Okay, every week I'll have a favourite Pokemon, a weird but true fact
about my life, and of course, reveiws of my day.

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Woke up in the most unusual way this morning. The alarm clock rang, and
all my bedsheets and blankets were still on the bed. Usually they're all
on the floor. Watched TV until there was nothing else on, then went back
to bed. Yep, for me, it's been the holidays for about a week and a half
(Started last Thursday) and I have nothing to do with myself. Note; I live
in the country. I almost wish it was school again. Almost. Ate lunch and
watched a movie midday, and brought the washing off of- DaDaDa!- The hills
hoist. Then went on the computer. Here I am.

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Okay, this Pokemon of the week is- drumroll please- Bayleef! (Betcha
didn't see that coming!)

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And heres a very important fact most people don't know; I'm a girl! That's
the annoying bit about computer communication, I suppose...

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December 18, 2008

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I'm gonna do this with every blog post. I'll have a n00b of the week, and a few other complaints, plus what I did that specific day, and lastly, I'll post a sprite every week from my gallery that I like the most at the time. Feel free to comment on the sprites.

"N00b Of The Week" will come only once per week. But the rest will come every time I post a NeoBlog.

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School...

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Okay... Today, was awesome. At first. I woke up, showered, went to the bus stop, got on the bus, got to school, and first period we watched Kung-Fu Panda. Yay. We didn't get to finish it, but whatever, so second period, I went to my Astronomy class, which we didn't do anything in. I just sat on Neoseeker all period, and attempted to talk to the Aussie's who weren't on. DA! KI! HH! lol. When 3rd period rolled around, my History Teacher earned some cool points by letting us watch "Bender's Game" the newest Futurama movie. It was hilarious, as would be expected from Futurama. Fourth Period, we had English class (my favorite)! But we had nothing to do, so we went back to the History classroom and finished Bender's Game. Then a classmate and I went to the computer lab and played flash games until lunch. At lunch. I ate. Then come 5th period, I am an Aide for my English teacher's Junior Class, but they weren't there, so we just chilled. 6th period rolls around, and it's Journalism, but my school was having our "Winter Program" and every student but me went. Yay me.
I was standing outside the door to the Gymnasium, where it was held, and my first period teacher told me to not stand there, and I got angry because he was being a jerk about it. Though I will admit I overreacted. Anyway, I went back up to the high school, fuming. I went back into my journalism class, and sat there. Then decided to go into the hall and look at the scholarship opportunities that my School Counselor had posted (he posts them in the hall for all to see). I was in the middle of reading one about gays/lesbians, when my history teacher came out of his room, and told me to go to the Gym. I refused, explaining why I was still in the high school. So he got mad and yelled at me, then I replied with more yelling and a few profane words I don't feel like using here (and mind you, this is my favorite teacher). So... he threatened me with a suspension, I told him he was a pansy bitch and he decided rather than suspend me, he'd tell my mom, because she was there for the program. He did. I laughed. She called my dad. He called me, and just asked me to hold it together (mind you, this is the first time I've acted out in school in months, I don't know what came over me). And so I did. Then I went to town, saw the girl I like, visited with her for a while. Ate a hamburger, and came home. Now here I am.

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N00b Of The Week...

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This week, we focus on this "CheekyCharmander" fellow. Avalith apparently banned him, for reasons unknown to me, I believe it was flaming? Maybe? I don't know. My Point here, is that CC, having only 170 posts, and being 12 years old, thinks he runs Neoseeker. I am sad that Avalith did not use his "Super-Ultra-Perma-Banhammer" on him. The poor boy needs to learn a lesson. If anyone reading this blog had the divine right of reading his "TO AVALITH" thread before it was deleted, you would see what I am talking about. I found this to be extremely funny.
In the thread, he made a list of things he wanted to say. He said that craigsydenham had endured enough from him, and that he was laughing about being banned, and, well, as he said "bleep Avalith" which I thought was ultra-n00bish. He told Avalith two things, "Have Fun Closing This Thread" and "Have fun banning me." Avalith took this into consideration, when he deleted the thread without closing it. This made me laugh especially hard, because obviously the goddamned n00b had no idea that a moderator could delete threads, and was hoping that his thread would be there forever. Also, he said "P.s. You got owned by a 12 year old." to which Avalith replied something amazing, I think involving his banhammer, and said "You got owned by someone almost twice your age, hope you're happy" or something along those lines. Which is why I now officially LOVE AVALITH. <3
And to wrap up "N00b Of The Week," how in God's name do you manage to get banned after having only 170 posts? This child is pathetic.

