Tonight was the first real test of my Story Game with more than 3 players. I invited some friends to come play over the evening, and see how the game worked out in real usage. 
Let’s just say there was mixed success. The PHP and AJAX performed beautifully… but as the number of people increased, the story became more and more disjointed. But would you really expect otherwise? Things went great in the vocabulary department, as the diversity of players broadened the range of words used, though this came at the cost of very grammatically and semantically distorted sentences. It seemed after we hit the 3 player mark (topped at 6 during the test!), the problems really began.
Today I did a lot more work on the front page and wordpress theme… lots of very fun, engrossing design work. I’ve been taking a bit of time to learn the wordpress theme structure so that I can effectively port my old design over to it. 
In the process, I’ve been learning a lot of useful php and css tricks. It’s so fulfilling to see things falling into place as I find out more of what needs to change to achieve what I’m looking for. Or to find out what I’m looking for. In a few days, time willing, I figure I should have the blog themed to my satisfaction. I’ve been holding off major announcements until I have something compelling here - so that the blog here doesn’t look like a downgrade rather than the huge upgrade I hope it is. 
Slowly but surely, slowly but surely…
More style changes tomorrow!
This is a test of Custom Smileys 2.3
Well, fate would have it that I’ve been getting tied up in all sorts of expected and unexpected work over the past two days, and thus have found little time in terms of improving the site. Sorry for not much happening right now - believe me - if I could, I’d be working on this every minute. Here’s to hoping I’ll find more time on the weekend to get a real theme up here on the blog, and get some anouncements out!
Until then,
–Chromakode
Today was awesome. After a lot of thought and planning, I’ve finally bit the bullet and switched things over to the wonderful NearlyFreeSpeech.Net. It’s amazing. I don’t have a lot of time to write about the experience now, but so far it has been excellent. Oh, and I have a domain now!
In the next few days I’ll be tweaking things to my liking and setting up the sections on the front page. Oh, and I’ll get rid of Kubrick. Promise.
Anyway, I’ve gotta run now. I will be working continuously on this new site, and seeing where the new possibilities take me. I’m excited.
日本語を勉強します。OMG! 名前は片仮名で書きました！
(I am studying Japanese. OMG! The name was written in Katakana!)
Yeah, I know it’s been a lot of fluff posts lately… I’m sorry, but I haven’t found the time to do (or write about) anything particularly interesting on the technical side. However, there are (and always will be) lots of interesting ramblings to share… so here’s some more.
Today I got to see the first video in my Japanese Culture class. It’s a neat little course, and so every other Friday I will be able to enjoy a bit more of this fascinating culture. The movie we watched today was pretty awesome… a samurai story exploring gender and social power and the ethics around them (in historic Japan). So anyway, it’s a real drawn out story about a Samurai’s son who is ordered to marry the lord’s mistress (who bore the lord a child), and they fall in love only to find that due to circumstances the lord wishes that he have her back. So of course, the father and son can’t let that happen. But long story short, we sit through 1:30 of pretty cerebral (and completely fight-free) tension, only to run out of time right before the real samurai style ass-kicking begins. You can look at the IMDB page… and yes, that movie poster seems to be showing the fight scene that will surely be bugging me all week.
Hmm, apologies for the lack of updates over the last week. It’s funny, while just a few weeks ago I felt I had to much to say, lately I simply haven’t had much to talk about. Been doing lots of art, design, and other things… but for some reason a lot of my usual desire to write about it hasn’t been there. So the blog’s been on the backburner for the last week or so.
Did some quick design work this evening for a friend over at HackersEntity… it was fun to just throw some ideas together quickly for a change. HackersEntity is an (ethical) source for hacking information and knowledge. We were shooting for a bit of an unconventional layout, with the navigational content at the bottom right, and nothing (for now) but a symbol at the usual top left. My idea behind this was to use the “newline symbol” as a logo/motif for the layout, as the newline could be considered as the classic character utilized by computer hackers. So, the newline up at the top left is supposed to uphold this design and point the reader down to where the real information lies. There’s not a lot of content up yet, though I’m sure there will be in the next couple of days. It’s a fun little unique layout, and I certainly had fun working on it.
Today I had my first Aikido class for at least 10 months. It was fantastic… just being back in a familiar dojo with my old sensei. Boy, it’s such a wonderful feeling to just be thrown around for a while and rolling - it’s about the closest feeling you can get to flying in my opinion. I was embarrasingly rusty, but after a little while (and some prodding by sensei) it was pretty easy to get flowing again. It’s so great to be back!
It’s also made me very tired, so this will be it for now. Good night!
About: I am a digital artist and computer geek with interests in Linux, open source design programs, and saving the world. You will find me blogging here about art, life, technology, and other mildly amusing things. 
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