Crazy trance music!

Phwoar.  I just heard the most insane mix of Evanescence’s Hello on DI.fm Vocal Trance.  The song in itself is pretty haunting, so it did lend itself to a genre which is traditionally heavy on high reverb times, but I was more impressed by the fact that it didn’t just SUCK.  Look at the atrocity which is the Radio Edit of My Immortal! I paid for their album, Fallen, which apparently entitles me to a free download of the “Band Version” (as they insist on calling it… I’d go for “Mass-Audiences-are-Stupid™ version”, instead – but then, I probably don’t work in marketing for a reason), which I have declined.

I’m still not over how much the radio edit of that track sucked. Bleh! Anyway. The vocal trance version of Hello was seriously sweet, especially after you consider it wasn’t done in-house – that is, without access to original tracks and other such useful things. So yeah. That’s my randomness for the day over ;)

What else? Oh. Saw Dawn of the Dead last night with Ben and Tori – it was kind of like 28 Days Later, only probably produced on a much higher budget (28 Days Later was a film grant production, but it didn’t really show, aside from the fact that it was shot on digital rather than telecine – even then, they claim it was a deliberate stylistic decision rather than the result of any budget constraints). Oh, and it was more gory and less suspenseful (if that is a word – if not, it is now) than 28 Days Later… that said, it was hilarious at times, although whether this is an inherent attribute of the film itself, or simply a by-product of the audience and company I saw it in is something which I’ll leave for someone else to decide!

The Edge, 2004

A VERY exciting time!!!  My cookie was again swallowed (note to self – increase timeout on that one) so a larger, better worded post has been lost in the void, so here is an abridged version!

A whole heap of people became Christian and a whole heap more were encouraged by that and by each other!  Wow!  No matter how long I try to write, I can’t capture how amazing this is on paper!  My favorite passage that we studied over the last four days is this:

Philippians 3:7-11

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.  What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.  I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ  and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ–the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.  I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

It’s kinda chunky, but hey – so incredibly cool!

It was absolutely great, you could see God at work in the lives of people there so clearly – Ashley Kurrle being one amazing example which I know of, as well as others in other year groups.  Thanks SACS ministry team!  God is using you to change lives!

I’m rambling a little – I’d better stop, or I’ll loose more cookies, and then problems happen!  Haha.  What else?  Ben’s 17th birthday was yesterday!  Happy Birthday Ben!!!  Soo… I guess that means Nikky Webster is also seventeen, as of a few months ago? ;)

J.

End of term

Yay.  Man I am so up for holidays… right now I can’t see them lasting long enough!!  I spent the last two and a bit days doing a whole lot of not very much, between Showcase Concert (which was fairly average, apparently levering on cute-factor rather than professionalism or quality to draw an audience) and a development session for the best part of today… and avoiding Galah Day in the process.

Ooops.  ;)

So that was interesting.  And astoundingly unproductive, but hey, I don’t really care!  Completely over attending classes and/or school stuff anyway (showcase doesn’t count as school stuff, just for the record ;) ), at this end of the term.  Especially when half the school isn’t in classes either, hehe.  Peer pressure and all that. :p

In other exciting news, Tori’s website is finally live over @ http://toriworld.tk/.  Not a whole lot there yet, but at least it’s finally public, so perhaps updates will start pouring onto the website for the entertainment of the ConnectedMasses™!!  Hehe.  “w00t” ;)  Should I append ™ to that also?

Woooooo holidays!!!  The Edge camp is happening this weekend, which is going to be very cool I hope… theme of the year is PIRATES!  I’m assured people are bringing cameras, so photos will most probably be published on Ben’s website sometime.  To all who aren’t going/can’t go, gonna miss you!

Back in a few days, possibly sooner if I try and do something stupid like update this page via WAP.  I don’t think it’d work, because I use cookies for sessions management, so unless my phone supports cookies I can’t login to my CMS panel.  It might, it might…  but it’s probably not worth the effort to type with a phone keypad, let alone the cost ;)

A directory ran away.

Possibly with the dish and the spoon.  Although more likely a journaling file system which has issues.  Hmm.  Yeah, I lost my shop files for this website… fortunately the only stuff I hadn’t stored on the Dalegroup mirror was high resolution stock – which I can download again if I ever decide I need it ;)

Irritating, nonetheless.  So I’m currently leeching my code back from Dalegroup.  Hehe.  Leeching back.  I can’t remember were I read it, but this story just came to mind about some guy who downloaded a song off (Insert P2P network name here), and then once he’d finished downloading the user he got it off started downloading the same song off him.  Aforementioned P2P network has user-chat capabilities, and when the user is asked what he/she/it is downloading the song back for, the reply was “Stealing my song back, you bastard!”.

There was a tenuous link, at least in my mind ;)

iiCommunity backend is chugging along slowly.  User-side interface is done, just banging up an admin panel now (the slow bit;), and then it’ll be released.

iiCommunity

A cool new initiative by Dalegroup, this is kind of like the iiNet Zoo, only more skillful ;)

Well, sort of.  Skillful by virtue of the people it is being promoted to – linkage on Whirlpool and Dalegroup Forums. ;)

Check it out here: http://iinet.dalegroup.net/

I’m currently working on a backend for it, which will allow dynamic adding, editing, removal conveniences – and, more importantly, SEARCH CAPABILITIES!!!

My goodness.  That is something this website has been missing for a while now!  Massively up there on my to-do list for the holidays!  It shouldn’t even take too long – it’s just never been a priority.  Holidays are looking full already.  This is not cool!

Three weeks is not enough.  I have no more assessments due this term, having handed in the Extension task… hmmm *contemplates disappearing for the next few days until school breaks up*.

Tempting, but parentals have never taken too kindly to that type of thing.