Salad Sammich

Yay, I now have my own domain name and host! It was nice of DD to lend me a free subdomain for all that time, but I really needed something of my own, especially for professional portfolio stuff.

I tell ya, it’s impossible to find a spare domain name these days, let alone think up a good one. I tried thinking of a whole bunch of different names. I wanted to avoid choosing a domain with my name in it (real or nicknames) or putting words like “the” and “my” in it. I eventually tried “sammich” as a inside joke (was taken), and finally went for saladsammich as I ran out of idea options. It’s not a perfect professional-sounding name but at least it suits me fairly well. I’ll see if I can draw up a pixel-art sammich for an icon :D

Updates! Mostly boring!

Our university exhibition thing has taken more twists and turns, but everything looks to be on track. Hopefully I’ll be able to find some way to make a camera track some funny symbols and report their position/type back to a flash engine. Fun.

Also, the layout currently looks mishmashy because I’m yet again trying to work more on it. I hope to find some spare time in which to make it look less ugly and more finished.

Yeah, I seem to have bad habits for keeping things up to date. Upteeth time’s the charm, aye?

This is my last sememster for my University degree, so maybe I’ll use this blog as an actual blog for once and put in some updates about it here. My Design Studio 4 class is going to be putting on an exhibition at the end of the sememster so that project is definately going to eat up a lot of my time. It’s about ‘embodied playfullness’ and involves putting together interactive exhibits. For our project me and my group are planning on building a little ‘city in a bottle’ that is influenced by physical objects. Like blowing into a fan messes with the wind and changing a lamp (w/ dimmer switch) changes the time of day. Not quite a game but then again the exhibition is about playfullness.

Ohh and one more thing, if anyone’s interested I’ve made a new 1.0 version of Leonardo. Enjoy.

Yeah I know the layout changed again, I’m going to see if I can customize Comicpress to make a nice site layout with a space for comics.

Edit: I’m fickle, Comicpress doesn’t seem to suit me that much at the moment (especially with a lack of actual comic material), so I’m switching back to the previous layout. Hopefully I’ll get my butt into gear and fix up the previous theme I was working on…

I’ve been updating my wordpress and plugins, and I’ve decided to start using Akismet and Bad Behavior plugins to stop spam. If you find yourself being blocked or such please let me know because I absolutely hate false positives.

On the up side I’ve decided to re-activate trackbacks, here’s hoping that these plugins will stop all those useless spam trackbacks from appearing.

Also, I’ve been thinking about changing the theme to something else instead of this half-finished theme, so don’t be surprised if everything looks different all of a sudden.