I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever have any time, ever again! What with moving home, growing children, and all the various ups and downs of life, I haven't had any time to write a single blog post, nor access to the internet for the past three and a half weeks. This was especially annoying as I kinda need the net to check my finances, communcate with friends, clients, the authorities etc.
We're now online again though, so maybe...
Showing posts with label Blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog. Show all posts
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Thursday, March 22, 2012
New PC
The old computer died in a slurry of virus infection and I'm gradually setting up a new computer (my brothers old pc which still has a few good years in it). Normal blogging will resume forthwith.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Nothing to see here, move along
Lazy days in Aarhus. I've not had much time to do any modelling, nor painting, of late, so not much to relate with that regard. The children take up a lot of my time and trying to manage various obligations, whilst coping with the emotional turbulence of losing my parents takes the rest. It will only be a few months until the first anniversary of my fathers death, but I'm still suffering regular bouts of grief, characterised by depression, lassitude and a general inability to concentrate on such mundane things as dates, appointments and other such obligations. Overall, I have an obscure feeling that I've lost my way and I'm wandering in fields of doubt.
Every so often I get a glimpse of who I was a year ago and I wonder how I get back to that. Perhaps the first step is in finding the way out of those fields of doubt?
Every so often I get a glimpse of who I was a year ago and I wonder how I get back to that. Perhaps the first step is in finding the way out of those fields of doubt?
Monday, May 02, 2011
Firefox 4
'Made to make the Web a better place' it claims, so far I've only had to restart my computer twice in the three hours since I began running Firefox 4. Hopefully, this clunky heaviness will iron itself out with the inevitable upgrades, but thus far I'm less than ecstatic.
I'm really starting to hate upgrades too. They never seem to do anything good, and always seem to require more and more of this computers meager resources. I have a second computer, which is much bigger and more powerful and which I use for image work and graphics, but I keep that computer off the internet because I want to avoid all the detritus from using the internet (and because I wish to avoid the very sweet temptation of rejoining EVE online).
I'm really starting to hate upgrades too. They never seem to do anything good, and always seem to require more and more of this computers meager resources. I have a second computer, which is much bigger and more powerful and which I use for image work and graphics, but I keep that computer off the internet because I want to avoid all the detritus from using the internet (and because I wish to avoid the very sweet temptation of rejoining EVE online).
Saturday, April 30, 2011
blog update
As is obvious, I've updated my blog to a new template. I decided it was time, now that the latest version of blogger has some of the things I've wanted since I first started the blog, most of all, the dark transparent back drop to the posts which allows the cog image to mesh with the blog, and just the fact that the blog is now easier for visitors to navigate. That was always the idea but I could never figure out the html code before. In upgrading I have lost some information for the time being and the many html changes I had made over the years were wiped clean. Luckily blogger stores the templates as a back up so I should be able to restructure the blog with time. Currently I'm trying to figure out how to centralize the title image though.
There are other differences which I don't care for but have accepted, at least for the time being. I can't arrange or group the links in the side menu's in any way other than alphabetically. Perhaps there is a way to do this in the html code but given how impenetrable the current code is, compared to the old code, I'm not holding my breath!
There are other differences which I don't care for but have accepted, at least for the time being. I can't arrange or group the links in the side menu's in any way other than alphabetically. Perhaps there is a way to do this in the html code but given how impenetrable the current code is, compared to the old code, I'm not holding my breath!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thursday, April 08, 2010
JRC-1138: Four Years Anniversary
Its nice having a place to write about the things one finds interesting and I'm always happy to read peoples thoughts and comments. Thanks to every one who took the time to drop by and take an interest.
Todays musical inspiration is the theme to Hitchhkers Guide to the Galaxy, which I never realised it wasn't an original piece... here is the original.
Todays musical inspiration is the theme to Hitchhkers Guide to the Galaxy, which I never realised it wasn't an original piece... here is the original.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Anatomy of a hack
Oleg sent me the link to this article, and its well worth reading by those who run blogs!
Sunday, December 02, 2007
...thats strange.
Since December 1st, I've notice that opening images on Blogger now requires me to accept the image as a down load (see below image) into a seperate window or directly on to my drive. When ever I try to open an older image I don't get this, and I don't seem to get it any where else but blogger (though its sometimes hard to know when images have been uploaded else where) so I assume its a new feature by Blogger. Has any one else noticed this? I'm assuming this is some kind of new security feature since it happens to me regardless of which browser I'm using.
