Old News

2001:

• [November 28] Released LyricViewer on the freeware page.
• [November 18] I've discovered that Netfirms is unreliable, often refusing to upload files, or worse, truncating uploaded files. Use the GeoCities mirror if possible.
• [November 14] My web page is finally back on-line. I've written qFileSync 3.0 alpha; be warned that its reliability is questionable, and the help files are incomplete.
• [November 3] My contract at ACD Systems expired. I need a new job.
• [September 11] Holy *#$^@%# @#!$. To my knowledge, this is the single most horrible event to happen in my lifetime. But then I remember that ~8,000 children die every day of starvation around the world. So reletively speaking, maybe it's not so bad after all.
• [July 18] An important bug in qFileSync has been fixed.
• [March 18] 4Day Graphing Calculator v1.0 released
• [March 15, 2001] I make open source.  All my base are belong to you.

2000:

• [October 31] I'm going to the University of Calgary now. It took forever to get internet access here, and almost as long to get around to updating this page. University bites. It's got high tuition, extremely shoddy education, too much material shoved in too little time, and freaky exams. Someday, I'll probably get a degree in Computer Engineering. With university (and Quake II) using up all my free time, I probably won't be putting out much new software in the forseeable future.
• [August 4] Page Reorganized.
• [April 19] Minor fix made to qFileSync (Sync All Sets should now work)
• [March 17] Finally! There's a new, major version of FileSync available - v2.0 BETA. Go get it here.
• [March 5] I'm in Victoria and I got Shaw @Home Cable Internet Access. I also got a nice new @home e-mail address, but to avoid getting hordes of junk mail in my mailbox like I get with Hotmail, I'm not publishing my new address just yet.
• WAHOO! Hey, guess what... I got a job! Yeah! A good one, too, at ACD systems. They are in Victoria, B.C.; you may have heard of or even used their ACDSee image browsing software. I'll be moving there from Calgary.

1999:

• [November 30] Well, I've gone and done it—I've applied for the University of Calgary, and convinced my brother to do the same. Just in time—the deadline is Dec. 1. We're gonna be roommates! Oh yeah man, roommates. I may be two years older, but I strategically repeated grade five, and took a break after school ended. And hey, it's definitely a long shot due to lack of community involvement, but I even applied for an Outstanding Achivement Award. Come on $10,000 scholarship, Davie needs new shoes. (There are 30 scholarships and 18 nearby high schools.)
• [November 13] Okay, I think I have some of the big issues with Beta 6 fixed - it now works fine on my desktop, though I haven't tried it on my laptop yet.
• [November 13] Two users requested extra features in FileSync, and I get so little e-mail that I was almost overjoyed to add the features. Then work took away my time, life was getting me down, my hard drive crashed, and when I got around to doing it, it was 2AM on Friday the 13th - Okay, actually now it's Saturday, oh well - while I was downloading the 600MB Red Hat Linux with a 28.8 under a highly volatile connection. Uh, so what was I saying? Oh yeah, get FileSync 1.5. And I just found out UltraPaint beta 6 is way way buggy, crapola man. Crapola.
• [October 19] Small update to FileSync added.
• [September 20] UltraPaint beta 6 is available.
• [September 4] While I still haven't found a new employer, I have updated FileSync to version 1.4. It's sweet, go get it.
• [August 20] Made a new logo with Instant 3D, a crappy program. It can only have ONE object xor one piece of text at a time, plus it's not very user friendly. I had to compose the final scene with UltraPaint. The large, high-quality JPEG version was >500KB, so I couldn't very well use it on my web page.
• [August 1] I finally got to try out Seiken Densetsu 3 (Secret of Mana 2), the game Square didn't translate to English, the game I've been waiting years to play... without even realizing it. Will it run on my emulator? Well, it won't go past the title page. Use zSNES. Thanks to an unnamed group for the complete freeware translation! I can't tell you where to get a ROM though.
• [July 29] It's my birthday!...yesterday. But yesterday I had to work. So I'm telling you now. I can't believe I'm 19 entire years of age... before you know it I'll be 40! ...and still looking for a real job!...By the way: even if you can't hire me outright, contact me if you can help publish my software. I have a few new programs in the works.
• [July 25] Incremental release of FileSync available; fixed a bug, improved user interface. I'm calling it version 1.3.
• [July 23] Hawaiian Employers are too late to grab me; I've come back to Calgary. I left at 8:50PM and arrived at 10:30AM. Then I took a little nap.
• [July 18] Added two new sections: personal and MMH. But Geocities is making it very hard to update my site; go to the XOOM mirror instead.
• [July 7 (8 on mainland North America)] At long last... a free new version of UltraPaint is available! And, finally, Geocities is allowing me to update my site.
• [July 2] Tomorrow at 5AM I'll be leaving from Calgary for Honolulu to visit my parents. I will be gone for two weeks but will still be able to update my web site.
• [July 2] Are you a developer near Alberta, B.C. or Hawaii looking for an enthusiastic genius programmer? Look no further. I am freshly out of high school and in need of a job. Check out my gorgeous resume.
• [June 25] I've added a new version of FileSync (1.2) to my Freeware page. New features include backup ability, unlimited sync-sets, and a command-line interface.
• [April 15] Updated FileSync to v1.1.
• [April 15] UltraPaint Beta 4 released. Many bug fixes; a couple of new features were added.
• [March 23] UltraPaint Beta 3 released. Bug fixed that was causing a crash under certain conditions while closing a file. Also released a version with an install program.
• [March 22] Added FileSync to the freeware page.
• [March 21] Minor update to UltraPaint, which fixes the bug where the program won't start without a C:\Temp directory.
• [March 20] I've been working a lot on it and now there's another public beta of UltraPaint released.  This one is much better!  Get it NOW!
• [March 17] Preliminary Beta Version of UltraPaint released
• Web Site Revamped

