A sad weekend in a way this weekend, the passing of Colin McRae.

For those of you who are not motorsport fans, Colin McRae was a World Rally Champion and a great ambassador for the sport. England has lost a legend.

S.

Ooops, been busy, been away... been ....

Been busy doing some very complex web sites, made even more complicated by one of my computers having a meltdown (quite literally) and of course, the most complex site and database work wasn't correctly backed-up.

Here's a hint to you out there using computers - BACKUP ... seriously BACKUP NOW, stop reading this blog and your computer up.

OK, so you've successfully backed up? Good.

So we went to Hawaii this year (rather than our usual Spanish Dolphins trip), which was fantastic! It took about a week to re-learn how to relax and do nothing, just enjoy relaxing, surfing, swimming and resting. No technology, no business just great scenery, fresh food and great friendly people.

So, I'm not making any promises, but Pyramid Developments is getting a revamp, I'm working on some quite cool things that should come go live soon.... so I'll let you know.

S.....

I am still here ... virtually...

I am still around ... been busy with work stuff - and I don't want to blog about that on here. As, to be honest, it's not really interesting...

So, we're into the SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER movies time, and I can't be bothered! Spiderman 3 just seems more of the same with too many bad guys and I just haven't heard anything about it to get excited about. Shrek 3, Why? wasn't Shrek 2 bad enough? you had to see how bad you could get?

I am excited about Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (or as I have taken to calling it Pilates of the Caribbean... dunno why but I find it amusing). I hope it finishes things off well and keeps up the quality of humour and general silliness that have made the first two good fun.

Otherwise, I want to see Paprika (a japanes anime by Satoshi Kon) Angel-A (french film by Luc Besson) and a few other independent films.

Any films people out there think I should see?

So, take care all, some news on Mission A.D. should be coming soon(ish) ;o)

Chat soon....

Silk/Spence

Ok, OK, I know - but I've been busy ;o)

With what I hear you roll your eyes... Well, I'll tell you...

I mentioned last time that I was working on a remake of an old C64 game, and that I would show you something soon. Well, soon didn't to be as soon as I would like.

But here you have our hero, simply called 'The Agent', running :

1986

2007

Let me know what you think, comments welcome.... (the lurid background is for contrast so I could see errors and such).

As for the game itself, it has that animated man running, jumping, crouching and shooting in response to your key presses. Working on the technical stuff now, collisions, map layout, enemy movement - then I can bolt it together for the actual game stuff... more when it's there to see.

Other things, lot's of web work getting in the way of other stuff.

We went to see '300' - WOW, what a great film action, action and action oh and some story too. Cool stuff. Made in the same way Sin City was, lots of virtual sets and CG stuff going on.

All new Vistas (well sort of)

Hello there in the dark dreary months of Winter... I say dreary because we had about three inches of snow about a week ago, then it went below freezing and stayed there! Now we have about 3 inches of ice everywhere ... it's such a pain in the... well everywhere! So though the Vista from my window is altered it is not exactly new...

But, the Vista on my computer is... or so Micro$oft tell me...

I have dual booted one of my PC's to test Vista (and to have Vista for testing websites and so on) for Clients. The only thing that seems new are the graphics. All the options are exactly where they were before, it works in exactly the same way as XP does but it looks prettier (which makes it slower) and it doesn't like my network (which XP had no problems with!) ... So, new graphics, new problems and it's all slower yay Micro$oft does it again.

Other news is ... I am working on a game. In fact a remake of an old C64 game called Mission A.D. (See it here) ... Now, my oldest friend Andrew will read this (I hope) and roll his eyes and, were he here, ask me 'Why that game?, it's a crap game'. Well, for some reason I liked it and still do, so I am remaking it for PC (and all being well Mac) using the Garage Games tools ... when I have something other than vague work in progress stuff - I'll show it to you.

Anyway, I hope our new year is going well .. chat to you again soon....

Silk / Spencer

Ooops, what happened ....

Almost a month since my last post! What happened? Where did the time go?

Well, I wish I could say that I have spent the time being truly creative and have something stunning to show you ... but .. . well - I've been building websites, there I said it. That's the deal, that's what I've been doing. And, sorry to say, not even interesting websites at that. Ho hum.

Also, I got severely distracted by World of Warcraft and its Burning Crusade. Blizzard really know how to make an absorbing game.

So, what have you lot been up to?

I want my visitors to notice something, there on the right is a link to Board Free - David Cornthwaite (and Elsa his skateboard) have successfully skated across Australia for charity, so if you have some spare coppers, give a little to this wonderful cause!

Lastly, because Neil (Gaiman, like you should ask!) asked us to - take a look HERE - OK, cool...

Anyway, chat again soon(er) and I'm hoping to have some cool stuff soon...

Silk/Spence

It's all over ...

.. for another year, time to clean up and get on with stuff.

Christmas seems such perfunctory thing over here in the U.S., merely referred to as the Holidays (so as to be Politically Correct and not offend those who do not celebrate Christmas).

It's a one day break, offices and business' close for one day, there is no Boxing Day no Christmas close-downs of offices ... oh well, I miss Christmas as Christmas not just a Holiday.

Having said all that, our Christmas Day was spent in the company of family and was very relaxed, fun and over way to quickly.

Now we're on to a New Year and New things ... (No resolutions as such, just an idea that we want to try and see out friends more).

All the best for the New Year to everyone, have a happy, prosperous and healthy 2007

Silk/Spencer

Just wanted ...

To wish you all a ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Here is my Christmas card this year ...




























Peace.....

Silk/Spencer