Daily Early Meeting

Mar 292011
 

So I have daily super early morning meetings to provide progress updates on this super shitty dumb project I’m working on.

These meetings started yesterday and are set to go on for a couple of months until the current phase of the project is over. What does my exec, and delivery manager, do? He fucking hasn’t shown up yet to these meetings. Both yesterday and today me and this other bloke show up early morning. But the manager doesn’t show, doesn’t give us any warning that he’s not going to make it. On both days now, we’ve had to reschedule the meeting to after 9. If I had known that I wouldn’t have gotten in super frigging early.

The manager says he’ll make it super early tomorrow for the morning meeting. But sigh, so far I’ve gotten up super early for nothing. He better come on time tomorrow, otherwise I’m going to move for a reschedule of this stupid daily meeting.

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Sigh! Ads

Mar 262011
 

Ultimate Sigh has ads now, to your right. So remember to disable your ad filter (they are only text ads) and click on them if you will. Every cent goes towards keeping this PC on, so you can enjoy the sighs.

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Duke Nukem Forever Delayed Again

Mar 252011
 

duke

I really thought it would actually be released like they said it would this time around. But the longest in development game is still in development. At least the video announcing the delay is kind of funny.

Perhaps when nuclear fusion is solved, man has colonised the stars and the universe is facing heat death, maybe then, Duke will finally be released.

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No time and Doing a Jordan

Mar 182011
 

So long time between updates. And why? Because of work! What a massive sigh! I’ve been working late everyday and coming home pretty buggered to post anything, or to even fix the forum’s broken CSS after I upgraded the PHP versions. I’m about to go RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Another thing is that I’ve been reading the Song of Fire and Ice books from George R R Martin.

book cover
I’m currently on book 2: A Clash of Kings. The whole series to now is very good. One of the best fantasy series I’ve read in many a year so far. But something troubles me. And that’s the prospect of doing a Jordan.

Basically for those unfamiliar with the term, it refers to starting a book series very well and powerfully, then when it appears that the series is popular, drag out the series by writing fluff upon fluff and / or writing huge amounts on side characters that really can be cut, all to lengthen the time period by which one can milk the cashcow of your popular series. Song of Fire and Ice was initially meant to be 3 books, then 5 books, and now it’s been pushed to 7 books. Worse still, here are the publication dates:

Book Pages Release
A Game of Thrones 694 August 1996
A Clash of Kings 768 November 1998
A Storm of Swords 973 August 2000
A Feast for Crows 753 October 2005
A Dance with Dragons Unknown Expected July 2011
The Winds of Winter Unknown Unknown
A Dream of Spring Unknown Unknown

My concern is that his books are getting further and further in between, and he’s added more books to his series, which means it’s quite likely it won’t be done for maybe 10+ years to come. That is a long time to be waiting for the story to finish. By the time I finish all the books that have been released (or are about to be released soon), it’ll still probably be a few years before new books in the series are finished. So I’ll probably need to re-read some books just to remember what the fuck happened before. Assuming of course the author doesn’t die before he’s finished, a likely possibility given that he’s fairly old already and he’s quite fat. So even something good will probably lead to a sigh. 🙁

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Suarez

Mar 072011
 

Liverpool vs Man Utd…Usually these big matches are lacklustre affairs with both sides more firey than flairey. But last night’s match up between Liverpool and Man Utd was certainly worth watching. That turn and dribble around 3 players by Suarez to setup the first goal…well I think we have another star here.

SIGH for everything else though

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SighCQ Officially Online

Mar 062011
 

SighCQ is now online. You can navigate to the web client from the top menu now. So far these are the cool people on it:

  • Hotung
  • Yan
  • Sutit
  • Yman
  • Salsa

Sutit, I will email you your login and password, but all your buddies are set up already. Vadas, it’s not too late to go on this largest internet sensation of all time.

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