Pirate Fantasy

- 2010-08-31 I'm currently reading 'the Liveship Traders'-trilogy, by Robin Hobb. As I mentioned in a previous post, I had to buy all the other books Hobb had written. And now I have . After careful consideration I decided to read them in chronological order (Farseer, Liveship Traders, Tawny Man), even tough Liveship Traders is kind of a side story and Tawny Man is a continuation from the Farseer trilogy.

Anyway, I'm about halfway through the last book now, and along with lots of HoN/Starcraft/FFXIII, not much time have been spent on my site

Next time I will update the gallery with a bunch of photos!

Cya then...

Well, about the topic, forgot to mention it, but there's lots of pirates in the Liveship Traders

 books    robinhobb   

Angel Beats!, Princess Nine

Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship

Summer recap

- 2010-07-31 Well, summer is over... Nah not really, but my vacation is so next monday is back to work. Weee!

Been doing some golfing (still needs work!), a lot of agricola-playing, a lot of anime watching, and just recently, a hell of a lot of Final Fantasy XIII playing!

Just wanted to post something before the end of the month... so not much news, maybe next time.

Oh, and starcraft 2 just released, only played the first mission yet, but looks promising.

 golf    gaming    anime   

Zettai Shounen, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, Koukaku no Regios, Skip Beat!

Zima Blue

Inception

Final Fantasy XIII, Starcraft 2

5 Years!

- 2010-06-29 Yes, exactly 5 years since the first post on the "new" skallen.net (v2.0). Still cruising around on 800 000+ Visitors, not quite a million yet. I hope I'll reach 1 million for the 10 year anniversary

As a celebration of the five year mark I've added two more themes, 'Grey Garden' and 'Purple Galaxy', as well as 5 new headline quotes (a second plato quote!). Also, new poll, frackin' vote plx.

I was delaying this post quite a bit just to get exactly 5 years, so a lot of stuff has piled up, mostly books. I've recently bought "The Farseer Trilogy" by Robin Hobb. I acctually had my eyes on it for a long time (who can resist titles like "Assassin's Apprentice"?), and finally got around to buying them. Was kinda put off in the beginning, mostly because it was a first-person narrative book, not a type I'm used to in fantasy. But it was kind of interesting to see the story from only one persons prespective (though the books cheat a little, the protagonist "dreamwalks" in his sleep and sees various events happen around the world that he would normally be unaware of).

Anyway, good books, gonna have to buy the rest of Hobb's books now!

Soon vacation time, golfing is going crap at the moment, but hopefully it will change!

'Till next time....

 theme    books    anniversary    web    robinhobb   

Slam Dunk, Shakugan No Shana, Aria the Animation

Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest, Naked Empire

Green Zone

Agricola, Red Dead Redemption, World of Goo

Over 5000

- 2010-05-24 As the topic says, over 5000 plays of Yui Makino for me now at last.fm. It took about three years to get to 5000, and that equals to around 5 songs per day. And to celebrate this, a new wallpaper:



Also a 1920x1080 version availible in the gallery.

If you go in to the gallery you'll also notice a subtle difference (maybe ). The images are no longer all scaled too a 100x100 thumbnail but a more aspect ratio correct one. Makes it a bit easier to make out what the image is suppose to be.

Btw please vote in the poll for a chance to decide the color scheme of the next skallen.net theme!

Three posts in one month, must be some kind of record for me, weeee!

 yuimakino       wallpaper    gallery   

Argento Soma

Friendly urls have joined the site

- 2010-05-13 Wooo, joining up with the new titles, the site now also have better urls. So instead of "http://www.skallen.net/?page=gallery&gallery=Wallpapers" I now have "http://www.skallen.net/gallery/Wallpapers". Much nicer, both for me, the visitors and hopefully the search engines .

A new poll is up, this time about the color of the next theme for my site. If you have another suggestion, please post it in the shoutbox.

Saw the new Robin Hood movie yesterday, was really good, at least 8/10 for me! Not as good as gladiator, but still worthwhile to watch

Boo, two posts without images... But I have a new wallpaper that I'm working with, so hopefully I will have it ready for next time.

One more paragraph: Next month skallen.net celebrates its 5 year anniversary, yay!

 web    polls   

Sora no Woto

Robin Hood

Time for some new Titles

- 2010-05-04 I've been working to make the site a bit more search engine friendly, and maybe sometime in the future HTML 5 conversion. A first step on this long journey is some proper page titles. Until a few days ago, all pages had the same title (skallen.net - interweb 3.0).

Now all pages are named like this: skallen.net - category - subcategory. For example: "skallen.net - gallery - wallpapers - yui makino" (2 subcategories!) or "skallen.net - tags - worldofwarcraft".

Not completely finished yet though, projects and polls are not done. Projects still have some remnants from skallen 2.0 code structure and needs to be remodeled into my current standard to work with the new title system, and to a lesser extent, polls as well.

Edit: Projects are fixed!

Finally have a Starcraft II beta key! Got it after pre-purchasing the game, woopiedoo. The only sad thing about it is that I really suck at it :/. Needs more practice!

Heroes of Newerth is "going retail" may 12, I've already pre-purchased that one as well, but on the release day I'll have the chance to claim my real nick instead of the one I have now (with some number/letter substitutions).

Yeehaa!

   workinprogress    gaming    HoN   

Hidamari Sketch x Hoshimittsu, Kara no Kyokai, Uchuu no Stellvia, Summer Wars, Witch Hunter Robin

Clash of the Titans

Starcraft II