Six month update

YAEd is coming along slowly but it's functional--kinda. Which is something. I've recently figured out what direction I will go with find behaviour (something i've been stuck on for a while). I also have it building on windows but it's a little crashy.  That's what I get for ignoring stupid gtk runtime errors... Speaking of windows...

I built myself a shiny new computer for christmas and bought a real windows license to go along with it. Turns out that was debatably a poor decision because shortly after i bought the computer I decided to go back to school again and didn't have the money because i had an unforeseen car repair.... So i put in some hours and lived poor but i made enough for three credits.

School is going well. I'm halfway through the semester and homework and attendence are up. Tests need work though. My first two were brutal and shameful. I managed to find a pdf of one of my textbooks which is awesome moneywise but reading from a laptop suuucks.

Enter Jarrett. He bought a nook color and rooted it and stuff. Its a $250 android tablet with a gorgeous screen and not too shabby power behind it. Well i got the gadget lust and after all i need a better way to read my textbook right? So i bought one. It fires my imagination and wastes my time. It is awesome. Maybe i'll follow up with a review or some thoughts.

But as usual after making a big purchase unforeseen expenses. I just had my car in the shop again and now i've spent enough that i feel poor again. qq c'est la vie, non?

yAEd and stuff

Well on the up side, my little editor is named yAEd and it can open and save files, and that's pretty much it. It doesn't even really handle it's own windows or tabs, or anything. It does build on linux and os x, prolly windows too with some small effort. But yeah, it's theoretically possible to use it, but it has a long way to go to be productive. So check it out. yaed on google code.

School is ugh...i suck at school, i may have wasted a lot of money this semester.

Busy busy.

Well, it's been a while since I last blogged, and a lot has happened. Here is the rundown:

I am registered for school, and somehow managed to get financial aid, despite my abysmal performance last year. YAY. Just taking two credits, trying to get my school work ethic back, so i'm going to slowly build up to the asskicking classes that i really need, by slowly building up with the last few generals i need.

I've nearly completed milestone 2 with my ycurses thingie. just need to finish up the form library then it's done. i'll be releasing an alpha beta rc cycle with this milestone, as there are a lot of templates involved and potential for lots of bugs, so we'll wait until a) i line by line verify it. b) lots of time has passed and no bugs show up. Also, i've been rethinking the roadmap a little, thinking about adding a d-centric layer, and maybe support for curses.

fixed my laptop....again....typing from it now actually. it turns out that when i tried to fix the power adapter last time i accidentally cut a tiny hole in the insulated wire that was shorting out on the wire sheath, which is why it worked with bare wires, but as soon as i tried to put it together it stopped working. my battery is still shot though i think, i'm trying to recondition it now, if that doesn't work, i'll have to reset the pmu and calibrating again, if that still doesn't work, then i'll be thinking seriously about getting a macbook with my financial aid instead of sinking $100 into an ancient ibook running through the grace of several miles of electrical tape, and coins attached to logic boards.

that's the gist of it, my birthday is next friday, if you know me and read this, come. bars, followed by jungle juice, yummy