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Entries from December 26th, 2005
A Fine Days Work…
December 18th, 2005 · No Comments · Software
Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll Well I knocked off tasks 1-4 from my previous entry, which is the least I wanted to get done today. I figured getting the brushes to work properly would take some time, and it did. Task #1 took me less than 20 minutes, and tasks #3 & 4 took me about […]
More Galaxy Conquest Progress
December 16th, 2005 · No Comments · Software
Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll I got some more work done on GC. In my last entry I had worked out the basics for placing tiles on the map from the palette. Today I reworked a lot of that since there were some aspects I hadn’t considered in the original design. However in the end it […]
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back to work
December 15th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Personal, Software
Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll So okay, I finally worked on some more GC tonight. I figured out the basics of adding tiles to a map, although I did get hung up after a while trying to work out all the logistics. Not only do I have to add tiles, but I need to be able […]
Timbuktu City Journal – Part 1
December 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Gaming
Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll Timbuktu Peak Current Population: 719 Current Date: 7/2/34 Treasury: $421,985 Monthly Income: $3,172 Monthly Expenditures: $2,996 History Timubuktu Peak is one of the highest towns in the Timbuktu region, located in the far south western corner. It was originally founded as a utilities city, its sole purpose to provide power, water […]
The History of Timbuktu – Intro
December 8th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Gaming
Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll ve decided to begin a series on my SimCity 4 exploits, looking at the development of each of my cities so far in the Timbuktu (formerly Maxisland) region. A while ago I had expressed my renewed interest in the game, and not to long after that I started having troubles 😛 […]
Interesting how things turn out
December 5th, 2005 · No Comments · Personal
Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll Wow. Most unplanned night ever. I got home from work wanting to rip into some GC but boy did I get side tracked all to hell 😛 First I reinstated my main laptop back to its spot on my desk since the hard dive seemed to want to cooperate again. After […]
A happy ending after all
December 4th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Personal
Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll Well, as I had hoped, letting my comp sit for a few hours has remedied the problem enough for me to log back in and back up all my data. Hallelujah. I’ll start looking tomorrow at my options for getting a new hardrive in this sucker. Until then I’ll just have […]
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The Fat Lady may have sung
December 4th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Personal, Software
Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll Figures. I get to the end of the day and what happens? My computer decides to finally keel over and die. This is before I have a chance to back up for the day mind you. Why the hell did I not edit all my files remotely? I feel like such […]
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Dead comp walking
December 3rd, 2005 · No Comments · Personal
Transposed from Gaiiden’s Scroll Well, looking at the radar map on weather.com it’s supposedly snowing rather heavily in my area. But I don’t care enough to get up off my ass to go check out the window. Snow what, I say. So yea, my computer is on its way out. Well, the hard drive is […]
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