Sometimes, you have just got to just dive in...

Mission News... Believe it or not, dear reader - I have finally made a start on the art-based Task double-header of 47 - Refresh my art skills
50 - Create "proper" pieces of art, fit to hang, or give as gifts
The water-colour boards take acrylics quite well, a Ferrero Rocher gift-box from Christmas has ( Read more... )

Argh. Didn't update my offline copy of TDD-611 ...Final Movement, and production has stalled some as a result. I'll catch up later, either before tonight's Ultima Online, or between that and Outcasts - and in the meantime, I suppose I could do with a bit of a break. If I can manage to squeeze in some painting, I could clock up a completed Mission ( Read more... )

To "His Holiness"... Religion is "marginalised" in the UK, my dear fellow, not because Christians are "hated by aggressive atheists", but because the tzars of "faith" want the rest of the world to back up and stay stuck in the Middle Ages with them, rather than stepping back to allow humanity to advance as a species. Disagreeing with that approach ( Read more... )

To Be Continued... is go ( Read more... )

New Toy, Day 3... I should have been timing how long this netbook has been running on battery charge - I'd say at least 4 hours, and it's on 43%. Sweeeet.

Pity about bloody McAfee Security Centre - every time it updates, it needs a bloody reboot. STOP INTERRUPTING ME!

Anyway... A kind of quiet day, with Boss doing lectures, and a whole bunch of ( Read more... )

Development News... Okay, that's Chapter 7 of TDD-605 "She Returns" "in the can" at last - and probably the longest chapter I've written to date, at around 15 screens at 1024x768. A bit of a crude measure, I know, but that's how I work. That shouldn't be much of a surprise, as it features one of the most momentous incidents in the history of The ( Read more... )