The End of an Era
So, as of this moment of writing I am sat playing the Halo Reach Beta, got the LSRfm.com Office Remote Control Camera on the go (it has night vision tooooo) and Portal for Mac downloading on Steam for Mac....
Oh and I am a total of 3000 words away from the end of my degree, have today presented my project of 360gaming [dot] net post the basic video phase....
So the end is nigh for my university career...
What next?
Freelance Web Development,
Proper Job Web Development,
Freelance Events Teching,
Lighting and AV
Who knows the future is bright, but defo not Orange.... 
Halo Reach First Impressions
So first impressions, not too bad, I've not played enough to make a full analysis, but initially it looks and plays quite good.
Tho when I first got in the tank it got quite a lot of getting used to, as it drives a lot different.
Also the default control method is quite a bitch to get used to initially.
I spend most of my time using the Jetpack addon, tho enjoy the use of the invisibility, and running has its uses. Invisibility also messes up everyones radars too.
Tho I am yet to see the use of the lockdown, seems a bit vulnerable...I've mashed down enough opponents who have just come out of it....
So to more playing in the morrow. I'll write a full review soon, just waiting for the other playlists to unlock!
In other news, I applied a patch to 360gaming [dot] net to allow captured and generate a flash video from a reach render (Halo 3 render already supported )
GSoC, WordPress and ME!
So I have been accepted onto GSoC for another year!
This year I am working on a Bugtracker, using WordPress as a base, probably working on top of WordPress 3, need to discuss this with my mentor, but I've not been well the last couple of days, which was hell for the Station Manager Presentations (well done to @RichLegate btw), and thus I didn't go to Plasa, tho I am feeling better now 
Hurrah!
Handed in my coursework/dissertation this afternoon!
Now just a Motion Graphics video to finish, and a essay to write.
Not forgetting a dissertation presentation..... Fun
Its Crunch Time
So this week is going to be one of the busiest weeks, I will have had in a long time.
Finishing touches to my Project 2 Project: http://360gaming.net/, deployed that last Monday, just need to finish testing the game tracker/ranking system and thats all done.
Thats due on Wednesday! Crikey.
It's also Leeds University Unions@LeedsUniUnion, Celebrate Week, where LUU celebrates its member led Societies, culminating in The Riley's, an awards ceremony!
LSRfm.com (@LSRfm_com) is up for 3 awards:
- Best Publicity
- Best Event, for Big Tidy Up, (live coverage from Rich Legates House)
- Best Society
So, its always good to be nominated, since the nominations are Crowd Sourced from LUU Members.
I'm also a second time nominee for LUU Lifetime Achievement award, (nominated three years ago when they thought I was leaving).
I'm also working a hell of a lot this week.
- Metropolis on Thursday
- Fruity (Hollywood) on Friday
- Live at Leeds on Saturday all day!
- Damnation on Sunday all day!
Which then takes us to Monday 3rd of May, which is May Day Bank Holiday. Which means the union is closed, so LSRfm.com is broadcasting from my House for the day.
It's the day of Halo Reach's Beta toooooo! Hurrah!
Should be good fun, hopefully it will be Sunny too!
That then takes us to next week, with a double deadline for motion graphics and New Media Strategies and Futures on the 6th of May.
Then thats it the end of my degree.... Shit....
Oh and today I find out if I am doing GSoC 2010 (Google Summer of Code)
And tomorrow is The LSRfm.com Station Manager Job Presentations and Interviews, which I have applied for.
And tomorrow and Wednesday is PLASA Leeds, an Events Trade Show and mini conference, which should be good to make some industry contacts and see whats going on, in the World of Live events....
Its gonna be messy!
Twitter @Anywhere, and the End of Halo 2
So there I was last night, watching Justin.tv. a couple of streams, a Live Halo 2 stream and live coverage of Chirp, the Twitter Developers Conference.
My net was actually behaving for once, watching two Justin.TV streams, sending and receiving a Skype video chat, as well as uploading tracks to the LSRfm.com Jukebox.
Today is the final day of Xbox Live existing for Original Xbox and Original Xbox Games, most predominately Halo 2, what this means is that you can still play the game locally, but you can't go online via Xbox Live and play match making/custom games. They are going to turn those servers over to the Xbox 360 Network. Bungie News article about the end of Halo 2
So, no more Halo2, unless you're a Xbox KAI user for example or LAN PARTY!!!!
I have been up all night and as of 9am BST (+1) this morning, the servers are still on, so get you're Halo 2 on!
