Niantic Labs, the developers behind Ingress, Pokémon GO, and the upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, are offering users the chance to reserve their “Code Names” on the Harry Potter game.

You can’t just reserve any name at random. But if you have an Ingress or Pokémon GO account, you can reserve the name you used for those games. However, as there are two games that can be used to reserve a name, and one name may be “owned” by different people on each game, it’s not guaranteed that your name will be available. They will be operating on a first come, first served basis.

Another reason to hurry is that it’s only available until the end of April!

Once the game is released, you’ll have six months to use the name until it expires. To retrieve your name when log in to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, you must use the same method, whether it was email/password, Google, Facebook, etc.

If you are a Pokémon GO or Ingress player, you should have an email telling you about this. But just to make it easier, you can go straight to the Name Reservation page.

I did a few things today.

First off I went to work, I did some work, and then I left work. I’m not doing mobile development at the moment, as our team has been tasked with a temporary project, so I can’t even talk about any cool things like that.

During my break, I managed to change the colour scheme of this blog. It’s not a total redesign, as you can probably tell, but I’ve switched from a white/red colour scheme, to a dark-blue/orange one. I’ve liked this colour pair for a while, and I prefer dark interfaces, so I thought it was a good idea. The idea of a theme toggle existed in my mind for a while, but I don’t want to add any unneeded complexity. I’ll just keep altering the design as my taste changes.

I also made some big progress on Lost, as I’ve now just realised that I’ve finished watching the fifth season. And I’ve actually already completed the first episode of the sixth (the final one).

My podcast listening wasn’t spectacular, but I did finish the latest episode of The Talk Show, and I’ve got a few great ones ready to listen to tomorrow. The Queue mechanism in Castro is really helpful to pick out the episodes I really want to listen to, so I can see me starting to listen to them more regularly again. I also appreciate that you can view your playing history, as I tend to report this in my journal, and my memory isn’t exactly great.

The first half of my day can be easily described with a quote from Rihanna:

Work, work, work, work, work.

After what I think was a reasonably productive workday, I’ve had an evening to myself to just relax, and watch/listen to things.

Of course, I watched some more Lost. I’m now on the fifth season. It’s pretty much been on most of the night.

I did get some time to listen to some podcasts as well, which is something I haven’t done for a while. It was kickstarted by me finally wanting to checkout Castro, a podcast app for iOS, and their Queue/triage idea helped me to pick out a few episodes that I really wanted to listen to. There was an episode from Under The Radar, where Marco and David talked about the different stages of developing a new app. The start of what looks like to be a great interview series at Frogpants between Scott Johnson and Chris Metzen. I also started listening to the latest episode of the Talk Show, that will take me a bit longer to listen to, as I can’t focus on long episodes that much anymore.

I’m now going to watch yet another episode of Lost, and go to sleep, ready for a near identical day tomorrow!

Okay, so tonight’s entry will hopefully make slightly more sense than yesterday’s. Turns out that writing after drinking (a lot) is not a good idea.

Today has been spent lounging around at home, watching television, playing Fifa, and also watching the Arsenal game. Arsenal lost, but I won’t dwell on that.

I do have some more news about a strangely worded announcement I wrote in yesterday’s entry, and that’s our new feline companion! We’re adopting a rescue cat, and we hope to pick him up early this week. We’ve already bought the necessary supplies, got a bed ready, and even a big cat “frame” that it can use. I’ll share some pictures when we have him!

Do today has been kind of weird one.

Me and my girlfriend visited someone who may be joining the family soon. So I’ll clear that up in the near future!

The rest of the day was spent getting ready for one of my family parties. Yep have a big family, and we have pretty loud parties! Thai time it was my cousins thirtieth birthday, so that’s as good as a reason as any. Well, I’m still at that party as I’m writing this entry. So far I’ve been drinking (a lot), singing, and dancing.

I forgot to say that it was a karaoke party. So we had a real band, and then random groups of people would sing a song. Unfortunately, me and my brother sung a song with me girlfriend and aunt, but we requested our second a bit too late.

I still think that we were the life of the party. But them videos won’t make it to the internet.

Wooo! It’s Friday.

Work was good again. Our team has joined another one to build a new project, and the collaboration is going well.

After I finished work, me and my girlfriend joined my family at the pub/restaurant for dinner. That took us to nearly 11 pm.

So it’s now 11pm as I’m writing this, and we’ve just started watching the third episode of Hanna! I think it will be just the one episode tonight, because we’re both a bit tired from a busy week.

It was an interesting day at work today. I was working on a new project that involves writing Java plugins for an authentication platform (I’m aware this is vague, and strange as a mobile developer, but I’m not actually sure how much I can say about my fag job), and our team made some good progress! We even had a productive meeting, which isn’t always what usually happens.

When I got home, I cooked chicken fajitas for me and my girlfriend. Then we watched the first two episodes of a series called Hanna, it’s a bit strange, but I’m liking it.

Now it’s tile to relax in bed, and get an easy night, like the apparent adults we are.

For today’s journal entry, I could literally copy yesterday’s, and change the title. Essentially, everything I did was the same.

Of course, I did different things at work, and watched different YouTube videos in the evening. But it was still the same base schedule of work, dinner, YouTube, bed, with added Lost sprinkled between.

Although there are 122 episodes of Lost, I’ve already managed to watch 84 of them! Hopefully something else comes out soon that I can watch. Otherwise, I’ll have to complete another old tv show.

Back to the average day again. I actually went into the office today, as the trains were back to normal. And then I ended up leaving late, so there wasn’t much time left in the day.

When I got back, I popped out for a coffee with friends. And then I’ve just been watching YouTube with my girlfriend.

One thing that is good from today, is that me and my girlfriend have decided that we want to get a cat. And we think we’ve found one that we like nearby that we can adopt! 🐱

It was a bit of a different start to the working week today, because I was working from home. And that means, I make my own lunch fresh, coffee whenever I want it, and when I finish work, I’m already at home!

That meant I could do some more work in the garden while it was still sunny. I didn’t do much, just rotating some of the soil, because there are huge lumps of clay everywhere.

I was also in charge of cooking dinner, for me, my girlfriend, and her sister. I cooked chicken quesadillas, and they turned out pretty well.

After that I’ve just been relaxing in front of the television. I just finished a documentary about Barcelona F.C. called “Take the Ball, Pass the Ball”. It’s truly fascinating.