Hi everyone,

I guess this is one of my first "real" blog post. I mean not that the other ones were crap or anything (I'll leave that for you to judge) but this will actually be the first long one I'll write so... fear my awesome spelling!!ONE

There are lots of things happening for fnatic nowadays and I'm glad to be a part of it, as a matter of fact it's one of the reason that a lot of things are going to change for me. That's right, in the next coming weeks I'll move out to Southampton, England to work in the fnatic offices which is a great opportunity for me and I'm so excited about it... it's so damn great but on the other hand... the wussy inside me is scared to death about all the changes and new stuff coming... I've never been such of an adventure guy or someone who goes around a lot. I've always been used of the old crappy town I live in and the few other cities around I've been to England just once actually and one time to France (that's about it, see!). We'll see what the future will bring to me aswell as to fnatic (on that I hope we'll kick more ass than ever before :D).

I'm sure Sam and Mac are great guys and I can't wait to meet them along with the others who're taking part of this! It will be a blast for sure. Another thing I'm super excited about is the fact that I'll be able to meet A LOT of people i've got to know over the years online. As most of you might not know, I come from the old Half-Life Deathmatch community based on the competitive mod Adrenaline Gamer (shortened AG), never been so hooked up on a game than that one, and gosh it was so awesome that I sometimes wanted to go back in time to just play it once more when it was really popular and when everyone was playing it all the time but sadly those days are over and you gotta move on. I haven't find anything like it since then but I'm still looking (Warsow is pretty awesome right now except it needs a bit more tweaks and maps and it'll be just as good). As most of that community is based in England it'll help me make irl contacts for those guys :D

So coming back on the fnatic business, I'm looking forward to that and that we'll accomplish a lot together to push the fnatic brand on the top of everything :)

I guess that's about what I wanted to say... :D

Now going on another subject, I've received a mail in early december telling me my bank was offering free custom bank card with any image you want to be put on it, right after that I submitted my picture and it got accepted... and now I got it and it's looking pretty sleek and it's goddamn PIMP :D

> Here's the pic of the card (the quality sucks, it looks MUCH BETTER irl :P)

For the last part of my blog, I wanted to put some of the work I've done today for the fans, lately I haven't really come up with anything good to be honest.. lot's of wallpaper stuff which weren't that good and some other things but it wasn't really important. I'll try as much as I can to make it up to you all by making new stuff, better stuff and I hope useful stuff!

So my last steam skin was pretty much horrible because I used my LCD monitor to make it and I noticed a few months ago that the brightness is fucked up and I couldn't fix it anyhow so... I'm now using dual monitors (my CRT got the brightness alright so I've fixed basicly all the crap from the previous one and made it better). The new skin has improved icons, colors fix and so... nothing too serious but on the other hand I tried to improve the GUI (well not exactly the GUI) but the background image aswell as the ingame browser and menus. Right now, I got a pretty solid thing but there's only one little bug left until I can release it and I need someone for that because I tried all I could but nothing has done the trick so far.

Here you can see the first screenshots of the thing!

> Steam skin preview
> Fnatic GUI preview
> Fnatic GUI preview (with ingame browser/menu)

THE BUG: (if anyone can help me, go ahead and try) Ingame with the new (using the old engine) skin is just fine except the friendlist, the names of online/playing/offline buddies are white on a white background and I don't have any white text left in the definition file, which is kinda weird.

Here's a picture of the problem!


I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do when it's done :)


Alrighty, for now I'll just say goodbye, I guess :D


Over and out,
albee xx



PS:
- Please excuse me for my poor writing, spelling, grammar or whatever but I'm way too tired to think any more. SO BEAR WITH IT.
- I'll try to post updates and take in consideration any feedback regarding the GUI/Skin stuff, keep on postin' dudes!
- If I didn't make sense, well I blame it on Sam, don't ask me why :P






And if you happen to be called GeminiRius, you're a fucking homo! (sorry mate, couldn't help it, yet again)