GUIStudioMDL2 updated for EP1/OrangeboxThu, December 27th, 2007 @ 23:41

I’ve updated GUIStudioMDL2 and added better support from the new Orangebox SDK. Basically you can now configure it for both Source SDKs at the same time and switch between them at the flick of a switch.

It works pretty well, apart from the inherent bugs with the actual SDK compilers…

*edit* Oops. I farked up the link.

“Environmentally Friendly” my arse…Thu, December 13th, 2007 @ 03:26

Call me a stinking hippy but stuff like this really makes my mind boggle…

Currently, these sort of ads have been popping up all over Stockholm during December. The basic premise is that if you visit a Volvo dealership and test drive one of their cars (and their adverts often promote their eco-friendly line of vehicles) you will recieve, while stocks last, a free Christmas tree.

So hang on, you want people to travel to a dealership and take a test drive and in return, you’ll give them a dead (or at least dying) tree. A tree. Something which if you’d left in the ground as nature intended would of gone some way to absorbing the CO2 emissions put out by the car during the strictly unnecessary trip that the test-drive is.

For a company that makes a big deal about their eco-cars this really does strike me as rather hypocritical.

“Thing is, Bob, it’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care”Tue, December 11th, 2007 @ 20:49

Well it’s time for TPS reports, meetings with the Bobs’ and probably several cases of “The Mondays”.

I’m finally back at work after taking a time-out to recouperate after three long and exhausting years working on the same project. I had never felt so burnt-out in my life and so, on my doctor’s advice, took a break to get my head straight. In an effort to ease myself back in I’m working part time for a while before I kick into full code monkey mode.

There’s been some BIG changes since I was away - namely that my department of about 11 people was sold outright to a much larger IT consultancy firm so instead of just a bunch of us stuck in one corner of a small office we are now a bunch stuck in a corner of some huge cavern of a office building, complete with glass ceilings, glass lifts, pass cards (with an ID photo that makes me look like a hobo) and oddly shaped pieces of “art” all over reception.

Sadly I won’t be working on anything computer game related - a year of interviews and rejection from game companies I’ve come to the conclusion that it’ll just have to stay as an unpaid hobby. So it’s back to coding for the Intarweb again.

Work will continue on my various tools and utilities though.