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Just a heads up, I’m wrapping up a large project at work and it’s uber crunch time, so I’ll be posting mainly on the weekends only until the 19th. Purchasing is ready to go for the PSX64, I just had to push it off a few days unfortunately – the button to purchase will be up by this weekend.

In the meantime, for you text adventure fans like myself, check out this absolutely awesome video featuring MC Frontalot , nerdcore rapper extraordinaire (And guest appearance by Steve Meretsky!). I figured it was most appropriate with all the Gruepal work going on.

Just a heads up, I’ve been off the radar the last week with Christmas stuff going on, but I’m gearing back up to get some work done and tutorials out.

By the end of the week I should have two things ready to go -

1. Gruepal is up and running on another (faster) server. It’s shared webspace but the processor is a hell of a lot faster. If you are interested in helping test out some interactive fiction, shoot me a comment/message and I’ll send you back a username and password for when the site is ready.

2. I’m going to be adding some Paypal cart functionality to purchase a PSX64 on the Synthetic Dreams site. After sales at the TPUG convention, I have about 15 in stock. Once those 15 go I’ll make another batch.

Plus some other random goodness. Hope everyone had a good holiday!

I’m becoming more and more active on this blog – I get quite a bit of enjoyment from doing it. I hope you guys enjoy reading it too. Along with the more frequent posting, I want to ramp up putting some more tutorials on here, but I wanted to make things a little more user friendly first.

Visuals

I made the margins slightly larger and made the text a big larger as well – it’s not a huge difference, but it does make reading articles a little easier. Alongside getting rid of the large left-hand ad last week, I think this has helped a lot.

Recent Posts

I also redid the recent posts list a bit. It used to list 3 over in the side bar – now it lists 5 on the main page, with an easy link that gives an abbreviated view of all posts, paginated. This also allowed me to move categories up in the side bar and organize them a bit better.

Feel free to shoot me a note if there’s anything else you’d like to see on the site. Thanks!