I've finished a new song though, if anyone cares to take a listen...
http://danfessler.com/music/untitled1.mp3

This sorta stuff makes me absolutely miserable about this horrible character flaw I have - upon hearing/seeing something marvellous, being miserable about how much better everyone else is at everything I'd love to be good at, instead of just being inspired to succeed. Anyone else get that? The feeling that success is suddenly that much further from ones grasp?

Darned brain doesn't get into "Time to succeed mode!" until it reacts to the realization it's stuck in nasally childish gitdom where the best anyone can come up with is "Eat brains, brains give you goodies!"

Gah!

*re-tunes brain and listens to song again*

This is better than the vast majority of professional stuff I hear, IMHO. Great voice, great lyrics, putting an album together someplace?

I was struggling to pick between PHP/Ruby/Python until I had another look at the syntax - PHP looks laughable.

I'm torn between Python and Ruby now. As Atnas points out, Ruby definitely looks simpler and a bit more intuitive (like maybe you really could be happy writing in it), but Python looks like it might not be too much harder. I'm torn. Of course I still have no idea how all this will translate to this thing called 'web application frameworks' and how it might wind up with me making a basic facebook app, but hey. I'll just pick one up and start.

It's like... perceived practicality (ruby) vs theoretical superiority & mates who can debug anything for me (python).

I have no idea yet how using Flash would compare (adamatomic + flixel libs = how simply?)

Thank you for the links. *studystudy*

Traffic is already a dangerous hellhole when you're sticking to the rules

Agreed. Out here where I am atm on country roads everything's just dandy - with no traffic and miles of straight road with beautiful skies and mountains in the distance, it's as pleasant as could be and one is even tempted, occasionally, to sit at the speed limit. I still imagine and automatic turret popping up out of the bonnet and blasting away whenever someone speeds by, though, especially when it's a cop who isn't chasing anyone, doesn't have his lights on and is doing about 40 over the speed limit.

So much worse in the city (Melbourne) - so much panic everywhere. And drivers ignoring the basics.

The rule here is do not speed up until AFTER you reach the sign, and reach the 'slow down speed' BEFORE you reach the sign, yet I have idiots pushing away behind me to hit 100 the moment the sign hits the horizon. People seem to think the right hand lane gives you the right to ignore the speed limit.

Apparently the P in my Probationary license stands for 'Pissing You Off'.

90s - 2001
Console type, 2d arcade platform
Japanese
fairly generic futuristic blue-ish metal armor suit (but I don't think he wore a helmet)
low resolution
'by the numbers' kind of game

I was so going to say Megaman until I saw the helmet line. Remember anything about the enemies or the story or what sort of gameplay was involved?


*goes back to reading about REBOL*

I'd be struggling horribly to learn to draw - heck, if there was no internet I probably would've never gotten into drawing to begin with and just stuck with writing. May not've even gotten into writing without the opportunities via the internet... probably would've wound up in music or IT.

Computer, oddly, seems to be functioning again - enough to have turned itself on okay, but still has random keys being 'activated' and can't do anything other than check for any files that need backing up. If I could disconnect the built in keyboard, maybe I could use it.

My Toshiba M200 Portege Tablet PC (aka ancient, refurbished laptop) just died. All within the space of about two minutes.

Started with 'delete' key not working, then spitting out '=' (key next to it), followed by random keys not working. Turned it off to clean the keyboard, back on and the screen won't come on at boot. Just beeps every second.

I'd been happily reading all these old art books off it and learning to draw, too - ideal opportunity while stuck here in rural Victoria with my fiancee for a few weeks. Looks like I'm being forced to focus on sketching skills & away from pixels - but I'm confused as to why the Powers That Be think I need forcing when that's what I'm doing anyway. o_O