ShadowReality

I havn’t been working on the gamercard stuff for about a week now, but it is close to getting it’s public release soon. I wanted to release it last Sunday but other things always seem to get in the way, in anycase I thought i’d drop an update on what the sig looks like and a little screenshot of how it’s coming along.

custom image background

One of the reasons I enjoy coding if the really interesting things you can do with it, recently I stumbled upon a public XML feed which contains live gamertag information and have been playing around with it a little.

So far I’ve just got it caching some data, and creating an image on the fly with some info. Here is some concept art of what I hope the finished thing will look like.

And the possibility for adding custom backgrounds..

For the longest time now I have had a list of things that I have wanted to do with this site, but havn’t really had the time (nor the motivation) to do them. Back before this site was a Wordpress blog It was a very social site with my friends posting and hosting images, hence the tag “A place for stuff” and I feel I want to eventually get back to that and provide a hub for people to share thier web stuffs.

Being a web developer it’s quite important to keep up with the times, and one of the most enjoyable things for me it to be creative in my coding and one of the ways I have been doing this on this site is with the flexible plug-ins and page templates.

Last November I re-themed the site from the ground up, and since then I feel I’ve just left things up in the air. So I think the time has come to start getting this site cleaned up, and start making this place usable once again, I mean it doesn’t even have a search box at the moment! How did I overlook that?

Anyway, I started off by removing the archive box in the sidebar and now instead it has a whole page devoted to it, so please bear with me as I start to do some modifications around here for the better.

And if you have any good ideas of features, content, or anything you can imagine from a website you would like to see added or improved upon on Shadow Reality then please leave a comment to this post, I really value all the comments I get here.

- SmokestormX

I looked back on some of my other posts because apparently, my posts, “are too random”. Anyway. here is an update that I promised on Black Mesa Source, a higly anticipated HL2 mod. Although I should give you a meaningful update. I think its safe to say that Black Mesa Source is abandoned. The last update on their site was from Christmas 2007. I feel kinda bad. It looked like it was going to be a very promising mod.

P.S. How’s that for random? Booyah!!

I have found a site that lets people watch full episodes of South Park. The site includes almost every episode. The only ones they don’t have are the newest or most recent episodes. It also includes episodes from every season in a neat organized order. The best part is, the site is in no danger of shutting down because it is hosted by Comedy Central, so its not illegal. So, if you love south park as much as I do, or its your first time seeing the series, then head on over to:
http://www.southparkstudios.com

or go directly to the episodes by going to:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/

Well, I’m finally back to the computer after having some hardware corruption problems. I’ve been away from the computer for 3 whole weeks and it was pretty much gruesome to endure and I know as he’s reading this, Smokey is probably laughing at me. Even though my current computer is fixed, I’m getting a new gaming rig that will be much better to suit my needs. This computer now goes to my parents. I missed this site and pretty much every site. “Might even click on a pop-up ad just for the heck of it”. I’m glad to be back bitches!!!

Yesterday, I bought a Mexican Standard Strat in Olympic White. Below, is a picture of it. Rather horribly extracted from the original photo with Photoshop.

A few days ago, I had messed up my exe for starcraft and so I couldn’t get on b-net and play with Smoky and company. How did I do it? I installed a no-cd crack wrong and I pretty much fucked up my Starcraft. Now today, I went on a journey to find a cd-key grabber so I could get back my cd-key and re-install the game. So after about 3 hours of web searching. I found my redemption and now I can play Starcraft again. But this time, I’m not going to be stupid. In case of “mess up game by no-cd crack”, i have backed up all of my important files so that I don’t have to search for anything ever again.

This is my new profile picture for steam and as you can see, there is a wolf pimp on top of the css logo, with the word css sticking out from it to indicate that i love css.