| HELLO HELLO | 22/10/2011 |
I am testing something right now....
If this works I will be happy.
EDIT:
It seems to work just fine, which is good for me... The thing I tested was putting "pre" tags around the post content to see if it would keep all the line breaks I made, without actually having to code in the line breaks manually.
Something I will keep in mind...
Also! I am using this website right now!
I am planning to make myself a "showcase" website thing and would like to start soon, so I decided to check back on this thing and read all the posts.
The first thing I noticed, is that I seemed awfully lonely (and felt it as well). BUT THAT IS NO LONGER THE CASE. Someone seems to care about me, which makes me feel good.
On a different note, I want to save all these post things onto a computer or something and keep them. So I will probably do that as well.
This may or may not be the last time I post in here... bye byez.
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| This Thing... Oh | 13/02/2011 | Hello, today is Sunday! Also the day before St Valentine's day. Not that I am doing anything special tomorrow, and surely not with anyone I know. I live a pathetic existence...
Now that I have started it off right . . . I don't really know what to type about exactly, I know, in school I have started a new semester (or term if you prefer) and it is so easy! I barely ever have homework so far, and the work I do have is fairly easy to complete. I also only have one French class this term, Science. The rest of my classes are Computers (more on that later), English, Woodworking, and Home Economics.
The only class I really feel like typing more about is Computers, probably because it is the class I enjoy the most, since I am a giant nerd and all. I sit close to two other people and we are probably the biggest nerds in the class, we make nerd jokes and talk about things others don't know about. In class, we had to take a typing test to see how fast we could type, most people averaged at 30wpm. "The three nerds", a.k.a. me and two people next to me, got 63wpm, 57wpm, and 81wpm respectively.
The guy with red hair next to me got 57, I got the 63 and so on.
The only other thing I want to do right now is complain about having to manually code in line breaks whenever I press the enter (or return) key. It is so annoying, I really have to figure out how to fix it. But not now of course because I have procrastinating to do!
That's all for now. Hopefully I will write more tomorrow or something. |
| Update! | 22/01/2011 | So, umm, I am writing in my Blog thing again!
I really wanted to write in this blog like every day, or at least once every two days, but no. I hardly ever write in here, and every time I do, I say something like "if this was different I would write in here more often". I thought I would write more when school started, but didn't. I really do need to update this more often, but of course there is a problem, I don't like people watching me when I write personal things. I hardly ever get time at home where people aren't constantly reading over my shoulder while I am using a computer. Ugh.
Anyway, things have happened since last time I wrote in here. Most notably, I have gotten a PS3 for Christmas, and I bought a book about ActionScript 3 to learn and get myself using it again. I really need to finish at least one game I've started. The only one I feel I need to finish is the sequel to Shoot-Em-Up, and it will probably have a completely different title so people don't think they have to play the first one before the second. Mostly because the first one didn't have a story and the second one probably will.
Also I have had a lot of fun with my PS3 so far, I have LittleBigPlanet, Star Wars the Force Unleashed II, and Sports Champions. I think LittleBigPlanet gets the most playtime. I also think I have become addicted to getting trophies and will probably be the time of person who tries very hard to get 100% on every game they own.
I am just trying to skim over everything right now, but if I ever write in this again soon I will most likely have more specific topics like Flash, or a game or whatever. I should really be getting to bed now so, that's all for now. |
| Learnin' | 04/11/2010 | Recently, I have been learning some C++, I am far from "good" but I can do some things. I have been making simple little console programs and I might be able to make a sort of text adventure if I had an idea.
Other than that I have been thinking of remaking The Legend of Zelda in Flash. I've gotten so far as to have most of the tiles in the over-world.
I don't really know what to do right now, I might work on the Legend of Zelda thing. If I do I guess I should find some title screen for it, off to the far reaches of the internets!
EDIT:
I guess I could always at least mention something I have wanted to for a while now. The 3DS, the newest handheld console from Nintendo, the big hook is glasses free 3D on the widescreen top screen. It has not yet been released, but I am uber excited for it, I just want one so bad! Almost like the new iPod touch, except I want that for the new cameras and the ability to record video in 720p.
The 3DS will be out here in March while Japan gets it in February, I think it will probably be around $249 when it comes out.
'Tis all for now. |
| Crazy Feeling | 22/10/2010 | Firstly, today, a Friday, I don't have school!
Anyway, the real reason I am writing this is because of yesterday. Yesterday, during Physical Education we did the 12 minute run. While doing the 12 minute run I kept a steady pace most of the time, I ended up jogging for about half of the whole 12 minutes! I am proud of myself for doing that!
