WauloK : The life and interests of an Aussie

A long Mean Time Between Updates.

Sooo what’s been going on?

Well, I’ve had Sienna visit a couple of times and we’ve had fun visiting relatives and staying at my parents’ place on the Mid North Coast.  We generally leave Sydney the day/afternoon/evening her plane arrives then drive to Newcastle and stay overnight with random(relatives) and off to mum and dad’s the next day.  We spend a few days having fun and relaxing then driving back down to Sydney and I sadly watch her plane fly off again.  I do miss her so when she’s gone.  She’s not much for talking on the phone so I don’t ring a lot.

As for myself… well I’ve been visiting friends and getting out and about and enjoying myself for the first time in years.  It’s great to have such a good network of friends around to hang out with.  I’ve been to the North Rocks Computer Markets a few times, picking up a USB to IDE/SATA cable, Webcam, 1Tb Hard Drive, etc.  I’ve been to the Liverpool Markets to see my friend Striker whenever I can.  It’s a pity he works weekends so we don’t get to do a lot together, but he does come over to visit every Monday night so he, Trejkaz and I can listen to Tech Talk Radio and harass the presenters on their WebChat site.  Dr Ron is really great, putting up with us and giving back some shit himself hehe.

I’ve been trying to work out programming the iPhone. I installed the Hackint0sh as you can see in previous posts. I’ve followed tutorials but even when I copy and paste the code from them either it doesn’t compile or it does and then crashes the application on the iPhone simulator. Very frustrating.  If the code doesn’t compile, I can understand it and try to fix it, but if it does compile then tracking down the problem is much harder.  I’ve bought a few books to help me learn:  Beginning iPhone Development, iPhone Games Projects and Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX.  Hopefully, from reading them and doing the tutorials I can learn enough to get something off the ground.  I’ve registered a domain for hosting info about games and applications I will write for the iPhone. I just need to get it going and some ideas as to what I’m going to program.

I’ve recently joined a few groups: Urban Prankster, Parallel Kingdom, GeoHashing and GPS Mission.  We shall see which one(s) keep my interest.  The last three involve the use of my iPhone with PK and GPSM using Google Maps so I may have to upgrade my iPhone Data Plan as they will chew through my 150mb limit in no time!  Last night I tried a mission from GPS Mission and enjoyed it then created one of my own which I will have to test when I’m not sick.  I just noticed someone attacked me in Parallel Kingdom so will have to do something about that soon.  It could be the guy whose trees I’ve chopped down to get wood to claim land near his and shrink his land

I’ve been thinking of hobbies to start up. I had initially decided on Hanggliding, but the expense is a bit much for just now. I have the money but $2,500 on a hobby is a bit much so I might pick up something cheaper. I have an idea in mind. I will just think about it for a bit first.

I’ve been tossing up whether to buy an MSI Wind U100. If my iPhone programming actually takes off this could be great as I could program anywhere.. even on holidays.. and I can certainly find uses for it at home. It makes a great Hackint0sh and would run Windows 7 beautifully.  A shop I looked at it in has a free upgrade to 2Gb RAM at the moment which would be sweet.

I’ve also joined Houseminders.  I will be able to mind homes for people when they are on holiday and look after their pets and plants, etc.  I think it should be fun and when I am doing it, having the MSI Wind will be very useful as I will be living there from 1-4 weeks or so and I can use the MSI Wind with my 3’s 3G USB internet modem to keep in contact with friends and family while also watching movies and maybe programming.  I already have one home to mind from Jan 3 to Jan 21.  The lady is going on holidays with her daughter and I’m minding the two cats.

I bought BioShock a few weeks ago and started playing it. I don’t normally play games but I thought I’d check out something and everyone raved over this game, plus since it’s getting old it was discounted to about $40 so not too expensive. It also doesn’t have ongoing fees like an MMO which would annoy me.  Speaking of MMO’s, I was resting yesterday so spent the day watching The Guild. It’s a great show!  Felicia Day is cute, too. The Asian girl is cute but rather young.