Beta version of my website available for testing!

I've managed to get quite a bit done today on my new website, so I figured I'd stick a link to it here for you to have a look at - comments good or bad please. Remember that its still very early on in its development, and I'm sure I am to make many changes before I feel it is ready to replace the existing site.

Click the link below to take a sneak peak at the new stu-wilson.com

http://www.stu-wilson.com/newsite

Apologies for the rushed music on the site - again, the song is nowhere near finished.

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Hi guys and gals! Well today I decided it was about time I redesigned my main website (www.stu-wilson.com). It hasn't had a redesign in over 2 years (which is quite long for me), so the image to the left is a small taster of what its going to look like.

The problem with my old site was that because it was made from a combination of Flash movies and HTML, it was a nightmare to update and maintain, and it was so time consuming. The new site has been made so instead of having to work with a site made up from hundreds of files, it will only have a couple of files of which will need changing when I update.

I seem to update my blog more than my main website, so hopefully this wil change. Expect the new website to replace the current one within the next week or two.

Stuart on his soap box

I'm going to rant now, so I apologise in advance....

There are 4 things in my life that really bother me at the moment

1.) OAP's. Don't get me wrong, I respect them, and thank them for everything they did for us during World War II - BUT STOP BEING SO MISERABLE!! I mean, all they ever do is moan and complain. I get it from Michelle's grand-parents. Is that what I've got to look forward to when I turn old and grey?

2.) Our next door neighbour. The bloke lives alone, doesnt work, and yet thinks its a great idea to do all his DIY, cut the lawn, bang and smash during the night. I mean, he doesnt do anything during the day, yet keeps me, Kieran and Michelle up during the night with the constant noise, and his drugged up friends knocking and banging on his door in the middle of the night.

3.) Foreigners. I'm not racist, and I'm not against everyone from other countries - just those who come over to England, can't talk a word of English, scrounge of our government, get given a nice 3 / 4 bedroom house. Evesham is full of Polish and people from various nationalities. Now, most of them work admittingly, but none of them speak a single word of English. Now, if I was going to live in a different country, I WOULD MAKE SURE I COULD SPEAK THE LOCAL LANGUAGE.... even if it was just a little bit.

4.) Cars with massive exhausts. I MEAN WHATS THE POINT??? We've got a prat who lives a couple of doors away (strangely enough, he is foreign!!) who has a bloody car with an exhaust pipe that looks more like some rocket boost port or something. Every night at around 10.30 he revs it up outsude, making such a noise, and reverses onto OUR driveway so that he can turn around. Now, with the sound of the stones and gravel on our driveway, along with the revving noise of his car, it keeps me and Michelle awake, whether we have the bedroom window or not.

Anyway, thats enough from me for the moment. Rant over. I'm off now to finish getting ready for work.

Bye for now!

"The end is extremely f**king nigh"

Michelle is at work... Kieran is fast asleep in his chair beside me. To help cure my boredom, I thought I'd have a look through our ever growing collection of DVD's to find a film to watch...

The film I chose..... 28 Days Later. (those of you who have seen the movie will understand why I have titled this post the way I have)

Now, everyone who knows me knows that I LOVE zombie movies, or any other movie for that matter that centres around an apocolyptic vision of the past, present or future.

Call me sad, but I just find the whole idea of a world in chaos due to flesh eating, ravaging undead corpses (or in the case of 28 Days Later, a rage infected populace) fascinating. I mean, how cool would it be to live in Raccoon City (Resident Evil), armed with a shotgun with an unlimited supply of ammo, shooting the crap out of hordes of murderous, hungry undead creatures!! BRING IT ON!!!

Remember the old text adventures of old? I've written a couple of those games centering around this very thing - a group of survivors in England struggling to live and cope while the recently dead continue to rise and rampage the surburban streets of the UK. I think thats why I enjoy 28 Days Later so much - its the only true zombie movie (OK OK..... I KNOW, they aren't really zombies) set in our country and its great to see familiar landmarks in such an 'end of the world' kind of way.

I would very much like to post some of those adventure games online sometime if anyone is interested in playing them. Actually, they are more like those Choose Your Own Adventure books which you could once get - I don't expect any of them to be the next best-selling novel, a George A Romero beater, or a contender for the Resident Evil computer games, but if like me you'd like to see more zombie carnage in the streets of London (and yes, Basildon too!!), then I hope you'd find them a decent substitute until someone reintroduces and centres the genre back in good ol' Blighty

The street is deserted. You continue to walk along Tottenham Court Road, cars left resting in the roads with their doors wide open. Litter lay spewed all over the place. The eiree silence is disturbing.

It is getting dark. Knowing that it would be suicide to continue in the dark, you look around for somewhere to hide low for the night. The entrances to the shops are still wide open, a sign of how quick this all happened. Shopping bags with their contents spread over the pavement. What started as a normal day at the shops for many turned into a bloody day of carnage and destruction

You can see : litter

Available exits are -
West : An entrance to Tottenham Court Road Undergound Station. The gate appears closed closed.
East : Back the way you came along Tottenham Court Road.
North : Entrance to a large music store.

You are carring .... A Crowbar

What would you like to do?

Its a dull dull day in a dull dull week in a dull dull month

Sorry for the lack of updates. To be honest, not much has been happening here in Evesham lately, and things have been rather quiet.

We are looking forward to flying over to Jersey in two weeks for a couple of days to see my friend Fiona get married to her fella. The last time I flew on a plane (my first time actually when we went to Rhodes), I practically s**t myself when we took off. When I'm up there, its ok - its just the whole taking off and landing part which I hate. I've been trying to explain to Kieran that we're going up in the air on an aeroplane (trying to demonstrate with one of his toy planes)....

I think he kind of understands.... and he laughs.... no doubt wondering why Daddy is holding one of his toys and making strange vvrrrrmmmmm noises.

Hopefully something exciting will happen here in Evesham worth writing about, but until then.......

Its not all doom and gloom

Actually I do have something to be happy about. My "Not Another Comic Bakery Remix" is still being watched by quite a few people and doing reasonably well on youtube.com. I have even had two nice people leave positive comments. Oh, and it has been 'favorited' twice!!!!

Oh, and after recently revamping the look of my blog, I think I might give my website over at www.stu-wilson.com a complete and radical face-lift as well.