Webservers, Projects and Hassle.

The title’s misleading, Sorry. Neither the webservers or the project are really the hassle. It’s more the content…

I’m not a web developer and I dont know the wonderous language of PHP (I dont want to either) but unfortunately my Computing A Level project has a large chance of dependiong on it.

Basically it started off last week.

My teacher and I agreed the best platform for testing would be a little test server on a stick. So I downloaded a webserver  and the moodle learning platform onto a flash drive to begin developing on. First problem: the version of PHP was not correct on the sever I downloaded.

So I downloaded a second server. This didn’t however fit on the flash drive…. (so much for a server on a stick) So that’s now on my hard drive producing more clutter but at least it works.

Ish.

Be honest, you knew that was comming…

Anyway, loaded it up, did the install, opened the page, and error. For some reason version.php was corrupt… A little research found that when I copied the files over version.php had ended up as a load of interesting characters that it shouldn’t be… Great.

So, fixed, loaded it up, did the install, opened the page, created the users (twice) and started coding my plugin in a vague unknowing method. Guess what? Error in moodle.

I mean c’mon! That’s not even my fault…

Reinstalled moodle with an update. and I was finally able to start coding my plugin with a actual test server that worked. And so far I have a small checkbox working!

Progress 😀

We are one. We are eternally greatfull. :D

So here’s a question:

The Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus are all God. How?

We Christians believe in one God, all three of them, and that’s a fundamental of Christianity.

So first thoughts are that The Father, the Holy Spirit and Jesus are all different incarnations (probably a better word for it) of our 1 God…

But now look in the bible and Jesus is praying to The Father for miracles…? Even though he is God so surely he can do it… And it states that Jesus ascends to sit at the right hand of the Father. So is he his own right hand man?! Furthermore, what’s probably the second fundamental of Christianity is that Jesus is the son of The Father but they’re both God. Daymn.

There is actually quite a nice explanation:
In what they are, they are all God. In who they are, they are all individuals.

Basically this is saying that they’re all god, but if you ask them who they are they become their individual: Jesus was God but he was human, The Father is God but he is the omnipresent being that created us, the Holy Spirit is God but he is he one was can’t see and confuses everyone… (I’ll do a post on that when I understand…)

It’s the whole doctrine of the Trinity, that there are three beings making up our God, yet when addressed, God is one.

I hope this makes sense to you, because I’m now really confused. 😦

A little light reading for me

I’m going to read the bible.

And I’m going to do it in a year.

But I have a secret tactic up my sleeve: I’m not the only one doing it!

I couldn’t get into it the first time I tried, it gets a little hard to read when it lists peoples’ family trees for the past 15 generations, but watching their videos about each section makes you see meaning you didn’t see before and combined with the fact you’re reading three different parts at the same time makes it quite easy!

Interestingly I found myself just skipping around the bible earlier, reading random bits, verses and chapters. I read the whole book Song of Songs but it’s not a very long book so wasn’t too timeconsuming 😛

All in all I’m enjoying these 20 minute sessions I have watching the videos and reading the bible sections and, if work doesn’t cut in, I might just manage the whole year 🙂

1 Year Anniversary!!!!!

2 Days late…

 

That’s all… 🙂

Star Conflict – First thoughts review

Dagagagagaga! Pew! Pew!

Lets do some a game review shall we? 😀

First I’m going to say what I hoped it was… I hoped it was an open world MMO similar to EVE online is or what BSGO is bordering on. I hoped I could fly around and fight for sector control etc etc…

Well I think you can! When you can get into a faction…

I can’t say how easy it is to get in… I’ve applied to 2 but I may just setup my own… There’s just that slight annoyance about not being given access to the features you downloaded the game for when you’ve finished the tutorial.

The worst thing, however, is that there are the stupid cartoonish women giving you your orders and guiding through your tutorials in an attempt to appeal to the sexually frustrated male population. Why can I not just have a picture of a radio? Or someone dressed in a military uniform rather than underwear? (underwear is actually an exaggeration…)

Nevertheless the game is quite smooth and fun to play in the deathmatch mode and I actually really like the fighting mechanics. I wont talk about the interesting controls however…

I think the overall problem is that I want EVE online.

Anyone want to donate £12.99 a month? 😀

Results!

I forgot to tell you guys my AS results, got the last Thursday but was a little preoccupied with Soul Survivour stuff 😛

Got 3 A’s and a B, the B was because I flunked the Systems and Control exam with a C. All the other modules were very good A’s so I guess it doesn’t matter that much 🙂

Pretty happy with those though 😀

Dance! Dance! Everybody dance!

