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Link Explanations
October 3rd, 2007 :: 02:17 PM
One of the bad things about this design is that there's no room to explain why I link to the sites I link to in the right-hand sidebar. The main reason I have these links listed is because they are links I visit often. I think you can learn something about another person based on what websites they visit regularly.
Sijun.com - If you're an artist, visit the forums located here. It is where a lot of skilled digital artists go to show off and talk about art. I get a lot of my desktop backgrounds from here
loirak.com - Listed mainly for sentimental reasons. This is a site my friend Ben Rhoades created. I used to be involved with it back in the late 90s (wrote some programming articles, did the logo work, etc). I believe it is no longer updated.
t-nation.com - The place where I go to get information about fitness. Critics claim that this site produces articles with an agenda to sell biotest supplements. I've noticed a slight bias in some articles (some even read like an advertisement), but generally I consider this to be authoritative on the fitness industry. Spend enough time here, and you'll understand why.
digg.com - I find this news site best suited to my taste because it has gaming and web programming mixed in with tech and other geek news. There's definitely some bad things with digg.com, but for me it is a happy median between uber-tech
slashdot, and general-news
fark. Since I work at such a small company, the only way I can better my skills and keep up on the industry is by visiting sites like these.
davemccombs.com,
petermccombs.com,
bradgill.com - friends and family websites I visit regularly, despite the lack of updates.
Site Updated!
September 23rd, 2007 :: 10:11 PM
Welcome to my new website! I decided to write my own blog 'cause they're easy to make and I wanted a better layout. So I stuck with the
G.I Joe theme; but in the future, I might make other 'generic Joe' themes like:
- Plumber Joe
- Cup of Joe
- Uncle Joe (US's nickname of Stalin)
- Joe Schmoe
- and more!
Go ahead, view the source. It's beautiful. (
edit: at least it was until I added all the AJAX code and imported the old blog messages)
Still to do:
- Add color coding to recent comments, so that new comments are highlighted
- Add paging header and footer
- reduce article sidebar? or add paging there
- expand admin features
HDD Crash (again)
June 4th, 2007 :: 11:35 AM
I was working friday afternoon on my laptop when I noticed it was making some strange noises. I started closing things out to shut it down, but to no avail; it froze up and wouldn't boot. It turned out the HDD failed and I had to get a new one.
Here's the data I lost this go-round:
- All demonreign content
- All blackbird development (inluding masks, dialogue animations, animated logo, background adjustments, plot, etc)
- Hero6 backup files and site PSDs
- Secret 3d project (code and models)
You'd think I'd learn about making backups
If anyone knows a good (cheap) way to try and recover data from a bad drive, let me know. I've already heard freezing the HDD might work... We tried loading it up in linux too, but couldn't get it to recognize the drive.
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