Well it’s been a long time since I posted anything. Partly because very few people read this and at least one complains :P Therefore I can’t guarantee that I will keep posting here regularly so you better like what you get.

Why exactly I’m posting now I’m not sure. Well that’s not true I have one reason but I’ll get to that later.

I had a migraine yesterday which was not good. It occurred right at the start of team practice which is even worse. To anyone who has never had a migraine (to anyone? Only one person is likely to read this but it’s therapeutic to assume lots read), please don’t assume it is “just a bad headache”. Search the internet for “migraine” and read about it.

Anyway the practical outcome of the migraine was that I had 18 hours sleep last night. I got in at 9pm, fell asleep. Woke up at midnight and got undressed then fell asleep again. I finally woke up at 3pm this afternoon. It’s amazing how bad having that much sleep can be.

For some reason I didn’t wake up today until 1pm. Which meant I missed my only lecture of the day but it’s not a big problem. I think I’ve finally caught up on all the sleep I’ve been missing.

Greg Egan is an amazing author. I’m currently reading “Diaspora” which basically seems to be a collection of ideas on philosophy, quantum mechanics, ethics, the nature of consciousness and cosmology all rolled up in a neat plot. At the moment he’s describing the experiences of these beings that suddenly have to cope with moving into a five dimensional universe and the emotional stress it causes…

Galaxia Plus is also coming along surprisingly well.

And I should also have my bag tonight! Which is lucky since I need my dance shoes before my class at 8:30…

Having something I can throw random thoughts at whenever I at a computer is probably a bad thing… especially considering how much I’m at my computer.

At the moment though I genuinely have some free time… I have to wait two minutes to see if the GP server will start itself automatically. Ooh look, the two minutes are up. And unfortunately it didn’t start… I’ll sort it eventually.

I just discovered I left my back at the IVDA techie meeting at Laurie’s. Not exactly a big problem if I get it back before my dance lesson on Tuesday (it has my dance shoes in it).

Speaking of IVDA some of the ideas they have are very ambitious and it will be an amazing day if it all works out.

It is now exactly two weeks until I go to Finland (well to the nearest few hours at least). Unfortunately I have too much going on in the mean time to think about it which is unfortunate. And the really weird thing is I have to keep reminding myself that sometime in between being busy and going to Finland, Christmas fits somehow…

Well since I already had the domain I decided I’d put it to use. Viewing my journal should redirect you to OliverBrown.me.uk which should display my journal properly. It’s probably buggy though so watch out…

I really think I should write something exciting for my inaugural entry. The fact that I did this at all is quite amazing. I’ve thought about it a few times but kept deciding I could write my own that was better; but never got round to it. Well I could always just embed it into a website of my own if I wanted to.

Odd coincidence. I spell checked my entry and it came up with “ve” (from “I’ve”) as an error. “Ve” is a gender-neutral personal pronoun used by Greg Egan; an author whose books I’m reading at the moment. Very good books by the way.

Just added a new Artwork page!

More people playing QWar. Whoopee!

Wahhhh, frustrating! I used to run a website with a decent amount of traffic, but no serious way to monetize it. Now I have a way to monetize it but not enough traffic. Google AdSense rocks by the way (although my click-thru rate is suspiciously high).

I put QWar on the forums at OrbWars. Within minutes, Thundercat had set a high score. Hopefully someone will try and beat him and they’ll be a little feud. Either way it should get popularity up a bit (at the very least it’ll fill out the highscore table a bit).

Not only are QWar and Supremacy now online, but you can now have QWar on your own site, complete with your own high score table! I’ll be putting a demonstration of this on this site soon.