So at work I only have access to DOS, Ms Paint and notepad. So I get really really bored and often do what I can with what I have available. As you can see I am not great with tthese tools, but its a lot of fun doodling.

Again I used Glickr to animate the gif, as it was just 4 different coloured versions of the same picture.

For those unaware my nickname is elz.

Hazaa! the day has finally come where I will post up the first version of Labyrinth! I mean sure it is in .BAT format, which for those unaware is rediculously archaic and outdated. But hey it was fun working within limits. And there were a few things that are really cool for Batch files, one of which is the goto command. Sometiems it would be really cool to have a simple equivalent in modern programming. Of course they do have things you can do, but yes... lets not get off track, the source code!

For those lazy sods who aren't interested in programming or anything of the sort and just want to try out the text based game Labyrinth you can download the latest version here. For those who want to take a look at the source code, which you can copy and paste into notepad and save as a .bat file, it is below

My brother and friend went skydiving the other day and did a little throw action. I just knocked this up using Glickr I think it was, just an online gif file maker as my fireworks isn't working at the moment. Anyways the images where stripped from a HD video so am going to get proper images and remake the gif with captions: "This is madness!" "This is spaarrtaaa!" and then the throw is made. yeah so... yeah.

A friend of mine who shall for the time being remain nameless, was talking to me the other day about a dream he had. We were talking about dreams and flying as I am hoping to get into Paragliding or Hangliding soon. Anyway, he was telling me about this dream he had where he would run, but he would run with his arms as well as this just felt natural. We talked about other things dreams produce for us, like being unable to get somewhere on time, or not being able to run fast enough. Those sorts of unpleasant things dreams often throw at you.

So after thinking and talking about what would cause dreams to produce such strange circumstances I realised that often you would have the same dream as someone, in feeling, but not in scenario. And so we started thinking on where these feelings come from, and whether genetics play a part in it. This thought came to me when I relaised that my mates dream of running using his arms was somewhat ape like and whether his feeling of "natural" running using his arms stemmed from our genetic past.

I had been working on the best solutions for managing the players, towns and guilds in the game and after a lot of different approaches and designs, I am now focusing on having them all grouped as entities. I want the relationships to be dynamic and each town, guild and player share most of the methods and variables. Ownership of resources, units, buildings can all be held by the different entities. As well as many beaurocracy control actions.

Ok here is the first official update on the progress of Merchants and Militia*

I will post a list of things I am working on, and if applicable the link to further information. Currently I am going to say that there won't be links for this update.

I have recently updated the sign up form (and some other forms too) to include a CAPTCHA confirmation section. I had been meaning to have this from the get go, however I just didn't get a chance to do it. I have implemented this now and cleared the existing user list that was awaiting to be confirmed.

For all those users who have recently signed up please check that either you can log in, or if not then please sign up again. My apologies for this inconvienience. Again I blame the Nigerian scammers, Russian scammers and all Viagra and penis enlarging related spam.