January 14, 2006
Gallery updates - Posted by Dyne on 11:04 AM
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I have been revamping my galleries a bit. I tried switching to an entirely different gallery management system, but the only one whose interface I really liked was geared a lot more toward photographers, and I didn't need to store a bunch of information like focal length, lighting, and all that. It would've been a pain to get the code to do what I wanted.

Anyway, here are the changes…

Done

  • I've upgraded to the latest version of Slooze and gotten my customizations working with it.
  • Several more pictures were added to the 2003 gallery
  • I added 2004 and 2005 galleries
  • The newer galleries have larger thumbnails.
  • I've figured out how to get the topics to sort properly
  • I've begun filling in the data fields for the older galleries (I've done up to mid-1999, plus some of the recent galleries and a few scattered pictures here and there). These all used to be filled in, but my database got corrupted a long time ago, and I never finished recreating the entries.

To-do

  • I still need to work on the stylesheet and HTML to make it prettier and more integrated into the rest of the site.
  • I am not done adding pictures, even to galleries several years old. That's what happens when you have as much data to keep track of as I do.
  • The portfolio gallery doesn't have a lot of the entries I would put there.
January 23, 2006
Game stuff - Posted by Dyne on 07:18 PM
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Soon Running: Aureate Chorale (Exalted Abyssals)
Soon Playing: Nobilis - The As-Yet Untitled Game, as Vitor Reynard, Count of Reflection

Currently Running: Nothing
Currently Playing: Everway trial game (as Grim of Eskil, an Odin-esque Water Sorceror), Star Wars Prelude II as the Baron (in theory)

Recently Running: Nothing
Recently Playing: Jade Rhapsody, Secret of Zir'an

January 24, 2006
Grim of Eskil - Posted by Dyne on 05:45 AM
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This is the sheet for Grim. Posting it here because I don't have a specific page for Everway.

Name: Grim of Eskil

Motive: Knowledge
Virtue: Truth
Fault: Peril
Fate: Subterfuge

Fire 3
Earth 4
Air 5
Water 6

Magic 7

Powers: 0 pt Gift - Water Affinity (Breathe underwater/Remain Dry)

Description: A tall, thin older man who speaks in a quiet, rasping voice. He comes from the sphere of Eskil, where his people live in a city under the waves.

January 31, 2006
What I want - Posted by Dyne on 06:02 AM
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A random bit of philosophical introspection from me.

What I want is, at the end of my life, to be able to look back and say,

“That was pretty good.

There were good times, and I had someone there to share them with.

There were bad times, but I didn't have to face them by myself.

I made mistakes, but things worked out alright in the end.

And I even did a few things right along the way.

I was not invisible. People will remember that I was here, and remember it fondly.”

I'm not there yet.