I entered the WonderKing graphics “contest”
Posted by Brandon | Filed under Notes
You can learn about the WonderKing graphics “contest” here: http://tr.im/q0ll
I haven’t designed anything in quite a while, so this is pretty big for me. Attached/below is a gallery of my 2 entries, followed by other color variations.
The image is a signature image for one of the Game Moderators, “[GM] JustWondering”, on the WonderKing Forums. I used one of the character art stocks from their Downloads > Concept Art page.
See and download the full gallery on posterous
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Hath Jailbroken thyPod
Posted by Brandon | Filed under Gadgets
I jailbroke my iPod Touch the day after the jailbreak was released to the public. (Actually tried the first day but it would not work) This was my first jailbreak, so there were some problems along the way, but it all eventually worked out.
What happened to the cool JB apps?
Before the iPod Touch 2G jailbreak was released I’d read tons of stories about the latest and greatest jailbreak apps, exclusive to jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches. Now that I have my jailbroken iPod, they’ve vanished.
I guess that the the App Store success stories have convinced the developers to move to the official App Store. What a bummer.
Tags: iPod Touch, Jailbreak, Jailbreak-only Apps, Jailbroken
Doing well in school
Posted by Brandon | Filed under Life
This week has blazed by quickly, it’s been all about school and skating with my friends.
Since third grade, when I moved from Sacramento, I’ve preformed pretty badly in school. It isn’t that I don’t pay attention in class, I enjoy just about all subjects, it’s more that I have this problem with getting my work to the point where I can turn it in. Because of this, and my added health problems, you can imagine that I have been getting less than satisfactory grades.
But things seem to be changing.
My Progress Report arrived in the mail over the weekend (The weekend at the beginning of the week, not this weekend). It was the bad, misleading kind of Progress Report. The kind that only arrive when you have an F in a class and only list the F. No other classes or your progress in them, just the F class. That was an uncomfortable weekend. x_x
On Monday or Tuesday I got the actual Progress Report, with my 3 shining B’s, and the F. The B’s may as well have not been on the paper, because my parents still concentrated on the F: “You’re messing around again, aren’t you!?” “No wonder you say you have such a small workload, you aren’t doing anything!”. (I do most of my work in class..)
Anyway, by the end of the week I worked the F up to a C+ and should hopefully be a B- soon. I wonder what I’m doing right now that I hadn’t been doing before. My Mom suggests I’m getting more mature (I need a laughing emote for this).
Tags: School
Making this place suitable
Posted by Brandon | Filed under Design, Life, Notes
I have held off designing a custom theme for this blog long enough; over the past two three-day weekends I’ve been working on converting the template Keep It Simple (by StyleShout) to a WordPress theme. As you can see, it’s no where near being done, but I keep adding and tweaking it.
While working on this, I also made a cool little feature that I plan on post about here in the next few days. The feature is live, but you may not notice it. (Hint: Compare the footer on the Home page with that of a tag page.)
EDIT: God, am I an idiot. The theme has already been ported. x_x I’ll use their port but make changes to it, especially the right sidebar and the footer.
My feature is still on, though, because I love what it does. ^-^
Back to regular High School!
Posted by Brandon | Filed under Life
I had been in Independent Study, a program much like homeschooling, for about a year. Being at home all the time wasn’t good for me; I was getting better grades than I had been getting in High School, but I was hardly around other kids my age and it was really tough on my parents. They wanted me to get back in regular High School, so over Winter Break I earn the rest of the credits for the term (lots and lots of work), and then was able to get transferred.
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Tags: School
I'm a teenager (16) that enjoys using what internet has to offer, a graphic designer trying to switch to web design, and a skateboarder in the rare event I leave the glow of my computer monitor.