Welcome
This is my first attempt at really having any kind of site of my own, but I needed a place where I could put things related to TRLT that didn't necessarily belong at either DA or AGNPH, and so this is my first true website for and by myself. Over to the left is the navbar, from which you can to the story page, see a cast of characters, a miscellaneous section for unrelated work or things that don't fit in any other category, a small page about me, and a links page for those not interested enough to stay here (Am I really that boring? XD). I suppose I will eventually turn this into a proper newspage, but for now this will suffice, and newer posts will be immediately beneath this paragraph, with the information getting older as posts descend.
(9/11/2009) Just a little note
In case anyone who's visiting cares, I've decided to start copying journals as newsposts here whenever I get the chance. Although I won't copy over old ones, this will (hopefully) apply to all future updates. This should help keep the site up-to-date: by forcing me to actually edit something about it every so often, I should be able to notice and work on things that need changin or fixing, like the current style's colors which, as has been pointed out to me, are too contrasting. So, that's that, and have a nice day.
(9/11/2009) Quick little update (followed by random crap)
So here I am, without my all-important laptop, resorting to using a five-plus year old Windows XP machine to do everything, but at least it works. I just got a new job at a nearby sports-slash-family-entertainment facility, so it should be just inside of a month before I get my first real check and can hopefully have enough free cash to get a replacement hard disk for my Dell. As for the old one, well... I can literally hear it try to spin up and fail to do so when I try booting the laptop, so I've stopped trying until I can get an external mount and try the freezer trick with it, 'cause there's quite a bit of data (unfortunately on the order of perhaps a few gigabytes) that I want/need off of the disk, despite its hardware-faulted status. I have a friend who might be able to help me recover the data sooner, but that's a big "if" right there.
Thankfully, however, I had the foresight to see that this might happen, so I have (for a good long while now) been keeping most all of my important data and such on my 250GB Seagate FreeAgentGo. Of course I still have yet to find a practical way of backing *that* up, but at least I'm more confident in that little disk's integrity than that of Dell's OEM drives. Perhaps I'll get a couple of terabyte or half-terabyte drives once I have my laptop running on a new disk, who knows? As it is, my disk that WAS in the laptop was 80 GB, which was a 35-dollar upgrade from the 60 gig disk when I bought the thing about two years ago, but the horrible thing is that I can now find 250 GB disks for about 40 dollars on Tiger Direct! It's a bit astounding, even to a techie like me, that the price of storage media can drop so drastically in such a relatively short amount of time.
Heck, our first computer was a Windows 95 machine with no more than 600MB on a hard disk that's easily over four times the physical volume of a modern SATA disk. And I still have the DIMM chips and the PII processor from that sucker too; it had a whopping 64 megs of RAM, if I recall correctly... And I believe the whole monstrosity cost somewhere around five or six hundred dollars at the time (about mid '96). Now I could pay for a machine like that with a 20 and get change back! Not to mention the fact that you can get roughly a gigabyte per dollar on flash media, which is ridiculously faster than physical disks... It really makes you wonder what kind of capacity we'll see in another ten or twelve years, doesn't it?
Bah, enough nerdy rambling... So yeah, I'm using a pretty old PC to work with now, but it's at least got enough power to run Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS3, so I'm content with it for now. As for the story, well I've been writing that manually (gasp!) in a notebook that I keep with me at just about all times, and I've got roughly four and a half pages front and back done so far on chapter 10 of TRLT, but I think I'm barely a quarter done with what I want done in that chapter. I really want to be done with the Windworks incident, so I'm going to try and get that brought to a close by the middle of chapter 11, if all goes as planned. From there, well.. You'll just have to wait and see, won't you?