Vib Ribbon - English translation

thoughts and dreams

Well, after an energetic start, followed by a bout of lethargy, then followed again by the energy that only a good old fashioned deadline can muster, I've managed to finish. Most of the process was simple enough in terms of figuring out the technology. The frustrating part, which I'm sooo going to blame that earlier period of lethargy upon, was the constant sign ups and registrations to multiple web sites, confirmation e-mails, etc. Deadline saw to that though, and after I just bit the bullet and got on with it, it turned out to be a relatively simple process to complete the exercises. The first cut and paste of HTML code into bloggers "insert a page element" function caused a bit of headscratching to begin with, but that also turned out to be quite simple once you'd done it successfully for the first time. A few of the applications from the web 2 awards list proved problematic, but aclelgar said that was probably due to connection speed, rather than bugs or human errors. That made me feel a whol lot less frustrated, and I've still had my interest piqued sufficiently to continue exploring those things at home in my own time. I think there will be a few things that will help me get my blog the way I have wanted to get it, but have never had the know how to do. Overall, despite the few moments of frustration, I've found this exercise to be quite educational, I feel a whole lot more confident of using the new technology, and come the time that the new website goes online, I think I should be knowledgable enough to understand just what in the ding-dang the customers are talking about.

Net library

I signed up to net library today, no problems there, saved a couple of books into my favourites. I dont know if I can post those through to my blog, so I did a screen cap, seen here. I don't feel that there are too many things here that would interest me, but further additions to the collection may change that. I am wanting to learn how to install and use Linux, so I think the computer books would be of the most interest to me.

That's better! After last night's frustration of none of the applications working, the podcast rss feeds have at least successfully transferred to my blog through bloglines. I've added Humphrey the Bag (british comedy) and Booklounge (book reviews, author interviews, etc) which can also be located on left margin in my bloglines public feed. Glad that things are working again.

you tube, you embed, you don't get squat

This is getting ridiculous. Now that I finally get a result this evening, it's a half-baked one. Literally. I tried embedding the you tube clip, all steps same as previous html copy and pastes that I've done so far, but when I publish and view, only half the clip (left margin to half way across) is visible. Went back to editing to try to find a solution, but nothing seemed to work. I even tried to attach a screen capture for a visual of the widthly-challenged clip, but, just as with others I tried tonight, it wouldn't upload from my desktop. For the clip itself, which I'm very fond of, go to Vib Ribbon (English translation) on you tube, it's the intro to a very strange video game. The game is loaded into the playstation console, and the intro plays. The player then removes the game disc from the console and replaces it with their music cd of choice. The game adapts itself to follow the tempo and rhythm of the music, and the player must pass the obstacles in time with the music. The actual game play doesn't have as tight a synchronicity with the cd as the intro would lead you to believe, but who cares? The intro is worth it all by itself. La la la, la la la... Ohhh!!! Dooma doobie doobie doh...

And the winner is... No-one!

Title sums it up. I tried, I really did. Is it just me, or do none of these applications from the awards list actually work, apart from what we've already used so far in the exercises? I tried the following: lulu, writeboard, thinkfree, mailemotion, arcaplay, frappr, & the broth. Not a bloody sausage from any of them. Don't know if it's a connection problem, if I'm doing something wrong, or if the sites have bugs. Guessing though, if they won awards, the bugs is ashes. One that looks like it may have worked however, is Onesentence, where you submit a true story that is only one sentence long. Elaborate sentence structures are permitted, but brevity is preferred. Quite a few funny entries amongst them. Even if i can't get it working from my end, they're fun to read.

zoho no go

Tried zoho and google docs, but both gave me the same problem - each time I tried to import a word document from my desktop, I pressed "browse" but neither of the two programs would respond at all. Nada. Todo morreu. O internet me parece um vagabondo. But anyway, since it wasn't working, I'll carry on with next exercise, and ask for help tomorrow.