Life update!

I realised yesterday that with all these posts I don't think I have mentioned anything about what is going on with myself for quite a while. So here is an update on life in general!

So I'v been productive. Some may say too productive. I have a business developing well, I have four or five domain names, I'm well well ahead in almost all my subjects. People are starting to complain, especially those in my field (multimedia). On the flip side of this (this is the side I like) I'm getting progressively better and better at what I want to do. My Photoshop art especially has gone from being absolutely horrible to becoming close to what I'm after.

I'v been spending any spare time I find from work either playing a little bit of Team Fortress 2 or practicing my flute (damn being able to play music is wonderful, even if I'm not as good as I would like to be).

That's basically been my life for the last... 3 or 4 weeks? In its entirety. Yeah not much going on. People I would like to visit have been sick or busy =( But that's not to say I haven't had fun, I have had so much fun with developing skills, especially with the web site coding.

Is it odd that my favourite days are the weekdays? I get to go to uni and see friends, I get to hang out in a sweet room and pester Cliff and constantly ask Jodie 'does this looks good?'. I have huge seven to eight hour periods of working with friendly people in a fun enviroment. When I started doing work this trimester I was watching TV shows everyday. Now I can barely get through two 40 minutes episodes of something for the concentration I put into work and the talking we do amongst ourselves.

Uni is close to ending this trimester (three weeks left) and then I begin the final trimester before I am finished and get thrown out into the wide world. To be honest I'm not as scared as I thought I would be to finally no longer be a student. I'm preparing now, developing the things I need for my portfolio, creating a personal image and developing my brand. I'd have to say life is pretty god damn good.

Now if only I could something about the lack of sweet sweet loving =P

- Fae

Weekly web roundup #1

Ok new plan! On Fridays I will link things during the week that have been nothing but awesome. Most of these will be newer videos if I can help it but the occasional older video will be linked. To make it easier I will embed them in this page itself, but I will also provide a link. Also I'll try not to make everything comedy (as hard as that is with the web).

Why am I doing this? I spend an awful lot of time on the internet checking to see anything new hits the news. I tell people I do this so I don't miss the news but to be honest it's just to see what the internet's most popular pages have appeared. So without further a due this weeks roundup!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavUpD_IjVY

Incredibly creepy, and I'm not sure if it's intentional. Strangely enough found thanks to my parents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvVucERVbgw

An odd video about how this women is a world class TV master chef. I didn't expect it to be as hilarious as it was. I just love how it starts out so simple but ends so over the top. Found on Reddit.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ed36fa1ab6/between-two-ferns-with-zach-galifianakis-steve-carell

This just recently hit popularity and although it is Steve Carell (I don't like him overly much) the banter between the two in it is hilarious. Really worth watching! This one is from Reddit too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpwAtnywTk

Girl who thinks she is the ugliest thing on earth teach other uglies how to fake attractiveness. Hilarious tips and comments. Thanks to chi.

And finally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu7Db5On00U

Wonderful video detailing a benificial mutation in the human species where a child was born with extra working fingers. From reddit.

That's all for this week. Hope you enjoy it all =)

- Fae

Why you should not use internet explorer

Time for some multimedia talk! Today's topic, browsers!

So browsers, everyone has at least one. First the good browsers!

Chrome

I feel this is the best browser personally, it may not allow you to equip as many add ons as it's popular cousin Firefox, but what it lacks with that it makes up for in pure out-of-the-box brilliance. It's resilient to destruction, being able to close parts of the browser that crash without losing your pages. It's fast, it's not a massive resource hog (although there are better programs). Finally it's improving quickly as it is rather a new browser. And most importantly it displays the web efficiently without needing as much code as some other browsers.

Firefox

The big brand name that everyone trusts! Firefox is a decent browser by anyone's standards. It is very adaptable program, you can easily add spell checkers and add blockers without a problem. It has improved over the years to be sure! There are just two problems I have with this browser. The first exists in the 'Frontmotion' edition, this edition is often used by admins as it's easier to lock down, but it has a tendency to fracture parts of web pages making them ugly or slowing them down. The second exists in the code needed for firefox. On each page you may need one or two lines of code to make things run. When you add these up there is a significant drag on the internet on lines that aren't particularly needed.

