Slothfulness

Just popped on quickly to post this little widget thing from LG Electronics, who are going to give a big donation to WWF if enough people link to it.

Sometimes I need a brief respite from boltguns and orky choppas.

Okay, respite over. Back to New Rynn City.

Off the Grid

Hello, all. I'm sorry I haven't posted in a couple of weeks, but I'm afraid that's just how things are right now - crappy! I'll be 'going dark' for the next three weeks or so on account of a very tight upcoming deadline, but, if something comes up that I think absolutely has to be reported, I'll try to pop on and at least make a short blog about it.

In the meantime, here's an image of a recent 3D head I sculpted (on a seven year old Dell computer that I don't dare switch off in case it dies for good). You might have noticed the new red-skull background texture on the other pages of my website, too (if not, just click the Home, Bio or other buttons to see it). I guess I've recently rediscovered my love of computer-based art. :)


Now... ahem... if you'll excuse me, I've got Space Marines battles to write.

Get me a damned Techpriest!

And make sure he's frakking capable!


I already knew that I relied on technology too much (and naively thought that that was fine), but it didn't really sink in just how tenuous everything was until my desktop PC died on Sunday. I'm not sure what happened, but I think the motherboard got fried. I've spent every waking minute since then mounting a massive (and highly amateur) recovery mission to make sure Rynn's World isn't lost.

That's right, the damnably mercurial machine-spirits nearly wiped out my latest novel, smack bang in the middle of the second draft rewrite with only weeks to go to the deadline. Yes, I do make regular backups, but... *cough*... they were stored on the same machine.

Luckily, after almost four days of high blood pressure and periodic rages, I finally managed to recover the files I needed and transfered them to another computer (learning quite a lot in the process).

Now, if I can just get the substitute computer to recognise my Warp-blasted printer (it's an obscure Japan-only model... another calamitous mistake!), I'll be back on track.

The universe loves to test me so.