Totally Pointless Competition #1


Behold my desktop!

It's a piece of concept art for Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. I've had this as my desktop for ages, several months before the game was released I think. There's something about it that draws me to it. Pity the actual game was total pants though.

Th…

Over it this particular little spot in the Bizarro Hemisphere where the seasons are upside down it's been constantly hot for the last fortnight. The maximum temperatures every day have been in the 30 to 40 degree Celsius range, and the night temperatures are still in the mildly warm range. As my ai…

Given it's 2007, I might as well go with James Bond themed journal entry titles from now on this year. It's not as the entry titles have been that interesting for the last posts anyway, so I might as well spice them up with a few bad puns.

Apart from watching too much of the Futurama DVDs I got for …

Happy 2007 everyone. I'm still technically on holiday in Melbourne but I thought it's time to start the 2007 journal rolling.

I've had a pretty quiet Christmas break, mainly spending time with family in Melbourne. It turned out to be not hot at all. The weather was quite chilly on Christmas Day whic…

I'm about to head back home to the merry metropolis of Melbourne for a traditional family Christmas - bustling around preparing for several days, a big festive lunch and then chilling out for about a week because it's too hot to do anything else (I'm lookin forward to the chilling part).

As such thi…

My run of general uselessness continued this week. I think my brain chemistry is out of whack. I keep cycling through euphoria - where I feel compelled to work on something creative like this darn Metroidvania game idea I've been toying with, through to melancholica - where I feel too useless to do…

Last week ended on a frantic note. A late warning reminded everyone that a lot of admin needed to be finished at my research school (academics are never very good at doing admin [smile]), and this was nicely timed with a complete server meltdown that lasted all weekend, cancelling my plans to finis…

Sorry about the lack of updates about Ice Slider. The truth is I've been pretty busy with a variety of end of year activities and wrap-up work over the last few days which has sucked away both my time and energy. And the heat of summer hasn't helped. I've found I've been drawn more to playing Mop o…

Thanks to Balaam's suggestion I've installed TortoiseSVN and moved Ice Slider into version control. Subversion does seem to be a fair bit less painful than CVS, given it didn't take that long to both set up the repository or to fix up the inevitable mistakes (such as checking in files that have no …

Ice Slider update
Something snapped in my mind halfway through the week and my previous programming hot streak has run cold. The code just doesn't seem to flow as well as it did. Consequently I'm only a bit further on from where I was at time of last post.

I've temporarily pruned down the visual look…