That’s it, it’s DONE. I’m officially Old. Strange ring to it i guess.
This is the point where I remind yourself that it’s just a number and I don’t really care about these sort of things anyway.. Still, “2…0″,,huh? Damnit I am too dunkbusy for this lala cya later!

KENT UNI HAS A FIREWALL THAT WOULD MAKE THE CHINESE BLUSH. I am at Uni, though, and apparently Blogger works.

This isn’t an LJ, so I’ll spare you the biographical, save to say it’s been ace; I’ve never laughed as hard as I have tonight, playing Cheat, possibly the worst (or greatest) game to play when you’re not sober. Tomorrow is free from lectures, thank god.

Normal littleeye reportage may or may not resume coverage shortly. Actually, you may not see too many posts on here in the future, since I’ll be spending most of my time feigning education.

Well, then. Over a year has gone by since I blogged about exam results, jubilation and forthcoming relaxation, which must mean that I’ll be going off to University soon. Tomorrow (today) in fact.

It’s been a strange old year. It’s strange when you actually sit down and attempt to craft a large portion of time where you cut the strings to anything society-wise and just drift along wherever life takes you. To begin with it is extremely difficult when you don’t have any routines or responsibilities; you feel disconnected from reality. Then after a while, for me anyway, I felt a weight lift and I rather than being isolated or disconnected I just felt free. I’m not sure I can credibly explain it without sounding like a bit of a hippy, so I’ll leave my thoughts for now. Ask me about it in the future.

If it happens that I can’t post at University (god bless firewalls), then this will be my last post for a while, so be happy and stay safe in the meantime!

Finally I remember to post about this nifty little program. Does anyone still say nifty anymore? Perhaps that’s too laid back for something that is so damn gorgeous.

EarthView places the entire globe on your desktop in a customisable form. It has some kind of funky hi-res texture map for the entire globe (’1km detail’ in the trial version, ie 1 km for every pixel). You won’t be spying on your neighbours but this isn’t GoogleEarth, this is all about surveilling the majesty of the globe from your desktop like some almighty space-jeweller. During the day the continents glow in the the sun, night veils the continents in the (realtime) shadow, and the world lights up with millions of homes illuminated.

Then you can do all kinds of nifty (what) things like zooming in by 100% or so to bring it into nice detail over your favourite patch of land, and adding a classy starfield affect, and showing locations and times. The full version can even - with a cheap annual subscription - download real satellite cloud photos and digitise them over the top (in the shot I have lower-res faux-clouds enabled).

I’m sorry if this sounds like a sales pitch, but you can trial it free for 14 days so I don’t feel particularly shameful. And I sincerely recommend downloading the higher detail texture files if you’re going to get up close and personal like I have.

little eye on the world indeed.

Greetings.

My site has been down for a few days because the hard drives at my host went through an emotional crisis (partitions spontaneously combusted), so all the data was lost. Luckily I have offline copies of everything so there’s no permanent damage (although I can’t quite restore all the crap that was in my /temp folder. Probably a boon.)

My web-related plight obviously pales in comparison to what happened and is happening over in New Orleans. The immediacy of the media and the internet in covering the event (in stark contrast the governmental response..) does emphasise how fundamentally disconnected the world community is, despite supposed globalisation. But nobody is powerless to help. Personally I donated to the SomethingAwful Red Cross fund via Paypal, since SA is itself affected by the hurricane/floods - administrator extraordinaire radium has been keeping us afloat (somewhat literally) but no doubt it’ll soon be time to get the fuck out of Dodge.

The last I heard PayPal had still locked Rich Kyanka (Lowtax) out of his account, and some $20,000+ was left in limbo (probably thanks to various trolls sending fake complaints their way). Many have Paypal themselves and they said that all the money would either be returned or the account would be reinstated and the money could be sent to Red Cross. They’re a total joke.