It lives! (part 2)

I’m very happy to write that I got a second drawing from firekitty! I liked the first one but I like the second one better. Now I’m just waiting for too to show me the character designs he has made… I hope he manages to scan them quickly as I’m rather anxious to see them… For now, enjoy the new unfinished sketch. I’ll probably try to write more of the novel this weekend.

February 28, 2006

Bertinoro di Romagna

After sorting out the bureaucracy, finally I was able to enroll for the 6th Course in Bioinformatics for Molecular Biologists that will take place in Bertinoro di Romagna in three weeks. I’m glad I was able to, the course program looks really interesting and perhaps I’ll be finally able to learn bioinformatics in the right way, since so far I’m entirely self-taught, and sadly, it shows. On another topic, the ceiling is going to be fixed by tomorrow, I hope, so I’ll be able to get back to my old office at last.

February 21, 2006

Ceiling

Yesterday something happened: while I was working in the office I heard a loud THUD. Then nothing happened. I kept on doing my work till the site manager arrived, asking us to go out of the room. The reason is that the steel cables that were keeping the ceiling up had loosened, and the whole ceiling bent downwards, which was very dangerous. We temporarily moved in an unfinished laboratory, and we’re still there until repairs are done (it will take a few days, I’m being told).

February 21, 2006

Valor Coronet! Relic armor 1/5

Earlier today I logged into FFXI to do my usual Tuesday Dynamis run with the United Dynamis linkshell. I was actually quite eager to do the run, since I missed two in a row because of lack of access to the specific areas. I was also hoping to see some relic armor drop at last. While many players want certain “endgame” items, I’m focused on the Paladin relic armor and weapons.

February 19, 2006

Rain

As today was almost completely uneventful (and kept on raining), I’m putting together an all-in-one entry. First of all I played more with the webcam on Linux. The exposure setting and some other gamma corrections can’t be really set in real-time yet, so it tends to get a little dark. Nevertheless I can get some decent results, here’s an example picture of my desk: general/desktop.jpg I also tried to update my old Mandriva 2006.

February 17, 2006

Opo-opos and Hyppogriphs

Yesterday I was feeling bad and had a mild fever, so I didn’t go to work. I took the chance of playing a bit in Final Fantasy XI. First, a bard in our linkshell needed some items for the opo-opo crown and so I and others tried to help him to get an item that drops off Sand Diggers in Quicksand Caves. We spent a good deal of time there, but we didn’t get any.

February 15, 2006

Fate/stay night #06

I’ve watched Fate/stay night a couple of days ago and I can say I am quite enjoying this series. The development of the plot is going a little slow so I expect this anime to be 26 episodes long. My only disappointment is that despite Saber is one of the main characters, she hardly gets to do anything at all.

February 13, 2006

Wordpress 2.0.1

I’ve just upgraded my blog to WP 2.0.1. Aside a little problem with the gallery images (easily fixed) everything seems to run smooth for now. If you notice any glitches please post a comment and I’ll get it fixed.

February 12, 2006

Webcam on Linux, success!

general/webcam_work.jpg I have this Trust Mini-Webcam WB-1200p since my younger brother gave it to me as a present for my last birthday. It’s a decent webcam, pity it has a CIF sensor and not a CCD one, but it’s still OK for daily use. Until now there wasn’t a decent Linux driver around, and so I was forced to boot into Windows (which I almost do not use now, save for Final Fantasy XI).

February 11, 2006

New S.T.E.A.L. snapshot

As the post says, I’ve uploaded a new snapshot of S.T.E.A.L., finally closing a part that had been open since last summer, and hopefully paving the way for the big things to come for the rest of chapter 4. As usual, the most current version can be downloaded from the links on the sidebar.