Programming Competition representing my school, Advanced Placement Exams, Senior Projects, Finals, Prom, Graduation Rehearsal, Graduation Ceremony. Those are the things in order from soonest to latest that remain as a part of my time in Brooklyn Technical High School. After that, I guess that's it, I guess that's another four years that's done and past. Now, looking back at the past four years, I have no regrets for actions I have taken that led to my being the way I am right now. I've made a lot of friends at Tech, a lot of good friends from whom I've learned a lot. Chances, are I won't see most of them again but new friends will be made at college, Binghamton University.

I'm not so good at making blog posts.

The "Developer's System", that's what Nintendo named their latest portable gaming device. When it comes to the Nintendo DS, there's really only one competitor, the Sony PSP. Though the PSP isn't exactly a "Developer's System", there's certainly a lot of homebrew applications from programmers out there; yea, a lot more homebrew apps for non-developer's system PSP than for developer's system DS.

Nintendo DS vs. Sony PSP

A couple of weeks ago, I was faced with a decision: to get a DS or a PSP. It's a tough choice! Should I get a Nintendo DS with dual-screen and one touch screen and make cool programs with their built-in WiFi? - OR - Should I get a PSP with its awesome SHARP display, stockpile of homebrew resources and outrageous pricetag? Well it turns out, part of the fun of creating homebrew applications is actually figuring out what goes where and the community in which the applications are shared and developed. If you've ever been on a large IRC channel, you'll know what I mean, sometimes, people just start saying very bad things and mean things, stealing other's codes, etc. It also turns out that there's less of that in the NDS homebrew community.

So what factors helped me to decide to choose a DS over a PSP? Price, for one, I'm not exactly loaded, so anything that saves money is good. Touchscreen, the DS's touchscreen is an opportunity to create previously unimaginable homebrew apps over the non-touchscreen PSP. Nintendo's WE-LIKE-HOME-MADE-APPS stance is also contributing compared to Sony's WE-WILL-PATCH-EVERYTHING-MWAHAHAA position towards homebrew and related pirating. I didn't really take aesthetics into account, but if I did, the DS was designed to be aesthetic and sleek, so, yea, if I did take it into account, DS would still win. Pokemon and Mario Kart on DS didn't hurt either!

Everybody should get a DS, its happy.

A game called CityLife came out last year, it's for PC, and it's awesome. The main task of the game is to properly manage and baby six different groups; each group only like two other groups and are sworn enemies of the other three, so it's really tough keeping them from killing each other. A secondary task (but something you will really want) is to make your city big, really really big.

You start off each game with a city hall and start building the suburbs and then eventually you get up to the richer people part with all the fancy buildings and whatnot and its quite a scene when you're well on your way building the actually "city".

And the cool part of it all is ... during your building sprees (or after!), you get to zoom in and pretend you're a regular citizen roaming the city, the one you just built!

If you want to get the game, get it on Amazon because they have everything. Newegg for computer stuff.
If Newegg sold it, I'm sure it'd be: