Archive for July, 2006

What i’ve been up to.

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

I would just like to set a few things straight here, I havnt been lazing around the house, enjoying the sun, summer hols and general relaxation.

Far from it.

I have been working on getting Phrost’s forums up and running, a job that sounds oh so simple, but is anything but simple.

After a few hours of not even getting the dam thing working, i finally got her working. I’d missed a ‘o’ off the database user name…..
So any way, with that done i started looking through the templates for something i could use. I think there are roughly 500 or so. Thats a lot of looking.
After finaly choosing one, i started the painstakingly long proccess of “modding” it, in simple terms changing all the graphics to suit my needs.

Hit a few snaggs here to, but after a few quick posts on the forums, all was well.

And then i started on the mods.

“mods”, coincodence that it has the same number of letters as “Deth”, i think not.

After all my work, all my hard work, i installed a mod that went around and changed the code in more than enough files, only to find it didnt work.

Joy.

So, im basicly back to square one, i need to re-instal the forums, luckily i think i can keep my work on the Style, but we shall see…

On a lighter note, I went to Ashton Court Festivle with friends, it was awsome. Scrub and Blackbud were great and Go! Team rocked, highlight of the day. A good day :)

Also, i’ve convinced the parents to let me get Chickens, thats right, chickens. So ive spent a good few hours today looking up how to care for them, what breeds to get, how to build chicken coops etc.
Ill keep you all posted on how it goes :)

Well thats all for me, i dont think i can face delving back into the forums for tonight, so ill leave it at that.
Laters!

Google.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

I recently applied to Google Adsense, after using it before and discovering how great it was.

Now, before i go on, i would just like to bring up a bit of history here.

I used adsense probably pushing maybe 13 - 14 months ago, on Phrost V1, thats right, the very first phrost :)
Any way, i got a mail from some some ass (hence forth known as dick) saying he was going to get me banned from old google. He then preceeded to click the ads repeatedly, getting me banned.

The mail i got delivering this crushing blow said that if i had any evidence to prove it wasnt me, then they would rethink the ban, or roughly those words any way.
So, i sent them a nice email saying what had happened, i even put in a copy of the mail dick sent me, waited roughly 3 weeks only to get a mail that basicly said

Your banned, get our code the fuck off your site

And that was that.

14 months later, phrost has changed a fair bit, im guessing dick lost interest and pissed off to ruin someone elses site.
So, i re-applied.

Now ill admit i was a tad hopefull, there are plenty of stories over how harsh Google are, but meh, i had hope :P

Again, waited a few weeks only to this time get a mail saying:

Your application has been denied

Followed by a load of shit saying how big google were getting.

Thats it, no “its been denied because…”, no “thanks for trying but…” no nothing.
Now im guessing that it was because 14 MONTHS AGO the old Phrost got banned, but it could be anything, even something that i could simply of changed, making every one happy.

but nope, not google.

So folks, i have a final message for you and google

Ahh, isnt it a beauty?

In fact, if you would like a snazzed up one for a background (and who could blame you for wanting one), then you can find that

HERE

Thats right, right click > set as background.

Enjoy

 

**edit**

New tutorial up, its pretty huge, about how to make a site, enjoy :)

When was that last post again?

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Well its been a while since the last post here, and there is actualy a good reason for that. For once :P

Basicly we did this terms GCSE exams a few weeks ago, hopefuly they went alright :S
So now all the teachers thought it would be a rocking idea if they gave us shit loads of coursework to do. Bastards :P

So yea, thats been taking up a nice chunk of time :(

Also I had Work Experience last week (10th-14th), i headed off to Pivotal Games, Google it, im far to lazy to explain.
Learnt loads about Max, among other things and generaly had a good time :)

but, after spending 9 hours a day in front on Max, the last thing i wanted to do was come home and model some more, hence the lack of updates.
Oh, and i managed to forget to bring home renders of anthing id done, so thats succesfuly lost ^-^

And what with Friends and general life taking more time, Phrost has all but been forgoten :(

So, yesterday i was bored and asked someone for something to model, they said a Ps2 Controller.
So;

I havnt got the hang of smoothing in Max yet, so i left it rough. You can see a bigger version in the portfolio :)

School ends in

7 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So then after the hoooj thing thats supposed to be happening tuesday night, well a few days after that ;) , Phrost should be updated a lot more :)

I think that’ll do for now,
Laters.

Zombies - back from the dead

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Yea, just letting people know that Phrost isnt abandoned, its just that ive had coursework, final pieces for art (which came out well btw) and friends to worry about.

Also got work experience at Pivitol Games, google it.
thats next week so dont expect much from me then either.

BUT!!

its then the 6 week holidays, is that awsome or what?

so yea, give me a week or 3 and ill get some more content, till then, enjoy whats here now ;)

Laters