ICANN can suck it.
ICANN - the international consortium of assigned names and numbers are a bunch of bastards. I have my domains registered through Registerfly, I have for a few years. I've never had a problem with them, I actually love them because I almost lost one of my domains to a squatter and they actually got it back for me within a month of it expiring. But, I've heard lots of stories of people having issues, in fact a friend of mine had a few issues with them. But I haven't. So when ICANN decided, "oh hey, lets revoke their status as a registrar and PUSH everyone to GoDaddy, they paid us afterall for this." I was kind of irked. I was hoping Godaddy wouldn't be bad, but my god it is. Their site is different from their help documents. I'm having issues getting the transfer done, they don't seem to want to recognize my registerfly.com account and everything, even though its supposed to be easy for them. Okay, I'll e-mail suppport. 2 hours later, no response. Okay. I forget about it a while, they e-mail me what their website says to do, which doesn't freaking work. Hello? I said I'm a registerfly.com account and your shits not working for me, whats my customer number, it seems to reject me unless I put that in. Such a fucking headache. I can't believe this is so hard, its a bunch of entries in a database, copy, paste. Really, its probably that simple. I doubt they have a million line config file they'd have to look through to get it to work. Argh.
Anyone experience something similar? Is godaddy decent when they work?
.end rant.
Update on 7/3/2007: My domain was registered through enom, not registerfly They were a reseller. Wow, lets see if I can get the domain away from them.
Air-car!
This car runs on air:
If only it weren't as ugly as Paris Hilton. Look at that nose!
In any event, it really does run on air. A simple compressed air tank that takes 30 seconds to refill for practically nothing. This is actually a novel idea I think. I don't think anyone here in America has even thought about such a thing. I know I haven't. I just keep thinking of electric cars, hydrogen cars, thought-powered cars. Well not the last one, for most people that'd probably stop working (har har). But I mean, its so simple if you think about it. They could probably even make it look like this:
If it did, I'd definitely buy it. I mean, how heavy is an air compressor to lug around anyway? Oh wow, thats a good idea. Have an air compressor built in that you could just plug into a wall socket to fill up the thing. Brilliant!
More info about that air car here.
(I think I fixed this site as well, it seems to be working well now).
Course load this fall
I don't know why I thought this would be fun..
Classes I'm taking this fall:
Intro to Artificial Intelligence
Image Processing
Principles of Operating Systems
This should be interesting. I get one hopefully easy class to go along with that, Urban Studies! After this, I'm done! No more school after that!
Found out a bug with my anime site, now if you register, you will have access to the forums, which aren't linked to. More stuff to do! Oh and I broke a bit of thissite, it seems that an upgrade might have been a little too much and lots of things don't work quite right.
An update!
Lots of interesting things. Got done with a crazy quarter at UCSD, I'm glad its over and I made it through without a scratch. Although the damage to my brain from overworking that last month still needs to heal up. So if I seem out of it, thats the reason. I took a week off school and spent it with my girlfriend Carmen. I had such a great time seeing her in the evenings during the week and hanging out with her Saturday and Sunday. I'm really glad we got back together, I hope we take it far this time, I really do love her. Always have. I'm looking forward to this weekend when we get to see each other again. I'd like to work up in El Segundo, although it'd be a short drive, it'd be worth it so I can see her in the evenings. I wish the 4th was a Monday for a 3 day weekend, but it is not, damn July!
Off to work! (Gotta start my own business so I can work from home)
No time = time
I just noticed that I really update this a lot when I'm busy, and let me tell you. It has been hectic. Compilers, is fun, but... SO MUCH WORK! That is all. My brain is fried. Weekends are supposed to be relaxing, but not this one.
I might not make it into work for the next 3 weeks. This week is crazy, next week is finals, and the week following that is busy. I didn't go in last week, so its almost a month. I can't really explain that, or maybe more? I have no idea, brain dead.
I need some tea.
This is how I think: Short bursts of profound ideas.
The rest of the time trying to make sense of it all.
My mind makes my mind work, which by working produces more work. Ah!
Deadlines are insane.
I really don't like being rushed, but I have a tendency to wait till the last moment to do most of my school things. During work, I can work away on projects and get them done. But when I'm in school, with lectures, reading, and programming projects: it gets a bit overwhelming sometimes. The first two just make me want to wait to absorb all the details of the day, but I really can't. I still end up doing the bad thing and waiting till the last moment. Take for instance my current course load: Advanced Digital Design (Circuits), Computer Graphics (OpenGL Programming), Principles & Paradigms of Programming Languages, and Compiler Construction II. The first one we designed a WEP co-processor, FREAKING HARD AS HELL, let me tell you. Actually I don't want to scare you. Comp Graphics is probably the funnest class I've taken, I really enjoy messing around and creating some neat looking 3d things, it takes time, but oh so much fun. PP of P Languages: Not much work, until a HW deadline comes up, then its rush rush rush to get it done. They're not posted that often, so I have an excuse (week to do it? come on!). Now the kicker: Compiler Construction II. WHAT A CRAZY CLASS. I never thought I'd ever need to create a compiler, but my lord, I AM. Two projects kind of sucks, plenty of time to slack off and not do anything. First one I bombed, don't wait till 2 days beforehand to get started. Second one, deadline is a week away, okay. So, started a bit early, I just hope I finish! Its actually rather rewarding going through and seeing, "Look, I take this language, I get this other language, easy compilation, its low level assembly: Program Runs and output is created! WOW!"
I guess the moral of the story here is: Classes are part of the equation, but assignments are where you really shine. Don't eat all your time up with one class, don't slack off. 10 weeks is too quick, its so easy to get behind.
Also, fun programming assignments, where you actually create something that is amazing is the most rewarding thing. Writing simple programs that work in the background and don't show you much of anything, are not the way to go.
This doesn't look like much, but its per-pixel lighting. The lighting is dynamic and it looks damn fine to me:
