Four Island

Lol, everyone seems to love FourChat! Then again, so do I. It will be awesome when it finally comes out.

A suggestions app - 0 vote(s)! FourChat - 6 vote(s)! Complete user integration - 4 vote(s)! Other (please comment!) - 1 vote(s)!

Hi! Sorry, I would talk about more now, but I'm rather in a hurry. I am going away for the next two days and will probably not have Internet. But Four Island will stay up! Don't worry! :P

Wow, the results of this poll were really very useful to me. At least you all agreed that nobody else would post on True Falsities.

Yes, it's time to archive it - 2 vote(s)! No! Keep posting and others will follow! - 0 vote(s)! Pretty much, but you still have to post - 2 vote(s)! Indifferent - 2 vote(s)!

Incidentally, I recently failed one of my annual goals by posting to True Falsities only once last month rather than twice. I did have a post called "It Is Abstract" planned, but I never finished it. So, basically, I have no idea where to go with True Falsities.

Anyway, Four Island 3.0! If anyone has any splaztastic ideas for it, do tell! :P

Lol, it's nice how much faith everyone has in me :P

Yes. You fail at life. - 8 vote(s)! No! PRODUCTIVITY IS EVERYTHING, HATKIRBY, DON'T GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!! - 0 vote(s)! I don't even know who you are. - 1 vote(s)! I am ignorant/apathetic/indifferent - 0 vote(s)!

Now, this week's poll is one of those ones that I actually care about the results for. True Falsities has been dying ever since guest posts started declining in May. My posting twice a month will not save True Falsities, in my opinion. So now I ask you, the readers of Four Island, to please vote on whether you want to keep True Falsities, or retire it to The Four Island Archive (currently unreleased). Please vote!

Anyway, remember some two years ago when I announced that my server couldn't email Hotmail accounts? Well, I do believe I've finally fixed that. By relaying my email through my ISP's email server. Incidentally, that's the solution I suggested two years ago that I was too lazy to implement until Tuesday.... :P

Lastly, I would like to announce a fix. For the longest time, Four Island has been having Unicode troubles that I've attributed to other sources and I've had to removed Unicode from quotes and comments before and it's been very annoying. On Wednesday, I finally discovered that the source of the Unicode mangling was my homegrown BBCode parser that we've been using since December 10th 2008. The bug has been fixed and Unicode should now look normal. You know what that means!!!! I can finally use the interrobang everywhere!!!! :D

However, I would like to ask a question to those interested in the development of Four Island 3.0. Do you think I should drop my homegrown BBCode system and switch to something else such as Markdown, or whitelisted HTML with a shortcode system? There would have to be a way to either maintain backwards compatibility or to convert all of the old system to the new system, though.

Lol, the classic Hatkirby shift-of-interest never ceases to irritate me. Let's see what project THE PEOPLE want me to do next!

The TGS Website - 3 vote(s)! Four Island 3.0 - 3 vote(s)! Frigid Earth - 2 vote(s)! Other/Indifferent - 1 vote(s)!

People actually voted for Frigid Earth without knowing what it was? Interesting. Anyway, if you've seen Thursday's post, you'll know that I've already done a 180 and have another project in my lineup. A two year old project. Lol. Here's my current project queue in the order of when they'll be done:

1. Xidet
2. The TGS Website
3. Four Island 3.0
4. Frigid Earth
5. FourPuzzle

Yes, I'm clinically insane. Anyway, I'm really excited about Xidet and I can't wait to work on it because it will make working on those other projects easier and more productive.

Sometimes, I think that I'm the only one who knows what I'm talking about. Come on, nobody else liked InstaDisc? It was awesome! Anyway, here are the results:

InstaDisc - 2 vote(s)! Xidet - 0 vote(s)! Project Soshibi - 1 vote(s)! Other/Indifferent - 7 vote(s)!

