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Welcome to the personal section of my site where you’ll find my Gallery and some information about myself. The "Recent News "section on this page will keep you up to date on any changes to the site, as well as other events in my life, both business and personal! I hope you enjoy your visit, and if you have any comments or questions
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A blog for all seasons These pages on the personal site are out of style. They have dark backgrounds. They use GIFs and not PNGs (or some newer solution yet) for transparency. They have graphics for navigation at the bottom of the page. It's all so dated! Now I do have a lack of time for my own pages. My work means I am very busy, using up most of the hours of the day, and with the time I do have left, I'd rather make content than just go through and redo the design of the pages. But it's more than that. See, 10 years ago or so when these pages were formed, I found it fun to use 3D renderings, some of the newest tech you could think of, of objects that looked decidedly Victorian - or alternate reality Victorian really since I took the styling from the time machine in the classic movie of the same name. That itself was irony, as here was something 40 years old based on something 100 years old that looked into the future. The movie itself was dated in its styling too, as much as the older age it was depicting when the time machine was invented. So it was all a lovely mix of past and future, layers of time mixed together in a blender, which I found quite delicious. Now of course the design on these pages has aged too, as much as the movie, or as the book, even 3D has come a long way since the time it was used to make the graphics here. And all in the space of just 10 years! Such a short amount of time for something to become dated. Which just adds yet one more layer onto it all, and means whenever I think about changing these pages, I baulk at the idea, and leave them just as they are. Let them age, like the flickering scenes around the character in the film as he charged in a rush into the future. It all reminds me to of Philip K. Dick's Ubik, where new things regress in time, from state of the art TV back to hulking old black and white tube driven monstrosity, unless saved by a frequent reapplications of the Ubik wonder product. So while I think the whole thing might appeal only to me, too bad - this
is my personal space after all, unrelated to my business and work, so
why not just take it and do what I like with it, and rules, conventions
and fashion will just have to take a seat outside and wait. Spring cleaning Currently also experimenting with XNA 2.0 and the Creator's Club, it's
pretty incredible to be able to write code and then have it run on your
console. I remember the days when it took special development kit versions
of consoles, costing many thousands, to do that sort of thing. The times
they are a changin' Humble beginnings
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