As you probably noticed, I haven’t posted a whole lot of anything lately. Sure my Twitter feed slowly trickles into my WP blog, but those aren’t really posts, just short snippets of pure insanity. For whatever reason I feel obliged to write something, no matter how shitty the end result of this ‘writing’ is. Its possible that it has something to do with the fact I am waiting for my PowerBook to back up, or the fact I am waiting for a clients new MacBook Pro to finish running updates which is always annoying. Well sense I don’t really have that much to right about, here goes.

I’ve updated Tikiug to a fairly unimpressive version 2.0, I’ve told no one and posted nowhere about it, mainly because it actually drops functionality that I don’t believe anyone ever used. It no longer allows export to DLTA theme files, like anyone really uses them. It does, however, add a nice neat per-variation file list that allows you to drag ‘n drop files from the GUIKit to anywhere in your file system, no need to do a complete export anymore. This is actually the main reason I am calling it 2.0. In addition to this fairly minor feature, its a complete rewrite. Thats right, I dropped the original source completely and started over with a Leopard-only design in mind. Sure, it could still run on Tiger but I don’t care about Tiger.

I’ve also placed a small application on my site called Reflectomatic, again I’ve told no one and posted nowhere about it, but it is there. Reflectomatic is a one-trick application: it adds reflections to any type of image you want and then exports that image+reflection to a PNG file (there is no support for other formats, so suck it up and use PNG). It gives you some-what fine-grained control over the reflection, letting you control opacity, offset, and the amount of the image actually in the reflection. I wrote Reflectomatic because I didn’t want to spend thirty dollars for Pictureque to make easy reflections. Fucking Delicious Generation developers.

In addition to that as you may, or may not have noticed I’ve redesigned my site again. I moved away from the soft brown green and blue colors of the last design and moved into a stark black and white design that presents all of the content of petermacwhinnie.com with absolutely no fuss. Truly, it is boring. But! That doesn’t mean its not a nice design, even though I am of course already completely fucking bored with it. I really do hate web design, its so difficult to be satisfied with it for more then 15 short unpleasant minutes. And no, I don’t think a professional designer could do away with this, they may be better at it then me, but they aren’t that much better.

Besides all that lovely shit the school year is coming to a fast-approaching end, as in the last quarter is over on Friday the 13th, of all days. Quite frankly, I am really, really, REALLY fucking glad the school year is over. Its been long and some-what productive, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be glad to be ‘officially’ over for the summer. I’ve been working (and procrastinating) on a history paper, it covers 50 years of the 20th century. Its a time period I quite enjoy reading and learning about, but I swear its going to kill me to finish this paper. I am hoping that after the official school year is over I can take a breath and enjoy writing the rest of the paper, because its likely going to take until the next school year starts to get it up to my own standards, as well as everyone else’s.

Well, that just about covers everything I wanted to briefly write about. Amusingly enough, time machine still isn’t done backing up my PowerBook, and the MacBook Pro is still running updates. Damn I hate rainy weather. I do hope you’ve enjoyed this short time we’ve had together, until next time.

Bye.

Quick Edit: the MacBook Pro is now installing, its done downloading; Also, its really creepy how Wordpress hides the post you’ve been working on when you press Save, it seems like its just eating it and not saving it. I hate web applications.