Author: Teel

I keep going back to this site, thinking that I want to find someone to play with. Then I remember that I don’t have internet access at home, and how difficult it would be to play until I do. I suppose I could use my work computer to play, since it does happen to have Photoshop on it. I wouldn’t be able to put all my concentration into it though, I suppose.

The basic premise of Photoshop tennis is simple: One player emails a photoshop document to the other containing a single layer. Each player progressively adds a layer until the match is over, either by time, withdrawal or mutual consent. The official matches have some really amazing examples. That level of design is one that I wish I could compete with. Alas, I must find a partner to practice with, first. I’ll ask Iain, and when he tells me he’s too busy, I’ll hope and pray that someone out there with Photoshop is as creative and interested as I am in playing a few matches of Photoshop Tennis, even if it is at an amateur level.

Hey, you! If you haven’t already seen it, head on over to Modern Evil. I re-did it.

Love it.

You can always click the ME logo on any page of any Modern Evil site to return to the Modern Evil homepage.

So, on Tuesday afternoon at the end of the work day, I rebooted my computer, same as I do every other day. Instead of booting back up into Win2K, it decided that the file ntoskrnl.exe was no longer on the system, and would I please reinstall windows? So, I tried repairing and tried using Emergency Recovery Disks, and I ended up having to re-install Win2K anyway. Then I spent most of yesterday reinstalling applications and trying to restore my settings. Hooray!

The one thing I thought I wouldn’t lose is my MSN Explorer favorites. Because they’re (theoretically) stored on the MSN servers. The idea is that no matter where I log onto my MSN account, I have the same settings and the same favorites. This is a feature I was overjoyed to finally see in a major software release. Then, for some reason it stopped working. At first I simply couldn’t organize my favorites in MSN Explorer; that’s been going on for a few weeks. Today, when I logged in, it has ZERO favorites. Not even an old version of my favorites, or a partial list of my favorites. Just … none.

Which is fine, I suppose. Except that I had been using favorites as reminders of pages that I wanted to go to. Sure, I have many that are just convenient links to sites I frequently visited, and I’ll have to try to remember what those were, and how to get to them. It’s the links to interesting articles I hadn’t finished reading (or hadn’t started reading) and websites I wanted to explore that I’m going to miss.

So, I’ve been working all week trying to get Modern Evil’s new setup hammered into shape, and I keep coming up with more and more clever ways of doing things that, if I had thought of them befoer I started, would have saved me a lot of time in the longrun. I’ve managed to get just about every peice of content from the original site put into the new database, and now I just have to get the people associated with their content aware of the new interface, finish polishing the front-end changes (all CSS, and only tables where tables belong), and I’m in the middle of so many things, and if I just had internet access at home, I could definitely finish it this weekend and have the site re-launched next week.

But alas, it is time to go home. Monday morning, it will be like coming from a blank slate and I will have to go into dozens and dozens of different places to see where I left off on different parts of the site. And I migth not remember what I was doing at all.

Yay!