Archive for February, 2006

Now that it’s a sensible time (at least more so) feel the need to discuss yesterday’s events.

I renew my objection to Valentine’s Day. I put my heart on the line and what do I get? Rejection. It’s not a nice feeling.

I mean, I went all out. I bought Jack a rose, tried to do the whole sweeping him off his feet thing and yet he still sticks with Jess. He’s a fool but I think he will come round eventually. Then I’ll use him for his DB11 code and leave :p.

My fears about most of Grant returning at the early hours and waking everyone else up seem to be unfounded or at least prevented by the fact we just had another fire alarm.

I recon it was Little Dave what set this one off. It’s always the people you least expect :p. On a serious note, this isn’t cool. I need sleep dammit and having to haul myself out of bed while an alarm designed to wake up drunk people damages my hearing is not my idea of fun.

I’m guessing the “Grant House informal gathering” will have got started by now so I’m about to head down there but I just thought I would post a quick update on my indepedent film makers community I am currently working on which will be named Movie Liquid.

I’m quite fired up about it, I think it could be really big. I seem to have a lack of sites with substance at the moment, I have my old sites like Emo Movies and TV Forge but my new sites seem to lack the feel of a massive site for some reason, I hope that this new project will rectify this.

It’s a massive undertaking. I’ve been working for ages and I’m still working on the blog system which is pretty much the first thing I started on. It’s getting done gradually though and if I can keep up the pressure on the project it should actually get finished.

The actual movie system is going to be the key to it, how it’s all handled and what a user can do, the more functionality the better. There is plenty more to do though, there will be some tricky parts like the integration between the user profiles and the vBulletin system I am using for the forums and user authentication (well sort of, I kind of wrote my own bit for that).

I’m trying to strip as much of the vBulletin system out of it as possible. I’ll be stripping out the registration system and putting my own one in, the memberlist will be stripped out and replaced as will the PM system. Basically I want it to be used for the actual forums and that’s it. Maybe usergroups for the groups but generally, everything is going to be stripped out and replaced by my own code that isn’t the actual forum. And that is going to be completely skinned and maybe have some custom plug-ins put in too.

I suppose I should make some kind of post. It’s amazing how many people hate this day. Like everyone on my course it getting really depressed about it. Probably because we’re all nerds and so none of us are in relationships leading to a terrible feeling of being horribly alone.

Still at least it provides an excuse to get really smashed tonight, we’re doing the whole Grant House event thing starting with free alcohol on the basement (well by that I mean we’ve already all thrown in £3 so we can drink as much as we want tonight) then we’re heading off to The Courtyard though some people have said they aren’t going and I’m tempted to join them as I’m not a huge fan.

Spent last night at the Bod Bar. I felt the need to mention that. I feel I’m not engaging in as active a social calendar as previously. This Saturday should be pretty mental though, Wendy House at the union which is going to be awesome. Hopefully I will get an Indie Rox and Fruity in between then too.

I need to enjoy Lostprophets – Start Something and Nickelback – All The Right Reasons as much as I can now as I’m playing them to death very quickly.

I spent some quality time in CS12 developing a plan to develop some of the communities I run. I think it was a valid month as it was that or fall alseep. I considered it the lesser of too evils. I’ve nearly finished my CS coursework so once I’ve done that I just have SY12, DB11, SE15 and SE12 to do! Although SE12 is an no-going project.

I also need to do some editing for Nightmare 90210 of which I shot two episodes last Saturday.

Oh and round people up for this Saturday – the Wendy House hits the union and I want to get as many people as possible there.

Not feeling great today so I didn’t get the bus until 9:30 meaning I went straight to my tutorial rather than stopping by Eniac to blog. So it’s not really the usual Monday morning blog after all. But that’s not really the point.

Where is everyone? My social circle is just too unreliable. Out of five of us, I am the only one who turned up to the lecture. Ok, Jimmy doesn’t do DB11 so he is off the huck but that’s still three people not bothering to turn up. At least there were people in my tutorial group today, when I went last week it was just me!

Need to get some coursework done, I have two deadlines this week, I don’t know when my other deadlines are. But they are beyond this week so I don’t need to worry about those just yet.

got back from the Film Making Society social at about 11:30. There were only like three films from the film making society and my “Random Questions to Random Questions” was inaudiable so nobody had any idea what was going on. But oh well.

I’ve been working a lot on my independent movie makers community and it is shaping up to look really good. I can’t wait to get it finished and launched though there is a long way to go yet.

Now I’m waiting the pilot episode of Scrubs. Classic.

After sitting around almost complete for ages, I’ve finally released the first beta version of Particle Gallery. It will make quite an addition to the Particle Soft family I hope as it has some very powerful features and blows away the scripts that we have released before.

Not that the scripts before aren’t that good – they are. I use them all on one site or another but an image gallery really gave us something to get our teeth stuck into and produce some mega stuff. Things like mass-moderation, a cache system, admin and moderator panels, I’m really happy with what we managed to achieve with the script.

Now it’s just a case of weeding out the bugs before a stable release.

I think I’ve been neglecting forums a bit recently so I’ve decided to put a bit more time into them. I launched Hilary Duff Boards a few weeks ago and I’ve been making some posts on Audio Senate to try and kick-start the discussions on there. I might sent an annoucement around about it.

Ok, on to events. Film making society social tonight which should be fun. And we have to drink a lot as we have a minimum bar tab to run up :p. It’s a “you can have the venue for free but you have to spend this much on drinks” type deal I think.

As for etc, I can’t believe it’s already 11:30 (or there abouts) on Sunday. The weekend was going to be my time to get everything organised but it seems to have gone a little too fast. I still need to look at my coursework, see what needs doing.

Like, wow. I finally got round to getting Nickelback’s new album and it rocks! I haven’t really got the songs stuck in my head yet but I am sure I will, especially after I have had it blasting out of my MP3 player on the way to and from uni for a week.

Got some filming done today and spent a large chunk of the afternoon broadening my musical horizons with songs from The Cure, The Smiths, Led Zepplin and a few other artists that I like but haven’t really got fully into.

I’ve had Nickelback blasting out for the past hour, which should have nicely annoying people :p. I actually don’t feel guity, it drowns out all the clubbing music that surrounds me and constantly annoys me so I think it was a perfectly valid route to take.