All three of the scripts I’ve put out have been updated. No major changes, some code cleanup. Chanmon and Highmon have in-client help available on /help chanmon or /help highmon
Find them in the Downloads section or via weechat.
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Weechat: Highmon
Due to popular demand for something similar to chanmon, for highlights, I’ve whipped up a new Weechat script Highmon. It’s based off the core of chanmon, and shares a few features. Docs and latest version, will be updated in the Downloads section, and available through Weechat’s manager script ‘weeget’
Get Highmon v.1.0 [ dl ]
Review: Secret Files 2
Not long ago, I played through and completed Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis. While it’s still fresh in my mind, I figured it would be a good candidate for a new review;
Nina Kalenkow returns in a new point-and-click adventure game; Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis,The sequel to the award winning adventure hit Secret Files Tunguska. If you’re a fan of proper adventure games, you won’t want to miss this.
Alice and Kev
I happened across this the other day in my internet wanderings. Alice and Kev is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3.
The premise seems pretty basic on the face of it; Take the Sims 3, create a couple of characters (father/daughter in this case), set them up in a lot made up to look like an abandoned park, and see what happens, giving the odd nudge along the way.
What this has turned into, with the help of some good writing, is an incredible fascinating and moving story of these two characters. A lot of it driven by the game itself.
This is certainly worth reading through, but be warned, while there are some uplifting points, this is (by and large) a rather sad tale.
Slight rearrange
I’ve had a reshuffle in layout terms, to coincide with the new revenue making ProjectWonderful ad boxes, and hopefully it’s as easy, or easier to navigate.
The site zone’s that were on the left, are now in the bar above, and darken depending where you are, and a few boxes have moved.
Oh and I bumped rslap up to v1.1, with a fix for comments and blank lines.
Also EVE got a funky new trailer, which I’m slotting in here, simply because I can;
Fixing WordPress’ Gallery
It’s moderately well known that WordPress’ gallery code, is not as robust as it could be in some cases. These have a tendency to manifest in XHTML / multi-column CSS layouts. There are two main issues;
- It inserts inline CSS into the middle of the page, which under XHTML is not good
- The gallery layout can do unusual things, including odd line breaks which can create large gaps after the first row, kill the template or other odd things
It’s been bugging me for a while now, so I decided to do a bit of research to find some solutions, and figured it would be useful to post the results.
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Halo Legends
So this got announced the other day too;
The BONES, Casio Entertainment, Production I.G., Studio 4°C, and Toei Animation anime studios are animating Halo Legends, a DVD anthology of seven short films based on Microsoft Studios’ Halo game franchise. Microsoft’s creative staff is approving the visuals and storytelling. Three of the creative directors are Frank O’Connor of Microsoft’s 343 Industries, Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed), and Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, The Sky Crawlers)
— Source: ANN
In case you hadn’t noticed, I like games and anime, so needless to say, I am rather looking forward to this. Hopefully it won’t turn out a giant mess, but judging from the clips in the trailer, it could well be interesting;
More of this please, thanks
So if you haven’t heard, S2 Games, the company behind the Savage series, have a new game coming out, and what’s more is they’ve been doing Linux Closed Beta testing with the guys over at Phoronix, and the Linux Gaming community has responded, in a big way.
Phoronix posts on the subject so far;
Come Play This New Linux-Native Game With Us!
Linux Gamers Are Excited For New Games
Okay, Linux Gamers Are REALLY Excited!
Game studios, pay attention. Linux gamer’s exist, and there are many of them, and they move with surprising force, (and buying power).
So what is Heroes of Newerth all about? Well, we can’t exactly tell you. S2 Games has all media under an embargo covering this game. Basically it’s an online, multi-player strategy game that is based upon DoTA (Defense of the Ancients).
–Phoronix
Weechat: Chanmon 1.3.3 & rslap 1.0
I mentioned the “Channel Monitor” in the earlier Weechat post.
So here’s Chanmon v.1.3.3 [ dl ]
Which allows you to watch all/most/some of your IRC channels in a single buffer, without merging them.
And rslap v1.0 [ dl ]
Allows /rslap <nick> to slap a nick with a random pre-defined message
More info can be found under their respective pages in Downloads
Both scripts are also available through Weechat’s built-in manager script ‘weeget’
Ka-boom-boom
So the site fell off the net. It’s not like anyone actually cares.. right?
-Technical stuff follows-
In case you were wondering, my hoster’s fell a foul of the VPS issue a while back, they’ve now fixed that, but it’s taken some time to figure out what’s gone and what’s recoverable.
Seems like the SQL DB’s have gone, and I was stupid and missed backing up. But all is not lost, this old backup will suffice for now, and I have the source for the other pages thanks to Google Cache.
So over the next week I should get this back, maybe with restored images, maybe not, and after that, I might actually have some new crud to put up.