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Random Complaints About Neoseeker...

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Well, today, I have but one complaint. And that is the Flaming in my PokéFiction thread (directed at one person). Flare Leo. Calm down, you need to just chill. Duckloaf312 was just messing with you, and you need to learn to let it go. For the record, talking crap online does not make you a bad ass, contrary to popular belief. And when you have a problem with someone, especially online, the best thing to do is "Kill Your Enemies With Kindness." I hope you understand. I still love you, and want you to read my PokéFiction, but don't comment if you are going to be rude. That goes for all posters on my threads. Thanks.

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My Sprite Of The Week...

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EDIT: I will be adding sprites from Trozei, and PMD as well as the Back Sprites from D/P and the Icons from D/P.

Not my best, I just really liked the way this recolor turned out.

~WM~ -Out-

This is purely for storing my codes so I don't have to manually type them in every time. No point in reading it.

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In an unprecedented and from now on rare occurrence, I will be blogging about a topic I usually stay away from: me. But I think you will forgive me using this post as an aide mémoire for later down the tortuous road of life...(that's tortuous, not torturous!)

Back in July I announced that I was taking a break from further NAMFox development because of some non-Neoseeker projects I needed to take care of. One of those projects was really my full-time job, where I have been privileged to work alongside some extremely smart and talented people helping the business for which we work to improve their competitive advantage through the software that we build. The other project was part of a Master of Science in Computer Science degree that I have been pursuing for the past year and a half. During the time I wasn't in a lecture class, I had this enjoyable (yet draining) side-project to occupy my time. This particular project has been on my plate since the winter quarter this year (January).

After devoting almost a full month of time to my master's project this year, I have finished all of the requirements necessary to graduate. (Of course, that doesn't ensure that I will graduate until this final course is graded, but looking at this year's trends I don't think that will be a problem.) I have learned a significant amount this year from the work I've put in, and I definitely think it's paid off. I hate to be cryptic but a lot of this project revolves around improving frameworks and tools that Microsoft have built, something I'm not sure you would be particularly interested in. :P But maybe you've had the joy of working on a project for an extended period of time, and you started to see the results only toward the very end? That's how I feel—as if everything has finally come to fruition after all this time.

After graduating, I will have a much more favorable position within the industry, and I'll also have more time. Best of both worlds!

The reason I mention all of this is that I have to pay homage to Neoseeker, its founders and developers, and its developer community for sparking my interest in computer science and keeping it alive. 6 years ago I was one of thousands of members struggling with HTML and CSS (and back then, JavaScript) to build what I thought was the perfect NeoHome. Although I never got anywhere close to what I've done today, it was a fun hobby in which to involve myself. Still, I actually never considered going into a computer science career until I decided to attend a university which specialized in it. Ironically my first months there were spent doing much of the same HTML and CSS work that I had done years before on Neoseeker. Over the next couple of years, I began to learn more and more at school, and I took this back to Neoseeker to help as much as I could. That's eventually how I got involved with NAMFox and I suppose why I now moderate the HTML/CSS & NeoHome Help and Web Coding forums. And so we come to where I am today...

A big thank you to Neoseeker for helping me to get started and to all of you who have helped me get to where I am today. Whether you are or have been a close friend or a technical colleague, thank you.

P.S. I do look forward to working on NAMFox more again. In fact, I am doing so more and more now. :)

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So, recently I went with the Beck theme.

Lo and behold, instead of "LOLZ BECK SUX", I get, "He's one helluva guitarist", "Beck is epic", and "I'd *bleep* that guy if I had the chance. That last one was actually me, but you get the point.

See, originally I had reserved this post for another Beck hate post like the Katy Perry one I had made. But no. I really have nothing to rant about now because I haven't been attacked by random members.

So I guess I'll just use up the rest of the post with the lyrics to 'Sexx Laws'.

