Antinormal

It was my birthday.

I turned 21 eleven days ago. There were lots of caek to be had! It was a pretty alright day. Being 21 doesn't feel any different from 20, and being 20 didn't feel any different from 19, except for the occasional back pain that I started to experience recently. It's either my chair or my bed that's killing my back. I'll be getting around to replacing both soon.

I implemented some additional features in TriviaFrenzy (my entry for the OpenAIM competition) which include a general chat section, the ability to save preferences for future visits (handled automatically) and retrieval of the user's buddy list. Making use of wimas3 (an ActionScript 3 library that interacts with WebAIM for Flash/Flex/AIR apps) made a lot of things easier since I opted for the WebAIM API. I initially spent a lot of time trying to decipher how to make proper use of the WebAIM API, especially the request-signing part (Curses!) and then wimas3 was recommended. If only I had discovered the library earlier; but it's all good.

So I've been playing Eve for a while now and I actually do like it. I initially started with a trial account in December during the holiday period and didn't get to do anything productive for 14 days! Okay, maybe less, but yeah, I was addicted to the game. It's pretty neat. I paid for a month's subscription and got into it for a while, but actually decided to take a break after the first month because for someone who isn't usually productive, productivity was going down the drain. Okay, I lied. I had to use the cash for some other useful resources. I renewed my subscription a week ago, and yeah, it's still nice. I'm currently considering getting into PvP (Player vs Player) matches, after I finally raise enough money to purchase a battleship. Eve is fun.

I still haven't obtained the Orange Box (Blasphemy! I know), but I'm working towards that. I'd probably organise a competition to give away free copies of Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One since I already own them and I'd be getting extra copies as part of the Orange Box package. I'm too lazy to do a proper competition so it's only going to be a simple program to pick a random name from a list of names.

In other news, I subscribed to the Microsoft Action Pack after I stumbled across this and all I can say is that it's awesome! For $295, you get quite a lot of software to use. I just received the April update yesterday which includes a license for Windows Vista Ultimate. I agree. Microsoft rock!