Conundrum of Borderlands - News and Updates
9/8 - Hmmph.
Just because you've exceeded the alloted space for your site by a lousy meg and
because you haven't paid for the webspace in over a year is no reason not to allow one to
update his page. But, c'est la vie. I have moved the page to Fortunecities,
which, while having the disadvantage of advertisements, has the advantage of having 95
megs more space in which to put the site up in.
The good outweighs the bad this time.
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at the next event;
I hope you all can make it. If not, hey, that's life, I suppose, but... well, but
nothing, that's life. You'll be missed.
So anyways, on to actual updates. I'll be tweaking
the site a bit, and, I'm switching over to a new messageboard soon. EZBoard, same
one that NERO NH is using, probably. Just makes seperating IG and OOG stuff easier,
I suppose.
I have a number of things to do. So, enough for the
news. See you later. [Jason]
9/5 - *YAWN* Well, I'm awake! Been a nice nap, for the most part, although I kept having this terrible dream where I was working a mundane little job in an overnight shift at a Mobil Gas station. Glad THAT'S over. Anyways, I'm back to updating the site, as the next event is less than two weeks away. Woohoo! I personally made "a whole helluva lot" of packets with my girlfriend (thanks :P) and well, I'm more than eager to go. I'd like to find out who's still coming to the event and who's not, so, er, keep me updated. Thankee. [Jason]
6/21 - I've destroyed the chat section. Thought it was taking up more space than it was worth. So, that being said and done, good riddance. [Jason]
6/19 - Well,
I've begun easing Conundrum, or at least some bastardization of it, into the world of UO2,
as you may notice. I'll make explicit care not to mix links and whatnot, I promise.
Additionally, if anyone from NERO is going to be playing UO2, please consider
joining Conundrum, if not for anything but familiarity.
At any rate, while both the UO2 and NERO-related pages exist on
the same site, I'll try to keep them as seperate as possible, so as not to annoy anyone
unintentionally. The links above will lead to both sites, just for the sake of
convience for those who will be playing both NERO and UO2 (I know there's at least a
couple), and it's easier to maintain that way. Yes, I'm lazy, but there are worse
looking sites, no? Give me a little feedback, people, how's the site looking? [Jason]
6/17 -
Why the hell I'm even awake, I'll never know. Anyways, I've created a new section
for Conundrum, which will hopefully hold our purpose, our creed and perhaps even a motto
sometime in the near future. Have to discuss this matter with Mike, as soon as I
can. Additionally, I've been messing around with the general format of the page,
nothing too big, just been moving things around. The counter until the next event is
back up, and down at the bottom of most of the pages (all except the messageboard), and
I've also placed the time I've last updated the site down there. Hurray!
Additionally, I think that I might be bringing Conundrum
into an entirely different world. That world being the world of Ultima Online 2 (or
whatever they're calling it now). If any of you actually plan on playing that game,
hey, let me know, perhaps you can help me with ideas for the guild to be in the game to
be. At any rate, I need to get some caffeine in my system, I actually have PLANS
today. A rarity, indeed. [Jason]
6/13 - I've
added a good number of pictures, but I'm beginning to realize that Ritz Camera actually
didn't GIVE me a good number of the pictures back. That's the last time I go to
them, that's for fucking sure. The people at the Ritz Camera down here are
completely in-fucking-compitent, and I'm going to make it a point to let them know that
next time I'm down at the mall. Ahem.
Anyways, yes, a good number of pictures are up, but
there's plenty more coming. Just an FYI. [Jason]
6/12 - OK,
good. Good good. I finally updated the page. Sorry it's been so long,
but, I'm lazy. That and I've had a toothache. But enough about me. I've
added a number of pictures to the images section (imagine that). I'm going to
contact everyone about their stats again, so, if you could be one step ahead of me, email
your skills (as of last event), character's age, charcter's full name, number of times
you've died, and, er, whatever else... oh, description, that's right to [email protected] - that's me - and I'll get them in
the members section ASAP.
More pictures coming soon. Just felt the need to
update the page. [Jason]
6/1 - Well, I just updated the members page to the best of my ability, but I have other things I need to do. I have to work the overnight tonight, so I have to get packed now; so the update isn't too ornate. No matter. It shall suffice, at least until I get back from this upcoming event. Gah, I'm tired. Someone! Prepare some sort of caffeine for me! Bring Jolt! Waaaaargh! [Jason]
5/27 -
Ah, good, I've begun work on the members section. I've been lazy the last couple of
days, but, no matter, now I'm getting things done. I need all of you to send me the
information that you feel is needed for the members section. You should get a good
idea of what I want sent in when you read the section and see all of the blank spaces.
