Chris Worfolk's Blog

Well well, it is only 15 minutes until the new series of Law & Order that has been totally ruined by a new theme tune, opening sequence and random changing of cast. Oh well at least I can catch the last 15 minutes of Friends on E4 plus 1. Meh, I am still longing for the next episode of One Tree Hill but that is still 6 days away! How can anyone wait that long? I haven’t felt this way since the O.C.

So anyway my plan for today was to head into Crossgates and search for some recordable media. But as my order didn’t get dispatched until quite late it was too late by then and I didn’t want to go until it had been. Still it has now so hopefully it will arrive tommorow and I can spend the afternoon getting the media. That or sleeping, sleeping is good too.

Ok, what else can I complain about? I am working on Frinks yet again with Frinks mark 5 the versions just keep coming hu? I am moving Frinks and Worfolk Online over to a new server although I am having problems making remote connections to the server. Plus I still need some of my databases restored on the old server. Bah!

I have been searching for some ways to get RSS feeds. After ignoring the technology for quite a while, I finally decided I should delve into the world of RSS, I am a nerd after alll. So I headed off to a number of sources including SitePoint and CNet to get some information, software and other such things that I would need.

Having tried one though I destroyed Firefox with it refusing to open when I tried to run the application. Not the best start. I was also going to try the Firefox favourites type plugin although it is only available for 0.7 and 0.8. I am running 0.9 so I didn’t want to risk it. My third alternative was Sharp Reader or something, which required the .net framework which has never ended well when I previously installed it.

The reason I really got started with it as I noticed Yahoo Groups were now offering RSS feeds. I had noticed it before but now I actually wanted to use them to allow me to get access to all the latest Michelle Branch news and discussions for my new site, Branch Planet.

Still, I am sure a solution will randomly turn up. I was tempted by the one that is intergrated with Outlook Express although I always find that place depressing and can never keep on top of all the emails I get.

Stuff is happening. Stuff is going on. So the only real thing to do is to talk through it on Nerd Federation. My experiances with Firefox continue, I noticed that even when I backspace, the scroll bar on this editing page extends. Also, when I close a tab it jumps to the one on the right rather than the one on the left. I also miss the new tab button on the left of the tab row.

But anyway so there are things set in motion. Last night I managed to get hold of a .asf converted to mp3 so now I can convert the radio stations from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to mp3 and listen to them outside of the game! Last night and this morning (now in fact) I am listening to VCPR and I also plan to listen to K Chat. Talk radio stations rule :D.

Also today is the date of a gathering. Hopefully we can finally get some Maze Radio done today and last night, myself and Ceon were also exploring the possibility of doing a new movie. We need to find someway to fund it though so if you have a spare grand ;). We will give you an advanced copy and everything.

Also hopefully my DVD rewriter will be ordered this morning. It has a 5 day order on demand from eBuyer.com where I am getting it from then so it is probably going to be a week or two before it appears. Still I need the time to save up for money to buy some DVD+R’s anyway lol.

Hurray! After finishing up with the Cherry Popper Ice Cream Factory I completed another asset and so unlocked the final missions. I had done it before, I got up to 104 deliveries one time but nobody told me to get out of the van so I didn’t realise and got myself busted. Oh well I did it, so anyway the final missions were unlocked – cap the collectors and keep your friends close…

So after stopping off at sunshine autos (it’s the one place that seems to provide a hiding place inside) I drove up to the mansion and headed inside. After the cut sequence I began to chase down the collectors and ran them over somewhere near Washington Beach. I then headed to the bridge to stop the next two and took them out near the Malibu. Then the final ones were taken out on the bridge to downtown. Mission complete.

So back to sunshine autos and heading back to my mansion. I pulled out that big rail gun thing and gunned a load of matia down, followed by Lance and finally Sunny. I noticed some cool limo’s outside but by the time I had answered all the phone calls and saved they were gone. Anyway I am missing a large chunk out here. The credits went on for ages and I couldn’t skip them. I presume everyone was in the same situation.

Anyway so the ending sequence was really good I thought, it was edging on emo which I liked. I can see why people can live out their fantasies as it really dragged me into the storyline and I can see how other people could be too. Is there any recorded news of inspired violence? Comments people!

To conclude, the game is finished pretty much the only other things I have to do is finish off the film studio and sunshine autos and do stuff like the minor details as I only have about 8 hidden packages lol. Anyway, I might do them I will probably try but I finished the main bit and thats the most important thing. So yay!

