The OS upgrade procedure was 90% successful. The web server seems to have returned to default behavior. I shall fix it asap.

I finally got fed up with all the interference to the web server’s wireless connection. I ran some cat5 around the office. This server should be mostly up now instead of mostly down. Sorry for the previous 2 week’s problems.

I lost all my contact info in a recent hardware… incident. If you see this, please send me an email with your info! It’s lonely here in cowtown.

I have too many paint pots… way too many! Before it used to take me a while to find a certain pot in the middle of the mess that was my desk. No more! I re-tasked Arenaworks from WorldWorks games as an equivalent paint rack with pretty good results. Now I can find any paint pot at a glance, which is a big big big time saver and (woe to my pocketbook) it’s expandable. The whole thing is also a testament to how strong the paper models really are. There are 50 paint pots spread over the 5 terraces or…

The miniature workbench display had to be reset. The internal structure was reworked to something a little bit more scalable and thus the existing data wasn’t compatible anymore. (read: I couldn’t be bothered to write a conversion script.) So the thing has been wiped clean of data and will be repopulated as the need arises.

Testor’s Dullcote is the matte sealer for the discerning modelist. I’ve been looking high and low for the spray version of Dullcote but I have yet to find some in any kind of webstore in Canada. I finally decided to order some from the US only to be informed that they cannot ship spraycans out of the country. Gah, it’s sooo frustrating. My Kingdom for some Dullcote! On the other hand, now that this problem has been determined, my APAC order should be unblocked and on it’s way to my paintbrush as I type this. Edit Sept 26th: The order…

I got my Reaper paints today straight from Reaper. Yup, it’s a very quick turnaround for an international order. The reason why it tool 3–4 days instead of 2–3 weeks was that they switched shipping methods on me. So instead of using good old USPS as stated on my bill they went ahead and used FedEx. That means I’m out an additional $10 due to brokerage fees that never would have had to pay if they had used USPS. So for a $45 paint order, it cost me (in total) $32 dollars in shipping. Needless to say that I fired…

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After reading quite a few favorable reviews and looking at the color range offered, I decided to change my “skintone” paint palette to Reaper Master Series paints. I bought a couple of triads for light skin (Khador), medium skin (Protectorate), and dead skin (Zombies and other assorted VC models). I was also running out of silver so I got that as well. We’ll see how they measure up to my current Vallejo line, as it is becoming prohibitive to go buy the Model Color paints due to how far I need to drive to pick them up. These were ordered…

I had to jump the gun on the release of the quickie blogging software i’ve been working on. That means that quite a few features that I have been working on are incomplete or just plain broken. In other words, article details and comments are not currently working, nor are RSS/atom feeds and tags archives. These features will be completed eventually. I’ll try to keep entries short until then. Edit: Oh Yeah, Pagination? What pagination? Yup, that goes on my to-do list as well. At one point i’ll just have to skin this site as well, for portfolio purposes. Sigh…