Addtionally, Mike (Kite) is supposed to be calling an
in-game meeting sometime in the near future - so that we have some reason to use the chat
room, mostly. Also, to discuss our plans as a group and a host of other things.
What those other things might be, I don't know. I'm not holding the meeting,
you see. I'm just hosting it. Anyways, er, I'll talk to the rest of you in the
near future, I hope, and Mike, I hope you can take a hint. Pooies.
I'll think up a new poll. Hmm... what to ask, what
to ask... [Jason]
5/24 - I'm not working on this site anymore tonight. Good Tom (Simon) left Perfect Dark over here, and I plan on obsessing over it for a few hours before I go to bed.
I've added a few more pictures to the site, but nothing spectacular. What you might have noticed is the addition of a chat page. 75% of those who voted said yes to one, and the others simply said maybe. That's a majority for the chat room alright. And seeing as I didn't get ahold of Mike today - not that I tried, I was unconcious for a good part of the day - I decided... hey... why not?
Outside of the page, I'd like to thank my wonderful girlfriend, Rachael, who has tolerated me working on the page so much recently. Not only did she pretty much entirely make both Tom and my costume - she's the one who made the banner and all of the sashes as well. So, if you have the time, give her a nice warm thanks over at [email protected] - she's also the one that actually came up with the symbol, after much doodling at and after we (we being Good Tom, Tim, Mike, Rachael and I) came back from Bickford's. Mmmm. Bickford's. I could go for some shitty coffee right now.
Ah! Seeing as there's now a chat room, there's no real reason to poll on it anymore. A new poll is up, FYI. [Jason]5/23 - More toys. I have to admit, building this site AROUND a community, instead of trying to build a community like I did with previous sites (a site called MISeducation) is pretty fun, albeit frustrating at times. ListBot was giving me trouble last night, but now I have it up and running. If you haven't submitted your e-mail address to ListBot yet, you probably should. Look at the bottom of any page, except the message board (the message board exists exterally, so I can't alter it as easily as I can most the pages).
Tim (Lattimoore) was over last night, as was Mike (Kite) and Tom Shea (Hedge). We were wasting a good deal of time on Tekken 3, Tom tooling on us 90% of the time. Anyways, Tim checked his e-mail after he had lost a match, and he saw a glut of e-mail about Conundrum? Now, I hadn't gotten a speck of this mail. Why? Because my e-mail addy was written down wrong. I blame this on no one, but it's still mildly frustrating. But I saw a lot of praise for the site, so, thank you all! It's nice to know that this carpal tunnel isn't going to be in vain.
Expect to see the members section up and running reletively soon, as Mike is in charge of who's actually a member and whatnot. Once I get the list of members, it should be reletively easy to construct. Next event I'll try to get pictures of everyone, if I can, to use for their character's part of the site. I'll also just plain try to add more pictures today, despite the fact that I don't like the way a lot of them look, personally. Next even, I bring more cameras. Yes.
Ah, and there will be a poll in the message board section from now on. First subject? Chat. Talk amongst yourselves. [Jason]5/22 - I've been messing around with internet toys (as you can see from above), such as various V3 domains and icon programs. Just want the site to look as neat as possible with as little advertisements as possible. I hate pop up ads, so I'll be damned if I have one here. Banners annoy me, too, but that's hard to avoid on the message board. Anyways, I'll let you know how things go. Or, you can just come and see for yourself.
Additionally, I think I may put a chat room somewhere on this page, so that we can meet online at set times. I think that might work out well, but I don't know if everyone can be on at the same time. We'll see. After I get all of the e-mail addresses of all the members, I can start announcing dates for stuff like that. We'll see, we'll see. I'm very tired. Where's my coffee? [Jason]5/21 - Well, the site's up, although there's not a whole lot to it. There's plenty of things to look at in the images section, but I haven't got the list of members from Mike yet, so I'm reluctant to post anything in there yet.
If you have any ideas as to what I should do with this site, be you part of Conundrum or otherwise, post your comments on the message board, or e-mail them to me (my e-mail address is below). Additionally, I should be adding a chat room or something along those lines so that we can hold meetings when we're not actually at NERO.
Ah, dammit. I have to walk to work tonight. No fun for me. [Jason]