Anyway, this week's poll is about what project I should work on now. I'm currently undecided between Four Island 3.0, Frigid Earth and The TGS Website, though I do think I should do The TGS Website before Four Island 3.0 to increase my Ruby skills :P

Hmm, it's pretty equal. Some people actually think I can do it? Okay! I can safely say that I've passed the first full week of 2010 without failing yet. Let's see how it goes from there.

YES YOU ARE THE BEST - 5 vote(s)! No. Yuo fail - 5 vote(s)! Wh.... who are you? - 0 vote(s)! Indifferent - 1 vote(s)!

It's 2010! And what better way to start a new year than by having people actually vote on my poll?

YES....... yes? - 7 vote(s)! Nawwwwwwwww - 0 vote(s)! Who's there? - 1 vote(s)! Indifferent - 0 vote(s)!

That's odd, people are actually voting! :P Anyway, this year I'm hoping to actually complete my annual goals and, well, that'll be good! Yay! Have a great new year!

Lol, this poll was a no-brainer.

YES!!1!!!1!!ONE - 12 vote(s)! No - 0 vote(s)! What's..... Chistmas? - 1 vote(s)! Indifferent - 1 vote(s)!

And YAY! More people seem to be voting now that I've fixed the logged in problem. :P Anyway, I hope you had a very merry christmas/happy other holiday! And now we're so close to 2010! Hey, I feel a cynical prediction article coming up again! :P

It's the last day of Kirby Week and some people said to me: "OMG ITS KIRBY WEEK!!!!" It's sad that Kirby Week's nearly over, but the poll results are in! :)

OMG ITS KIRBY WEEK!!!! - 4 vote(s)! **** you. - 0 vote(s)! What the pfargtl is Kirby Week? - 0 vote(s)! INDIFFERENT, OKAY?!?!?!? - 2 vote(s)!

Sew.... about yesterday.... :P I'm sorry I didn't write a post! It's just that I was really tired and I had been out all night and more excuses oh whatever, just throw those bottles of wine at your computer screen. Sorry!

Though I guess you could say that it's a Kirby Week tradition to not complete weekly specials :P . Anyway, Kirby Week is nearly over, but Christmas is very close by! Happiness! :D

Wow. Nobody even attempted to misguide me into thinking The Fourm was alive and well. And I'm pretty sure I voted "LADY GAGA IS AWESOME" three times. So there. :P

SADLY YES CRY O_O FSDSF - 3 vote(s)! Um.... whut? It's a series of electrical impulses, it cannot die. - 0 vote(s)! LADY GAGA IS AWESOME - 3 vote(s)! Indifferent - 0 vote(s)!

Sorry I updated late again, but yesterday I was having this weird problem where I wasn't able to log in. I tried logging in and it wouldn't even give me an error message. I eventually figured restarted Google Chrome and it worked, oddly, and that leaves me with no excuse as to why I didn't update the poll yesterday. Oh. :P

Anyway, has anyone realized what today is? Yes, it's Kirby Week! For those who can't be bothered to follow the link and find out, Kirby Week is the third week of advent, the week in which is candle is pink. I know, I know, I'm hilarious, right? :P

Anyways, it's become a bit of a tradition (how can I say that? I started it last year!) to do something special for the week on Four Island. Last year I wrote a series on how to write a blog system (and yes, that series was a total failure :P), but with my dismal posting rate this year, I don't think I can. This year, my Kirby Week goal is to publish one post everyday this week. Yes, you heard me, I'm going to post.

I can hear you all gasping.

I've prepared (okay, that's a lie, read: I'm going to prepare) 5 posts, one for each day of the week. They probably will not be related, but my goal is to ensure that there is at least one post in pending queue by 12:30 every day this week. Be prepared. Be prepared.... to throw things at me if I don't live up to this goal. Seriously, if I fail, throw full bottles of wine at your computer screen. Thank you.

And if you've noticed, yes, I'm continuing another Kirby Week tradition that even extends back to Kirby Week 2007, the Kirby Week poll. :P