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One Week

Wes — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:28:29 +0000

Yesterday Jeff and I preformed at the Markham Jazz Festival. It was quite thrilling since I’m not really known for my musical talent. We played a song called 3.14159 written by Greg and based on the music from 867-5309/Jenny.

With only a week left till I return to Ireland, the count downs and crunch time have begun. Things are quickly being struck off the list of things I wanted to do this summer. No camping. No carpenter tool playing. and No film. *GASP* This will be the first summer in a long time without me and my friends creating a short film. There was just no time this summer for it. I had a 6 week break from school and spent half of that away from home (Windsor, Mexico, Spain).

Along with all the running, travelling, and working in clinics, I was able to make a dent in my personal web work. When it comes to web jobs, I always get them done. I’m pretty good at deadlines and buckling down, but when it comes to my own personal sites that don’t have deadlines or a paycheck things tend to move much slower. This site, for example, is very international space station like. Every blog post or so I also fix a CSS bug or add a some code and so on until 20 years from now it will be able to refuel ships in route to save the earth from a giant meteor, or whatever the blog equivalent is of that.

I recently added things to the site, Spain photos to my new flickr pro account, tag cloud since my categories are more than ambiguous, and also, what should be working now, support for openID commenting. Enjoy

Oh and also, AlphaCarbon Studios is offering an End of Summer sale on websites as mentioned in their newest post from the Markham Pedestrian Day.

5 Weeks of Freedom

Wes — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:53:44 +0000

I am finally back in Canada after what can only be described as a tornado of a year. Even in this last week, I have had to decide to either give up on some of my ambitions or at least put them on hold. I was able to use my time in Spain to re-prioritize things in my life and with a little help from “The House of God” by Samuel Shem, I have realized the worse is yet to come. There are still some things I would like to get done this summer with my 5 Weeks of Freedom.

1) Shoot another short film. Jeff and I are working on a heist film. There is still some details that need to be worked out but I think it is very doable if we jump on this quick before my trip to Mexico.

2) Medical RPG. I’m currently in production of creating a PC game of the Medical RPG genre (not sure if such exists yet). At first I was thinking of using XNA and C# but my artistic skills leave something to be desired so I might resort to a oldschool sprite 2D RPG and save people my horrible drawing skills and hope that my epic story will save the horrible graphics.

3) Campus Radio. Ya you heard me. I’m crazy. I’m thinking about starting a campus radio at RCSI. I will need alot of help, so this one might not happen.

Ontop of all the things I want to do, there is still a ton of stuff I HAVE to do.

Create the Surgical Soc Site
Mexico
Paediatric Observership
5k Race
10k Race
Work
Study

Its an ambitious timeline I will admit that, but I like a challenge.

Back Up and At It Again

Wes — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:12:03 +0000

I’m back in the online world. I took a year off just to take things easy. I’m going to be working on a layout from scratch over the next week, so you might want to check back for that. I decided on Wordpress for my CMS this time around. I have two sites running drupal but thought that might be over-kill for a blog and both Jake and Jason preferred Wordpress to b2evolution so that was that.

There will be lots and lots of updates happening in the next couple of weeks I would imagine. Next week I start a new hospital rotation, I also have my call-back audition for Grease, and some updates from the skating front.

It’s good to be back : )