The other day I reinstalled Steam on my PC, for those that care Steam is a content distribution system that allows users to download and play games in a single secure environment. I wanted to have a quick blast or two through some First Person Shooters most notably Team Fortress 2.
Game installed and updated, I hopped into the game and played several hours against the bots added since I last played it. Was a blast and I went to bed happy. Following day I played some minecraft, which TBH has been occupying more of my time than anything else.
Late in the day I fired up TF2 to have a play online after my previous day’s enjoyment offline. Played for a couple of hours before heading to bed. It was only as I shut my PC down that I recalled using CheatEngine (A game cheating utility I use with Minecraft) was still running… but who cares right? It wasn’t actually doing anything.
Valve care apparently, because CE was running at the time of last weeks 2nd day of TF2 I am now banned from 99% of all online Steam games. Harsh!!!
Worse there is no appeal, no procedure to complain about treatment and no rules about what you run in the background even if it has no interaction with Steam/Valve. So not only am I banned from Valve Anti-Cheat servers for evermore, but I daren’t buy new games because how long would it be before I forgot what was running in the background and lost everything again?
While trying to work out what I had done wrong I looked through the documents that I signed (virtually) when playing on VAC servers and found that not only do they not say what you can’t do (apart from cheating) but they pretty much do say that even if you weren’t and they don’t like the look of you they can still ban you without appeal.
So yeah depression is now worse… thanks for nothing Valve.
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My first decent mountain bike (for which I still have the frame) was a Trek, bought for my by my Nana in 1996 (might have been ‘97) but it was the ‘96 model as I got it cheap. And I quickly found out why it hadn’t sold. It had a weird ass bottom bracket (for those not in the know that’s the main bearing that the pedals attach to). Eventually it went the way of all good bikes and after far too much use it got to the point that I’d need to spend more money to fix it than it was worth.
So once again my Nana stepped in and bought me another. This time a truly shockingly bad bike which while I liked the idea was never much better than a… something particularly crap. Then late one evening while cycling home from work I got knocked off and while I was okay with bruises the bike didn’t do so well. After a fair bit of wrangling with the guy that knocked me off, I got the bike repaired but it never worked as well as it had (and it had never been as good as the first bike even then).
I continued to ride though, using the bike to get to work among other things. When I had to give up my job in Leeds through ill health I moved up to the Yorkshire Dales but the same issues that meant I couldn’t cope with work didn’t make me want to get out into the great outdoors instead. And while I didn’t spend everyday crying in my bed, that was (and often still is) the way I was. So my bike was added to the contents of the barn and all but abandoned.
My Nana died in the winter, she was old and I think she missed my grandpa who had predeceased her (by several years if you count the dementia that took his mind long before his body died). I was left a bit of money in her will, and I’ve tried to spend it on things that will make a difference to my life.
Today I became the proud owner of a brand new Saracen Mantra 2010, in blue and white (though I still need to collect it from the shop). It’s a hard tail (that is suspension only at one end).
Sadly it will be the last bike my Nana will ever buy me, which makes me sad. But when I’m out on it I can sing some Gilbert & Sullivan and think of both her and my grandpa with fond memories and thank them for making my life so rich.
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And when it comes down to it that’s just how I feel. Been hard at work playing Just Cause, because WoW is off-line due to the 3.3.5 update. No idea what happened to 3.3.4 it just seemed to disappear. So I have been doing things, other than playing games.
I think I might have got the hang of the whole vertical text links/menu/thing, though I haven’t quite got to the point of uploading code yet – working on my Xampp server so it should transfer with ease. It’s not quite there yet though.
It’s not actually terribly complicated to do, just took me a while as I was trying stuff I’d never done before. The above was taken in FF, currently my CSS won’t work with anything else, though I expect to get it working in Safari with ease, IE is a pig as normal because while it supports the vertical text and has done since 5.5 it doesn’t support most of the rest of the layout. 
Opera supports some of it but not all. (I develop for FF primarily.)
