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As I mentioned previously elsewhere, I’ve been low carbing for around 14 months now. Other than a brief one-off high-carb evening, I’ve been low-carb all of the way. No grains, sugars, starches, or anything of the kind. Just fat and protein, more-or-less.

Due to “reasons”, I’ve decided to spend a 3-day weekend going high-carb. I must admit, I was really looking forward to it. So, off I went to Sainsbury’s and spunked £70 on the highest-carb crap I could find. Sweets, chocolate bars, a toffee sundae, sandwiches, sushi, and so on. I kept away from the fizzy drinks simply because the idea of sugary water sloshing around my teeth made me cringe. Everything else was fair game.

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For those that don’t know, Stormwind was attacked by DanTup‘s mother, who used her cataclysmal bingo wings to destroy parts of the Alliance city. Wait, I don’t think that’s what happened. Maybe it was horde, maybe it was that fruity Deathwing fella, but whatever happened has made parts of Stormwind look like a weekend at Grimsby’s Ribey Square, but with far less ropey tarts looking to love you long time.

Click read more for… more. Yes, really.

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Right, okay, so, er. Yeah.

You know when I said in the previous post that I’ll be posting information on the Cataclysm beta? Well, guess what? I sort of can’t be arsed. There are other sites out there offering the latest information on it, so why should I bother? I know I said it’s to give insights into the overlooked features, but I’m such an apathetic shit.

I even did a video on the sunshafts graphical effect, but I put so little effort into it that I’m not sure if I want my name attached to it. Unfortunately, I uploaded it. See my embarrassment here. Groan.

There are a few screenshots after the read more thingy…

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Due to some serious sucking up by one of the officers in our guild to Blizzard, it appears we’re in the Cataclysm beta! How did we celebrate? By spending two days doing nothing but downloading and patching the Cataclysm client. It was bad. Really bad.

But, enough of that. What’s the beta like so far? Crash-y. With a large dose of disconnect-y. Not forgetting World Server is Down-y. Even more annoying than that is the lack of addons. Addons are completely disabled in the beta, and it’s making the whole experience a gigantic chore. I’m one of those that cannot stand the built-in interface; I despise it, and feel as though it worsens the experience by a large margin.

I’ll be posting information and screenshots on the beta over the upcoming days and weeks, typically things that other sites aren’t showing you. Any excuse to get this site updating again, right?

Alright, alright, so I lied in my previous post. Well, I didn’t lie as such, I just couldn’t be arsed. Anyway…

Comical v1.05

New release! In fact, v1.04 was released on the 4th, but I screwed it up. I rewrote a core part of the comic engine and didn’t quite test it as much as I should’ve. I hate testing things for more than five minutes. It annoys me. The problem is that I’m probably just crap at testing things in general.

I can’t for-the-life-of-me remember what’s new in v1.04, despite it taking two months to release. That, and the fact I only released it two days ago. Take a look at the Comical link below if you really care.

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Wake On LAN Ex 2 v2.10

The changes for WoLEX, I certainly do remember. Just because there are two of ‘em. Okay, there may only be

two changes, but one of them took a freakishly long time for me to be arsed completing. Then again, I’m not entirely sure I finished the feature. Eh, whatever. Doubt anyone really cares about it that much.

Yeah, so, skinning. I’ve added limited skinning functionality to WoLEX. You can change the colours, styles, graphics, and other properties of windows and controls. It’s certainly a unique method as skinning goes, but it was the quickest to implement. Wait – did I forget to document the skinning system in the help file? Oh. Bollocks.

The other change was… something else. Okay, I lied about remembering both changes. Woah, hold on: the Port setting for entries wasn’t being used. You’ll probably sleep better tonight after knowing that. Glad to help.

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Okay, so maybe I’m not updating this site as often as I should be, but feel free to put the blame firmly on Twitter. I tend to post updates and things to that as it takes less effort, and I’m fairly sure my followers need to know exactly what I’m doing – all the time. So… look at that. Here.

Now please leave.