It’s the site you have all been waiting for. I can’t remember if I mentioned it before, I think I did in the addictions post where I said I would keep you posted. Well consider yourselves posted as here is the latest update – the site is now officially open. Check it out at BranchPlanet.com. Hmm, this editor doesn’t work so well with Firefox when it comes to inserting URLs.

Anyway the site is basically going to be a news portal, that way I can update it like every day which should bring plenty of visitors in or so I hope. The great thing about doing a niche site like a fansite or a site about Chinese / Albanian hamster hybrids is that you can really make a good site, maybe even the best site on the subject as there isn’t the huge competition. That is my aim here.

Hopefully the site should get crawled pretty soon. Google Visited Gamer Forge within 24 hours of submission, possibly due to the link from Worfolk Online’s homepage which I have given to Branch Planet too so if it is that, the robots should be hoping along nicely.

Oh well I guess only time will tell for what will happen to the site. The most important thing is that whatever happens, it should provide some material for some new posts on Nerd Federation. I am still chasing down the old forum database so hopefully, I will recover that soon. Of course, that is a completely unrelated topic but that is what Nerd Federation is about.

I finally did it – after Beonex crapped out on me again (occasionally it loses all my settings) I decided to set Firefox as the default browser. There are some things I am not happy about though. So I decided to hop along to Nerd Federation and have a moan about them – oh when will the perfect browser come along?

So anyway first of all, I don’t have my little task bar icon to open up windows anymore. Therefore I had to enable quicklaunch and delete everything on it so now all I have is show desktop and Firefox. My task bar space is valuable though, I often end up with a scroll bar on the task bar if I am not careful and that just gets annoying.

Anyway as for Firefox, my impression is that it is a lot more like Internet Explorer than Beonex. The rich text editor used for message posting and editing here on Nerd Federation works in Firefox which I am pleased about although as I type the horizonal scroll bar keeps extending for some reason. Still at least I don’t have to switch back to Internet Explorer to post messages.

Hopefully also this will rid me of the problem where I keep getting signed out. Although if it is a problem on all browsers then I will be out of luck there. Back on about how Firefox is more similar to Internet Explorer than Beonex anyway I noticed that Firefox uses the system default font, in my case Times New Roman which sucked as Beonex used Arial as the default font which was great.

Also the forms in Firefox are like the new Windows XP ones. Beonex had the classic styled ones which I really liked. I think browsers should make it switchable and they should also make the default font switchable. I am sure I will have more revolations as time goes on – I haven’t tried favourite icons yet but I am hoping Firefox picks them up from the meta tag as I really liked that with Beonex.

Hmm, I have quite a bit to talk about tommorow – and by quite a bit I mean one post about my new website. But until then I will leave you wondering. As what I really want to talk about here is what I class as my favourite songs of all time. I would post lyrics links too but that would take too much effort. It is easier to just plug Lyrics Burger here.

For a long time now, my favourite song has been Lagwagon – Kids in America. A song that has been covered many times. Lagwagon’s version actually being one of the covers. But anyway that still holds true. There are several other songs that I really like though.

Offspring – Gone Away is a fantastic song. There are some that have never left my playlist and Gone Away is one of them along with Kids in America and also Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonaise. All the other Smashing Pumpkins songs are too upbeat – the band is suppose to be down and depressing and they do upbeat songs, what is wrong with them?

Alien Ant Farm are also a cool band and I have addicited to Glow for quite a while although my favourite list pick from Alien Ant Farm has to be Smooth Criminal. Yep, it’s yet another cover for my list but they really did some cool stuff for the video. I was also thinking about Nickelback but I couldn’t name one song I really like – they are all awesome!

Ok, so here is my list:

1. Lagwagon – Kids in America
2. Offspring – Gone Awy
3. Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonaise
4. Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
5. Metallica – Nothing Else Matters

Bah, I typed out a huge blog, well actually not that long but anyway because this site keeps logging me out, everything was lost! It really sucks. Now I have to type everything out again and I have half forgotten what I was on about earlier. Most of the originality and flair from the text will be lost for this post – providing this post makes it at all.

So anyway, Iron Cheesecake has a new movie! After over 7 months of waiting, the Iron Cheesecake machine is back in production, rolling out some new movies. Or even if I do not make any more for a while after this one – one movie. Still it’s worth the enjoyment providing your part of the ‘in’ crowd. If not then simply know that Carl, who is a member of Nerd Federation although yet to post, is really an android built by myself.

