First Post

I've wanted, for a while, to convert my front page to a blog format, so here it is! My main concern was keeping the icon links to the different sections of the site so i figured it out and got everything laid out nicely. Now the only problem is that i'll be posting more often!

I also added a link to the WIKI that's been growing behind the scenes; it's time to reveal its little self to the world.

The reason i wanted to convert to a blog format was because i didn't want to always hop into dreamweaver every time i wanted to post something. And if i'm at work and want to post something, forget it - it's too much of a hassle. But with a blog it's nice and simple.

Rhaluka and i spent some time in San Francisco today walking along Embarcadero and eating at Houston's (*amazing*). It was a great time and we'll be getting back to the city to visit more places as often as we can!

We also went to a Christmas party that my boys had at their house on Saturday. They had a really fun White Elephant Gift exchange game where everyone had to bring a gift, get assigned a number, then from the last to the first number someone would either pick a gift from under the tree or steal one of the gifts that someone else already got. It was pretty fun and when my turn came around I stole a Jackie the Jokeman joke-telling toy.

Unfortunately it was a kid version. GRRRRWWWWOOOOOAAAAAA! :)

Site Redesign

I did a bit of site redesign to simplify the look and categorize things better. I think it's much nicer now. The long game list on the left side is now in its own GAMES page with an added little history bit that I'll expand in the future.

The COMICS and OLD NEWS, used to being at the bottom of the heap, are now happy being visible just in case you want a peek. And the GAMETALK graphic/link is in keeping with the rest. Little changes got made to several of the other pages as well.

Daikatana GBC News Story

There have been several news stories about the Daikatana page and the pre-alpha download I put up. So many people downloaded the pre-alpha and Daikatana demo that they split the nuts off my Streamload account, so I set up the download to come from this site instead. Heh.

Anyway, 1UP.COM wrote up a great little news story about the release and I modified the Daikatana page to add the link and a little extra info. That's all.

More Info Than You Might Want: this site is hosted by LiquidWeb, which has been around for 7 years. Check out the facility hosting this site, it's pretty cool.

Happy KEENsday!

It's the 14th birthday of the original Commander Keen 1-3 trilogy - on the 14th! And it's the 13th birthday of the second Keen duo of 4-5 on the 15th.

Check out some of the Keen sites on the Net to reaquaint yourself with the little fella.

Cerebral Cortex 314

Commander Spleen's Land of Commander Keen

Crazy Flash Movie with Keen sprites in it!

So there you go - Keen's birthdays. In a row.

And the only cool present I have for Keen is an old picture from the beginnings of id Software while we were creating the Super Mario 3 demo to show Nintendo - in the photo gallery!