Continuing; for the last minute or two I felt so weird, I could hardly feel any parts of my body except the constant footsteps of running laps. I didn't really feel tired anymore but I didn't want to push myself because I was scared I was going to pass out, I'm sure I could've gotten like two or three laps extra if I did push myself. It just felt so weird, I don't know how to explain it. It was like I was having an out of body experience.
I have never felt anything like that before, it was a crazy feeling. . . |
| Status Update! | 12/10/2010 | I got meself a Facebook account now!
I don't know how often I will use it, in fact I think I made it so I will remember to write in this more often . . . Weird how that works isn't it?
I don't have much else to write really, I haven't done much lately. There was Thanksgivings but that wasn't very eventful, we went to my grandparents house to visit on Saturday and on Monday (Thanksgivings) we didn't do anything at all. That was fun.
Haha, I just noticed the text on the top is wrong, I am not 14 years old anymore. Oh well, I want to eventually get rid of this entire layout so that doesn't matter much right now. . . I really wonder when I will get to that, I can't really do it on my Mother's laptop (which I am using right now). I guess one day I will do that, I would want to do it tomorrow but I don't know whether that will happen or not.
The only other thing I can think of mentioning is that I have been watching all of the Naruto episodes in Japanese with English subtitles starting from number 1, I am at episode 68 at the time of writing this.
Speaking of Japanese, I would really want to learn Japanese one day, you know, being able to read it and understand when people are speaking Japanese. One day . . .
I am such a horrible person, procrastinating all the time.
Hmm . . . that seems like enough for today. |
| Possibly Short Post | 30/09/2010 | So, I don't write in this nearly as often as I would like, especially since I planned to write in this almost daily. I just haven't got into a state of mind to do this everyday. It is even harder to do because of school, I have homework almost all of the time and my free time is spent doing various other activities, like playing video games.
I would also like to finally finish the update to this site, I already like it a lot more, it's just that I have troubles making the page scale according to the amount of content on the page. I wish I could find out how to do it. . .
Other than that I am not sure if I really want to write too much more in here, I just wanted to write something, and maybe if I get into the habit of writing small things like this then I wouldn't mind writing in here more often. Here's hoping!
EDIT:
I fixed most of it in the new version just a couple minutes after posting this, but I still can't seem to be able to fix the left bar . . . I'll fix it soon though, probably. |
| Another Post? | 09/09/2010 | I don't really know what to type, I'm sort of hoping something will come to me if I start typing, it usually does.
I am not sure if this will end up being a long or sort post, I only really want to say that I have started school again (grade 10), and have worked a bit on a newer version of this site (you can see it by typing the normal url and adding "/v2" after it).
Other than that I don't really know what to type . . . it's probably because I am not used to typing in this blog thing much. I'm sure if I started doing it more often it will be easier for me to type in it at all.
I guess I could write some more about how my actual day at school was . . . yep, that is what I will do.
Firstly, I was extremely nervous this morning, partly because I haven't been to school in a while and don't know what it will be like, and also because I am usually nervous about doing things like that. The nervousness kind of disappeared after I got to the place where the bus picks me up and drops me off (there were 10 people at the stop, and a couple of people were still missing!), until I noticed that the bus is like 30 minutes late! As I waited and waited I thought about a bunch of different possibilities, the biggest one being that somehow I was too late and the bus already passed us. That possibility was easy for me to dismiss for a while (by remembering that I had 9 other people around me who couldn't of all missed the bus) but somehow the fear never really left me until I got on the bus.
Once I did get on the bus (I was the first one of the 10 to get on) I was assaulted by "Hi Denis" and just plain "DENIS!" which felt surprisingly welcoming. The greetings also got me thinking (watch out) that people may somehow feel differently about me than everyone else in a way that made them feel like they had to greet me . . . I think that because I was the only person who was really greeted that strongly (that I remember anyway), I'm not sure if that is true or not but it was something that went through my mind.
The bus was also pretty weird for me because there were a lot of people who I didn't go on the bus last year with, I had the same bus, same bus driver but completely different people. That is probably because of what my older brother overheard while changing his schedule at school; the bus driver was assigned an almost completely different route to go on to pick everyone up. This route went to a completely different town than the other route, so I saw some people I didn't see last year and didn't see some that I did see last year. All very weird stuff to start my day with. Speaking of starting my day, I was not used to waking up around 7 o'clock this morning.
