Diary: June 2005
It's the time of the year for people to do exams. However, someone forgot to tell my eyes and nose that I finished my formal education last year, so they have started the annual attack of the flowers. Yes. Anyway, I bumped into Simon on campus the other day after the first compsci exam. Hope everyone's doing ok, good luck to those who have lots left.
I chose the wrong time to install mysql on my debian machines - Sarge has gone stable since my last apt-get upgrade, so I'm downloading all of those packages at the moment ...
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So, it's just gone 7pm and I am finally installing San Andreas. Work sucks - despite getting up at 6am (not actually to get to the shops for when they opened, just happened to be when I woke up), I only bought my copy at just before 4.30. Oh, comedy, they ID'd me! And with other things to do after that, I have only just reached my computer. I have decided to take most of the rest of the day off, and to instead steal cars and run people over.
I'm not going to be able to ...
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They broke it.
It's a foolproof formula. Take a successful game such as Vice City, change the textures, change the story, record some other people talking, and put some different tunes in. Gives us a new vehicle to make us excited, then press, print and badge it San Andreas.
But no. Somewhere along the line they went and broke it.
Overlooking the obvious and inconsequential menu bugs, the game suffers from a chronic case of we-know-better-than-you-itis. In this particular case, Rockstar think that they know where I want to look. And as usual when dealing with this condition, the ...
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Ok, maybe I was a bit quick to condemn San Andreas. Yes, so I may not get on with the camera, but the game does have some redeeming features, such as being able to play pool, go betting on horses, or base jumping off the top of a skyscraper.
For those of you who don't know the new GTA series, they block off part of the map until you have completed some missions and the other parts of the map become relevant to the story. This one is based on 3 islands, and the bridges between each island are ...
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I forgot to say that on Thursday, just in time for San Andreas, I upgraded my graphics resolution. I have new contact lenses, and it's like going from 1024x768 to 1600x1200, which is nice.
I am writing PHP things at the moment, and getting very annoyed at the 'language'. True, I am rather biased towards Perl given how I have spent more time doing that, but PHP isn't all that. I don't see how it has such widespread adoption, it really sucks. But then it is the language of the masses, and if I want what I ...
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