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yesterday i went with my working colleages to a kart-racecourse where we did a one hour race. everybody who's done this before knows that racing an hour is very exhausting. but very cool. when the race was over it was decided: i came out first . well, sort of... actually i came out 5th of ten participans, but : winner was a guy from ORF (thats the public TV-station in austria).those guys are FREAKS, the orf has a sortof professional kart team that gets sponsored by some companies and they always win races that are made regularily. so he sortof raced noncompetitive. second and third came out 2 guys from the rental department. they are also kindof regular kart racers, like participating each year in a 3 hours race and stuff. so no wonder they were better than me. so then on fourth positition was my boss. and of course i cannot beat my boss ;) what a dumb thing to do this would have been.... so you see, .... actually i came out first :) afterwards i then went to a party. 3 friends...

but hope to be up on friday again, then we are going kart-driving with parts of the company.... because of my insignificant wheight i always do a good job at the races so i really wanna join them. plus afterwards there'll be a birthday party i'd like to join. then on saturday there will be another party... with some romanians ^^ i also wanna be ready to do THAT. we'll see

i finally managed to compile C++ code on my PSP. i completely removed my development environment for psp and began reinstalling: this time i relied on the MINPSPW project instead of doing all the cygwin stuff. after that i then used the makefile of Neko Grafico and now it compiles with C++. I am not too happy with all the tutorials out there to get one going creating stuff for the PSP. Especially Oslib with C++. So here a HowTo to set up Oslib with C++ to run from the scratch. This small turorial guides you how to get going creating C++ applications for your PSP with the OldSchool Library (at the moment of writing that is Oslib Version 2.10 Alpha) with Visual Studio Express 2008. At the end you will have a compiled program that you then can run on your PSP (if you know how). This tutorial will use the tools provided by the MINPSPW project. The advantage of this is that you will not need Cygwin for it to run. For getting this tutorial done you should not need any knowledge about Makefil...

well not much to say. this is a rather irrelevant entry, you can skip it ;) friday evening i was just chilling in front of the tv. saturday i slept long like always, then went out on a date and saw some original but somewhat strange piece in the theatre, beforehand went out for dinner. afterwards i departed with my sweet company, drove to a friend and we went on a pub tour. we found a nice alternative pub i didnt know of before: Das Jetzt a nice place and they had 60s night so they already had my heart. beer not expensive, maybe a bit small. and not many girls. afterwards we went to the B72 where we then both felt a bit old: the music was crap which we arent used to in the B72 but it seems this is already like that for a half a year or so. afterwards we went to the Chelsea, there it was better. at 4 or something they threw us out. sunday then was just getting the alcohol out of my bloodstream and sleeping. so far so good, see what the week brings.... oh yeah, the Isis concert. probly,...

Think Geek gave me some inspiration yesterday when i ordered some stuff. Every country has its list of "taboos" and Japan is no different There is a shirt showing some things you should avoid doing in Japan. In Japan you should avoid sleeping with your head pointing to the north putting chopsticks straight up in rice (both related to Japanese funerals) entering a house with dirty shoes on those are the 3 absolute No-No's in Japan. I think it is a very usable list and decided to extend it for some other countries. But what if you travel somewhere differently? Here now a helpful list with the 3 most important things you should avoid in other countries: In USA you should avoid Smoking in public drinking in public being a terrorist In England you should avoid saying you want to pay in euro going out after 23:00 eating native food In France there are certain taboos that you shouldnt go across, else they will regard you as a very wicked person and may not speak with you ever ag...

here's something i agree to, and you should so too for the sake of society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Free_Culture_movement

yesterday i was in club ost. thats a club here in vienna i didn't know about till now. it somewhat shall give the visitors an eastern flair. which works pretty well for non-easteners. i was there with some romanian girls. they all told me it all doesn't "fit right". anyway a nice club. i was astonished i didnt know it till now. its not alternative like i like it but on the other hand its not that posh that i would immediately dislike it, maybe i'll once give it another try when there's no concert there. but from the start. a friend of mine called me if i wanted to go out with him and a romanian girl he met at university some time ago to a concert. i had 3 choices what to do with my friday: one: relaxed cinema/video watching with a friend two: go to a free concert of the singer of "Die Sterne" in Chelsea three: join him to a concert of some moldavian band. luckily, i chose number three. i met them at the appartment of the romanian girl. there i disco...