1998:

• [September 9] Released source code for SNEqr 0.340.
• [September 9] Moved back to Geocities.
• [Aug 27] Long day coming back to Calgary from Honolulu!  I had to stay awake for 27 hours: 9 hours flying, and 10 hours waiting at airports.
• [August 10] Well, apparently somebody on sixtyfour.com was using too much bandwidth, so the network closed all the sites down.  Now what am I going to do?  I hope I'm not forced back to Geocities...
• [July 1] Canada day.  Also, tomorrow morning I'm leaving on a plane to Seattle, and then I'll go to Los Angeles and then Hawaii.  This basically means I have a greater chance of being in a plane crash than the Average Joe, so if the page never ever gets updated again, you know what hapenned.
• [June 23] Final exams are over, woo!  Also, SNEqr v0.340 has been released!
• [June 21] New version of SNES knowledge base: v1.50. Slight revision to MMIO doc: v2.1 out
• Get a load of this: the author of Project Unreality gets hired by a N64 game company, and will now have access to all the technical info about the N64 - but must not continue writing the N64 emu or give any tech info to anyone!  I wish Nintendo would do that to me.
• [June 12] Major update made to SNES MMIO document; see the SNES knowledge base page.
• [June 9] SNEqr v0.315 released; Windowing, Mode 7 and Indirect HDMA working now.
• [June 2] Major emulator release!  v0.302 is now up for grabs, and features a CPU emulation core rewritten completely in assembly language.  Please click on the big link on the left. Oh never mind. Because this is old news, there is no big link on the left to click. Oh well.
• [June 2] Name change!  They finally changed my directory name to /qwertie
• [May 20] Around this date, sixtyfour.com flubbed up and blocked access to my web page.  So there weren't any updates, although I didn't have much to update anyway, except the new version of my emulator.
• [May 10] Fourth revision of the SNES MMIO/PPU documentation up!
• [May 9] SNEqr v0.260 now done! Several bug fixes, so more games work.
• [May 7] SNEqr v0.250 is done! Finally, I fixed The Mario Bug.  Now Mario is somewhat playable, and, whoopdydoo, so is Zelda!
• [April 28] I reformatted my hard drive... and also got a whole new drive!  Check out this baby: a Quantam Fireball 6.45 GB drive, and it's already 10% full!  Woo, woo!  P.S. I posted SNEqr v2.10 recently.  It runs MARIO WORLD!  Yahoo!!!!!  Except that you fall through the ground and land in the sky and the enemies keep disappearing.
• [March 31] I posted a new free program, NT Message Sender, to my software page.
• [March 20] I have posted my new SNES tile editor today. 

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