This semester has been one awful mess so far. My time has been almost entirely consumed with school, work and homework. Because of this, my blog and YouTubed-2x have been neglected. Also, I have had almost no time for fun. I am now giving myself a little free time so that I can relax a bit.

Last night, I finally got to see the movie 9; I originally wanted to see it on the 12th. It doesn't have a deep story behind it but it is awesome action flick and it is a visually impressive film. Besides that, I have been playing a little bit of Left 4 Dead and Beyond Good and Evil. I haven't gotten very far in either game yet.

As for school, my COM 223 (Small Group Process) and ITK 353 (Web Development Technologies) classes have been taking up the majority of my time. The assignments in ITK 353 aren't that difficult but they are really time consuming. ITK 353 is a web development technologies course that is revolving around the usage of JSF (JavaServer Faces). COM 223 requires way too much work outside of class; it is to the point where I have to miss other classes in order to work on group projects. The other ITK course that I am taking this semester is actually a useful course so far; the course is a Concepts of Programming Languages course (basically a compiler course). I feel like I am actually learning something in that class and it is challenging enough to change my way of thinking.

That is enough information about my schooling. There are some tasks that are on my agenda to do sometime soon. I am thinking first about converting my blog application to use class-based views. I also want to make some sort of gallery application. My third round of P90X will be done on Nov. 1st. So far, I have lost 3 inches around my waist and I have only gained around 4-5 lbs this round; my waist is actually at 26.5 in. but, even though it is a lot more tight, I still somehow have too much fat in that area to have anything close to a six-pack. Last but not least, I need to update YouTubed-2x at least one more time.

My little experiment with collaborative development with YouTubed-2x has proven to be a complete failure. I just recently found out about the Help Wanted section of SourceForge so I might try to utilize that and see it anyone wants to join the development team. I want to clean up a couple of the newer features, such as session management, and that will be the main motivation for a new release. I had started working on a possible parser updater for YouTubed-2x and I got a very rough prototype working. However, that feature will not be worked on further mainly due to lack of a user base. If you are not a GP2X or Wiz user, I would suggest that you use xVideoServiceThief instead.

That is about everything that I have been up to lately. I guess you will hear back from me in another two months.