Archives for July 2005
Fun with search engines
27 July 2005 | Random | No Responses
As of this post, my résumé is the fourth match on MSN (Microsoft’s search) for the search string, “PIRATE MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003.”
I’m so proud. Being the 12th match for “bar,” the number one “Magna Carta porn” site on the internet, and now this … I’m moving up!
The Lame Debate: GTA San Andreas
23 July 2005 | Rants | No Responses
For those who haven’t heard yet, this game is being pulled from the shelves to be relabelled and to have its sex code removed. Apparently a few parents down south went mad when they realized their 5 year old could actually bang a virtual hooker.
I think it’s important we notice they were only mad when it involved sex. The normal function in the game–paying for her then murdering her–is perfectly acceptable to these parents.
LSF update released
15 July 2005 | Obsoleted | No Responses
After another three runs through the game, some user feedback and a lot of alcohol, there’s an update out to fix the spelling errors in the Legend of Swordsman & Fairy translation.
Simple deal. Run the EXE, it detects where you installed the game, hit OK and the files are updated.
This is mainly a fix for typos and a couple lines that sounded funky. It also corrects two hidden items whose descriptions were not formatting properly.
You can get the official file from Jacky’s blog or from my /pub folder.
LSF demo is out
14 July 2005 | Obsoleted | No Responses
Jacky released the demo version of LSF yesterday. It is playable until the boat leaves the first town for Suzhou (2:30 - 3 hours into the game). After that a series of previews for the rest of the game follows.
There are a couple mistakes still, like a few items that formatted wrong, and four lines of text that snuck by editing, but he should have a patch out to fix these soon. It will probably be an addition 600KB download.
You can find some download sources at the project page. Torrent will probably be your best bet if you live in North America.
Major updates finished
2 July 2005 | Random | No Responses
In case you haven’t noticed, the Web site is at a new domain now. To go along with the move, I added some more of my photos to the image rotation at the top. The menus have also all been reworked to provide much more direct navigation. Once again, as it always should have, the banner at the top of the site provides a link back to the Welcome index. Ignore Internet Explorer’s flaky behavior. While no hand icon is shown, it is indeed clickable.
On the back end side of things, I moved away from storing main pages as blog posts. In the process, my .htaccess file has climbed to over 20KB. Ouch.