After having survived a couple of sprint triathlons in the last couple of months I decided (with a bit of encouragement) to have a go at an olymic distance triathlon. In terms of time and distance it's a big step-up from Sprint distance to Olympic...well, double everything in fact. The distances involved would be a 1.5km swim, a 40km bike ride, and a 10k run.
My list of 412 defects, issues, updates, graphics, improvements and modifications is now down to two:
Except for performing the release, it's all I need to do before the next Beta game. I need 6 Operatives in total and I have three so far:
Tonight I upgraded the Wordpress install on the site to version 2.8, resulted in about half-an-hour’s downtime while I untangled some merge conflicts the svn update to 2.8 combined with a move to the new Wordpress core svn server created. Interestingly the process went fine on my test server, but not on live; I’ll have to look into that.
It's been a while since there have been any big games but the past couple of weeks have had several big titles hit one after the other.
It's been nice to have some titles to get my teeth into even if it means I don't have time for other things for a week or so.
Nearly halfway through the year, which is more than a little scary. Time to see how the New Year Resolutions are shaping up...
1) Regain running fitness after injury.
I want to be a writer. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. I've written a few things before. Most of you will know about Icar, a while back I wrote an unfinished story about a hit man called Tomorrow's Keeper. I tried to revisit it but my writing has moved on a long way since. Sorry to those that wanted to know how it finished. Buggered if I knew.
OK, this is getting out of hand now. I mean, it was out of hand before, but it just got passed the point where even I can stay quiet about it. It’s like we’ve just passed the event-horizon of some new kind of publicity black hole and are now tumbling helplessly towards a singularity of overstatement where, rather than the laws of physics, it’s our sense of proportion that breaks down.
Although, I guess we have to give it 20 billion years or so before we really write it off.