today i watched weedeater in the arena. well i should have. but i didnt like them so i left early. pity in one way:  there even were more than 5 girls in the audience when weedeater started....  something i have not seen for quite a few concerts now  ;) thats the risk when you go to concerts of bands you do not know. you may not like them. but there are many examples when this calculation goes out positive. but before weedeater, 'Stinking Lizaveta' were playing.  though their gig was not super, their performance was outstanding nonetheless! Stinking Lizaveta consist of a couple and the brother of the guitarist playng e-bass (you know....cello type of bass), the couple both being...lez say 40+, but still rocking hard! they put up a show that most other bands can dream of, which sort of compensated the lack of musical greatness from the eyes of a stoner listener. though all their songs have much variety and idea, they are not what i dig nowadays. they more make a mix of noise-mus...

yesterday i paid a visit to an exhibition of archimboldo , a painter painting from bout 1540 to 1595 or something. what is really interesting is that he made surreal pictures, his portraits of people consisting of objects: like a portrait consisting of only wild animals, or a portry consisting of fruit. with that he was really ahead of his time from our point of view, because many centuries passed until someone began painting in such a style again. another funny thing he "invented" were the upside down pictures: paintings of fruit bowls that, if you turn them upside down show a face. i moreso wonder about that because archimboldo was very popular back in his time and also famous, but when he died, he was forgotten and up until 1910 nobody knew who he was! i wonder how this has happened....  if you ever have a chance to see an exhibition of him, go there.  in vienna you can see him at the KHM  at the moment 

what was happening yesterday? i finally finished the psp game killzone liberation, one of the best portable games i know so far (including old-school gameboy).  thats about it on the private side. still need to look at the psp programming, too tired today. if everything goes well this weekend then i will have some cool code on the psp for monday to show my colleages. but actually i hope the weekend runs great then i will be too distracted with a veery sweet girl i wanna get to know better, then no time for the psp :) at work i finally had hands-on-experience why copy-constructors are so important in C++ while they are so minor in .NET, mostly having todo with (what else) the lack of garbage collection and the presence of pointers and explicitly reserved memory in c++. and even more so when you are using STL containers. but more on that maybe at some other time. i'll continue listening to fine dead meadow cd "old growth" now, isnt that a fine album. yes it iz.

psplink is a fine utility with which you are able to run psp-compiled programs without the need of manually copying your EBOOT file to the psp. i finally managed to compile it. i found a tutorial describing how to get to run this. unfortunately it is in french but for what did i learn it in school? ah yes, and for what do you have google.translate  ;) the link can be found  here   one thing to note: with just having M33 custom firmware installed the psplink software will not work. you first need to install dark alex 1.50 kernel-addon. else psplink will not start. after you installed this addon, you can run the psplink. but psplink is more than just a tool with which you can run your applications remotely. it is also a failsafe mechanism if the program crashes your PSP to resetting it fast and easy. plus you could also a debugger for debugging your program.  i didnt try it yet though. after this is working now.... i could finally start developing  :) but for now i will leave it be, i ha...

is the lack of insight that one can gain. now i want to code some PSP games i also need further gimmicks installed on my PSP that will enable me to remote-debug my PSP programs and run my cross compiled programs on the PSP while they are still lying on my harddisk. for this there is a nice program called psplink. i think its the programs "fault" that nobody is using the oslib framework for the PSP i may have mentioned earlier for compiling on the pc, which is is supposed to support. because everybody seems to debug and test out the games with this psplink on their psp right away. fine so i thought, well then lets install this wonderful thing. unfortunately, the program does not start on my M33-90. search me why, but from some tutorials for some different homebrew i now know i need the 1.50-add on for the m33-90. i just installed that, but what i really would like to know is: what is that thing doing?  :)  you dont really get some info about that unfortunately, gettings things...

mmmh, today i celebrated the last exam a student friend of mine had. before that the day didnt work quite round, the celebration did not easy my uneasiness. not that it was the groups fault. getting to some student restaurant with many fancy wancy dishes, but nearly all being only "light" food (ya know this esoteric african beans or goat cheese, but no hardcore beef dishes) for heavier prices, ordering a big beer and being told with a frown they only sell small beers did not raise my mood either. i hate that kind of clientele running and frequenting those places. why, and what i mean exactly by that, i ll maybe tell some other time. now i am just getting my tipsiness down and listening to some Radio Moscow . check them out they are a nice band making energetic blues rock. no more, but no less. then i ll just put myself to sleep and see what tomorrow brings. am a bit curious about creating some program for the PSP. patience my dear padawan...