Back to Twitter/Chirp, Twitter has launched their new Developers website, which essentially brings together the API documentation, the Oauth application registration, and API status pages to a single location.
Twitter also spoke about @Anywhere which essentially allows you to integrate some aspects of Twitter into your website, thru the use of a single javascript call.
You can allow users to tweet from your website, automatically convert any @username to the new hovercards. See the example from @abraham on (His Site).
And then allow users to follow you, without bouncing to twitter, other than a popup to authenticate you to twitter and allow the Anywhere App access.
Check Anywhere out at http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere/ and checkout what The Guardian are doing with it.
On a unrelated point, when you login to Justin.TV via twitter, it is automatically posts anything you put in the video chat box, to your twitter account, along with links to what you are watching, bit of a spam fest, if you a) don't know about it and b) forget to turn it off. But it led to this: Read and LOL
Motion Graphics Audio Sourcing
Just been doing a quick hunt for audio, whilst I finish my story board for my motion graphics project, and I'm going with some audio from 2001 A Space Odyssey.
First YouTube result, was interesting, since apart from containing the audio I was after, its a Adobe After Effects CS3 remake of the opening.
Comparing that to the original, its quite a faithful reproduction...
Anyway back to finishing my storyboard, but given that both of these is a minute long, or so, still need a further 2 minutes of audio....
Then again I might change the order of elements, since I am making a advert for firefox or chrome (I can't remember which one I put in my brief, so should probably dig that out.... and check).
Anywho in other news, my other project is coming along nicely, the new games module for 360gaming [dot] net, now gathers data from Xbox.com and Wikipedia. All thru async. jQuery.
WIll be posting about that another time.
Halo Reach is coming
So Halo Reach the Beta multi-player is just over a month away.
And this caught my eye on the twitter feed as retweeted by @Bungietweets from @TheFeed
Halo Reach and its "All-Encompassing Player Investment System" looks quite good, but will be interested to see it in use when the times comes
Long Time Since I blogged
Again, its been a while. Things have been pretty busy.
Currently I just fixed the LSRfm.com Podcasts, they were downloading a minute or two of audio the PHP was dying, FAST CGI php5 was being ghey.
So after a quick chat with Dreamhost over live chat, my script now rather than munch the file, just passes it off to a http location, less of a memory muncher too.
SRAchart is its usual self, tho we did get a full house of Charts last week, (well near enough), Ellie Goulding and Owl City are dominating, and Glee Started Charting too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUZwdbeS2mM
(Yes I am a Glee Fan)
Handed in the Motion Graphics Brief.
So Uni Wise I just need to sit down and code code code, both for Project 2 (ala 360gaming.net enhancements), and start planning and researching what I need for project 2.
And start writing an essay for Futures and Strategies, fun times.
I've not had any spare time to play Halo, tho the Reach Beta has been announced! Hurrah!
Now I must get back to coding stuff for LSRfm.com fixed the Jukebox, now to do the music db, tho I do have a nice IRC bot sat in the new LSRfm.com Chatbox
Also <3 jQuery....
Life Since the last Post
Yes, I'm rubbish at updating my blog.
So its the new year and suppose I should keep up with it.
In recent news I am no longer single, I go out with the Wonderful Kayleigh.
I'm currently sat at my temporary desk in Stage @ Leeds, (just finished painting a Door Blue and waiting for it to finish drying)
LSRfm.com - Leeds Student Radio is ticking over.
Just did a massive 19 hour shift over New Years for Wax:On over at LUU, quite good fun, running the lights in the Terrace again, didn't blow up the rig this time which is always a bonus, last time I blew a Atomic 3000, and it tripped the whole rig out..... We think its a manufacturing fault.
So coming soon, back to degree!
Which means 360gaming [dot] net is gonna get some work done to it finally.... Its my project for my degree, bonus!
Tho I should really get on with Data Mining's essay and my Critical Thinking Essay, total of 6000 words to write by the 14th.
Off to meet the guys from Muze.tv for SRA Chart stuff this weekend.
AND I ORDERED A MAC!
I have a 17" on its way to me!
So stay tuned for new Mac goodness! As well as regular updatage!
Its Midterm
Crikey its Mid Term in GSoC.
Such fun, apart from being massibly behind but have made a hell of a lot of progress recently.
In other news Bungie Day 2009 was good fun, they ran a 35 map playlist, Bungie vs. The World, all the maps being created by the community.
Anywho not mych else coming up soon, but back to work now.
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