I’m at Soul Survivour at the moment, it’s a huge Christian festival and I’ve never been before.

It’s awesome.

Every day we have 2 worships, each basically entails a talk and a lot of singing and dancing to live music played by some of the most famous Christian artists – like Rend Collective and Beth Croft.

But also the presenter is pretty awesome, apart from taking wolf whistles from 18 year olds (he’s 56 and now she’s embarrassed :P) and also a lot of weight related abuse, he’s been in what seems like constant communication with god. He’s taken gambles, from what he thought was God’s voice, in making everyone wait for miracles and people have stood up in laughter, filled with Jesus.

And if you’re not religious, you’re probably not going to believe this. And thats ok because not everyone will want to, I won’t force you to turn to a christian or even read on. But I’d like you to 🙂

Rain, a slight hindrance 😛

However, despite the simple miracles performed I’ve seen things that’ll last me a lifetime: he’s been successfully able to see the messages God has given to people, one was told to become a missionary in Chille and then he just randomly announced it and the boy stepped forwards.

Plus, as a collective, I’ve watched people fall to tears over gods touch on them. I’ve comforted them and stood by their side as they stood at the front of the audience just to cry their pain away. I’ve seen people collapse under God’s healing power and laugh at the joy.

And I just feel more connected to God. Thats cool 🙂

Whoa!

I made a post. With a title that had no relationship to the post at all. Complaining about something I enjoy doing everyday.

And gained 6 followers and had the best day on my blog yet…? Eh?

I need to start complaining more…

But thanks you guys 😀

Till the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

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Cuba: I came. I saw. I got an earache.

I haven’t posted for the last 2 week’s because I went to Cuba for my holiday this year (it was great thanks for asking 😉 ), I was going to post my 14 day dairy but a) that didn’t get finished and b) it would have been quite boring…

So instead I’m going to say it was really fun. I tried new things, got bored of the food, was hot and got a little lost on mojitos a couple of times.

However, up in the hasienda (I have no clue how you spell that…) I got a little fevery – you know, temperature, no energy, slight cough and sensitive to the touch – which wasn’t fun. Particularly considering I was camping that night in some mountains. Stranded.

My ear had also started aching a little up there in the mountains, it does that occasionally but not usually that badly, which made me a little concerned and also rather grumpy.

Next morning: ouch. My ear was killing my (plus the fever was still there). Breakfast was it’s usual egg and bread. I wasn’t feeling particularly hungry and I don’t like egg so I ate a small piece of bread instead.

Over the mountains, we drove into Trinidad. The hottest place in Cuba seems a lot hotter when you’re already hot… Not much happened here so I’ll skip straight to the all inclusive hotel 😛

This is where it all kinda kicked off…

3am first morning I woke up with a really sore ear. Now I’m no good at getting to sleep at the best of times but with an ear throbbing in pain: just no… Called mum across and she decided to get the onsite nurse (all inclusive resorts do have there positives 😛 ). Annoyingly the nurse seemed slightly more concerned with my temperature than my ear and so went a bit wild with treatment.

Firstly I was told to shower and let the water evaporate – which makes sense – then she disappeared and came back with ice alcohol and a tray. Alcohol on the ice, ice under my armpits, neck and on my forehead and the water melted off the ice everywhere else on me. Ummmm…

This, followed by a second shower, succeeded in the old fashioned thermometer registering 1 whole degree less. So she gave me an aspirin to finish.

The next day we got hold of the international doctor – ear still hurt and my temperature had risen straight back up 😛 He was a very nice chap who, unlike the nurses, spoke to me in English rather than interpretive dance. Finally through a little examination and a few questions he prescribed:
– Paracetamol for the fever and pain
– Antibacterial eardrops to I think wash out my ear(?)
– Antibiotics to help fight the earache
– Nose drops to clear my nose. Why? I’m not really sure; my nose was fine…

3 days of large pills and drops in a variety of orifices and I felt slightly better! I had at one point sneezed and grabbed my nose, the pressure went straight to my ear with a painfully bang and then made it clear and be slightly less achey which was niceish for a while. However it didnt really clear it enough for me to not be a little scared of the plane journey home the next day.

Lets say take off hurt… Fortunately 9 hours later and it didn’t seem to hurt as much landing nor taking off and landing again in our connection. Yay!

So there you are: Cuba has good doctors and warm sea, I therefore recommend it as a good holiday destination 🙂