New lodgings
By Mike DalyJune 9th, 2007
First of all, around the end of April and beginning of May, Emergent (the company I work for) released Gamebryo 2.3! Gamebryo kicks ass and you should all be excited about frame rendering and generalized dynamic shadow mapping (even if you don't know what those are). That's my main excuse for April - things always get pretty busy leading up to releases and this was no exception.
Unfortunately, the relaxing period that comes right after a release seems to be a tradition they decided to do away with this time around. Pretty much right away I've got my nose right back on the grindstone. Now that I think of it, I'm actually working more hours now than I was leading up to the release.
Also during this time I got a raise, a bonus, and a pretty significant tax return right at the same time. I decided to take advantage of my newfound treasure and do something that I've been needing to do for a long long time; move to Durham. I've managed to acquire a new house over there so I should be moving by the end of this month. This should knock about 25-30 minutes off of my commute - each way. In case you are curious where exactly I'll be, if everything goes to plan I'll be at 4806 Tapestry Terrace.
Between those things, I haven't had a whole lot of extra time to do much else. Except for play video games, of course. I've recently played through Metroid Fusion, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Mega Man Zero 2, Advance Wars, Advance Wars 2, Lost Planet, Cave Story (free, awesome; try it if you own a PC gamepad), and Aegis Wing. I'm currently working on Ikaruga and Golden Sun.
As far as video games go, I've barely gotten anything done on Navi. The only improvements I've made since last update are that the physics are now inexplicably busted and I added a better sun. It's not too much to look at unless it's animated.
Wayne and I also recently took a vacation in Hawaii. It was nice, but Wayne took all of the pictures and now he's hoarding them all for himself, so I have nothing to post from that.
Well, that's about all I have to say. Don't forget to play Cave Story.
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New Gallery!
ByJune 24th, 2007
Hello Everyone. I have not updated in a long time, but what else is new?
Don't get too excited because I rarely have time to work on this site and I expect this to take a while to complete simply because of the lack of time, but I am working on an exciting new gallery that I don't even have to maintain!
The current gallery runs on the free program called, not surprisingly, Gallery 2. It is a nice program, but I find it bloated, hard to customize, and it is a pain to upload photos to our website. That last one has nothing to do with the program itself, but it is another reason to find a new solution. Unfortunately Gallery 2 is arguably the best solution out there for free, but today I had a bright idea and it is starting to shape into something fun.
Surely all of you know of the awesomeness that is Flickr. I know that many of you are on my contacts list. Well the good folks at Yahoo! have provided the Flickr API for our entertainment, and I am going to put it to good use. I created a DuelingMonkeys account at Flickr and will eventually copy all the photos on our current gallery to it. All of the photo management will be handled like you or I would normally do it on Flickr, except we have the added benefit of browsing and searching for photos on this website.
Now for the cool part. I can't think of a better way to have a nice flow of content than to get it from your user base. I know that I don't go to Flickr very often to see what new photos you guys have uploaded, but I do go to Dueling Monkeys almost every day to see if you've said anything. If you would like to have your photos displayed on this website, simply search for the user 'duelingmonkeys[at]yahoo[dot]com' on Flickr and add as a contact. I will try to remember to check that account every few days and add you as a contact. I will ONLY add you as a contact if you add me (dm, not Jody) as a contact, and I will ONLY display your public photos.
This is a work in progress, but if you want to check in on it from time to time go to the new gallery.
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