Digital Dave

Well, the research project is being a typical research project… It’s slow going.  Reason being is because my professor and I have to dig through current research studies to find something to replicate. Which, isn’t exactly fun because we’re trying to stay away from the incredibly complex studies (we don’t have a whole lot of time here).

I should also note that I have a twitter account, and that I’ve got myself hooked on it.  It is a lot more interesting than I thought it would be.  You can even grab twhirl that is powered by Adobe AIR to monitor your account on your desktop. My fiancee still gives me crap about using it (I think she still fails, or denies, to know that I’m a computer nerd…), but I consider it blogging on a micro level…  It seems like there are a lot of coders on it, which gives me a fun look into their daily work schedule.

This most recent ‘tweet’ came through: “figure out the least we can possibly do, then implement those basic features with as much attention to detail as we can.”  Sounds like the fun just got blown out of that project.

Twitter must be doing okay… They just spent $15 million aquiring Summize, which is basically a data crawler to sift through all of the tweets.

In other news, I’m tinkering with Python.  What’s college free-time without tinkering?  I surely need to get something out of this summer if I can’t even get this research project going.

Since I’m completely new to Python, I figured I’d create an adventure game with it out of the gates.  Python + XML = $$$.  Well, minus the $$$.  I’m just having fun with it. I enjoy tinkering with languages to see how they work.  I’ve already got a good learning foundation going with Python, and it has given me some painful moments… Like the IDE that comes packaged with it… That thing is junk.  I finally ended up using eclipse since I’m somewhat familiar with it.  I should note that I have 63 hours left before this self challenge is over (making this game).

Oh… And I have a friend moving out to California before me… That doesn’t sit well- I need to graduate.