Messing around with perl and SQLite. I've written an "Auction House" script to gather and parse in-game item and avatar activity.

Please consider making a $10 donation for a good cause. You're entered into a raffle, too. http://ping.fm/fbogg

Wow! What a weekend deal on Steam. $5 for the Penumbra series... if I bough it, though, I'd feel bad for not supporting the Linux release.

"I'm too sexy" by Right Said Fred just came on the radio. Does anyone else envision the scene from "Encino Man" every time they hear it?

Aaand the season of forest fires begins. Looking out my window I see clear blue skies... darkened by a uniform sheet of smoke.

About to get in on this Fission Chips thing. http://ping.fm/bsZfW Hello chapter one!

Chewing on Licorice AllSorts while writing SQLite queries.

It's beautiful how things just seem to fall into place at the end of some days. Done work, task accomplished. Time to head home.

Lifting weights of Perl... with my mind.

Two years after starting my profession I just started a stash of cola under my desk.

w00t w00t! I just finished a milestone with my current project. This calls for a PB&J & coffee.

Been listening to the Mass Effect album on loop all day. It's nice. Somehow it's keeping me focused on my work.

Farming a relatively low level zone in Medievia. Killing Quiet Monks & farming Holy Flasks. Feel bad for it, but it helps with a -1000 align

Checking out OpenGoo. It's like Google Documents, but Open Source and can be run on your own server.

Loading up the car and heading to Kelowna. Swimming pools and gamer geeks. Bad attempt at Beverly Hillbillies :-P

Breaking and fixing things in Generic2DPlatformer. Sleepy time now that it's stable.

Sweet! My regional library took my suggestion and are circulating some copies of BioWare/David Gaider's "Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne"

Putting away the Mozart and kicking it into gear this afternoon with some @mc_frontalot

Eating blueberry yogurt makes me think I'm chomping on bugs.

Whoops. Prey wouldn't run so I tried to install the latest ATI graphics drivers. Now I broke XOrg and can't even get to shell.

Just got my IR remote control working with XBMC in Ubuntu 9.04, now installing Prey (using the Linux installer from Icculus.org) w00t w00t!

Listening to a Mozart album. Co-Workers are calling it "Church music". Hmph! I'll show them when I gain focus. It's like Spinach for Popeye.

Backing up the contents of my laptop. It has been on the verge of death for years. Good ol' lappy.

Relaxing at home, reading an article on how to stay focused. I'm so bad at sticking to the task at hand.

Building graphs'n'stuff for the game Ikariam. Figuring out the cost/attack & cost/defend values for each unit.

Automatic driving got me home today. Was off in La-La-Land when I left work and suddenly I'm home.

Brushing up on even more Java. I'd shifted focus from Java to Perl in my last year of University (both great languages to know).

Just watched @garyvee 's 2008 Web2.0 Expo speech. Awesome, inspirational.

Heh. Just took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. (INTJ-44/12/25/11). Career indicator: Computer Programming. Crazy.

Emailing my former Research Supervisor/Prof at University, thanking her for everything she'd done for me. #oneyearsincegrad

Donate to this worthy cause for a (possible) chance to win one of two computers. http://ping.fm/0NNMT

Can't get enough of the 99 Balloon Fights remix by Baddd Spellah (Sure I could if I tried). It would be nothing without @beefy #followfriday

Rocking the workday like Albert Einstein pwning a blackboard.

MCM's novel, "Fission Chips", launches today. http://ping.fm/TStsh Mysterious!

Responded to too many Nigerian scammers. Hard to keep track of them all now. Bright side, I won a car, and the Irish Lottery and got $1/2mil

w00t! I just performed my first Bridge to Rail (B2R) jump in QuakeLive. And to prove to myself it wasn't a fluke I did it a second time :D

Left the house for work this morning to find I'd left my car headlights on. Whoops. My wife, my hero. She drove me.

July 24 in Las Vegas for the Blink-182 tour sounds like an awesome time... last minute deals? Heh.

I'm not wearing any socks. They were just blown off. How did I miss the "Old Nerdy Bastard" album for so long? http://ping.fm/g3LIf

Up late, ripping apart Generic2DPlatformer and putting it together again all better, stronger, faster.

Drinking a strong coffee. 6 cups, 4 scoops. Less liquid, more kick. Mmm. #strongcoffee

#followfriday @1889ca (Author: TorrentBoy, Fission Chips, The Pig and the Box, +). @mc_frontalot @beefyness @mc_lars (Nerdcore FTW)

Putting my (almost Minor in) Philosophy to use regarding a new Creative Commons concept. http://ping.fm/LfnzO

I missed it in theatres, but July 21, 2009 I'm getting the BluRay Director's Cut of Watchmen. (186 minutes). Ah yeah!

Revelation: Any online trip planner (WestJet, Travelocity, etc) is cheaper Wed, Thurs, Friday regardless of when trip is.

A tip to Expedia customers: Shop for flights on Wed, Thurs or Friday. Seriously. It'll save you loads of cash. $400 diff from Mon to today.

Fire In The Sky: Crispy Duck #sixwordstory

Heading out to vote. #vote #britishcolumbia #elections #bc

Family tech support, Kyle speaking. I'm sorry, we no longer support Microsoft products. Only 5 more tries? Unacceptable. Try OpenOffice.org!

