December 25th, 2008
Almost everyone has one of those family members that gets you the stereotypical gift of socks, or a jumper etc.
My Nan was one of these people, each year she would get one of those gifts, be it socks or perhaps a pack of handkerchiefs.
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December 21st, 2008
Lately I have been messing around with a tutorial James White posted regarding his “O Series” of pieces. I decided to experiment with it somewhat with not so geometric shapes and make a wallpaper for Jen.
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December 11th, 2008
So, WordPress 2.7 has been released, this build features a huge overhaul to the Admin CP that was already updated in 2.5.
So I updated Grey Skies with it to check out the new features that have been added and decided to post my initial interaction with it.
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November 7th, 2008
During packing in preparation for the move, I had a chance to look over some of my old paintings and sketchbooks. In part this was down to nostalgia but mostly it was down to a problem I have that I have been trying to overcome.
This problem is a big case of being burned out.
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October 23rd, 2008
The Hallows End festival was in full swing, people were running around trick or treating, cramming candy until they were sick, when the arrival of the Argent Dawn echoed the coming doom (which I guess is why the patch was called Echoes of Doom, whodathunkit) that was lurking.
Across Azeroth a plague spread, those who succumbed and fell to it found themselves risen up again and starting to hunger for human flesh.
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October 3rd, 2008
A few months back I was chatting with some fellow friends and the conversation turned from Myst to the book 1984, and I was inspired to do some Big Brother inspired Guild of Maintainer posters.
Yesterday I decided to remake them using the Guild of Maintainers colour of burgundy.
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October 3rd, 2008
Blizzard announced that the next World of Warcraft expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, will be out on the 13th of November. Just a few days before a certain lady’s birthday, wonder what she’ll be getting as a present.
We’ve both decided we wanted to get the Collectors Edition this expansion pack, Jen wanted the little frost dragon pet it gives and I was interested in the soundtrack and book of WoW artwork.
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October 2nd, 2008
It actually happened several months back, after years of trying to get my sites working properly in Internet Explorer 6 and below I finally reached the end of my patience.
So, Grey Skies at least will no longer be supporting Internet Explorer 6 and below.
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September 19th, 2008
As my significant other has mentioned, the petition for the Visa has gone through. We now get to kick things up a notch, which includes planning the actual wedding. Jen ordered the rings just before I left her last, unfortunately they didn’t show up until after I had returned to England. Today her wedding dress arrived which she seems to really like which is nice, looking forward to seeing her in it.
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September 19th, 2008
I’ve been wanting to do a piece on Veovis for a while now, I finally got around to it recently. Veovis is one of those characters of the Myst universe that I like a great deal, not because he ended up killing most of his race, but because of the mechanism that lead to the act. Not to mention that after he had lead to millions dying, he refused to step over that final line and break one of the greatest D’ni laws.
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