Friday, November 02, 2007
Comments
The bastards finally found my blog so I have activated the comments word verification thingy. Sorry for any inconvenience. I'll probably deactivate it later on.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Nudity
Apparently photobucket considered my sketch of a giantess to be improper because they terminated the link refering to it as a violation of their terms of service. Reading through this document again (its been four years or so since I last read it) sure enough, 'nudity' is forbidden.
Thinking about it, I suppose a pencil sketch of a nude female giant is still a nude, but I have to say, its pretty small minded to take offence at a sketch of a nude . Its too bad human beings are generally so worked up about their own bodies that they can't even stand to look at a graphic representation of one.
I have subsequently refreshed my mind on Bloggers terms of service also and indeed, they havemuch the same clause but with a slight difference.
Pornography and Obscenity: Image and video content that contains nudity, sexually graphic material, or material that is otherwise deemed explicit by Google should be made private. Otherwise, we may put such content behind an interstitial.
I suppose the image of the male giant below is in violation of that clause unless I make it 'private'. I'm not sure how to do that within the limitations of this web site, so I think I'll just remove the terrifying spectacle of his penis before I lose my blog...
Thinking about it, I suppose a pencil sketch of a nude female giant is still a nude, but I have to say, its pretty small minded to take offence at a sketch of a nude . Its too bad human beings are generally so worked up about their own bodies that they can't even stand to look at a graphic representation of one.
I have subsequently refreshed my mind on Bloggers terms of service also and indeed, they havemuch the same clause but with a slight difference.
Pornography and Obscenity: Image and video content that contains nudity, sexually graphic material, or material that is otherwise deemed explicit by Google should be made private. Otherwise, we may put such content behind an interstitial.
I suppose the image of the male giant below is in violation of that clause unless I make it 'private'. I'm not sure how to do that within the limitations of this web site, so I think I'll just remove the terrifying spectacle of his penis before I lose my blog...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Pan & Maenad
In case any one is wondering, the new wall paper shows Pan with a willing Maenad. (none so willing as a Maenad! the ancients certainly knew how to have fun)
My screen resolution is set to 1024 x 768. so any one with a different setting will probably get a screwed up image. Sorry about that but I don't know how to manipulate the code to make the image fit to the viewers browser.
My screen resolution is set to 1024 x 768. so any one with a different setting will probably get a screwed up image. Sorry about that but I don't know how to manipulate the code to make the image fit to the viewers browser.
Monday, October 15, 2007
To boldly go where lots of people have gone before
I changed my wallpaper again. The last image wasn't working. It was too fussy. Too 'Victorian'.
The current image is a temporary one until I find something more fitting to my personal aesthetic tastes. The ship is my Republic Fleet Firetail frigate, from the MMORPG EVE.
Anyway, on with the show. Its time for moif's review of:
Star Trek Enterprise
I'm currently into the third series and, more or less enjoying it as I go. This is in part due to the ship itself as I really like its 'UFO look'. I've never liked the ships in Start Trek much. Voyager was the best until now, with its sleeker profile, but on the whole, they all looked ungainly and awkward. I'm a big fan of space ship concepts though, so the CGI ships in this series are all so much eye candy to me that I'm prepared to look beyond the horrible characters and accept the appalling moralizing and just enjoy the shows for what they are. Fluff with great (if unrealistic) space craft. Also I like to complain.
If I'm totally honest, I have to say that even without the ships, then I'd probably watch it any way, at least until I reached the vomit point. I even managed two seasons of the revamped Battlestar Galactica!
The characters then... well they are pretty much all horrible. The show revolves around the same set of hired actors portraying the standard Star Trek bridge crew. These, despite the large anonymous crew who they pass in the corridors, do everything. They run and repair the ship, they go on all the 'away missions' and other adventures and they generally have all the speaking parts.
Unfortunately they don't get to have much fun as their Captain Archer, a granite faced softy who reminds me of the 80's sitcom puppet Alf, gets to hog the screen and about 75% of all the various capers the ship gets involved in. He flies the shuttles into the asteroid fields, runs secret agent ops in to enemy alien installations, gets into duels and courtroom drama's and time travel paradox's and even saves humanity on several occaisions whilst all the time preaching about his humanity. Unlike the legendary Captain Kirk however, Archer does not appear to have a sexuality at all.
