New Shirts

posted by Jaitu at 17:50

El Diablo has provided some new shirt designs for the shop.
I'll probably make more of a fuss once the shop itself has been redesigned.

The Bears Can Keep It

posted by Jaitu at 20:53

Starting tomorrow morning we will be having some work done in the house. In order for this to happen we have had to clear out (as best we can) our bedroom and the spare room which I have taken over. With this in mind I decided it was time to get rid of my old Pentium III machine, which was mostly just taking up valuable space, and donate it to charity. I use my laptop for *everything* anyway. So having removed hard disks from the chassis and having packed anything remotely useful into boxes I powered up the laptop to check email and do some woek on the RTDL2 Store.
It was at this point that Windows XP decided to play a new and frustratingly different game. No matter what I chose from the boot menu it would simply reset the PC a few seconds later and leave me again faced with the same options. Needless to say my backup strategy is second to none. In truth my backup strategy is equal to none.
I sat with my head in my hands staring at the cyclic failure to launch contemplating all the design work sitting on the now inaccessable drives and mumbling alliterative phrases fat with the phoneme 'ph'.
Fortunately it turned out to be a relatively easy fix. A borrowed XP Pro installation CD and an hour or two letting CHKDSK perform it's /R flavoured magic and I had a fully functioning window onto a wider world. I do have a fully licensed install but as is the way of the PC OEM I didn't get a useful install CD with the pre-installed OS. ElDiablo loaned me his disk and completely failed to capitalise on the opportunity to evangelise about the spiritual goodness embodied in Linux.
The only thing I can put this event down to was my recent choice to use the hibernate option instead of a full shutdown. With the number of external devices attached to the laptop it's not very surprising that it got it's knickers in a knot when I tried to resume the session. Anyway, lesson learnt. Leave hibernation for the bears.

On a seperate note some more new products have arrived in the RTDL2 Store. A couple more Cold Roses shirts in dark navy (as requested by the Womble) along with some simple Orc inspired designs which you may hear more about should I ever follow up on a side project.

Living above our means?

posted by Womble692 at 14:23

Well i got my new motorbike. One word...AWESOME!!!! very very fast and smooth. Weather hasnt been too kind and Suzuki's are not renowned for the ability to handle bad weather (rust and fall apart) so not wanting my £8K bike to rot before my eyes i have only been out on it on Sunday morning. Desperate for some good weather.

Tonight i am having a test drive in an Alfa romeo Brera. I wanted to get a new car for while and due to my current Celica starting to develop some issues (i call the car not unlocking for an hour and issue!!!) and the clutch starting to slip i decided it might be time to do something about it. Now here comes the rub...rather than buying a Focus or Astra or something cheap and sensible i start looking at Mercedes Alfas Audis BMW's etc. I think i am a brand whore! Trouble is i just used most of my savings buying my motorbike...so got to think carefully, always said i would never buy a brand new car on finance, so im looking at Alfa Brera ex demo, still more expensive than i wanted but you only live once and all that. Will post my thoughts on the Brera and my decision when i have worked out what i do. Im sure that the Sales guy will do his best to make sure i drive away in the car.

In the meantime check out the Cold Roses T shirts, my bands logo, looks awesome on the brown t shirt. Can we get a dark blue one as well?

Laters alligators

Signing off, your ninja robot battling star gazing superfreak

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RTDL2 Does Retail

posted by Jaitu at 23:13

For a little while now ElDiablo and myself have been working on a new side project. Using my pitiful web design skills and our combined imaginations we have begun an RTDL2 associated store. See the link up there on the new nav bar?
The shop is open and ready to take orders so please take a look at what's on offer. Even if you don't like anything you see just yet, tell your friends that the place exists and keep an eye on it as there are plenty more designs in the works. For now we are concentrating on (we think) simple reasonably priced products although we have the capacity to provide other more divers product lines. There will also be more in the way of lady-centric goods appearing over time.