Wheel Reinvented, New Improved Axles Coming Soon

• 21st May 2005 at 14:55

I have bought a DVD player.

Just over 3 years ago I bought a Shuttle SV24 with a view to using it as a DVD/DivX player to go with my nice TV. However, it never really cut it as a DVD player, so since then I have been meaning to get a newer better small quiet computer to play my DVDs and stuff. Then there was all of the PVR stuff, so my requirements gradually got harder and harder to fulfil, leaving me with many many DVDs, and nothing to play them on (other than my incompetent desktop computers).

So on Thursday I bit the bullet and bought a real proper DVD player, for £29.98 from Currys. That's at least 20 times cheaper than the computer option, and it's multi-region, plays complicated scenes without juddering, has lots of output types and is very thin and very pretty. Now I just need to find time to watch something.

My work is going very slowly. With so much to do, I've recently adopted a 'do a little of a lot' approach, and as a result have made progress with lots, but got nothing finished. Well, not entirely true, I did just finish 3 things, but they were only small and I'm still left with about 50 things to do. Now going with the 'attack one thing relentlessly until it is complete' attitude. I shall succeed.

Yesterday I bought some fruit. I bought two bags of cherries, two bunches of grapes, a large punnet of strawberries, four peaches, an apple and some tomatoes. Tomatoes are fruit, right? Is it sad that the most exciting thing I have done in 2 days is that I bought some fruit?

Anyway, about the wheel mentioned in the subject of this diary entry; I have written a nice and simple XML parser in PHP specifically for my CMS, and shaved several seconds off the processing of a very large string so that it is now an acceptable speed. Now all I have to do is make it actually do something. And quickly, I have a feeling I'll need to start rolling out this CMS in a month...

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