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Dec 30
2009

Finally did something about the leechers

So I just got an email notifying me that I have used 80% (8GB) of bandwidth this month.
Eight gigabyte. That’s ridiculous for a site like mine. So I went through the list of all the dodgy sites that were leeching images and various things from my website and shut them out.

All up I added almost 100 new lines to my htaccess :(
Most of them were linking directly to my (pretty awesome) screenshots from Infernal and various other games.
There were a few cases of people posting my screenshots in forums, and using my wallpapers for things like their myspace background which I didn’t block.

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Listening To: Fleetwood Mac - Edge of Seventeen
Dec 10
2009

PC Powerplay: Now with 60% more Baines!

PC Powerbaines

PC Powerbaines

Thanks to White Falcon for pointing this out to me.
An article running in the January 2010 issue of PC Powerplay features a screenshot from the best person in the world, me.

To the right is a scan of the article by White Falcon. Here is the blog post in which the screenshot was taken from.

 
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Listening To: Cut Chemist - The Garden
Oct 24
2009

Fix: No Composite Input Signal Blue Box (Dell Ultrasharp Monitors)

So today I noticed all of my touch buttons on my Dell monitor on, which should only happen when I’m near it.

I figured some dust was on it and activated the buttons or something, so I wiped my hand across the buttons. My monitor turned off and turned back on (as it does when switching input modes) and when it came back on it had a big blue box in the bottom right with an error saying, “No Composite Input Signal.”

The rest of the screen was OK, I could still use my PC and switch to my Xbox and it was all good, except for this giant blue box in the bottom right.

So I went to Google
 
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Listening To: Dub FX - Made
Oct 21
2009

Shiny & New

Welcome to the new look of dBaines.com :)

dBaines.com 200910 "Seraphim"

dBaines.com 200910 "Seraphim"

I’m on the fence if I’ll continue using this new logo. I think, like the last logo redesign, I’ll just keep it until I make a new template. At which point I’ll promptly return by to Old Bessy.

I do like how flexible this logo is though. I’ve even developed an animation for it which I’ll hopefully chuck in to the animation gallery soon.

Everything should be exactly where it used to be, unless you’re looking for my design work, which has been shuffled around and split in to several new folders. Splitting them up
 
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Listening To: Linus Loves - Waterfall
Oct 19
2009

Re-arranging Art Gallery

Sorry if it breaks your links :(

I’m separating the design folder in to more specific categories.
This is in preparation for a shiny new template. I’m completely changing up how the art gallery homepage looks, and it requires these to be in different categories. Sorry!

In somewhat related news, I’m going back over all my recent Bakas IT work and creating screenshots of all the ones that didn’t get unfortunately raped by “I know how design” clients and am planning on uploading them here. I’ll probably create sub-albums in the webdesign category for Bakas IT yearly dumps.

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Listening To: CSS - Believer Achieve
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