Building

I've been building several areas for the Neverwinter Nights server I play on. You can script functions to do pretty much anything and what I've discovered is thatits really easy, I'm not sure if I just have a knack for it or if it really is that easy but I've been making a load of scripts to do various things and so far not come up against a hitch.

I've also had fun making the areas, its amazing what you can do with a few buildings and some trees to make it look like an elfie city.

Anyhow, yeah I'm a geek, I've managed to combine programing and online persistant worlds into one blog post.

Hmm, this seems a bit short for a post, though I suppose its just lack of pictures.
Therefore here is a pic someone else took of one of the areas.
(click for full size)

More Pictures

Well I seem to have had quite a few pictures lately what with one thing and another so heres another one I vectorized in GIMP, the original image is here. The pic is from Easter year before last thus the short hair, though it might actually have looked better with long hair.



Apart from that I haven't been doing a lot. Works pretty much the same. I've been walking at the weekends in training for a hundred mile walk in May. My dad is getting back home from France (where he has been reasearching for the last 4 months) on Sunday.

And New Year

This new year I did, for the first time ever, do what is apparently the traditional thing to do in St.Andrews and New Year: Go out on the town with a few mates and then go down to Fountain Square (that place in St.Andrew outside Costa (and my office) where there isn't actually a fountain). I have to say that I quite enjoyed the atmosphere down there at midnight, everyone seemed to be cheerful, although that could have just been the ammount of weed in the air.
I also met Will Gilbertson, deserter of blogs who was the last person I expected to see there.

I've redesigned my desktop a bitty:





EDIT: Why the hell doesn't Blogger allow comments by default?

Christmas

Happy Christmas Everyone

This years card I designed:



On other topics:
Google has really annoyed me with the way blogger works, I have managed to get my blog almost completely w3c valid xhtml 1.0 strict (this probalby won't mean anything to anyone but Kier) apart from the small javascript component, though I don't mind giving that a miss too much. What annoys me is that the code Blogger uses for comments makes the code non-valid by using <BR> instead of <br />
for example, thus I can't put the little logo up as it would show on the comment pages too which are (because of this) not valid xhtml 1.0 strict.

Been listening to The Silent Force by Within Temptation, so far I'm liking it, a nice vocal and not too heavy music

Happy Christmas everyone.

"Am I out of my mind or yours?" - Me

Peer Pressure

Ok, I'm giving into the pressures of James and Niki:
I don't have a lot to say here as my life is remarkably free of drama, just a few bits and bobs.

I have built myself a new computer, took about a month longer than it should of due to the fact that in the original order of the parts they sent a PCI-E instead of AGP version of the graphics card I wanted, I sent this back and ordered an AGP version, just after nVidia decided to stop producing AGP GeForce 6800's after a couple of weeks of trying to order from places that claimed they still had some in stock. None of them did so I eventually went to (horror of horrors) E-Bay where I got the card I wanted fairly cheap and so far its worked beautifully.
I now have a shiney new computer dual booting WinXP and Ubuntu 5.10 (you better be happy Keir).
I am going to finish this post here due to the fact I have to go out and do the family shopping which my mum has press ganged me into doing for her during my lunch break.

Stay alive.