Exam Time

Being close to Christmas break, its time for exams.  Unfortunately, Starcraft and ECDB keep me distracted and take up all of my time, so there is very little studying occurring.  Over the past two days I’ve been putting a lot of work into ECDB, and now have image burning working pretty well.  I’ve made a video to show what it can do.  Don’t mind the random percent jumps, I cut off the boring middle stuff to speed things up.

I quite like the editable textblock raster added to edje, it makes life so much easier.  With all of the time before heading off to Ottawa for co-op, I should be able to finish off data and audio disc creation.  The only issue at the moment is an old EWL bug that will cause problems with multiple embeds.  After that, I’ll start adding some configuration options and polish, then maybe someday a release.

http://vimeo.com/2477921

Second Week

So I’ve managed to survive not only frosh week, but also the first week of school.  Frosh was great fun, with junkyard wars and scavenger hunts.  We even built a reasonably complicated Rube Goldberg machine involving (among other things) a smashed vacuum cleaner, a giant tire, and a mop.

The first week of school was OK, although there are a lot of hours spent in a classroom (30 a week).  We’ve already been assigned more work than pretty much an entire month in high school, but that was expected.  So far its all easy, but practicing my engineering lettering seems like a waste of time.  I think the worst thing so far is the need to run a virtual machine of Windows XP for programming assignments and to access the course websites (it freezes Firefox and Opera, and Konqueror just shows a big black box).  Oh well.  All in all, it looks like an alright time (just need to find some stuff to do in Waterloo).

Frist Post

First post with my spiffy new XPS m1530.  I’ve just gotten E up and running, and it looks quite nice.  Anyways, I’ve got just under a week to get ready and packed before I head off to start university.

code_swarm EFL

Heres another, with all of the EFL in HD glory,  so its hopefully better quality.  Its more of a time-waster than anything, although I suppose for people newer to the project it shows in nicely animated fashion whos worked on what and for how long.