In one instance whilst explaining his lack of any desire to enact revenge on some villain or other he tells his sexy Vulcan science officer that it is our humanity (read pacifism) which makes us human. I thought this was a rather amusing line given that the majority of the human race, for most of human history, has not been particularly bothered about exacting revenge on which ever villain happens to be in fashion. Its kind of ironic also that a man in a uniform (who does not regard himself as military) who regularly engages in star ship combat (though he does not consider his ship a warship) should hold to the view that his pacifism is an indication of his humanity. There are so many battles in Star Trek it makes EVE look placid. Not that I mind star ship combat. I just get bored to tears with the after battle sermon.
Most of the rest of the crew are equally tedious. There is Trip the Texan engineer who appears to be a descendent of George W Bush and who has a strange habit of getting marooned. And there is Lootenant Reed, an uptight Brit 'tactical officer' who snaps at every one, makes snide remarks, is constantly being bailed out by his captain and appears to fall apart when ever death stares him in the face.
Being Star Trek, there has to be a well curvacious woman in a one piece skin tight garment of course. After all, Star Trek NG had Troi and Voyager had 7 of 9, and so Enterprise has T'Pol. (Don't worry, she's only that thin because she's not a human being).
Even without the story, one gets the feeling that one is moving over familiar ground, and then comes The Story. Seasons one and two are just a series of one off episodes in the typical Star Trek format with a loose common thread concerning a 'temporal cold war' plot that goes no where slowly. This all comes to an abrupt end at the end of season two when unknown aliens attack the USA and kill Trips sister!!!! (+7,000,000 other people) for no apparent reason.
Popular pacifist and war hero Captain Archer soon discovers why however and immedietely volunteers his ship on a long, long, long mission to find the enemy and make them stop their attack before they exterminate all humanity. Does this make sense to you? Some aliens who live a long way from Earth find out from contacts in the future, that the human race will one day, a few centuries down the line, wipe them out, and so they embark on a pre emptive attack to destroy the entire human race. They do this by launching a single attack against Earth with an under powered prototype weapon that cannot possibly destroy the planet. Then, they set about building and testing a bigger, super bad variant of this weapon.
Captain Archer, having received permission to take humanity's best fighting vessel then flies into 'the expanse' to find these mysterious aliens and their doomsday device, before they can complete it.
Now, looking beyond the fact that this entire story arc is a poorly written blatent Farscape (FTW) rip off, one is forced to wonder at the logic of launching a pre-emptive, out of the blue, surprise attack against the human race when the aliens have centuries of time to perfect their doomsday device. Thats alien logic for you! Instead, they alert the humans as to the threat they pose, giving Captain Archer months of time to find them and prevent their nefarious plans whilst all the time engaging in the humanist tradition of space combat.
Actually I kind of like the idea that humans riding in a ship laden with lethal weaponry travel to new world and preach to aliens about what great people we human beings are. All Archer really needs is a horse, some rats (he already has a dog) and small pox and he fits right in with all the other great conquistadors. Naturally a Bible is out of the question.
That would be silly.
And why is this post so long if Start Trek Enterprise is so bad?
Because I like to complain.
The current image is a temporary one until I find something more fitting to my personal aesthetic tastes. The ship is my Republic Fleet Firetail frigate, from the MMORPG EVE.
Anyway, on with the show. Its time for moif's review of:
Star Trek Enterprise
I'm currently into the third series and, more or less enjoying it as I go. This is in part due to the ship itself as I really like its 'UFO look'. I've never liked the ships in Start Trek much. Voyager was the best until now, with its sleeker profile, but on the whole, they all looked ungainly and awkward. I'm a big fan of space ship concepts though, so the CGI ships in this series are all so much eye candy to me that I'm prepared to look beyond the horrible characters and accept the appalling moralizing and just enjoy the shows for what they are. Fluff with great (if unrealistic) space craft. Also I like to complain.
If I'm totally honest, I have to say that even without the ships, then I'd probably watch it any way, at least until I reached the vomit point. I even managed two seasons of the revamped Battlestar Galactica!
The characters then... well they are pretty much all horrible. The show revolves around the same set of hired actors portraying the standard Star Trek bridge crew. These, despite the large anonymous crew who they pass in the corridors, do everything. They run and repair the ship, they go on all the 'away missions' and other adventures and they generally have all the speaking parts.
Unfortunately they don't get to have much fun as their Captain Archer, a granite faced softy who reminds me of the 80's sitcom puppet Alf, gets to hog the screen and about 75% of all the various capers the ship gets involved in. He flies the shuttles into the asteroid fields, runs secret agent ops in to enemy alien installations, gets into duels and courtroom drama's and time travel paradox's and even saves humanity on several occaisions whilst all the time preaching about his humanity. Unlike the legendary Captain Kirk however, Archer does not appear to have a sexuality at all.
