XMas and Contracts

Yes, XMas came and happened, happy holidays. I got stuff, gift cards, clothes, candy, and a cell phone. My girlfriend is back from Winnipeg, I saw my friend Amy whom I haven't seen in around 8 months and I'm sitting next to my friend McLovin whom I haven't seen in a few weeks.

Sounds like I'm looking at getting a fairly large contract or 3 within the next week or so ... it's going to be fun organizing my time around those. I had a business meeting with someone new today (teleconference -.-), it was ... interesting, he wants a mail server and maybe something else, I'm not too sure what I'm making I just know it won't be hard.

With Amy I saw the new Narnia, it wasn't bad though my friend McLovin seems to hate it with a passion. I don't really understand why, maybe it's because I only read the first book which wasn't made into a movie.

I'm gonna have to forensics wipe my laptop soon and secure it. That sucks, waste of time really, but I guess when you're doing security software it's kind of necessary. I have a few ideas as to how I'm going to secure my laptop, I'm also going to be selling the same software hopefully next week to be finished 45 days from Sunday but we'll see how that goes.

I also noticed on the 26th I had a huge spike in readers. They all went to my Wii channel pages. Did people get Wiis for XMas? Should I maybe update my Wii software? A fan already has I think I'll write something about it next post.

Nerdcore and Stuff

Nerdcore hip hop seems to be a sub genre of hip hop however it's name is very misleading. It's shorthanded name is "nerdcore" however I'd argue that the genre itself is mislabeled. "core" generally insinuates that it's a derivative or "sub genre" of the sub genre hardcore however this is not the case. Nerdcore by itself is not done to the style of hardcore at all making it actually "nerd rap". Why "nerdcore" seems to be an official sub genre of hip hop because of the artist MC Frontalot. This bothers be because generally anything labeled "nerd" contains contributes from both geeks and nerds and is generally viewed as intelligent. This however does not seem to be the case for nerdcore, it's a blind following of one artist. A more correct term would be like "nerd rap" or "nerd hip hip", thereby making "nerdcore hip hop" a derivative of both hardcore and hip hop (Which is what's currently implied).

Mind you, I like nerdcore:

Antisoc - 100% Free
MC Chris - Listen to most songs online free
MC Lars - Not free (To my knowledge, don't quote me on that)

In Canada it's now illegal to modify anything you own outside of it's intended use / license. Breaking this law could result in 5-10 years in prison (Since July 1st I believe). We have a lot of rights now don't we (Honestly, what's left)?

I'm a top listener on Rdio now, of this writing I'm in 11th place.

Looks like security software's gonna happen soon, I'm excited.

I'm dating another girl now, she's really awesome, in Winnipeg for the holidays though :/.

A Less Technical Post

Well to open up this lovely post my girlfriend broke up with me Wednesday. On top of that I was stood up on Thursday by my friend Amy. The movies have been rescheduled!

Anyways now that that's over and done with, Minecraft. Minecraft, if you don't know is a wonderful game where you break blocks to create stuff. I really don't know how else to put it, I would describe it as a creative dungeon horror game but I'm sure some would beg to differ. I've been playing Minecraft on my own server with usually 1-4 people for days, today actually was my first day not playing.

In other Minecraft related news, the beta starts on the 20th so I recommend purchasing it before this date as it's only 10 euros and it will be about 15 euros on the 20th. Also along with this current discounted price, right now you can buy gift codes for your friends or family which count as an alpha account! An alpha account gives you all the later updates / expansions free!

In less advertising sounding Minecraft related news, Notch (The main developer of Minecraft) is releasing a developer API. Hopefully this will let me fix all the bugs so I may have a bug-free server because it doesn't look like Notch is going to learn how to network code properly anytime soon (Over 5 security flaws I can just note off the top of my head).

Rdio is also something that's been a fairly large part of my life. It's the first of it's kind in the music streaming industry to hit Canada. I know it costs $5 a month and here in Canada we're pretty used to just downloading our music but if you have the money to spare, toss them $5 and check it out. It's a fantastic website and they're constantly adding new content, on top of this they're working on a developer API! When this API is finished I don't think there will even be a reason to not use rdio. I plan to develop and release an application using this API.

Anyways aside from that (mostly) just personal untechnical stuff. I've written POS (Point of sales) software for Midland Computer Connection, and I'm currently coding upgrades (All in Python of course). If anyone reading this can code I recommend coding POS software as it is fun and many (most) businesses need this. I'm also writing a script to install Arch Linux and format it to look similar to Mac using the Gnome desktop environment.

I hear I'm going to be put into a contracting company where I should be getting more contracts to play with. As for my security contracts my date is "before Christmas hopefully", wonderful.

Welcome to the person following my blog. I forget your name but I'm glad you find my blog interesting, apparently other people do too.