なんか、i’ve been busy over the last week and a bit. between playing Total Annihilation (and anticipating the SupCom release more and more..), creating a 30 minute presentation for the WAITTA award our uni project group got nominated for, and the occasional jdrama and piano practice… time just seems to disappear!

do i have anything to show? why yes. although it is a bit low resolution, here is a short clip we made for our presentation

if you feel the need to see a higher res version msg me :p. i was pretty happy with how it turned out!

somehow still alive after the weekend heat wave. was actually a pretty pleasant weekend, all considered (being 3 days long did help in making it so). highlights include visiting people with airconditioning, eating dimsums in an air-conditioned restaurant, drinking bubble tea in an ai… yeah you get the idea.

this week on upppy!

it’d be great if i could do a segment like that on my blog :p. anyway there’s quite a bit of impressive content up there this week – so why not. as i can’t yet link to threads directly, you will have to navigate from the main site if you want to see the originating threads. i have to say thanks to alll those people out there with the constantly flowing suggestions and bug reports . development is quite steady, considering how many hours i actually have to throw at it D:.

first up is karl, who took an initially horrible quality panoramic image taken on my phone (by phill) and turned it into something very psychadellic. i remember a point where lens flares were overused and went out of fashion, but this has a nice balance to it.

next lets enter the world of HDR – a style of photo manipulation where many individual photos are combined to increase the intensity of lighting and overall quality of the photo without requiring the camera exposure to be on some exponentially long setting (although this still helps :p). we found out that cameras with small lens aren’t improved too much using this technique in low-light situations, but it makes quite a difference in normally lit photos nevertheless.

lastly, a photo taken by karl on saturday night amidst the lightning storm on saturday night. pretty uber!

if you haven’t been to upppy yet, knock out your up-to-date *cough* not ff1.5 or ie or anything *cough* and take a look around. just a note that if you get offended by not such.. mainstream content easily then you may want to refrain from doing so before i implement the categorical separation of images. and yes, that is a disclaimer. anything posted by “peppy” on the board is actually some other guy using my name, as well. at least that might keep people off my back until i have left the country. :d

lots of stuff is happening!

i bought a new piano keyboard. very nice to be able to place a piano with a decent touch response once again .

i found out my webserver is being spammed by phent*rmine merchants. who apparently reside at respected locations such as Winthrop University. approximately 10 requests per minute, where they attempt to get advertising by setting their referring urls to dodgy links, while spamming your site if they manage that (but oh no! they aren’t smart enough to do maths yet ).

i have been working on a newish project, and while its not really stable enough for public release just yet, it should be quite soon. quite an interesting piece of work! i lost all but 2 hours of sleep last night to it though, unfortunately. going to be hard to recover from this… toriaezu, tanoshimishitene~

in other news, falco (or psrv, for the nostalgic ones around) got attacked by a virus. i won’t say how this happened, because as usual its due to my own stupidity. luckily, nobody (and no files) were harmed, and all is peaceful once again in the land of peppiness.

i have some interesting stuff in my blog’s blog (lol) and will hopefully get around to writing it up when the time presents itself.