Breaking it down, currently I have three <div> left, centre and Nav. Left just has the outer edge of the spiral binding, centre “Textz Here” currently only has the other half of the spiral binding. Nav is where the menu is. Nav is also that huge green block, because I can’t seem to get round having the same width as the total menu in height in this case 50em… Of course when I get past this point that big green block will get background-color:transparent; so be invisible.
Anyway after trying many different parts of that <div id=”nav”> setting for the -moz-transform: rotate(90deg); I finally tried it on the actual div tag itself
#nav {
-moz-transform: rotate(90deg);
background-color:#993;
position:absolute;
top:0em;
right:4.5em;
width:50em;
height:50em;
min-height:25em;
z-index:1;
}
#nav ul#tabnav {
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding-left:40px;
}
#nav ul#tabnav li {
font-variant:small-caps;
float:left;
height:21px;
background-color:transparent;
}
#nav ul#tabnav a:link, #nav ul#tabnav a:visited {
display:block;
color:#FFF;
background-color:#333;
text-decoration:none;
margin-right:12px;
padding:3px 6px 2px 6px; /* T R B L */
-moz-border-radius:10px 10px 0 0; /* TL TR BR BL */
border-bottom:2px solid #666;
}
#nav ul#tabnav a:hover {
background-color:#900;
color:#0F0;
}
Not all of that code is actually still relevant, some is settings I haven’t got rid of since I was testing stuff, but that is largely what I have working now. In the end I only stopped tonight as my brain was beginning to melt with overload. :/
Hopefully more tomorrow. 
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One of the sub sites for this site is my collection of pr0n sorry fiction. I’m an amateur writer who when an MMO isn’t being played likes to write. I write all sorts of stuff but mostly, and whet I’m actually most proud about is the TG fiction. TG Stands for Transgender, which is to say that one of more characters of those stories progresses in some way from one gender to the other. Sometimes it is wish fulfilment, while in others it is the consequences of another action, all though are somewhat fantastical.
I have a clear design of what I want that sub site to look like. Spiral binding down one side, tabs indexing the different subject headings down the other. And I found the prefect method for creating the actual text on the tabs… Only to find out that it isn’t supported in my browser of choice (Firefox).
So I have done some digging, there is quite a bit of talk about the various solutions. IE it seems has had some sort of solution to the issue since 5.5. Opera has had a solution at one point but might not now (I don’t use Opera and some sites say that it has the idea down flat while others say it doesn’t). Firefox wasn’t working with the CSS I was using yesterday, but now I might have found some CSS that does do what I want. Now all I have to do is actually understand what it does…
The CSS Ninja Explains
So it could well be that I might get where I want to go somehow after all.
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This is my new domain, I still own incessant-logic.net but I have no hosting attached to that. This is due to the costs of having new hosting for the old domain being £8 and for the new to be £8, but the old needed to be freed up from my old hosts which meant I would need to jump through more hoops than I care for. :/
So why bother with a Web Log if you have Facebook anyway? Facebook is a great web application, I admire the design and idea… but mainly hate the implementation. Mostly to do with status updates. See my life is very boring I don’t need to update my status more than maybe once a month “This week oi ‘ave been mainly sleeping…” so having a system that won’t allow me to blog effectively is a pain.
That is the only way to post long posts like this one is to post an introduction then reply and fill in the details, something I don’t actually like doing much… it breaks up the flow.
So I now – once again – have a real blog that should (if I have installed it correctly) add my posts here to my FB account as links so those of you who genuinely want to know what is going on in my life/head can still follow my progress. (And if not just block me k?)
In other news I am continuing on with a Whateley Fan Fic, provisionally entitled “The One” mainly as it retains aspects of all my other fan fics yet remains a single character rather than a huge array or characters.
I’m also trying to build three two websites (the first is this one 
) made slightly harder by the fact that both pieces of software that I customarily use to do web design are new to me. Dreamweaver CS5 looks considerably nicer than DW8 (which I was using) but doesn’t suffer from the same issues. I’ve also moved up from Paint Shop Pro 9 to PSP X2 (PSP12.5 IIRC).
We had rain and thunder last night, so now some grass can grow so I can get some cash for mowing that I can add to my monitor funds, have found the monitor for me…
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