I haven’t finished the games page yet though so if you want to see all our games look at them on newgrounds (Smith, Calrk). I’m thinking my new ’stuff’ page will have a lot less stuff on it now, maybe just a link to a folder full of all our random bits of animation and some other stuff like the newgrounds search plugin for the google toolbar. I think I’ll scrap the downloads page, most of the stuff on it was shit anway.

And finally I’ve got a few new ideas that might be good to give their own page, but we will have to wait and see what happens with that.

I’ll be away for a month starting Monday, I’ll try to finnish getting the site looking okay before then.

I’ll probably sort this out over the next week or so and finish the design in the next few days. Stay tuned… a lot of new stuff will be coming this year…hopefully

Today was different thought. I woke up to find that i could not connect to any websites, I could get pings from them but couldn’t connect through a web browser, timeouts was all I could get. My torrents were not connecting at all. The only thing showing any sign of life was MSN and Google talk. With no web browsing ability there was no way for me to google the problem…

I quickly decided to call up TPG and see if i could get them to give me a fix. My first call from my mobile resulted in the tech on the other end not being able to hear me. My second call, this time from a landline, resulted in the phone being picked up but no one was on the other end. i could hear other peoples calls being answered witch was funny but i was stuck in limbo. I didn’t want to wait on hold again but my current situation didn’t seem much better so I called a third time. This time I got through. The first few things the guy got me to try were no brainer shit that i had already ruled out but I played along, he wasn’t to know he dealing with a 1337 h4k3r. finally he told be to try removing ‘@tpg.com.au’ from my username on my modem. THAT FIXED IT WTF, so for a week and a half my Internet connection has worked (badly) with the @tpg but today it decides to refuse the fucking thing, not completly mind you I was still being told by my modem that my connection was UP and I could ping like i said before. Stupid tpg bullshit.

I get home from work and turn on the laptop, last nights frustrations behind me. Decide to update some of the software to see if it helps with the encription issue, no luck, the built in update manager is useless. I knew that because it was linux there would be some decent customization tips on the net, had a look around and found eeeuser.com. Excellent now were getting somewhere.

Turns out synaptic, an awesome package manager for Linux is under the hood i just needed to run it from the terminal. not only that but with a few quick steps you can get a real KDE desktop environment. got that happening, feeling good, decide i need to get some music happening since I’m on slow net and downloading OpenArena was out of the option. I connected to my PC’s shared music folder, start playing some Coldplay browse through a few more albums, then as if deciding that I had been having to much of a good time, a password dialog appears. I need to log into the file share that i have already been browsing for the past 5 minutes. Not only that but the music is still streaming in the background from the share, pseudosecurity or what. Alright I’ll bite, I tried to login with my windows login then my Linux and then any other random concoction i can think of, but no windows file share has decided it doesn’t want me looking at my music.

and so final thoughts, why do computer have to be so temperamental and complicated! Why
couldn’t they have made an open standard wirless network adapter when they made the open standard wireless protocol, one with open source drivers so my network adapter would work on any bloody OS and a didn’t have to even think about driver troubles and incompatibility. why does everthing have to be so complicated…and why is my god dam quota only 12GB i want 100s damit

okay I’m done

The only game that I’ve added it to so far is Paper Asteroids, I’ll add it to more games soon but for the time being go play and get some high score goodness.

In other news Calrk and I made a game for this years ACMI Screen It!, we are finalists and will find out if we won in Feb. Last year we won with Treasure Trawler (aka sub game).

I’ve only got one week of holidays left so I think i should try and make a game in the time I’ve got left or at least get some more of TK2 done. Regarding Tk2 I’m looking for Flash Artists to help with the graphics, none of us are that good at drawing and animating and I want it to look really good. Iv put a demo of the engine up so have a look and if you think you could replace the stick figures with some wicked ass bad guys email me at Smith@threemenwise.com

Now that I’ve made the new design it will be allot easier to update. I haven’t quite finished everything yet, i still have to put up the maps page and the links on the Stuff page, ill be adding more games and more junk in the stuff section. so keep visiting.

in other news I’m thinking of making a beta/demo version of my new game. its a long way from completion but i want some feedback on how it handles

Hopefully now that we have our own domain we will start get more people coming to the site. I’?v already changed all the links on the websites that link to us, well all the ones I can think of. Anyway hope everyone (except People who use Macs) is having a good new year.

I released a new app called search bars yesterday they are like the ones on the TMW home page except they sit on your desktop. You can search google or newgrounds. I made them in flash and then packaged them up with Screenweaver, I haven’t found out how to make a close button yet (fscommand(”quit”) didn’t work) so to close them down you will just have to use ctrl+alt+delete.

also iv submited us to

so get clicking