I ordered one of those uber mug's from Worse than failure and it arrived on Monday. Man these things are like a tanker and just great for all my caffeine related needs. I have attached an image. The mug itself came wrapped in two sheets of an American newspaper, well, that and a box.



As I stated in my last update, I went for a Job interview at Blitz. I am pleased to say that I was offered and have accepted a job there and will be starting on the 14th July. This means I need to move down to Leamington Spa so will probably be away for a while while I am without personal internet access.

Recently, I have gotten interested in designing systems so that they can be easily modified by the end user in the form of a "mod". This seems to mainly take the form of XML loading for data combined with some form of scripting language and object factory. This is definitely something I want to look into more in the future.

Finally, I have now managed to get the photos from Download 2008, there isn't a lot of them since the camera I take to festivals had died and I had to use my phone. You can find the post here.

Amazing isn't it that when you have a job interview to go to the next day, you suddenly get a nice, gentle kick up the arse to finish some work. In my case, I spent all day today getting the physics back into my Terrain Tech Demo; I am thankful to say I managed it and also slightly annoyed since I now realise that a Release build of it when zipped with all it's assets comes to under the magic 5MB mark that Blitz accept for demos so I could have sent it with my application - as it stands, I'm taking it on my laptop and can show then from that; it should be a safe bet since I know it will run from my laptop.

I now have a video showing the Physics in action and will soon be heading to bed since I have to have a nice trip down to Leamington Spa tomorrow.

As I stated before, I was away at Download Wednesday to Sunday last week. I have some photos on my phone which I'll get later.

Friday I went to see Disturbed, Seether, Judas Priest and the first part of Kiss - for me Disturbed were by far the best that day. Saturday I only managed to see Bleeding Through, I had wanted to see 36 Crazyfists but overslept. Sunday I saw Apocalyptica, In Flames, Airbourne and Children of Bodom. For me In Flames and CoB were my favourite sets, along with Disturbed; Airbourne was impressive though considering I'd never (knowingly) heard the band before, you really felt it in your soul.

Update - 2nd July 2008.
I have now (finally) gotten the photos off my phone:

The campsite.


Security guard number "1337". I also looked for "666" but we think that one might have been nicked.


Warning; this tent can burn.


You can't see from this photo, but there was a circle pit around the audio tower.


Beer mountain.


Those responsible for the construction of beer mountain. Left to right: Myself, Adam, Carl and Jon.

Havok have now released their free version of their "Havok Complete" package in binary form for Win32 users; apparently there are no plans to release a free Win64 or Linux binary at this stage.^[1] The SDK itself can be downloaded from their Try Havok page and all you have to do is fill in a simple registration form. I have downloaded the SDK but have yet to try it out, I am considering using it instead of TrueAxis for the re-write of my Inter3D assignment.

In Other News
I went for my Job interview at Eurocom for my work placement yesterday, to me it just seemed more like an informal chat than an interview; I think it went OK and they said they'd try and let me know by the end of this week/start of next week since they have another person to interview tomorrow.

I have also (finally) decided that I will be going to Download Festival again this year; I have bought my ticket and sorted travel and camping (thanks to the same people I have gone with for the last two years). Should be fun, here's hoping it doesn't rain all weekend.

Finally, my sleeping pattern has now gotten the to be the worst that I have known it for a long while; I am presently sleeping more like a Cat by just sleeping a few hours here and there at random times in the day. (I have had three, two-hour sleep's today - it's getting annoying).

So I have exams all week this week, well all week apart from today (Thursday), something which I'm pretty pleased about since today is my birthday

Also, it seems that the Vista install on my laptop thinks that MP3 files are in some way a compressed archive.