I was bored today. I tried getting Dreamhost to play nice with Django, but they were impartial about the whole idea. It’s not officially supported, so I can’t send angry emails to Dreamhost. In the quest to look for different providers in the future, I found out that my ISP still had some old files that I made back when I was in high school, and beginning college. Back in my old ‘just learning to program’ days.

Ahhh the memories.

I was a big Pokemon/mIRC nerd back then. Yes, Pokemon was still popular to a niche few of us who haven’t grown up completely. It really was a misunderstood strategy game. Definitely a lot more then most people suspect. I stopped playing after the Ruby/Sapphire versions required you to battle for stupid EVs. But I won’t go there (once you know so much, the game gets to be less fun for stupid reasons).

So here is a flashback with links to some of the stuff I did back in the ol’ days :

Revised RBY Bot : this my first big programming project. I wrote a R/B/Y Pokemon battle simulator in mIRC script. It was revised because the first one I did, I took a break from programming after I finished it, and when I went back to it, I couldn’t figure out what the hell I did. I used the worst programming methodology ever: I wrote the entire engine before debugging. No lie.
So I rewrote it, knowing better the second time. It took a while, but I opened sourced it (under no license. In fact, I don’t recall even knowing what open source was. I just gave away the source code. But the objective was pretty much the same).
I pursued this project because there was a competing script authored by someone who wasn’t much liked in the community, but they put up with him because he had a more advanced Pokemon Battle Simulator script (his popularity, IIRC, plummeted when he gave it away to someone else/someone stole it. Rumors were that someone stole it by pretending to be a girl. But that sounds like a complete lie)
So I wrote one because I was fascinated by programming.

I made a blackjack mIRC script. It was fairly popular. I remember giving this away freely too.

MusicTron : A music player was another fun thing I did in mIRC script. I don’t think it was very popular.

Visual GSbot : Because all the advanced pokemon battle simulators where on IRC at the time, they were all command-line. This was an attempt to parse the output of the code and give it a visual representation

One of the 2004 Olympics. The Olympic flame looks like is being used to light a giant joint:

Wow. I haven’t done ambitious projects like those in a while.

Someone on digg made a post to a collection of Calvin and Hobbes comics. Which was a bad idea, cause I spent at least two hours looking through it.

So I have been on vacation for less than a week and I’m already disappointed with myself.

Firstly, I haven’t been keeping up with my AMO responsibilities. I really need to do this, but I find myself being distracted every few hours.

Secondly, I haven’t gotten anywhere near as much work done with Prism as I wanted. I want to fix three bugs, two of which I already assigned to me :

1. Adding Preferences as an extension
2. Installing a webapp should automatically fill in the name with the title of the website if not already present
3. Lastly, I want the extension to search for .js files in the .webapp file and load a security warning, as webapp.js files have chrome level privileges

And there is more stuff obviously. This website. Shopping for summer clothes. Getting paperwork out of the way. Hanging out with friends.

Damn you Playstation and Wintendo!