email from me in 2008 to me in 2009 using the futureMe website caught me off guard
happy to say i'm ok with my job. sad to say i still havnt gotten round to normal mapping and zbrush didn't do any major changes to my site but have been blogging and micro blogging... so i guess that makes up for it... somehow I did learn some css, but not as much as i hoped when i wrote that mail
my cousin's new 2 month old basset hound pup..Fifi, and Anna the 12 yr old daschund wondering why this pup is gnawing at my fingers.. obviously i had my hands full with the pup and the camera at the same time..
Spent a few hours playing Assassin's Creed today. This game is awesome!
Had a bit of trouble figuring out the technique for pickpocketting in memory bank2 (level2) but eventually figured it out. The story is a lot more interesting than i expected too.
heres a few phone doodles i did later while watching TV.
Altaïr ibn La-Ahad is the main character in the game. You play as Desmond Miles one of his decendants in the year 2012, who has been plugged into a machine called the Animus. The machine helps the user unlock genetic memories (passed on from ones ancestors), and re-live them.
Playing these two games these days. Assassin's Creed is pretty old, But I've heard a lot about it and love the trailers and other stuff ive seen on youtube...so lets see how it goes.
I like the game so far. Have completed one level(memory block 1) am now on the next level trying to pickpocket some basketweaver(he's got an incriminating letter that i need to look at)... but so far its been strangely difficult...anyway will keep at it.
Farcry2 is only a few months old. had to get it coz i've played Farcry1 and loved it.
So far this new iteration has been a drag as far as the story/plot goes... the graphics and environment is great. AI sucks... you can kill them with very little challenge involved(i'm in normal mode). but lets see, how this one goes.
Early today(9:00am..ish) a contract technician representing Dell came over and got to work on my machine. He first changed the optical drive and booted from it.. using the vista disc. we selected the "repair windows" option, but it just got stuck on the "looking for installed OS...something something" finally he advised me to just swap the old hard disc with a fresh new one.. instal vista on it. I'd have a week to recover what data i want from the other hard disc and then i have to return it to Dell. Sounded like a good plan(minimal risk to any of my precisous data) so we went for it. Got done installing the OS and drivers by around 11:00am, and so he left. i went out and got myself an external hard disc and a transcend Shock resistant Hard disc for future backups. The old hard disc works in the external case, so am now copying all my data back to my system, and have backed up all my office work on the transcend HDD... now vista is running some updates... have to remember to instal servicepack1 ... whenever it gets done with this...(hoping the service pack is not one of these updates that would take forever) once thats done i'l get down to installing my software and apps... so i can start working on it tomorow..will install the games tomorow evening. I had a bunch of games on the old hard disc, thankfully i'd finished most of them: Bioshock, gears of war, Frontlines, Crysis, Timeshift...so will probably not instal them now.
will have to instal Witcher and Crysis and start from scratch...if i can't salvage my old game saves from the messed up hard disc (fingers crossed) .