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Nextage Team Realty to promote their real estate team in Northern Florida (Jacksonville, Ponte Vedra, Orange Park, St. John's) and Careers at Nextage.

A buddy of mine, Cesar, needed a simple website to promote his parents' Tamales company, TaTiana's Tamales.  It's a pretty basic, single page site with the info they needed to promote their product.  Nothing fancy, just simple and functional.

We are also currently working on a whole new website for Enjuku Racing and Wheel Warehouse.  But those will probably be shown off sometime after I get back.

I also been burning whatever free time I have working on a custom Starcraft 2 map called Party on Outhouse Protectors (poop!).  It recently launched in Beta and has been receiving decent traffic on US Battle.net, so if you play Starcraft 2 be sure to check it out.  It's a Tug of War map set on your typical MOBA/DotA/LOL/HON map with heroes and what not.  Instead of items, you get enhancements, allowing you to upgrade your hero while out on the battle field.  You also get a builder to instantly build structures that add units to your spawn.  Lastly, a little bit of a strategy element got thrown in by adding four vespene geysers on the map which adds bonus minerals to everyone on your team.  It's been serving great to forcing hero fights as teams protect their investment.  I've only been doing bug fixes since its launch on 9/2, but I hope to work on some more heroes and enhancements when I get back along with some more balance tweaks.  Hopefully it gets popular.  We're working on a website for that too in whatever spare time we have, it'll be at www.playpoop.com - but nothing's there yet!

Oh yeah, I've also been playing Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii.  Amazing game and it's a complete shame that people have to go through hoops of hacking their Wii and importing a copy just to enjoy it since Nintendo of America doesn't want to bring it to the States.  Completely missing out, one of the best JRPGs I've played in a long time, and I've played a lot of them.

I read a bit on Lion and was actually a little anxious to try it out, despite its influence from iOS.  I'm not a huge fan of iOS' limitations, so I was really curious to see how Apple integrated some of its functionality into a notebook operating system.  Initially I was confused by Lion and within a couple of hours, I couldn't get certain things working (mostly Gallery Remote) so I opted to do a Parallels Windows installation.  This was mainly so I could get blogging done on Autoguide.com efficiently since it was what I was used to.  I figured sooner or later I might abandon OS X (again) and just do a clean Windows install, but I'm starting to *gasp* like it.

There's lots of neat things about Lion that actually fits the way I like to work.  The whole desktop spaces is a pretty cool and actually makes doing things very efficient.  I'm now lead to believe that Mac users don't have a clue what scroll bars are because it's ridiculously amazing how nice this trackpad is for scrolling.  Two finger swiping to go back/forth on pages, three finger swiping to move across desktops.  Everything is just remarkably snappy and quick.  I haven't tested it with Photoshop yet, but since I'm mainly doing light photo editing these days I think this Air will satisfy me for quite a while.

The great thing about the desktop spaces thing is the ability to assign certain applications to certain desktops.  I'm able to relieve my clutter of mess and it's almost like I have multiple monitors on a single laptop.  Not in the way that I have increased functionality, but in the way that I know where everything is and it's easily organized and I can switch on a whim.  No more alt-tabbing through windows until I find the one that I need (since I love working with everything maximized) - I just three finger swipe over to the desktop I know it's on, or launch Mission Control and click on the way I want.  Way cool.

I'm going to guess that for my uses I'm not really missing out on the i7 and I'm perfectly content with a 128GB SSD considering my last Lenovo was 64GB.  So far I'm pretty happy with my purchase, and despite it being such a weird experience in the land of the Lion, I'm finding it pleasantly nice compared to my last Apple Macbook experience.

By the way, Launchpad is horrible.  The whole iOS wannabe interface to choose your applications is just... bad.  I guess it makes sense for all those people that are coming from iPhones and iPads to integrate something like Launchpad to OS X, but it's just silly to me. 

Anyways, sorry for the lack of updates.  Been busy working and finishing up some sites.  Recently launched is Track One Motorsports (which doesn't have any product yet) and a website for Stacia Deutsch, a NY Times best selling author.  I've also started a project making a custom Starcraft2 map that took up most of my free time the last couple of weeks.  I recently recruited some help to do the terraining of the map and once that's completed I'll be back on it creating heroes and abilities and hopefully putting the thing into some real beta testing.  The concept of the map will consist of a blend of DoTA (HON, LOL, AoS, whatever the heck you want to call that genre) with Tug of War.  Heroes + items + abilities + buildings to choose what units spawn in your lanes.  So far initial testing was pretty fun.  There's a few things I am working on implementing that will hopefully make it fun despite having bad or inexperienced players on your team... and other strategic points that will hopefully change how the game is played.  I'll be posting more about it when it gets into a better beta phase, including it's name which I'm really proud of.

I've been enjoying some Starcraft2 beta with several friends and I'm very excited for the game to come out this Summer. The beta takes a break on May 31st, so I'll be sure to post up a lot of information on it for those interested in reading about it. But as far as balance goes, I feel like that game is fairly well balanced with a few little abuses - but that's the nature of all Blizzard strategy games.

Right now I have 200 achievements points, have won 50 games solo as random, 50 games 2v2 as random and working on getting more achievements with the other races. I'm really on the fence on my favorite race, I play a lot of Terran but recently went back to Protoss mostly due to the strength of a proxy gateway rush. So long as I can manage building/teching while harassing with Gateways at their door it works.

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