Journal
I do lots of different things at work, web design, graphic design, animation, and programming - I have to turn my hand to whatever is required, and I seem to be working on something different every day - it’s great. One of my favourite jobs though is working on video games. I tend to have a game project going on all the time, it’s something I can do when everything else is finished.
The games that I work on are generally games that lack something graphically, I get to take the basic game and turn it into something more playable and attractive. Below I have outlined a few of the more recent games that have been released, the ones I’m most proud of.
XRaye
Play XRaye now
This game was released at the start of this year. It’s based on a fairly old, very difficult, game that was quite nice to play, …
Wordpress Theme Toolkit - [via]
A toolkit that lets people add custom admin panels to their Wordpress themes. Apparently Wordpress 1.6 is going to feature this anyway so I’m not sure wether to use this package or wait for the official version.
September 5, 2005 | Links
I’ve never understood the hype around ‘Web 2.0′, apparently the .0 is important. It’s ridiculous naming something that, in my opinion, is just a few rules for common sense web development. There’s slightly more to it than that but in essense it’s the whole standards thing wrapped up in a glowing
Anyway Kevin Leitch has written his thoughts on the subject. Kevin - I agree whole heartedly.
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I’m not American but after Arnold (yes… I know he’s not a president but…) and Bush could Christopher Walken be any worse? I think not!
“Our great country is in a terrible downward spiral. We’re outsourcing jobs, bankrupting social security, and losing lives at war. We need to focus on what’s important– paying attention to our children, our citizens, our future. We need to think about improving our failing educational system, making better use of our resources, and helping to promote a stable, safe, and tolerant global society. It’s time to be smart about our politics. It’s time to get America back on track.”
September 3, 2005 | Links
I found out about ZUG today (via another blog that I can’t remember right now - sorry). There are a few amusing stories on there but the one being linked to was this - The Powerbook Prank.
The gist of the story is that MyNameISJeff (the author of the story) was selling a Mac laptop (powerbook) on ebay and someone tried to scam him. He realised what was happening so instead of giving the scammer the computer sent him a ring binder which, when opened, showed a picture of a screen on one side and a bunch of keyboard keys stuck to the other.
Binary Moon