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I managed to trade in my Digidesign 001 recording interface for a brand spanking new 003 Rack Factory with Music Production Toolkit. It was a bit of a mission getting the paperwork in order, but I'm super happy. This included a free update to Protools 8, which I've downloaded, but haven't managed to install yet so that'll be a cool late Chirstmas present when I can get it installed.

I also got a new guitar for Christmas (partly from myself, partly from Laura). Its a Fender Richie Sambora signature Stratocaster. 1996, Lake placid blue, rosewood neck, Floyd Rose double locking tremolo, humbucker in the bridge. I'll get some photos up when I can.

Lately I've been working a lot on Glenns helicoper game. He's aiming for a release pretty soon. We've got a domain, codetactics.com, so it'll go up over there when it's done. The first release will be for Linux, Mac OS X and PSP. Should be good.

I just got my beta code for Quake Live. This should be interesting.

Edit: it is awesome. I love the detailed profile statistics. I love the matchmaking. It's going to be a winner at LANs. Oh, and I have two invites to the beta to give away. Let me know if you'd like one.

Glenn and I have finally released the first version of the game. You can go and download it from codetactics.com. Any feedback would be good!

In the comments for this on Ana of Sideswipe's blog, Spare Room:

• Biscuit says: 
  January 12th, 2009 at 9:16 am

  Heh. Since kids learn to speak by imitation, I’d love to hear what octave mom hits when in full flight.

• Tanya Wicht says: 
  January 12th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

  She is trying to sing “Hot potato” by The Wiggles. You can also hear the mother in the background, Mom sounds average.

• Biscuit says: 
  January 12th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

  Ah I see. My possessing a set of non-gushing ovaries has let me down in identifying a children’s band from a 1 year olds incoherent babble.

  I’ll go back to offering chickens to Satan.

On the internet, clicking on a photo should make it bigger. That's what users expect. It's been the de facto standard for over a decade.

Clicking on a photo should not whisk the user away from the photo they were looking at. I'm looking at you Facebook Photos and Last.fm. (At least Last.fm has the courtesy to set the title text on the link.)

echo date('r', 1234567890)

Output:

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:31:30 +1300

Glenn and I are coming up on the second release of our game, version 0.02. We've been managing the project through Assembla, which is amazing. Make sure you check the codetactics site for updates on that.

I'm going to start documenting my SSL compressor control project, so I've made a project page for that. Once I get started, it'll have all the design, and requirements etc. Should be cool.