Beck ~ Sexx Laws

Can't you hear those cavalry drums
Hijacking your equilibrium
Midnight snacks in the mausoleum
Where the pixelated doctors moan
Carnivores in the Kowloon night
Breathing freon by the candlelight
Coquettes b!tch slap you so polite
Till you thank them
For the tea and sympathy

I want to defy
The logic of all sex laws
Let the handcuffs slip off your wrists
I'll let you be my chaperone
At the halfway home
I'm a full grown man
But I'm not afraid to cry

Neptune's lips taste like fermented wine
Perfumed blokes on the Ginza line
Running buck wild like a concubine
Who's mother never held her hand
Brief encounters in Mercedes Benz
Wearing hepatitis contact lens
Bed and breakfast getaway weekends
With Sports Illustrated moms

I want to defy
The logic of all sex laws
Let the handcuffs slip off your wrists
I'll let you be my chaperone
At the halfway home
I'm a full grown man
But I'm not afraid to cry



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So, apparently a movie called Delgo was released just recently and it broke a record. Why haven't you heard of it? Well, the record it broke was having the poorest opening week ever.

quote IMDB

In an exotic divided land, Delgo, an adventurous dreamer but naive teenager, must rally his group of troubled youth and some unlikely friends to protect their world from conflict between the terrestrial Lockni people, who harness the mysteries of the land. And the winged Nohrin people, who rule the skies. They live - segregated - in an uneasy peace until Delgo was framed for a crime he did not commit. After enlisting the help of a unlikely friend to escape a Nohri prison, Delgo discovers Imhoff is in danger so he must unite the two races against a common foe.

It has very well-known celebrities playing the voices, such as the beautiful Jennifer Love Hewitt and Kelly Ripa, as well as Freddie Prinze Jr., Anne Bancroft, and Val Kilmer. Still, with all of these high-profile stars, I actually only heard about this movie once prior to hearing about this record it broke. It seems as though it is for younger kids anyway, and I don't have the cash to go spend on a movie not even made for my age, so I doubt I'll go see it.

Anyway, just thought I'd share that little bit of news with ya. Feel free to try to help the movie out by going and seeing it. From what I heard it is averaging about 2 people in the audience per showing. Kinda sad. ;(

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I never really understood it. I listen to Katy Perry's music. And I like iiit. Instantly, I'm attacked by a large variety of members telling me I'm an idiot. "This just goes to show how *bleep*ed up the music industry is.

You know, I never see you with the confidence to sing a song about kissing a member of your own sex. Furthermore, what did you do? No. You didn't incorporate club dancing into a wedding. You didn't incorporate a gang scene which somewhat parodies Lily Allen into your music video.

You know, telling me she sucks really isn't going to have much effect. Just because she uses Auto Tune. Just because she might not be able to sing as well during live performances. "She can't fake having an awesome voice, that's like Christina Aguilera singing in Spanish!". Since when do I let other people mold my taste in music?

Calling me an idiot, a twat, a f@g or anything else that just 'happens' to pop into your head at the time really isn't going to make any difference on whether I listen to her music or not. That's because it's going to be hard to make me give into peer pressure. Now, you might say "We're not pressuring you, we're just trying to get our point across" or "We're all entitled to our own opinion whether you like it or not, and that opinion is that she sucks! :redanger: . If it truly was an opinion, why not keep it to yourself? What was the whole point of telling me I was an idiot, a f@g and a twat if it was just an opinion? Why? Because it wasn't an opinion. It was you trying to make me stop listening to her.

Now, I don't have a problem if it's a simple 'I don't really like her music'. Dark Arcanine as a prime example. Every now and then, he'll tell me that he really doesn't like her music. But there's no "you're a f@g/you're an idiot/you sad twat/you're an absolute c**t because you listen to that sh!t'. You know, I don't denounce you for liking U2 or Bruce Springsteen or whoever the hell you listen to.

I could, but I don't.


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Just remembered a friend of mine did this mega man tune a long time ago:

http://www.myspace.com/radnessoverloadexe

Too good. :)

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Found this lovely article on piracy/drm on tweakguides. Seems to be about the best thing around:

http://www.tweakguides.com/Piracy_1.html

I smirked at this bit:

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While in reality, sea pirates to this day are often brutal, murderous thieves, in popular fiction they've become quite romanticized, particularly during the last century, and are widely seen as sea-borne adventurers, seeking freedom and rebelling against authority. Thus while content owners used the term Piracy to equate copyright infringers with thieves, the infringers themselves like to consider the more romantic, freedom-loving image of Piracy when they use the same term for themselves.

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So guys, my parents surprised me coming home from college for winter break today with, of all things, an Xbox 360! I was actually planning on buying one for myself for Christmas but it just seems like they'd have none of that. I don't have any games for it, and I haven't figured out Xbox Live BUT it's just the first day, and I have more than enough money saved up to get all the games myself.

Anyway, I'm just really excited to jump in there and see what I've been missing, being a Ninty-fag all my life. :L I'll be sending gamertags and stuff to you all, we have got to play together, haha!

