s.t.e.a.l. –
I’ve been writing a lot in the past weekend. The fact that I have some definitive art gave me the impulse after many months of inactivity. Being totally dissatisfied with the state of chapter 4 (the latest I’m writing), I completely reorganized it, moving one section to the top and rearranging the behavior of some characters (like Satsuki, who was a little too hysterical) and cut off part of a flashback. And finally I’m getting to one of the most action-packed parts of the novel.
The snapshot on the links page is terribly outdated, I’m afraid. I’m waiting for the rest of the art from Too to put it up, but if I don’t get any by next week I’ll put it up anyway, so that the (few) people that read this page will be able to appreciate the changes.
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s.t.e.a.l. –
Finally I get to blog about S.T.E.A.L. after so many months! That’s because finally I have illustrations for the novel after all these years! As I said on my previous post on the matter, I had been in talks with two artists at the time. One simply disappeared after a while (and then I read on her deviantart page that drawing is not a priority… it would have been nicer if she had told me at least), while the other took a good deal of time (around seven months). But now, thanks to the incredible drawing skill of Too, I have the first set of seven pictures I commissioned (out of nine)!
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final fantasy xi –
I’ve recently slowed down my rate of playing at Final Fantasy XI, mostly because the new update is scheduled for the end of the month, and I don’t have much to do nowadays. Besides, part of the people in my group are on holiday or taking breaks so I won’t get to do anything until the 28th of August or so, when I’ll be back from holidays.
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general · linux · science –
Yesterday I was trying to adjust some files in order to make a program use Affymetrix SNP arrays data (instead of arrayCGH data like the program was designed for). I had a big (116,000 rows) tab-delimited text file and I needed to use only part of the columns there.
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anime · general · linux –
I’ve already explained in a previous entry that I like to tweak images, extract them from backgrounds and so on. However I didn’t like that I needed Windows to perform my actions, as I want to use that operating system as less as possible. I tried then to use FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) tools available on Linux to see if I could do the same job.
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general –
As you may have noticed the theme and the layout changed slightly. I updated the Regulus theme to the newest version, making it widget-enabled and improving the overall layout. That means I can customize my own sidebar as I please without coding using the so-called Widgets, and that’s why it changed. The only problem is that the gallery now looks a little fuzzy, but it’s ok for my tastes.
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