Daydreaming and listening to "The Darkness" makes a person write funny things...

Harboring a secret fantasy to rock out on stage wearing tight leather pants grinding a wicked axe while screaming falsetto. The crowd cheers

Playing with Phys2D, the 2D Game Physics engine for Java. What else would I be doing on a Sunday night?

Listening to tunes and reading Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture".

Tip-Toe'ing around getting my collision detection working within Generic2DPlatformer. Playing with sound effects instead.

Received my Linux Format magazine in the mail. The joke is on me. It's the same one that was given away free via bittorrent.

Happy Birthday wishes from the internets to my Mother-in-Law. She won't get the message, but history says it's here on the internet forever.

Barbies FTW. Going to hunt for Kirk and Spock Barbie dolls this weekend. Original packaging 20 years later, anyone?

Experiencing a case of "I'm never going to use this in real life" like people say in school. Thing is, I'm at work.

Rawking out to "Dragon Ash" and looking forward to a nondescript evening at home. I'd have to say, those are the best kinds of evenings.

Suffering a case of "brain-dead" today. An awesome side-effect: 2+1/2 hours have passed like a fart in the wind.

Shifting gears at work. In the spirit of "body building", I wonder how my brain would look in a speedo at a "brain-building" competition?

Trying not to have my view of Orson Scott Card's novels skewed after reading that the guy is kind of a dick. http://ping.fm/7y2Z9

Saw Wolverine tonight. Awesome movie. Bummed about the liberties taken with Deadpool, though.

Spent the last hour wrestling with Eclipse only to realize my problem was with libgcj. Ubuntu users, don't install Eclipse from Synaptic.

It's Friday and that means today is *AWESOME* to the max.

GoDaddy doesn't want to fix their servers to properly display SVGs. So do it yourself: http://ping.fm/UGGdK

Feeding MegaHAL the text of Alice in Wonderland via a Perl script and the AI::MegaHAL module. MegaHAL needs more...

Perusing a "Swine Map" to track outbreaks. http://ping.fm/iR49a P.S., are you infected? http://ping.fm/6cGt5

How To: Install XBMC (formerly known as XBox Media Center) in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. http://ping.fm/U09lP

Perusing the behind-the-scenes activity of Introverision Software (@ivsoftware) and Darwinia+. http://ping.fm/Tq0Hp

Kicking back, tapping out some Java. Listening to MC Frontalot. So excited he's confirmed his participation for PAX.

Hrm... better make that "Content" because for some reason the "copyright-c" wouldn't display. �

I'm half-way through Cory Doctorow's "�ontent", and getting a lot out of it. Next up, Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture".

How insane is it that Valve's marketing is so effective that I would consider buying a SECOND Orange Box because of the $9.99 price tag.

Just booked lodgings at the Green Tortoise hostel in Seattle for Penny Arcade Expo 2009. w00t!

Hooray for birthdays! Didn't pack a lunch today 'cause I knew I'd be eating cake. I love food. Hoping against obesity... and diabetes :D :D

Inspired by @doctorow and at least one of his essays, I think tonight after work I'm going to configure my Linux PC to play my BluRay movies

Installing Ubuntu 9.04 from the 11.1MB mini.iso

It's so tempting to download the latest Ubuntu on 0-day... The updates are terribly slow for the first week, though.

Eating my penne pasta like a game of Jenga, and there's no one around to tell me not to play with my food.

Yes! Robotic penguins. How cool is that? http://ping.fm/NCngM

Looking forward to Friday evening. I hope I didn't mis-understand that it's a dinner. Mmm. Dinner.

Just finished watching the first X-Men movie. The X-Men boxed trilogy is an impressive 9 discs large.

Just scored the last Blu-Ray X-Men Trilogy on the shelf at Future Shop. Best date-night ever.

Slowly convincing myself that XML is the way to go for storing and retrieving saved game information and individual levels/challenges. #java

Slowly rocking Slick with Java. It's been almost two years since I last sat down for some serious Java programming sessions. It feels good.

Putting some time into Generic2DPlatformer. Lots of grand ideas in my head. A few make it to paper. Will see what's do-able.

Busy day keeping the provincial exams in order... It's always busy when the exams are going on.

Running dungeons in Dungeon Runners. It's been so long since I logged in.

Broke my car key :-/ Crap.

Home with my wife's brand-new mountain bike. It's as much a gift for her as it is for me.

Working... but it's an awesome day to go for a walk around Rattlesnake Point. http://ping.fm/8lFBw

Learning vim. Look, Mom! I'm a real programmer now.

Enjoyed an evening of riding mountain bikes through a park with my wife. Squeezed in a pizza, beer and cake, too.

Starting to fear for my job. Wondering if this year will see a growing trend of "any reason to fire you" to cut costs. Hello, open source?

Listening to a couple co-workers tell a tale of their experience with a flash mob this lunchtime.

Daydreaming. Yeah... daydreaming. :-)

Backing up a tv-series boxed set... that's fair use, right? Thanks for believing in it, EFF.

Sale on TorrentBoy t-shirts until Wednesday. Save10.40% off your order. http://zazzle.com/torrentboy*

Forcing myself to get some work done tonight. Ignoring QuakeLive by booting into Ubuntu.