When I got to school I was welcomed by the completely normal crowding of hallways and blocking of places to go. Normal things that happen in high school (or so I assume). The first thing I did was find out who my homeroom teacher was, it was a lot harder than I thought it would be, there were a extremely large amount of people there (I was trying to find a different word or way of saying it but I failed . . .) blocking my way. When I did eventually figure out that I (a grade 10 student) had the same homeroom teacher as my older brother (a grade 12 student) I was pretty surprised, I was also surprised at the amount of effort I would have to use to get out of the main entrance to the school. Somehow though, I was able to get to the correct hallway to my homeroom.
As soon as I entered the room I was kind of intimidated by the large number of people older than me in the homeroom. I wasn't sure if I was in the right place, but apparently I was. In the homeroom I was told general things that I already knew and I don't really want to go into detail because it wasn't very exciting.
The first class, after the homeroom thing was over, was Geography (except in French of course). The class is taught by a teacher I have never had before, I think he is pretty cool (but I don't like that word, same with "dude"). He is pretty funny and doesn't like to be too strict. I guess you could say he is laid-back except his classes are hard and he really knows what he is talking about. I like him so far, and I guess that's a good thing since he was the teacher for the next class I had as well, which was "introduction to applied and pre-cal math". (Another little note that isn't really worth talking about a lot, one of my classmates (a short one) has a deeper voice now.)
The next class I had was with a teacher I never really like, it's a good thing I only have him for one class this year (and it just so happens to be French, a class he also taught me last year).
I seem to really be skimming through the day only stopping at times when I was feeling stronger emotion or something . . . speaking of which, lunch time! (In my little day at school story).
Lunch was actually the same as it ever was, extremely boring with not much to do, I mostly spent the time standing around and talking. Not my idea of a good time just so you know.
The rest of the day was what some would call a "slack day" or something, I had art and gym, both taught by the same teacher. After that I went on the bus, experienced an uneventful bus ride and here I am!
I kind of cut it short because I didn't really want to type this anymore so sorry if anyone cares . . . guess that's all, I'll probably write more tomorrow! |
| Some Colours, Finally! | 14/08/2010 | Hey, did you notice the colours, yeah they are still in progress and right now I am thinking of reworking the entire layout of this site to make it look better. By entire layout I mean code, the layout will probably look the exact same with some minor changes. I just can't get this to look the way I want it to.
First though, I want to make a little banner thing to put at the top to replace the "Cevox's Personal Blog" text. I still don't know what it should look like though . . . I am having design issues. I never was a good web designer . . . I might as well redo most of this site to make it look nicer . . .
I guess we'll see what I end up doing.
Tomorrow is Sunday, which means I will be going to church. Only because I am with me mom this weekend though. On Sunday I usually feel pretty good so I might get quite a bit done, but only if I plan it out first tonight.
I should probably get to that then . . . |
| Update | 13/08/2010 | 'Ello one and all!
My birthday has come and past and I got exactly what I wanted! Not that I gave either of my parents much of a choice; I told my mom I wanted a drawing tablet and I told my father I wanted Monster Hunter Tri. I got both!
Monster Hunter Tri is an amazing game, I thought I would like it but I didn't know I would get addicted! I love playing, there is so much to that game. First you can hunt monsters and go on quests by yourself in the offline single player mode, and you can also go online with thousands of people, recruit four, and go on a quest together. There are many quests online that you can't find offline and you are assigned a Hunter Rank online that you can level up by doing more quests. It is a lot of fun.
Especially when you get to forge that new piece of armour or make that upgrade that weapon you love, I really do enjoy that game.
The other thing I got for my birthday was a drawing tablet (Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet to be exact), and it makes drawing so much easier. Also, since I got Adobe Flash I can make animations and games without a huge amount of frustration. I will probably be using the tablet more once I sort of "get into it" or something. I use the tablet but I don't really have a schedule for making games or animations. I should probably plan things first though, so I know what I'm doing.
Right now I am learning ActionScript 3 with the whole Flash thing so thats why I haven't really submitted anything anywhere. There is something I am working on from the Shootorials on Kongregate that I almost finished.
Other than that I can't really think of what else to type right now, I might post something again tomorrow. |
| Version 1.0 | 28/07/2010 | So, today the site is version 1.0, yay!
All that means is that this site has more or less all the features I wanted it to have, I added the personal post thing after I thought it would be useful. Now I will probably be posting in this more often, if I remember.
But just because the version is 1.0 doesn't mean that I am finished editing this site, I still want tweak things and make this place more beautiful. I have been thinking of adding something for myself to make it easier to update the site version page. Instead of having to change the actual code each time I want to be able to edit the site version without touching the actual code. I might do that today.
I've never actually said anywhere why I made this site, and I kind of want to do that right now. I don't know how long it will be but here I go.
