I borrowed a power meter from the Library the other day and tested my new computer with it. It used less power then I thought it did. The box draw a max of 260W, but it was the monitor that really stumped me. Standby mode does absolutely nothing to the power usage when the computer is on.  Has anyone else out there had a similar experience?

A few years back I put money down on a condo, and it is supposed to be ready in a couple of months. Its about time I figure out where to place furniture and what colours to paint the walls, so I’ve dug out the old 3D model that I made based off of the floor plans and started to mess with rendering it in 3DS Max. I still have to perfect the lighting and I haven’t spent much time on the materials, but its coming along.

Over the past two days I have received a couple emails from a company apparently working on a TV show for the Discovery Channel on Nostradamus.

I’m assuming they are contacting me because of the false prediction that was going around the net in September of 2001 taken from an essay written by another Neil Marshall. Although he lives/lived in a nearby town and went to University at a similar time as I did, I can assure you I have not written any essays on Nostradamus. If I did, they would be atrocious.

I can only hope that they are going to make a show about debunking the predictions. I wonder if Neil Marshall the horror film director is also getting these emails. I could do some 3D animations and he could direct the show.

…or it is just a new spam email that is getting through my filters.

I started a new job on Monday, so updates to this blog will likely slow down a bit. What I’m working on is all under NDA agreements so I’ll only be able to talk about small projects I’m working on in my spare time. All I can really say is I finally have the generic title of Game Developer which is a position I’ve been trying to get for a long time now.

Welcome to my blog.  I have decided to use it as a way to document the ideas I have come up with and am working on and to delve into greater depth detailing the works which are in my portfolio.

If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments section or if you wish to email me privately, my email address is neil@eightlines.com.