SGO v5

Changes imminent

scott.greig — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:07:24 +0000

Greetings to all, and apologies for a lack of updates. I’ve been really sidetracked with everything going on. In any case, I’ve spent some time thinking, and I’ve decided the site needs to be completely restructured. I’ve always tried to come up with a solution to do everything I want to do with my website all in one, and I’m learning that this is extremely difficult to pull off. I’ll be leaving the site up as it is and work on the restructuring in the background until I’m ready to launch the new site. Here are my proposed changes as they stand right now:

A main “hub” that acts as an index to all the smaller sections of the network.
All blogging and blogging-related items will be in their own area (news, reviews, etc.)
A portfolio section that will showcase past and present work in graphic design.
A business mini-site focusing on my insurance business.

That’s really all I have at the moment. I’m going to do things the right way this time and map things out in advance before I start trying to put it all together. For those of you who have stuck around for all of this reshuffling, thanks for your support.

Steveashtonforpremier.ca

scott.greig — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:57:41 +0000

Sorry about the lack of updates lately, but things have been moving along at a steady clip over here. I just wanted to make a quick post about some upcoming work. I was contacted this weekend by Steve Ashton and was asked to help with the updates to his leadership website at http://www.steveashtonforpremier.ca, and since the convention is coming up this Saturday it’s probably going to be keeping me relatively busy throughout the rest of this week. Make sure you check out the website if you’re interested in following Steve in his campaign to become our new premier.

Blastoff Pre-Launch – Deadline 09/26/2009

scott.greig — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:04:39 +0000

Blastoff is a new social media portal site that’s going to be launching soon and it’s going to be bigger than Yahoo, MSN or Google. You owe it to yourself to check out this video and learn what it’s about. If you like what you see, you owe it to yourself to contact me and get started while there’s still time to get in at the ground floor.

Contact me through the link at the top for more details!

Steveashton.ca redesign now live!

scott.greig — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:17:57 +0000

In the wake of Steve Ashton’s announcement that he will be running for Premier of Manitoba, his new website has gone live. Be sure to check it regularly for information regarding the leadership race! You can access the site via the link on the sidebar.

Upcoming games I’m excited about

scott.greig — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:02:47 +0000

Well, it’s now September, which is a month I’ve been waiting for rather anxiously because there’s a couple of games coming out this month that I can’t wait to play. Without further ado, let’s just get to the games.

Scribblenauts

This is a game I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. The objective is to help the character to get the starite on each level, by coming up with your own solutions. The lexicon available in this game is supposed to encompass pretty much anything you can think of with the exception of vulgar words and most proper nouns. I’ve already pre-ordered my copy and it comes out on the 15th, so only a few more days to go.

Bob’s Game

Just what is Bob’s Game? Well, it’s a homebrew title that’s being developed for the Nintendo DS, as well as some other handhelds. Similar to Cave Story, it was done completely by one guy by the name of Robert Pelloni. His website has generated some controversy with viral advertising for his game, but it looks like the full release of the game is to be coming out in 3 days, on 09/09/09. I’ve played the demo and I’m pretty excited to finally get to play the full game.

We need to pick a date for the haunted birthday tour

scott.greig — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:44:38 +0000

I figured the easiest way to determine the best date was to use a poll, so here it is. Everyone has until Midnight, August 22 (my birthday) to cast their votes before the poll is closed. That should be enough time for everybody to get their say.

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

Content Shuffling and Restructuring

scott.greig — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:10:49 +0000

Well, after careful deliberation I have come tothe conclusion that my website is too jumbled, and so I will be keeping some of my content separate. This website will remain for my blogs, reviews, writing, etc., and I will be moving my portfolio to a subdirectory on the site to keep it separate.

WordPress, while a fantastic product, is still primarily geared towards blogging and that type of content, so I’m going to stop trying to mold it into something it’s not meant to be and go with a unique design of my own, that probably won’t run on any type of cms at all. Who knows? I’m going to keep the links to my client sites here on the main page until I finish the portfolio, then it will all be switched over. In the meantime, if you want to view samples of my work, check out my deviantArt gallery via the link in the sidebar.

The new Tron trailer is finally out!

scott.greig — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:01:07 +0000

Apparently they’ve decided to go with the name Tron Legacy now instead of Tron 2.0, but that’s totally OK by me. More exciting is that it’s coming in 2010 and it’s going to be in 3D!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/tronlegacy/large.html

This is basically the same trailer that was shown at one of the cons last year and was leaked onto the internet from someone’s cell phone, except the title has been changed. It’s nice to see the trailer in high-res, clear quality. Everything looks fantastic, from the new outfits, lightcycles and ID discs. I also find it interesting that the lightcycles now behave more like actual cycles than they used to. I’m definitely looking forward to this one, and will probably see it about 20 times in the theatre.

New Captcha System Implemented

scott.greig — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:48:57 +0000

I’ve been having some trouble with spam comments lately, so I’ve got a new captcha system provided by reCaptcha installed. Not only does it protect from spam, but it helps with OCR scanning of books at Carnegie Mellon Universtity! Everybody wins in this scenario.

New Game Review and Other Works

scott.greig — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:03:24 +0000

I’ve just recently added a new Game Review to the newly retitled Game Reviews section. This review is for the game Cave Story, which is absolutely incredible and everyone must play it.

Also coming soon is the new website design for Steve Ashton. This has been a long time in coming, but I think it will impress.

In graphic design news, there are a few things coming out soon as well. I’m working on a series of advertising banners for my friend Brandon’s website The Moon Books Project, as well as a banner for Coyotes Publishing. Look for those to be released soon.

To add to the mysteriousness, there are also a couple of gaming projects in the works. I’m not sure if they all will see the light of day or not, but I’m on a creative streak so I’m just going to run with it and see what happens. If anyone of you out there in internet-land read this and have experience with programming, please drop me a line on the contact page or leave a comment if you’d be willing to help out at all. Also pixel/sprite artists are welcome.