I used to have a journal when I was younger and I would write in it to whenever I would do something noteworthy. Since then though, I have given up on that journal because it wasn't too easy to write in and I could always type faster than write anyway.
Later I got a computer in my room (it was an old computer so it couldn't do much) so I decided that I would write little journal entries on it. Unfortunately that computer was moved and eventually thrown out so I wouldn't be able to write in it in the privacy of my room. I never really wanted to do that on the other computer we had that was around where all my brothers would constantly be watching what I was doing.
Now though, we recently got two newer computers and I noticed that nobody would really watch me while I used a computer anymore. Since I have wanted to have a sort of blog that I could access from any computer for a while, I decided to make one.
I didn't really want to just have a blog like many other people where you use pre-made code or anything like that, I enjoy creating things so that is why I made this site. Making my own blog site like this had it's advantages too, I have way more control over what I want to put on it. Although it won't ever been as clean and professional or popular as other things like a Live Journal that some people have, I do have a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction from making something myself.
And there you have it, a fairly long explanation of why I made this website. |
| More Stuff | 27/07/2010 | So, I've changed this site some more, unfortunately I've haven't yet changed all the coloury things yet. I still don't know what I want to do with that. But I have made some fairly important changes (at least I think so) of course the site version page can tell anyone what I've done. I added a radio button that allows me to make a post personal so I may only see it, or public, so everyone can see it.
I also made the edit profile page actually work and I might do the view profile page eventually too.
After I do make the view profile thing work than the site will be version 1.0, right now I have it at 0.9.9 because it is almost good enough in my eyes to be version 1.
I could always make the view profile work now, but I feel kind of tired and 'out of it' so I'm not sure if I will. If I do though, I would probably edit this post or make a new one saying that the site is now version 1.
Umm . . . I guess that's all I wanted to say. |
| Tweaks and Additions | 23/07/2010 | So, I have been changing things a bit lately. Mostly just fixing minor issues.
I fixed all of the problems that I mentioned on the previous post and if you have a widescreen monitor the sidebars aren't as huge anymore. I don't really have much else to add, except that I also added the ability for me to edit a post I already submitted.
I feel the need to change look of this site and make it less of one colour, but I have no idea what colours I would like to have. So for now it will stay black and white.
EDIT:
I just realized that I could do something else, I could always actually fix the view and edit profile buttons so they actually do something . . .
If I do that I will also probably add a link to the left side that lets people see my profile to learn more about me. . . I guess I'll get to that then. |
| Some Issues | 21/07/2010 | So, I made this site using a computer that has a standard aspect ratio screen (4:3) and I used Google Chrome as the browser I tested it on. While things looked fairly nicely on that screen I just figured out that my site looks pretty bad on other browsers and resolutions.
I went on my second computer, which is widescreen (16:9), and it the sidebars are extremely large! I think I may change it a bit so the side bars are smaller, but then it wouldn't look as nice on non-widescreen monitors. I am not sure what to do about that, unfortunately that wasn't even the worst part. When I used a different browser, Internet Explorer, the main screen didn't even work properly! You would only be able to see the most recent post and it would look kind of strange on the bottom.
Even worse though, was when I checked the site using FireFox. I have no idea what is wrong with my table code but for some weird reason all of the posts were overlapping at different parts. I will have to try to adjust my code, but I have no idea where I should start . . .
This is not what I was looking forward to, if anyone looking at this site I suggest you get this browser. The site will look better with it.
EDIT:
This is a test. |
| It is WORKING! | 20/07/2010 | All this time I've been procrastinating and taking a long time to do anything to this site, but in one day I have completed it to a point where I don't mind using it!
This are still some things that I would like to do before I am completely happy with it, like change the look from a white background and black text to something a bit better looking. In fact, I already have a little idea of what I plan to do with it.
Firstly, I would have to choose some sort of colour scheme, but after that I think I would create an image to replace the current static text for the header. I would write the words with my own handwriting, maybe make some sort of logo or something for myself. Yep, things would look good.
But I would kind of like to get a drawing tablet before I do that so it may look better than I could currently do. If things turn out the way I want them to be then I will only have to wait for another month before I can really get things going!
I could get used to this writing blog post thing, and while I could have used something like WordPress or something to make a blog that looks nice I think making it myself really makes me feel better. I am super happy right now that I have made most of the base and it all works.
I guess I should end this now since I don't know what else to say . . . BYE! |
| Testing the code stuff. | 20/07/2010 | This is only a test to make sure all of the code I have typed so far works the way it should. If it does then that means I will have my own blog soon!
Although I will still want to improve things like the design and what-not, maybe add a few more features as-well. Anyway, test and stuff! |
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