TTP file_id.diz

“SPECTRAL”? I don’t remember that for the life of me… Anyway, fixed the link to Arma3.zip, which incorrectly went to the Beyond Belief download instead. I guess a few people have been trying to download it lately, maybe I should convert it to Q4 sometime?

BTW, FILE_ID.DIZ files were little info files you’d add to your BBS uploads, so that the BBS could display the info its interested users. Ah, the time before the Internets…

Updates to Downlads Page

I’ve updated the Downloads page with links to the GDC material and some other stuff (dotXSI4Maya Plugins, Toggle Component Mode script etc.)
Desktop computer died on me the other day while playing Quake 4. It’s up and running again, but I haven’t made as much progress on Arma6 as I could have. Ah well, no rush…

Google Search Results

Update: I just secured www.worch.com. At least one more step towards keeping the name “safe” As a side effect you can now email me at matthias at worch dot com.

Neat, my page is now the #2 search result when googling the term “Worch”*. I’d be totally happy with that ranking if the #1 search result for “Worch” wasn’t a link for some neo-nazi asshole by the same name who has tarnished our family name for quite a while. No relationship whatsoever, of course, and I’m not going to honor the guy with a link.
But I’ve been thinking: I really don’t understand the formula that Google uses to determine the ranking of search results (I don’t think anybody does, and for good reasons), but at least part of it must be how often a particular page is linked from other pages on the net.

If you want to help me get to #1 just add a link to http://www.langsuyar.com somehwere on your page. Hide it if you like Thanks! This isn’t some narcissistic thing – people who want to find me will find me, and I’m not running a business here. But I’ll be damned if a neo-nazi beats me!

* (I’ve had #1 spot for “Matthias Worch” for a while, but that one is easy).

Page Redesign

Alright, version 2.0 of this design is online. It isn’t locked off vertically anymore and is (finally!) 100% 1024×768 compliant. I haven’t made a lot of changes on the outside, the gfx are essentially the same. But the entire underlying structure is new. Nothing fancy, it’s still trusty, hand-crafted HTML. But it’s set up in a way that’ll make automation through PHP a lot easier – if I ever do it. The articles section is still locked off, it will take some time to update them. If there’s one section that makes me consider going to a database ASAP it’s the articles

Most of the sections carried right over. The most notable change is that I split news posts and blog posts now. In the past I was always hesitant to put too many purely personal things on this page, because I also use it as a way to advertise new levels, articles etc. I didn’t want those news to get lost in the midst of unrelated stuff.
I added my backlog of olds news to the page, they now go back to 1999. I’d lost the original HTML files, but the evil ways of Archive.org made it possible to reconstruct everything but the pictures.

As for the look of the page, I’m still torn between doing a complete redesign and keeping the current one. I like the fact that my page doesn’t look like Just Another Blog(tm), but the dark look of the current page can be a bit too oppressive and overbearing at times. I’ll see, the new structure will make it easy to experiment with different graphics.

If anything but the Articles is broken please let me know!