IGN has an article about there new game Laser Squad Nemesis. Now I can’t speak for the for anything that has come from the two developers lately, Nick and Julian Gollop (the team behind the X-Com series) but the I was crazy about all the X-com titles. They had that kind of Diablo simplicity, that made you say “I could do just ONE more mission” and then you realize it was 2 am. So it might be worth picking up, because I dont think World of Warcraft is taking up enough of my time.

The age old question is where to put this blog page relative to my other page. The main site Hall of Mirrors I think will stay the same, but just point to the blog as main page. If you go directly to Grumpy Gecko, you wont see the old site bracketed around it. I would still like to use that site as a way to learn HTML, and further. And really until I have a better grasp on what word press can do, and what elder race shinanigans, Brett has set me up in, I will keep both sites.

Peace and web grease

John

Hi all and welcome to the next try at learning the web. If any of you followed my other website Hall of Mirrors HoM. got to follow along as I blundered through teaching myself HTML. And I know that the updates were slow coming. But the one thing missing, to me anyway, was feedback from the literally 3 people that read HoM. And there were 2 options available. First start up a full blow message board, which after seeing the big ones I’ve lurked around, I dont want to put out those kind of fires. Way too much work. Second was follow in the footsteps of Brett Abbott, and do a blogg. People can post comments disccussions can be had, rants can be ranted and I learn more about the web. I am all about the learning.
So why Grumpy Gecko? Well it all goes back to the audience of 3 I have and Brett Abbott once again. Way back when, we would make cassettes of music and swap them around, but the most prolific of music swappers was Brett. And for a while Brett labeled the music he made for us under a production house name. My was originally Ghastly Gecko, but after a fateful trip to take our friend Leta (Hi Leta) to her first amusment park (ie Disney World) my nickname got changed to grumpy. And the seeds of my real production company Grumpy Geck Productions were born out of that.
About myself. I am a technophile, a martial artist, a history buff, a reenactor of several time periods, I teach at a community television station, and I play games, all types, but World of Warcraft has been the latest all consuming game.
I had originally envisioned my other site to be a tutorial site for me learning to do Half life 2 level building, and machinima. But that was slow in the coming. And maybe I will try to do something like that here. But the Blogg is much more a place where I can vent and see what people think about the rants a raves that fall from my fingertips.

Welcome