Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2006
FFSDiNoaN has a Name.
Monday, March 13th, 2006I think I’ve found an appropriate name for FFSDiNoaN. I’ve started replacing modern English place holder names for concepts from an older, nearly gone culture with old English I’ve picked a name from Old English. “Ãrǽdan” which means Prophecy. So unless I come up with something better thats the new working title for the story.
Image Good. Background Bad.
Sunday, March 12th, 2006After an afternoon spent making cogs in Cinema 4D and a rendering them in Vue 5 Infinite and I had a nice image to use a background for my new web site. Unfortunately all it does when added to the page is either interfere with the readability of the text if its big enough to […]
CSS Hacking
Sunday, March 12th, 2006Fought against the cold and managed to spend a few hours hacking CSS. I’m a lot closer to having my new web site’s design done now. Just playing with background images to give it more visual interest. I don’t think I’ve used a background image on a site since sometime in 1997. I may not […]
Defeated by the Common Cold
Saturday, March 11th, 2006Well yesterday was a wash out. Spent most of the day trying to keep warm. Then watched the new series of Hustle. Not that it was bad. Slickly made. Well acted. Cheeky. But how many more times can they do a variant on “The Sting” before someone calls the plot police and their writer’s artistic […]
Half Way There
Thursday, March 9th, 2006A bit more editing tonight and I’m half way to a second draft of the FFSDiNoaN. I’d say more but I’ve picked up a cold and all I want to do is to go to bed.
One Third Done
Thursday, March 9th, 2006Well another night of editing and now I’m about a third done with trying to polish the story. Not really the most exciting stuff in the world to talk about.
Busy Doing Something
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006Got stuck back into editing FFSDiNoaN (no not a place next door to a place in Wales with a steam railway… First Fantasy Story Desperately in Need of a Name). Three pages crawled over. One more info dump moved into the new opening as an actual scene. Slowly it’s getting there.
Civ IV First Impressions
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006I gave in and bought Civ IV on Saturday. Normally I don’t pick up a game till its dropped in price but I’ve been a big Civ fan for a long time. On the plus side its very pretty. On the minus side it didn’t seem very challenging (but I was playing on the easiest […]
Nothing the whole day through
Sunday, March 5th, 2006I sorted out a cupboard I’d been meaning to tidy up. Got an entire bin bag of rubbish to put out from it. I’ve ironed most of my shirts (most of which hadn’t been ironed for a long time). A thoroughly domestic day of avoiding writing or preping the web site. I did manage to […]
Busy Doing Nothing
Sunday, March 5th, 2006Amazing what a good ten hours sleep can do for the soul. Then life catches up and all those little chores need sorting out. Then its nearly midnight, nearly another day gone and nothing has really gone anywhere. Still tomorrow’s Sunday which is my writing day. With a good run at it I may get […]