The Blog of Glen Moyes

Update: August 2020 I've stopped using Klok and I've switched over to ManicTime . After a few years of use, Klok started to take longer and longer to access certain views within the app. I suspect it was because of the size of the database that was making the app so unresponsive. I also ran into issues with Klok licensing. There's a fixed installation limit that is not advertised or mentioned on their website. I'll probably do a dedicated post on ManicTime at a later date, but I wanted to mention here that I'm recommending different time tracking software now. * * * * * Klok 2 just barely got released! Go download it at getklok.com . Previous articles about Klok: Massively Useful Software (follow up): Klok Massively Useful (Life Changing) Software: Klok

Just so you know, today is Dynamic Range Day . Music is getting louder - and sounding worse. Over the past 20 years, the recording and mastering of recorded music has been increasingly plagued by an industry-wide practice of making recordings as loud as possible, while crushing any dynamics contained in the original performance. The result is music that sounds flat, two-dimensional, distorted, and is exhausting to listen to. This self-defeating race to be "louder" than anyone else has become known as the Loudness Wars. You can read more about it at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war - or see an example at YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ . Well... March 20th 2010 is Dynamic Range Day ! This is our chance to fight back and raise awareness.

Did you know that Klok has a beta program ? Neither did I until today. Sure you can download a beta version but it's not the current version of the software. Thank goodness because I've been using the public beta for a year and with no software updates I was worried that the project was dead. Luckily I found frequent and recent posts about Klok on their Twitter page and blog . You can be a part of the beta program my making a donation (anything greater than $0). I of course donated because as you might have read on my original post on Klok last year, Klok is totally worth using!

Just checking and reminding everyone that Hackberry Hollow is still in steady production. Here's some recent concept art, showing a sneak peak of Chapter 1. Be sure to check out the blog for more concept art and updates on the project. Yes, I haven't been posting on my personal blog very much, but we do post on the Hackberry Hollow blog every Tuesday without fail, and the content is far more interesting. So subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates on what I'm working on. We're all extremely excited about the project. We got the story nailed and the script is being written (we are almost done with the first volume out of five). The reactions to the script have been overwhelmingly positive, so we definitely feel that we have a winner and can't wait to get this project released. The Animation Academy About 5 months ago I enrolled into The Animation Academy down in Burbank for character design classes and wow, has it been a big help. Also today is The Animation Aca...

I recently reinstalled Windows onto my computer, a ritual that I have done for years to keep my operating system running nicely thanks to Windows bit rot. I usually do it about once a year, in this case it's been two so it really needed a fresh install. The problems with regularly reinstalling Windows are downloading and installing all of the updates, which takes forever since my original Windows XP Pro disc is Service Pack 1. Luckily there's software that makes the process easier. nLite I wish I knew about this program earlier. nLite is an easy to use application that allows you to make a backup copy of your Windows install disc, slipstream the service pack and updates into the Windows install (google for the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers; it's an EXE file that nLite will ask for to do that), install drivers such as my SATA drivers that I needed to install Windows on something other than my old soon-to-fail IDE ...

You know that top secret Lumaglyph project I've been mentioning recently? Well, it's not a secret anymore. Here's the announcement. Hackberry Hollow is our first internal project at Lumaglyph, and we've recently launched the site at HackberryHollow.com . We set up a blog so we can post new concept art and other cool stuff as the project develops. The blog is updated every Tuesday afternoon. We've been writing the story for about a year now. Both Adam and I are really excited with how the story has developed, and so far everyone we've shared it with loves it. Now that we have a solid outline for the story we are going into high gear working on the concept art. So be sure to subscribe to the Hackberry Hollow RSS feed for updates on my new work. Here's some of the artwork I've posted so far. So that's what we've been working on: Hackberry Hollow . Visit the site, post comments on the artwork, and soon we'll have an epic webcomic for you to read...

Celtx is a great and all for writing stories, but when it comes to online collaborative writing our team uses Gobby . Gobby allows multiple people to work on the same text file at the same time. You don't have to designate one person as the scribe. You don't have to take turns. You can type where ever you want when ever you want, and any text you insert will be highlighted with your user color, so you always know who wrote what. Gobby was created with programmers in mind, so it features line numbering, auto indenting, and syntax highlighting. As writers we ignore those features except for the line numbering. Our text documents can get quite long and it's easy to say "look at line 2053," because they can press Ctrl-I and enter that line number in to zip them to the same line you're looking at. The user highlighting has also been useful for us to tag sections that need attention with bright red or some other obnoxious color that you can't possibly miss. We j...