As well as general rantings, one of the main purposes of this site was for me to blog about the ins and outs of working on software. It hasn’t quite worked out like that, has it? The main reason is the speed at which my development goes; two to three hundred projects (in Visual Studio alone) can make someone a bit quick at getting something designed and developed. Because of this, blogging would just slow things right down.

The only real good shot I’d have at blogging the development of an application would be to work on something using a new technology (eurgh – I don’t like applying the technology term to software) that I would have to learn as I go.

Here enters WPF. Despite messing about with it and getting three or four apps at a good stage using it, I’m still not completely sure on quite a few things, such as best design practices. Besides, the app-to-blogged-about has already been to an advanced state-of-being in Windows Forms, but the direction of both the application and the source wasn’t quite where I wanted them to be. These two reasons, among the “new tech” reason and possibly others, are why I will artificially slow down its development to a degree that I can make blog posts about what I’ve done that session/day/period.

It’s FluidBar that I will be working on in .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC. At the time of this post, that link reflects the WinForms version (take a look at its Requires field).

The next blog post should be about FluidBar and Visual Studio 2010, so stay tuned if that kinda thing does it for you, I guess.

About fifteen days ago I placed an order at Lenovo.com (UK store) for nice little IdeaPad S10-3T netbook. Or, at least I thought I did. The ordering process failed multiple times, but hey – I want that netbook! On about the 5th go or so, success! They accepted the order and I waited.

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We have new releases! Rejoice, and such.

The first one is Profile Relocator. This allows all newly-created Windows profiles to be created in a user-specified location. This is great if you’re not a nutter and want all of your profile data (including application data, desktop, favourites, etc) in a safe place in case you want to re-install Windows (not really required any more since Vista) or it somehow gets wanked and jizzes over everything.

The second is Wake On LAN Ex 2. Added some feature requests and squashed an exception on start-up.

Finally, the original Wake On LAN Ex was seemingly not providing the latest v0.96 release, but instead v0.95. No idea what the hell happened there, but it’s sorted now. You should be using WoLEX2 anyway.

But you’d know all this if you were following my lame Twitter crap.

Thank you, and good night.

Bit quiet around here, innit?

It may be here, but it isn’t so quiet on Twitter. I’ve been posting there about my latest projects, such as Glassix (the 4th rewrite) and audioFlow (a rewrite of Hydrogen), along with work-in-progress screenshots. Along with occasional rants, because that’s what I do.

A quick summary of the current in-development application:

audioFlow is a suite requiring no third-party software that turns a PC into a web-enabled jukebox and streaming media centre. This is a rewrite of Hydrogen which I started almost a decade ago. For live updates on its progress, see Twitter here.

Oh, and you may get glimpses of my Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t antics. Which I haven’t bought yet. But will do. Why the hell are the buying options for it so limited on the UK Lenovo store? Grr.

I stopped eating sugar and starch about eight months ago for various reasons, so this upcoming Christmas is going to be somewhat different. I’m going to splurge on foods that contain very little carbs. It’s going to be a meaty Christmas (not gay).

I haven’t really planned it as such, but it’s going to include:

Pork, lamb, beef, chicken, turkey, chicken liver, lamb liver, pancetta, bacon, sasuages, meatballs, king prawns, scallops, Gouda cheese, Gorgonzola blue cheese sauce, parmesan cheese, Roquefort cheese, mozzarella ball, cauliflower, spinach, small amount of diced onion, and garlic butter. Let’s not forget the freeze-dried chives that I’m so fond of.

This is going to be hard to proportion as I don’t really eat that much since cutting out all of the carby crap. The temptation to make a huge ball of meat with a cheesy centre and crunchy pork coating has been resisted. Just.

A nice chilled glass of diesel will be the finisher. Or just water, as that’s the only thing I drink now.

I’ve started posting the odd picture and photo to my Twitter crap, so look out for any pics of my disgusting mess there.

Edit: Just had the idea of blending the whole lot, a la paté, and making it into a ball. The only problem is that this idea is making me feel queasy. I’d hate to see what it looked or smelt like. Yetch.