Browsing all posts in November, 2008.
Blue…
I can’t think of any particular reason why I’m feeling so bloody low today… It’s Friday, there are only a few weeks left before the winter holidays, the new back door is installed, it’s snowing… The list of cool things seems pretty long, really. Maybe I’m just tired. Also, it’s damned difficult to be witty [...]
Update on my osx86 experiments
So I ended up scrapping the whole project in favor of buying the real thing. Doesn’t mean I didn’t learn anything. First important lesson: IDE drives are absurdly poorly supported. Install went smooth as anything on the desktop system, with SSE2-enabled chipset and SATA DVD and hard drives. On the laptop, no such luck. Older [...]
F*ck it…
The laptop died. The boy wants XP back on the desktop upstairs. This is my easy, lazy, extremely pleasing solution. It’s miiine! MINE I tells you! Mweehehe.
Success!
Marh! I have OSx86 running natively on my old box of a PC, with leopard 10.5.5 chugging along nicely. Despite a few ATI glitches, it’s actually faster than my old XP install (which the boy bricked last night with some virus). … This is even more satisfying than my first successful ubuntu boot. Meep.
Changes, mucho
New sketched section, new written section. Not much in either. Hopefully the written section will fluff itself up with time. I haven’t got much hope for the doodlin’, but I can still try, dangit.
On Silver Wings – Chapter 1
DRIFTERS When he opened his eyes, he knew he was in trouble. His knees felt weak, his head ached and he found he could hardly focus. The world swam in and out of darkness and he thought he could hear footsteps, heavy ones, moving towards him. His heart felt like it would hammer out of [...]
On Silver Wings – Prologue
PROLOGUE Dimly, he could feel his body resting in dreadful cold water, wisps of hair occasionally tickling his face. He felt he had been floating this way his entire life, his limbs cold and numb, unresponsive. He was blissfully unaware of any feeling but a slight twitch of life in his chest, his heart beating [...]
