Bye bye blogger!

With the release of the alpha of b2evolution 2.0, I have decided that I will be moving my blog to my own server running said software. Additionally, this means a proper domain name. The transition should happen within the next couple of months. Stay tuned!

MySpace vs. Grammar

Now, I'm not a big MySpace guy, but I do have an account to keep in touch with a couple of people who haven't yet discovered the ancient art of email. In fact, you might say I hate MySpace. Allow me to elaborate with this recent announcement which appeared on everyone's "Home" page:

Tom - Aug 23, 8:25pm PDT
Hey, you didn’t lose any friends. Things might just look kind of screwy while we fix friend counts. you might see some pictures with a big red x and DELETED in your friends list this weekend. don't freak out. we are running a big cleanup job to remove all the red x profiles in your list and everything will be back 2 normal by the end of the weekend. also, no big whoop if you already deleted the red x profiles. those are just people who are no longer on the site

Note the emphasis I added. I simply cannot respect a website run by someone who posts site-wide announcements with improper capitalization and number-word substitutions (I won't even get into sentence fragmentation and the lack of a final period).

Slideshow

I finished hacking up a slideshow for my drawing gallery. Tomorrow I will add slideshows for the digital and sculpture galleries and add the animation gallery.

Nearing completion...

I've gotten the Extra Outfits, Ares: Override and Marathon: Duel Wield pages up completely and finalized. The About Me page is up. The Blog works in a pinch (although needs some fine-tuning). The Themes page is also done, displaying my two newly created themes for DragThing. Now all that really remains to be done are the art galleries, which hopefully I can do tomorrow. The site will then be fully operational!

After that, I will be slowly working on:

• Adding more images to the galleries
• Linking the page for Life For Life (or possibly creating a whole new website)
• Updating Extra Weapons and adding a page for it
• Updating Extra Outfits and updating its page
• Combining both Plug-Ins into a Nova-friendly format
• Revamping Marathon: Duel Wield (mainly attempting to make the HUD accurate)
• Working on Life For Life and adding a new trailer to it's page
• Some other projects I have going...

That's all for now.

No more stupid news scripts!

I've been futzing around with news scripts for what seems like eternity, but what usually happens is I end up just not posting to them because it's a pain in the ass and I actually have to remember to do so. Thus I've come up with a different idea: I'll use my blog as a news page and integrate it into my site! I mean, everybody's doing it, so it must be good!

That said, I'll probably still switch blog software in a bit, as soon as I find one that adheres to my strict quality standards. I'm using blogger because (1) it was there, (2) I already had an account via Google and (3) it allowed me to edit the template pretty completely and easily.