With all this social activities report, some people may think that I’ve been wasting all of my time. In fact I’ve only wasted most of it 8)
This week I went back to the gym, after having skipped it a few times. Incredibly I was weighting 71.25 Kg ! I remember about a month ago having been so happy for 71.65 Kg and now I’m closer to 71 than ever. That’s one positive-productive news.
I’ve also been working on video compression. I made the frame differences detection more robust, then I moved onto extending the image compression routines I developed recently to handle the video compression. Basically to only send the differences between one frame and the next one. This isn’t done yet, because of course I wasted a lot of time, but I’ve reached a good point (especially fixed a nasty bug).
Today I didn’t leave the apartment. I mostly focused on starting a new web-site for my mother’s pub. I decided to use PHP, especially because of the handy include feature, possibly the biggest problem with HTML. Also I’m planning to add a message board and embedding fresh news to the site via RSS. RSS is the hot topic of the moment, everyone seems to have an RSS feed. What I really want is just to grab news from other sites and embed them on my mother’s site.. just to keep the page active and somewhat entertain visitors.
In order to do all this, of course I had to install and setup PHP support into the Apache 2 server running on my home server.
Lastly ! I played around with Perl, this time to work on the home server pictures album. I need to improve the main page, but I was stuck with a Bash script, so I rewrote the index-page generator in Perl. The actual look is the same, but having the generator run in Perl makes it easier to add the things that I’m planning.
I didn’t seriously study any Japanese, aside from the usual bathroom sessions (that’s how I studied to get my California driver’s license !). Instead, I watched most of Aliens, again !
Hopefully tomorrow I can get something done, instead of trying to do all things at once.
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