Stockholm :) And santa sent me his list of things my bigbrother wants and also what his wife wants so now I gotta go find the stuff they want. I can check 1 ½ things off of the list and that is 2 CD albums for his wife and 2 bottles of booze for him, I can also check the list of movies to their kids :)

From one thing to the other, been busy with school (although I don't really do very much right now) trying to get a grip on what I am supposed to do ;) also I have been busy trying out some new games that has arrived and those would be: Tom Clancys Splinter Cell Double Agent (sooo freakin' awsome graphics and gameplay) also Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (also very cool graphics and gameplay). I have decided to get through Double Agent first before I jump onto Dark Messiah, getting kinda divided otherwise ;)

Well soon time to hit the sack, have to be up early tomorrow (ooh how I hate to wake up early in the morning), to be in school for some network laboration. A well gonna play some games first ;)

C U around!

Blog this blog that

Yo whats up?

Been kinda busy lately with school, some heads-up on that. I am working on a project that is called Redundant Game Server (RGS) and it's going to be a lot of work, what will then come out of the end of the project, well it's going to be a server architecture for games (mostly) that will make the game server more reliable to play on. The simplest senario is this: The main server is up and running and the backup server as well, then suddenly the main server dies of maybe some cable error, then the backup server will take over with little to no notice in the client. We are working on a license problem we have with Atari atm, the cause is that we are using a very old game that is open source but the graphics is from the original game so we have to get permission to use the graphics from Atari (which by the way takes forever to answer). Enough about that.

More heads-up, me and my baby brother are heading to the states this christmas (yaye :D) to visit our big brother and his family. I'm so excited that I can't wait until we get on the plane and head right over to the states. I haven't been outside of Sweden for 3 years now and it's kinda getting on my nervs. Ooh and I was at a LAN-party this weekend (small as hell, about 80 participants) and I had my computer there (ofcurse!) but my computer screen went flickering, I could use it through out the LAN-party but when I got back home it was all messed up so I decided to buy me a new one. Which I haven't done in years, I found this great TFT/LCD screen at a local shop for only $357. The screen that I have atm is a 21 inch CRT (regular fat screen). I am expecting the delivery tomorrow, so that is also getting me all excited.

Well don't have time to blog more today, hopefully I will get back and blog soon enough.

"So long and thanks for all the fish!"