Latest Blog Entries from Tom

Restarting Space 2315

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:25:18

July 25, 2010

Space 2315 is going to be restarted but most likely won't be posted here at Darkscribes until the story is finished. Why? Well, it comes down to the fact that we've not had any input on the story. I'd love to have our story hosted here but unless people give us feedback it doesn't make sense to post it here.

Chapter 7 as we know it today is going to be effectively scrapped. We wrote ourselves into a corner and we've been beating our collective heads against the wall for the last year and a half and getting nowhere. That has been the reason why we've not been posting any new chapters, we don't have any. We're going to continue on with Chapter 8 and move it down the line so that it becomes the new chapter 7 and weave some (less than 10%) of the elements of the old Chapter 7 into it.

Space 2315... On permanent hold

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:35:16

July 22, 2010

Space 2315, the story my brother and I were writing is now on permanent hold. The files have been archived (ZIPed up) and the original files have been deleted. Honestly, with the way things are going in my life (and my brother's life), I don't think we'll ever finish the story and it will probably die off eventually. We just don't have the time to be able to devote to the story.

Plus, not only that but my brother has all but made the final decision to go into the United States Air Force. That alone will put the story on hold. As for myself, I need to start reconsidering my academic life and start looking at getting a degree. Again, that will put our story on hold.

We will still have the files to write the story if we decide to resurrect it but I just don't see how we're going to be able to do it considering that I want to really start going to school and get my degree and my brother will most likely be in Basic Training within the next couple of months.

Spammers! ARG!

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:04:15

February 10, 2010

Well, it seems that even the best protection methods seem to be able to be bypassed by spammers. Yeah, Darkscribes got some comment spam posted.

In the past, we never has a problem with spam since we are using WordPress's Akismet to screen out comment spam but it seems that they found a new way to get around it. Thus, I have added a new option to the system to not only allow admins to be able to delete comments but also to report those comments as spam so that Akismet can learn about new spam.

Jailbroke my iPhone

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:13:38

December 31, 2009

So I decided to bite the bullet and jailbroke my iPhone. I downloaded blackrain and jailbroke it.

I instantly installed Backgrounder on it and seriously, why doesn't Apple officially allow multitasking on the iPhone 3GS? I mean come on, I had three apps running in the background (Trillian, SimplifyMedia, and Facebook) running at the same time. Now a slowdown in sight. The iPhone was responsive as ever.

Would you please, kindly... shut the hell up!

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:09:29

August 6, 2009

First and foremost, I voted for Obama as President. I can tell you he has been a lot better than I could ever think that the other guy would have been.

But, the one thing that I can't agree with Obama on is his health care plan. It smacks of socialism. There is no way that we, as a country will be able to support the whole country-worth of people with health care on our tax system. Not even the wealthy can support all of those people.

I propose a compromise. Give every person at the very least, basic health care. As in the kind that will at least allow you to see a doctor to have them put a cast on your arm if you broke it. That's about it. If you need surgery, you're going to have to pay for it.

What I think that Obama should be trying to do is talk with the medical insurance companies. The problem we have with so many people having no insurance is that it is too expensive or they can't get it because of a precondition. Let's face it, everyone has a precondition. So you are going to tell me that 47 million Americans can't get health care because they have a precondition? How is that fair when just about everyone has a precondition? What do I have to do? Lie on my application just to get health care? Should I be penalized for telling the truth? Something is seriously wrong here.

And to those politicians that keep raising their voices to Obama's health care plan I ask, where were you several years ago when the problem started? Oh yeah, sitting on your hands doing nothing. That's right, you were doing nothing. So unless you have a solution to the issue that we have, would you please kindly shut the hell up? Unless you have something constructive to contribute to the issue at hand simply keep your mouth shut.