Reading mace's journal

September 27th, 2004 is the last entry in this journal. That's a long time to be keeping you in the dark, Netalive. Sorry about that.

Since February, 2006 I've been working as a PHP developer for a company whose major product is a large adult dating website. It has been a wonderful learning experience. I work on a development team with about 30 other people. I came from working on a team with two other guys.

In May 2006 I moved into my own apartment. Here are two different views from my balcony, looking out towards Young street (the longest street in the world):

I've got a projector with an 83" screen hooked up to my computer, I've got a digital piano, and a couple trees.

But all that stuff is pretty unimportant compared to what happened on June 5th. I'd like to introduce you to Alexia:

She's my niece and, coincidentally, the best baby in the world. She's always happy and laughing, showing you the few teeth she has. She hates it when people wear glasses and will whip them right off your face, then try and eat them. She loves flicking the lights on and off and she loves chewing on the TV remote when you're trying to watch something. Here's another picture of her with her mommy for good measure:

As an ongoing project my dad and I have been working on a MAME cabinet (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator for the laypeople). Here are a couple pictures:

It has taken us a long time since I only get down to my parents place about once a week. And I'm usually being beaten up by a baby for most of the time I'm there.

Other notable events occurring within 2006 will have to remain stories for another time. I will leave you with this:

"If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question."
-- Rasmus Lerdorf, BDFL of PHP

Words to live by.

That MAME thing looks really cool! What kind of hardware will you stuff into it? And will it be a one-of-a-kind machine or a small-quantity production?

Here's another picture of her with her mommy for good measure:

(The baby does look cute. Dare I ask who the guy in the background is?)

"God is dead." - Nietzsche, 1882 "Nietzsche is dead." - God, 1900

It will definately be one of a kind. If I ever make another one, a lot of lessons will have been learned from this first model. I won't make the same mistakes twice. :)

As for the hardware... I'm thinking about buying a new PC and sticking my current one in there - a 2ghz Athlon64. I'll be using a TV as opposed to a computer monitor to make the arcade games look more authentic. I'll get a wireless keyboard/mouse and have it hooked up to my LAN and it will probably be running Ubuntu.

The guy in the background there is the father (aka my future brother in law).