I'm lacking proper material to post about but recently there have been some developments which might have some purpose in posted form.

First, I created BakaMailer, a simple e-mail notification system that lets you know when Baka-Updates announces new anime or manga releases. They don't have this service themselves because they seem to be afraid of running out of bandwidth or something (honestly, even with a userbase such as theirs it would be quite a feat if you'd actually use up a significant amount of bandwidth with simple e-mails). I wanted it, so I made it. For those who care, the system itself is written in Python, the webinterface in PHP. Both interface with the same MySQL database. Why not do the webinterface in Python as well? While I think Python is one of the best languages out there, it isn't made to work out-of-the-box for designing websites and I couldn't be bothered with frameworks such as Django for the moment. PHP might not be the best language in existence, but for quick and dirty website coding it's the go-to language.

In other news, I'm going to be working on a leaderboard system for the open-source Worms clone Wormux. I have yet to even start the design, let alone the coding, but I'm looking forward to starting on this project and updates will be released in due time.

In life outside computers, I finished my second exam period at Uni. Two exams and one dreadful boring meeting which had absolutely not use at all. I think I have a chance of passing all my subjects, some more than others, but I'm glad it's over nonetheless. I'll be celebrating it this weekend with a full day of technical nerding for one of the associations I'm part of on Saturday, and an Enter Shikari concert in Amsterdam on Sunday (with free entrance in my case even).

One of the events I'm helping set up (a 50-person LAN party spanning a weekend in a faculty building) is drawing closer and closer, and I'm currently communicating with several parties for the networking and power equipment. Fun stuff! This event will take place from Friday 5 until Sunday 7 March. In addition to that, I have a 30 Seconds to Mars concert on Tuesday March 2nd, and my birthday is Thursday March 4th. I'm looking forward to the week already.

Talking of concerts, my schedule:
- 31/01: Enter Shikari
- 02/03: 30 Seconds to Mars
- 25/03: Airbourne
- 25/06 - 27/06: Graspop 2010 (got my ticket a couple of days ago)
- 29/06: Mark Knopfler

I love my life.

Jelco