*breaths*

Now this is nice.

I finally have some free time after 2-3 weeks of solid code grinding. Damn it feels good.

Updates on Clay's life:

I've gotten a new job; one doing Tier 2 Tech Support for HP at 15$ an hour. For a student in College, that is extremely good.

Go me.

I'm into the last month of this semester, thank god. I don't have any assignments due for two weeks (-happy-) and everything with the missus seems peachy.

Sad thing is however, my editing is going downhill.

I don't have much time to edit, really, and yet I see vast improvements in either people younger, or older than me, who possibly have as much, if not more, time than I do to perfect the skill of editing.

I also greatly lack in resources, and ambition. I have a tendency to come up with an idea for a few lines, try it, and get discouraged because it doesn't come out the way I want and then let it fall.

This happens a lot.

Hopefully this won't happen with Rough Hands, but we will see. Editing starts today at 2:54 pm, and we will see how the process pans out. I might have an update later on in the week to show how far along I am, or to say that I've canned the project once again.

Also, I have a small neat idea that if I get a few comments on wanting the idea, I'll do it.

I'm thinking of doing game reviews for the mass of games I've played/am playing/will play.

These game reviews will range from the Nintendo Entertainment System all the way through to the Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable. For all Wii and XBOX owners/lovers: I'm sorry, but I will not be reviewing games for those consoles unless they have a PC counterpart. I just do not have the funds, nor the want, to play with those systems.

Leave comments on here and if I get enough of them I'll deem it worthy of time and will start doing them. The reviews will not follow a chronological order, yet will be whichever I think of. They might jump from PS2 to SNES to PS3 to NES to Gameboy.

Anyways, that's all for today.

Take care,

Clay

Careful Little Update

Just a small update today!

I have made a decision, quite a big one to myself in fact. If you are at all familiar with my internet persona you would know that I, Clay, am staff and an editor of Epical Studios (www.epicalstudios.net ....shameless plug, I know). The video shown below is my first release with that studio, and I'm quite proud of it.

However, there's a small problem with me. I'm poor.

What does being poor have anything to do with being a video editor? Alot.

See, the main thing an editor uses is...well...footage. Perfect quality footage is not cheap. If you're using Anime footage, it's even less cheap.

So this means that for the next few anime music videos, they will not be the greatest footage quality, but will be me experimenting with a few ideas I have always had. So you might see some unfinished videos because I have a very large track record of not finishing a video, but I will do my best to show you all just what Clay can do with adobe!

Take care all,

Clay

Deadlines should be announced

I realize it's only been one day since the first post, but I felt I need to actually put this up.

I'm currently a student at Cambrian College in the Software Engineering Technology course, third year. I'm also a wireless customer technical support representative for Rogers at Sitel Sudbury.

I'm a student with a part-time job, in other words.

Time management is one of the key points of every single one of my days. Yet our professors at College seem to forget the fact that 90-95% of their students are in fact students with part-time jobs, and don't realize that planning ahead is a key factor for us.

No, instead it's more along the lines of "Oh, ummm, well the Lab is due on Monday!" (saying this on Friday morning). Thanks guys.

It really helps my mind take a breather on the weekend to know that I have to cram this in...

IN OTHER NEWS!

SQL Lab is a success!! but enough of that...



One of my better attempts at creating wallpapers. I used a stock Anime image and made the background myself using multiple layers. In this post I will also add one very very special thing.

My first video:



Click on the image to download it.

I know it is still fairly linear and easy, but there will be more to come. Yes, there will be MUCH more to come.

Enjoy guys and take care,

Clay

The Beginning of the Beginning

Well now, this is a positive feeling.

A little about me for a first blog.

I'm 21, and I'm a software developer. That's right. I'm a coder.

I started this all when I was around 14, after starting High School. I had initially become infatuated with computers when I was around the age of 12, with my first delve into the world of mIRC. That was a scary place. At 13 I remade the mIRC script to fit what I wanted the whole window and format to look like.

Pretty simple stuff, actually.

From there my interest sky-rocketed. Computers took the headline of my life and still are my biggest passion. To be able to mold a tiny world with your hands and mind is truly a liberating feeling. In a way, my profession is a genre of escapism to me, where I can shed the shackles of reality and become a tiny God of my own software world, where I make the rules and where things live or die by my thoughts and actions.

This isn't to say that my profession is exactly the easiest thing in the world. Far from it, in fact. Many people believe that being a programmer is some sort of gift given by genetics and birth, because no one can seem to fathom how exactly a coder does what he does, yet, as said by my Programming teacher, coding isn't an art or a god-given gift, it's a discipline.

I wholeheartedly believe this to be one of the absolute truths.

Yes, some people are better at coding than others, only because they have an easier time wrapping their minds around abstract ideas, which are simply pieces in a giant puzzle. However, on the whole, everyone can code. What do you think you do when you write HTML? You code.

And there we have that.

So, back to me and computers and my life.

Aside from me being a coder for the last 7 years of my life, I'm also a drummer and have been for, also, 7 years. I've played in around four bands, the most popular of which was Misguided, a local Sudbury band which had huge potential.

Currently, I'm a drummer without a band, with a desperate need of a band.

I'm taken by Elodie Chivot, and have been for the past 2 years and hopefully for the rest of my life.

Other than that, enjoy my little corner of the World Wide Web, and keep coming back to see some pretty nifty updates as I show off some of the things I can do.

Take care,

Clay.