Mikoishi Studios
It’s not a name that conjures up images of fun, laughter or days upon days of staring at 2 computer monitors, sometimes covered with pages of text, sometimes lists of sprites and even artwork. It’s not a name that seems capable of evoking an entire spectrum of emotions, ranging from elation, to amusement and inevitably, frustration. It sounds, well insipid, almost as if it was conceived as an afterthought, without having any real meaning or depth.
It’s also where I’ve been working (well, interning) at, as a junior artist/programmer for the past 7(8?) months. And today was my last day at what has possibly been the best work environment I’ve ever encountered in my life.
A Fresh Look
To start off what feels, strangely, nothing at all like a new life.
It’s been more than half a year since I last worried about tanks and treads, and as one might expect, there are quite a few updates that have transpired since I last bothered to update this section of the Internet. For starters, the theme has changed.
Ok, maybe I am d...
But who says dying means the end of all things? As Left4Dead proves, this is not the case.
In truth, I’ve been playing a little too much, eating a little too often, running and exercising too little, and it’s resulted in predictable changes in my lifestyle: I’m now a slob.
A slob who may still be playing Team Fortress 2 and more recently, Left4Dead with reckless abandon, but still a slob. I’d normally make the obligatory ‘content’ post which would mostly comprise of several photographs taken recently, but I’ve come to realize that it’s a wasted endeavour, seeing as it’d be much more productive to post them on forums or elsewhere and actually get some constructive feedback, rather than enshrine them on some meaningless server for all time.
The Gallery is n...
Like, for real this time. Seriously. When have I ever lied to anyone? I mean, in this paragraph?
Lame Portal puns aside, after painstakingly spending an afternoon re-learning my already limited PHP knowledge, I also had to fuddle around with the WordPress documentation, which, while admittedly written in a decent manner, didn’t exactly lend itself well to catering to one who might actually be interested in actually using WordPress to control a site instead of a mere blog.
I guess you could also say that I suck at PHP, which could actually be a real possibility, considering my math preliminary examinations didn’t exactly have smilies all over the paper when it was actually returned to me. In fact, one could say that there were frownies as much as there was a big, fat “fail” written all over it.
I will talk about exams some other time, though. For now, though, I will focus on the more pressing issues of life.
Back in business
Well, I’m finally back.
After a long hiatus I imagine that I’ve probably fallen off the face of Google, but now I can finally focus on getting my e-reputation up into Chuck Norris territory all over again. At least, for the month until I have to conscript myself into the military.
I’ll be back with a (finally) working gallery soon. In the meantime, I’ve just finished my final ‘A’-level exams and with it, set myself on a path of arduous ambiguity, or, as others might say, there is work to be done. In the meantime, I’ve been making a lot of changes, such as finally upgrading my WordPress installation and working on the back-end of things, along with settling on a final design for the About section. I kind of knew I would be wasting my server hosting when I bought it, but whatever. It’s my domain name, and no one else shall have it now.
For now, though, excuse me while I fire up Team Fortress 2, Bioshock, The Witcher, Gears of War and World in Conflict. And I’m not even talking about the Playstation Portable yet. Oh no.
Has it been that...
I really hadn’t noticed. Time does seem to fly past when things start to merge into one long, never-ending chain of events, be they good or bad.
In the meantime, though, the site hasn’t really received any makeovers like I had intended to perform right after my Common Tests. Let’s not talk about that, though. Instead, we shall talk about technology.