Archive for February, 2007
Blender
I have had a love to hate relationship with the blender package over the years. This is mainly due to me initially not liking the UI design. Well I have been taking another look at it. Mainly because I was looking around for a well featured 3d modelling and rendering app that didn’t cost the earth. Blender was the only package I could find that met the criteria so I decided to give it another try. Being free was an added bonus. Read the rest of this entry »
Domain forwarding, domain masking and add on domains
So I have been and registered the domain name for the little shareware games business I am starting up in my spare time. Trouble is I am very tight so did not want to also pay for hosting of the site. Particularly as MarbleMice uses less than 1% of the allowed bandwidth i pay for. So I hatched a plan. Read the rest of this entry »
Number puzzle game update
What a month, If something could go wrong it has. Then to top it all off I was out running a few days ago and fell seriously spraining my ankle. No fractures or broken bones fortunatley but it means that I will miss out on the best 2 months of the year for running (Feb and March) while I recover from it. Annoying as I was just starting to build up my stamina.
The little puzzle game is nearing completing, Read the rest of this entry »
Habits
Once of the funny things I have noticed recently about myself is that that after the children have gone to bed the first things I do is the thing that I will do predominately for the rest of the evening. So if I fire up a computer game I will be gaming for most of the evening, I might also do a bit of programming or something else but 80% of the time will be gaming.
It is funny how I never noticed this before as I imagine it has been my pattern for a long time. The obvious conclusion to draw from this is that if I want to progress things I am working on start them early in the evening!