Opera

Opera doesn't have the most features. Opera doesn't exactly display things perfectly every time. But one thing opera does is run incredibly fast on nothing. This means if you have a slow computer, or a tiny laptop, this browser can make you feel like your running something much faster. So it's definitely not the best but it has its uses.

The devil (Internet Explorer)

The standard one that you expect that comes with windows is the infamous "Internet Explorer". Now this particular browser (in all its current incarnations, although 6 is the worst of them all) is evil, just evil. When a web developer makes a webpage they often need to make a completely separate page of code just for dealing with people who want to use Internet Explorer. Please, please never use this browser. When you use this browser certain groups on the internet take notice and write down a use. These people are big, they control how the internet is meant to flow. If they notice a certain percentage of people use internet explorer they decree that web pages must be able to show content in this browser. If less people use IE it means the designers will have to work harder to make it a good browser. Either that or I will never have to bother with it again (thank god).

So that's the browser I personally have experience with and can happily state anything about. Of course there are many more browser out there, but these one's mentioned (plus safari) account for a whopping 99.2% of all browsers out there (according to W3, magical overlords of internet standards). So the big three browsers (chrome, firefox, opera) are all good to use, but never....

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use Internet Explorer with current day's practices (please =P).

Thank you, and goodnight ^^

- Fae

Magical Trevor: The truth behind the madness

(for those that haven't seen this horrible display of misusing magic you can find the first one here)

Magical Trevor, for years he has shown only his public face to the people. For years he has hidden the evil behind his calm friendly mask. But today I will reveal him for who he really is, I can only hope that I don't mystery disappear in the same way that those who last went public with this information did.

As we all know, Magical Trevor first appeared to the public when his first major trick was successful. As we all know he made a cow disappear and then later reappear, but in actual fact the only people who know what happened that day were the ones that were there. However we can look at the footage and work out logically what happened that fateful day.

Trevor destroying the cow

So when Trevor made the cow disappear, as can be seen in the above picture, what he was actually doing was destroying it. Obviously what he is firing there are lasers, lasers are the only thing that are that awesome. So Trevor has just vaporised a cow, what does he do next?

Threatening the witnesses

Obviously next he takes care of the witnesses, he can be seen here threatening the cows. His exact threat can't be told from this picture alone but look at those crazy crazy eyes. But still more evidence is seen when we find what investigators found later on at the scene.

The letter found at the site

As can be seen obviously in the above picture, Trevor left the cows threatening notes detailing the possibilities if they talk. But cows are known for their steadfast loyalty and thus they needed to tell the world about their poor lost friend.

Cow addressing the media

The cows decided as group something had to be done, so as a whole they organised a media conference and tried to reveal the truth about magical Trevor. Unfortunetly before they could get the whole truth out they vanished mysteriously. Nobody knows where they went, but later on in Trevor's career he hints on where they might have gone.

Final resting place of the cows?

To all you nay sayers who claim that he returned the cow, nothing can be revived from a laser blast. The more likely solution is that that is in fact a different cow. We believe this to be the actual truth. Trevor still refuses to return our calls.

- Fae

Life goals

I was talking with my room-mate today over lunch as she had seen a lecture called "Randy Pausch, the last lecture: Achieving your childhood dreams". She spoke of this lecture fondly talking about how the man taking the lecture talked at length about how he worked to achieve the dreams he had since he was a child and it got me thinking about my dreams. Lately I have been all about not wimping out of things like this, so I'd like to take today to talk about what exactly I want to achieve in life, from easy to hard. Here we go!

1. Successfully run a freelance business for web design:

This one I'd say is the easiest of all the dreams I have. In fact I would say that this one is guaranteed within the next decade without a problem. Still, it's important that I get a chance to do this. I'd really like to use this business to make things for some local art projects, perhaps run the page for a small theater company of something similar.

2. Make a website without any external resources

Simple enough! This means I don't want to have to refer to tutorials, I want to make all the pictures by myself and write every single word of content. This will only solidify my strength with multimedia design.

3.Teach or inspire a group or individual

Simple enough! I want to teach at one point =) this is also a fallback point for failure or boredom with working in multimedia (Those that can't do, teach).

