You may all be quite pleased to know that I’ve been working quite a bit more on TGTTPOACS this past week than I have all these past eight months. As I predicted, the fact that I now spend my non-free time going to lectures and studying instead of working in front of a computer makes me feel more inclined to spent my free time working in front of a computer. Booyah.

It’s funny, but I’d almost forgotten how great a feeling it is to make your own game. It’s like playing a game, being immersed in its world and all, except you get to invent everything in it. Kind of like lucid dreaming, I suppose, but then again, I haven’t really had all that many lucid dreams.

The funnest part these days is writing the dialogue. Putting myself in the shoes of these weird characters I’ve created, and figuring out exactly what it is they’d say in a given situation. I sure hope I’m doing a good job of it, though. There is way too much cliched dialogue in games these days, after all. And some people just don’t get my sense of humour. *sigh*

Oh, and I’ve just applied for this. It would be really cool to get this scholarship, but then again, they’re only accepting ten people, and I have no idea what my odds are. Ah well, it’s worth a shot, I say.

I’ve made this blog even more secure by updating it to the latest version of sphpblog. (I suggest that all you sphpblog users do the same toute suite, especially you, Wormsie, because you no longer have a blog at all!) You may or may not notice that when you post a comment on these entries, there’s a brand spanking new antispam feature. True, I’ve never had any spammers here yet (I mean, really, what kind of screwed up person would spam a boring ol’ wannabe game designer and university student’s blog? Honestly!) but still, you can never be too prepared…

On another note, I’m typing this entry in the new computer science lounge thing at UBC. I love it here. It’s so quiet and relaxing. *relaxes quietly*

Last night, I discovered that I can very easily enter math formulae into OpenOffice.org documents.

All those poor unfortunate Microsoft Office users have to use MathType to do what I can do. However, I don’t have to pay a cent, nor do I have to resort to piracy.

This also means I won’t have to waste very much paper this year, as I will now be able to take all of my notes completely in electronic form.

OpenOffice.org, you’re my heee-rooooh.

Looks like various sphpblogs are being hax0red right, left, and centre.

In my case, I did find a weird php file in the image upload directory… but to my knowledge, nothing else has happened. Oh well. I applied some security fixes, so everything should be fine now… *crosses fingers*

P.S. If you’ve got a sphpblog, go here and take some advice from the nice people who posted various ways to fix these annoying vulnerabilities.

P.P.S. Can you believe I’m editing this entry so that it says “hax0red” instead of “hacked”? As you see, I REALLY have no life…