I’ve been pretty quiet this last week and there’s actually two main reasons for that. The first one is due to the fact that I’ve been extremely busy at work. Every summer it happens to me and this one is no different. I’ve been landed with far too much work to handle in an exceptionally small amount of time. I’ve had it bad before which is why I’m actually completely calm because I’m also a lot more confident with my abilities to handle said work and present it to the usual anal retentive standards that I demand. That I guess is part of my problem. I actually tried to deal with issues in a more relaxed manner and have found that the problem with this approach is that things come back and bite you squarely in the ass.

The other major problem on my plate is my current computer setup. I’ve talked about my thoughts on moving over to Linux once and for all. In fact I actually installed Linux Suse Enterprise Edition earlier this week. However I have no idea what I’m doing and this has reflected in me fucking up my hardisk royally. So what’s a man to do, when there’s trouble in the neighbourhood? He calls on Franchesco (the PC doctor) to sort the mess I created like a 4 year old in the kitchen. I should hopefully be running SUSE and Ubuntu and a small section for me to migrate all my files over from Windows sometime tomorrow. I’ll definitely be talking about my thoughts on the entire system and how it can be improved and how it’s better than Windows and where it falters.

My deadlines at work should come to a close sometime around Thursday, where life on the net will resume back to normal and I can start hammering all those pesky little project that I’ve got in mid development that just need that final push to complete. I’ll list through them for completeness sake:

Broken Kode v5.1

I've got a mini update that I really want to make on the site and just close out all those areas that I said I'd complete in due time once I settled into my new design. So I'll hopefully be bringing out that update in the not too distant future. This site design is here to stay for a good while, however I do fully intend to keep tweaking and adding and enhancing, this is one design that I feel completely comfortable doing this as it's super light and super simple.

Splash Panel v1

Major things will start happening over at Splash Panel. I've not been very good in keeping up the reviews in the past couple of months. That's mainly due to my world turning over around me. I'm not going to say much other than it's great news that I'm hoping to really build on as it's given me a great buzz and a renewed enthusiasm for the site which, I hadn't so much lost, as I'd just had to take a break. Writing those reviews and commentary does take time and I'm really not in the mood to hack any reviews out for the sake of writing something.

When people come to Splash Panel I want them to be ready with their credit card in hand to go and plonk some money down for the book I’ve just reviewed. You see I don’t intend any bad reviews of books to be posted on the site. Life’s far too short for that and there are far too many great graphic novels to read that deserve my (and your) attention more.

Broken Kode : Season One

The delayed first season of Broken Kode in dead tree format will come out at the end of July. I've fully edited the book. I'm still however on the fence regarding whether or not I should publish the ENTIRE book, including those post I really didn't think much of, or to make it a more compact and consise book with the best of posts? The current edited book actually has posts identified as interesting or boring reads (i.e posts you really shouldn't bother reading). Any thoughts on this subject would be well appreciated.