While we are on the subject of Carl, it’s worth nothing that he nicknamed him 4 megs earlier this month. That is because of the way that computer memory (ram) works is that it has several layers. The bottom one which loads the operating system is called conventional memory which all computers have around 500k of. But when I built Carl, I designed him to have 4 megs of conventional memory – hence the nickname 4 megs :D.

As for Iron Cheesecake it is still pulling in traffic from search engines as well as getting regularly crawled. I looked up loads of statistics earler but they are now lost which again sucks. But anyway, in conclusion – there is a new movie on Iron Cheesecake so be happy :).

So today was Party in the Park Leeds. I was tempted to go in at one point and everything but I refused to pay for the free tickets. Thats irony, not somebody trying to sell me one lol. I did get some pictures especially for Nerd Federation though and I will upload them – erm, eventually. Also, having a wave of a brain, or a brainwave in other words, there is a chance the Nerd Federation forums will return!

But anyway onto another unrelated topic. I was flicking through some sites and one of them had news that Britney Spears was sueing a tabloid newspaper because it said she had a cocaine addiction. I was tempted to post it on Worfolk News but decided not to as the article was dated end of March I think. BTW, do you think she is actually involved or her lawyers just did it in her name?

Anyway (again), we are not talking about Britney’s addictions, we are talking about mine. Let’s start with the domain buying – today makes it 15 days without me buying a domain but I can’t really go on like this – I have to buy another one! I am hopefully going to get one tonight for a new site I am working on – more details of the project will follow in a later post.

Addiction number two would be ice pops. I have had half a dozen today or so already and these are the 18" long ones. But they keep calling to me, I here them calling my name! As you can imagine this is pretty much freaking me out but I am sure a good ice pop will calm me down. Humm, I wonder if there is something in these ice pops, I must be tripping.

Finally my addiction to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I had another cool shoot out today, I went to one of the gang buildings on prawn island, nestled myself on the roof and shot people, 1 star, cop cars, 2 stars, swat van, 3 stars, undercover Cops, 4 stars, FBI, 5 stars, more of pretty much everything finally won me another 6th star. Then two tanks came which I took out. I eventually got bored of waiting as nothing else appeared to be coming and stole a tank, driving down Washington Beach and hiding out in my hotel room. Fun day.

Yup, I am still addicted to Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I had many random small points to make but I think I have forgotten most of them now. The main point of this one is to ramble on about my gaming experiances. Ya see, earlier today I discovered that I know have a chopper on my roof so instead of going round trashing myself on a PBJ 600 bike, I can now do it in a helicoper :).

Anyway I was trying to do that street race as I own the car dealership but it doesn’t make any money. They keep ramming me and spinning me though so when the race started I reversed, parked my car accross the road, pulled out that huge rail gun thing and waited. When the arrived I opened fire but they kept going. Nuts to that plan then, even though it was just a great idea. I presume they are indestructable to gunfire in the race at least.

Anyway so thats the background to my run. I wasn’t happy so I started killing stuff and got about 2 stars. I went inside the airport and looked for a way onto the planes area but couldn’t find anything so eventually I headed outside and killed a few more cops earning more a star or two more. So I jack a police car as it’s the only one around, now with 4 stars and set off to find a way onto the airport runway.

I get as far as the tunnel as I am constantly being rammed by cop cars so I get out and start shooting them all. 5 stars after I have killed some undercover dudes and then I kill some FBI too, for the first time earning myself a 6th star! So now this tank roles up and the army guy gets out. Naturally I shoot him down and jack the tank. I set off towards my estate and try to blow up some other thanks after me on the way – we seem to be indestructable to eacho ther.

On my run I am not really challenged that much though there is the noice of a helicopter and plenty of cops with stingers – they only ever seem to go for the tanks. End result I get back to the mansion after a few cop cars try to ram me in the island. I drive it up the steps to the front door and head inside. Disappointed to find cops in my mansion I run into my room to take shelter but people dive throught he window so after dispatching them I take a lighter gun and make a run to the roof.

Here I get into the chopper and head off to the main island. I begin looking for a tall building where I can land and make a stand against everything with that huge rail gun type thing. I am almost there when the LAPD helicoper arrives and sets me on fire. The chopper explodes before I can make it to the ground and I am wasted – but what a run! And they still say these types of games don’t incoruage violence.