4. Search for an endangered or thought extinct creature.

At the moment the creature in question would be the Quetzalcoatl bird of south America. It's almost a cryptid with how it has not been seen. Other possibilities involve a couple of rare birds from New Zealand that are basically extinct and to a lesser degree visiting the Galapagos. The animal/s I attempt to find will basically be dependent on the year that I do this plan! Note, what I'm after has to be outside Australia. I don't want to take a tour bus to the outbank and look around, I want to trek through jungles! I want to wear a safari outfit!

5.Write a book.

Straight forward goal! The topic is irrelevant! It could be a book on modern webdesign and themes involved in todays decade or it could be a self help book! Who knows?! (obviously not me). For clarification I would like to write a book that gets published, simply outputting a book worth of writing is not enough for this goal =)

6. Create art

I want to be able to create something that is considered art! However due to my inability to enjoy my own work the exact way that this goal must be satisfied is my own satisfaction with this art.

7. Either become the best in the world (or at least in the top three, we'r talking medal winning position) at something or write an entry in the encyclopedia.

Simple enough, the first thing that comes to mind with the best in the world half is becoming one of the world experts in something. This may coincide with the searching goal if I manage to discover something that has not been seen in decades and get a picture / description but who knows! All I know is that it will happen.

There we go! That's my life goals!

Interesting enough none of these goals are childhood goals, to be honest I never had any childhood goals that I haven't already achieved. I guess my childhood must have been simple because I have:

-Traveled extensively

-Learnt to make internet pages

-Built my own computer

-Learnt to drive

-Learnt to ski double black diamonds

-Can play music

Oh well! Just means I had a chance to set more goals =)

So what about all you out in internet land? Do you have life goals? Have you written them down so you can't back out? These things are important! Live your life to the fullest =)

- Fae

I finished too much work =(

I have done a little bit too much work this week and come Tuesday I will be at a point of my project where to do any more right now may be a stupid idea. Anger Issues Interactive needs a way to play movies and it's done, and the game website needs to be stitched together while I wait for content. Put in numerical terms, I'm four weeks ahead of my work.

To many other people (especially ones I know at uni) this would be a fantastic relief, to be able to sit back and watch TV and play games. But at the moment all I feel is discontent. To be honest there is another reason why I may feel this way. An important friend is sick and there's not much I can do about that.

So here I am with a lack of work and suffering because of it, is that a compliant often heard? If my supplies had arrived from America I could making fun things, but I'm out of beads at the moment. I guess the best I can do is practice some flute, learn Javascript and practice photoshop techniques.

Hope everyone out there in internet land is well!

- Fae

Karma

As try as I might I have not been able to think of something to write about for my blog for the last couple of days as I have been doing nothing but vague designing and coding my project group's page. So determined to have something to write about today I have decided on a random topic: Karma.

For those that don't know (and I assume everyone would, but anyway), karma is the idea that bad things will eventually bite you on the ass. Some people view it as a direct payback (Cut off someone in traffic and you will get in turn cut off), some wiccans see it as the rule of three (any energy or thought, whether positive or negative, will return to them three times over) but regardless the general idea it is a commonly held idea one of payback. Some people turn up their nose at the idea saying "But that's just superstition!" but the version of it I'd like to talk about today is a simple one which I will attempt to present logically.

My version of Karma relies mainly on happiness. You see in my everyday life I try my best to be happy, smile and treat people with kindness and respect. In everyday life you tend to bump into the same people everyday, whether they be the people who serve you coffee everyday or people who tend to catch the same train at the same time as you. If you always smile and offer them your seat if it looks like they need it they will be happier. If they are happier they will tend to treat others better reguardless of nature. Eventually this will come back to you in the simple form or someone smiling at your or offering you their seat.

It's the basic principle of 'treat others how you yourself would like to be treated' and I think it's a very important one to live by. It's a really simple concept, a logical one at that, that is based off cause and effect. So please in the future be nice to everyone around you, it means everyone else will be nice to you. And no one likes a dickhead =P

On a different note I'd like to add that I in a slightly more superstitious way believe that it will truly return to the person who deserves it =) Just saying!

- Fae