BTW, for future reference, don't be surprised if I suck: Give me time to get used to it! XD

UPDATE: I am Xbox Live enabled people, so send me those gamertags! Mine is "Xynical".

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Just when you thought people can't get any dumber, a student in Austin, Texas was issued a detention for giving a demonstration of a non-Microsoft OS as the teacher said it was "illegal" and then e-mailed the head of HeliOS, the "illegal" Linux distro:

quote "Karen"

...observed one of my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop. Upon looking at his computer, I saw he was giving a demonstration of some sort. The student was showing the ability of the laptop and handing out Linux disks. After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student and that is how I came to discover you and your organization. Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows. Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods. I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back.

This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them...

As an avid Linux user myself, I don't know whether to be outraged at this ignorant teacher's comments and (empty) threats or to just simply laugh. She's tried Linux in college, yet because she probably couldn't navigate out of /home/windowslover (the equivalent of C:\Users\Windowslover for you Windows types) and because the IT department in her school district preaches that Redmond is the Nazareth of operating systems, anything else has got to be illegal in her mind. Let me start debunking some of her ignorant statements in terms that those who are curious about Linux or only have a basic understanding of it can understand.

• "No software is free...": Oh really? Here are a few quick links: What Does Free Mean?, Free Software and the GNU Operating System, GNU General Public License. If there was no such thing as free software, then applications like the Mozilla Internet suite (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.), Google Chrome, and Google Earth would have never been created, and only commercial Linux distributions like Red Hat and SUSE would be around.

• "I... tried Linux in college... the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods": This statement, my dear friends, is grossly ignorant and is entirely false. Linux has made great strides in the last few years. What was the latest Linux tech two years ago is now outdated, whereas what was the best of Microsoft two years ago is still the best of Microsoft. In some cases, such as Compiz Fusion, Linux has already surpassed Windows. The allowance of multiple workspaces was already a great step forward, but with this technology, Vista's Aero interface looks prehistoric compared to Microsoft's claims that it's the best interface out there.

• "Windows runs on virtually every computer...": Are we talking about the desktop market or the server market here? While Windows has the desktop market by the gonads, Linux has been spinning circles around Windows Server for ages in the server market. While servers aren't used for your normal day to day computing tasks, they're still computers. Be more specific and I might concede this point.

• "...putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all...": On the contrary. Linux is a free, unrestricted license to learn about how a computer truly works. As an educator, this person should be encouraging her students to try Linux when it's brought into the classroom so they can learn about it and make a decision for themselves, not deem it piracy and confiscate the discs. As the son of a professional educator, this infuriates me to know that there are people out there who have no problem being so ignorant and still call themselves educators when they force conformity on students instead of free thinking.

• "...if you contact Microsoft, they would ... provide you with copies of an older verison [sic] of Windows...": Sure, they'd provide you with copies of an older version of Windows, but they'd still charge you full price and make more money off of an outdated system they don't even support. Windows is not free unlike Linux; there is always a cost involved, whether it be hidden or slammed in your face.

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In light of all this, the head of HeliOS is going to meet with both Ms. Karen and the superintendent of her school district after the winter holidays to discuss the matter. Prepare yourself, Karen, because you're about to get schooled.

Original post: Linux - Stop holding our kids back

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Hello, this is just an advance e-mail in light of the expected DRM for the PC edition of Mirror's Edge which I am hoping you can forward to the appropriate sources.

While I would delight in the irony, I'm praying and begging you not to put DRM in the game, at least not "heavy" DRM (i.e. install limits, SecuROM, online activation), and hopefully not any games of yours in the future. I realize this is a lot to ask, but as a gamer I feel it is vital to do so.

I love the game dearly and thank you guys so much for taking the risk with it and continuing on with the series despite what seem to be less than stellar sales. I would love nothing more than to support this by paying for it, but I need to know the company which publishes it trusts its customers and respects them enough not to install unnecessary protocols on their machines or limit their experience with the game to any great length. I know there are big names at your company which don't fancy DRM but still feel it's necessary. I understand the perspective, but there's got to be a better solution than this. In the meantime, can you at least keep it to a minimum? CD checks and/or serial keys I've long felt are an okay compromise between gamer and publisher.

It would be nice to hear back on this, too, but I understand if this is not possible as you are a busy company.

Sincerely,
Sean Ridgeley

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WEll... Um not much to say!! I'm going to see twilight on sunday!! Its the coolest thing since sliced milk!! (Yeah didn't know there was such a thing!!).



Yesterday I returned to Neo after a long break!! =]

WEll... Any ways.

Bye?

Bróna

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