In one instance whilst explaining his lack of any desire to enact revenge on some villain or other he tells his sexy Vulcan science officer that it is our humanity (read pacifism) which makes us human. I thought this was a rather amusing line given that the majority of the human race, for most of human history, has not been particularly bothered about exacting revenge on which ever villain happens to be in fashion. Its kind of ironic also that a man in a uniform (who does not regard himself as military) who regularly engages in star ship combat (though he does not consider his ship a warship) should hold to the view that his pacifism is an indication of his humanity. There are so many battles in Star Trek it makes EVE look placid. Not that I mind star ship combat. I just get bored to tears with the after battle sermon.
Most of the rest of the crew are equally tedious. There is Trip the Texan engineer who appears to be a descendent of George W Bush and who has a strange habit of getting marooned. And there is Lootenant Reed, an uptight Brit 'tactical officer' who snaps at every one, makes snide remarks, is constantly being bailed out by his captain and appears to fall apart when ever death stares him in the face.
Being Star Trek, there has to be a well curvacious woman in a one piece skin tight garment of course. After all, Star Trek NG had Troi and Voyager had 7 of 9, and so Enterprise has T'Pol. (Don't worry, she's only that thin because she's not a human being).
Even without the story, one gets the feeling that one is moving over familiar ground, and then comes The Story. Seasons one and two are just a series of one off episodes in the typical Star Trek format with a loose common thread concerning a 'temporal cold war' plot that goes no where slowly. This all comes to an abrupt end at the end of season two when unknown aliens attack the USA and kill Trips sister!!!! (+7,000,000 other people) for no apparent reason.
Popular pacifist and war hero Captain Archer soon discovers why however and immedietely volunteers his ship on a long, long, long mission to find the enemy and make them stop their attack before they exterminate all humanity. Does this make sense to you? Some aliens who live a long way from Earth find out from contacts in the future, that the human race will one day, a few centuries down the line, wipe them out, and so they embark on a pre emptive attack to destroy the entire human race. They do this by launching a single attack against Earth with an under powered prototype weapon that cannot possibly destroy the planet. Then, they set about building and testing a bigger, super bad variant of this weapon.
Captain Archer, having received permission to take humanity's best fighting vessel then flies into 'the expanse' to find these mysterious aliens and their doomsday device, before they can complete it.
Now, looking beyond the fact that this entire story arc is a poorly written blatent Farscape (FTW) rip off, one is forced to wonder at the logic of launching a pre-emptive, out of the blue, surprise attack against the human race when the aliens have centuries of time to perfect their doomsday device. Thats alien logic for you! Instead, they alert the humans as to the threat they pose, giving Captain Archer months of time to find them and prevent their nefarious plans whilst all the time engaging in the humanist tradition of space combat.
Actually I kind of like the idea that humans riding in a ship laden with lethal weaponry travel to new world and preach to aliens about what great people we human beings are. All Archer really needs is a horse, some rats (he already has a dog) and small pox and he fits right in with all the other great conquistadors. Naturally a Bible is out of the question.
That would be silly.
And why is this post so long if Start Trek Enterprise is so bad?
Because I like to complain.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
JRC-1139 shut down
I've decided to shut down my political blog since I no longer have the interest in it I had. I'll probably do this within a week or so. Some of the links will be returned to this blog but others will be discarded.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Firefox
I finally gave up on IE and installed Firefox, about fifty years behind the rest of the human race. I'm very conservative when it comes to stuff like this. I hate change and detest new software. I don't even like upgrades. Recently I upgraded from Office 2000 to Office 2007 and just the look of the latest Word with its dreamy blue facade and totally new lay out had me spitting brimstone. A couple of months down the line and I'm still trying to figure it out.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Background
This is more or less where my heads at these days, what with Cyan finding the Jsaper Morello animation and Oleg skyping me all day about Bluenthaal thaumatech, I decided the red Japanese paper motif wasn't working well. Mette hated it as well. Said it looked 'English'. The full image is in the gallery (go through the old door).
Now if I could just work out how to make the papyrus image (upon which this text is resting) into a recurring brass punch card...
Now if I could just work out how to make the papyrus image (upon which this text is resting) into a recurring brass punch card...
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Rebooted
Have now rebooted my whole system, reformatted, partitioned and what have you. Am now trying to get my computer back to where it was before... Thankfully we didn't lose any of our pictures of Freja.
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