Category: Journal

Man, that was fun!

Even lending a meagre hand in Ade‘s DIY adventure made for a fun afternoon. Following that up at George‘s place, playing more pool in one night than I’ve played in two years made for a very enjoyable evening.

Saturday night I hit the pubs in Helensburgh with my cousin Iain and my old mate Alan. Although I was tired as hell from the previous nights 4am pool playing, I managed to muster the energy to have great fun in my old haunts too.

And who would have believed it? – The weather was perfect up until the Sunday, when it rained. Three days of sunshine and drinking made Scotland seem like a very nice place indeed!

I spent a large part of last weekend working on WipeoutZone, redesigning the front end and customising the new release of phpBB.

The latter turned out to be quite a task, as it’s less customisable than the older version of the forum and with virtually every page being built with includes and from the database it made finding what I wanted to alter a bit of a chore. I got it done to a reasonable standard in the end, and although I really wanted to re-do the icons I just ran out of time. I knew if I rushed them they’d look like crap too, so maybe some day I’ll get back to them.

The re-design was a bit unnecessary, really, as I’d only just re-done the whole site in early January. However, there were some codey issues with NN6 and Mozzila due to the page stretching to fit the screen, so I had to scrap that. I also wanted to take a step back from Wipeout Fusion to concentrate a bit more on the previous versions of the game once more, which meant re-designing the banner of the site as well. I’m finding it hard to compete on a level playing field with the official sites in terms of material, and with WipeoutZone originally being a Wipeout 3 fan site it makes sense to cater for that audience until Wipeout Fusion no longer has an official site.

Wahey – Easter is upon us and aside from being the second mini consumer-fest of the year (after Valentines day), it’s the first proper holiday of the year too. I’ll be making the trek up to Scotland to spend some time with family and friends and hopefully enjoy some mild weather.

I have a sneaky suspicion that I wont see any of the latter, but it cant hurt to hope!

Have a good one, where ever you are :o)