A Dolphin’s Journal of Events

Recent project status:

Capped.TV – Still going, updated encoding core stuff, soon videos will be served from different directories. Also note, I’m going for a 3-quality system [HD, medium quality, and Flash 6] which will be selectable soon.

Phlix.TV – Dead. [Missed domain payment, lack of upkeep through server changes] Will put the semi-restored project on micksam7.com soon.

RuneTracker – A mess due to name changing junk. Have no way to fix it at the moment. It works, things are still logged. Some things may break. Cannot do a lot at the moment.

RScript Stuff – Need to move RsS’ database to mySQL. Beyond that, things seem to work still. Others can grab what’s broke here at least and fix it. [yay]

I’ve been unable to do much due to personal things affecting me [girlfriend has been missing for 5 weeks ...], and some upcoming trips will put me out of action till December.

It sucks, but eh. I’m not abandoning anything though.

Some more recent demos I thought should be shared.

First we have a Wrath by Matt Current. Win32 demo. Mostly dark and whatnot.

Next up, some fun little thing by ASD titled Chameleon. Win32, some 2D art and 3D. They made this in a few days for a random compo.

Here, have Lightshaft by Elude, a modern Amiga demo. Yay low res.

Now for something completely different, Frameranger by Fairlight, Orange, and CNCD [whew], once again a Win32 demo, and probably the biggest demo of the year so far. Random more main-stream oriented car/robo scenes, followed by more proper effects known of the scene. This thing runs like crap in real time though even on a high end rig.

Sorry, no oldskool platforms here this time, unless you count the upgraded amiga used for the Elude demo.

I recently slid onto Amazon’s Mechanical Turk a bit ago, enticed primarily with HE’s $30 IPv6 HIT. [That was a fun one, thanks to Softlayer for having fully IPv6-enabled NS servers]

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There’s a user on MTurk recently aptly named “Image Editing”, posting mostly jobs relating to, you guessed it, image editing. They have a interesting way to find editors eligible, enticing with small funds and a easy job, applying the qualifications to the user if they complete it correctly.

Seems the site behind it is called Slide Scanning Pros – A slide scanning service [heh] with some bonus imaging editing tucked away in there.

Sure would like to see more from them, though their first ‘real work’ HIT was a bit confusing with the description [though their Image Editing page has a slightly confusing selection in any case].

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Sidenote, seems that Wordpress is thinking Templates are covered by the GPL now, which is going to cause some drama.

Lately around the internet, particularly tech forums and other places, Wordpress has been critisized for it’s security flaws, and it’s plugins.

In particular, people critizie wordpress because a lot of user-submitted plugins are highly vunerable to specific attacks and other things due to bad coding.

I’d like to remind people, that once again these plugins are user-submitted.

As well, plugin security issues is in no way unique to wordpress. Plenty of other software – forums, CMSes, blogs, and other things – that support plugins have these issues. It’s not unique to wordpress.

So please keep that in mind. Thank you.

404 script fixed, so you can once again browse my inactive and old blog.

Stuff:
- Joined a new project
- Took a trip to florida, back now
- STILL LOOKING FOR WORK PLS
- Magic/More Magic

That is all.