It began, last night, at about 2am.
*pop*

"Analysing Glasses", the 7th track from this year's first ALChoon AL Bum, is also my first proper go at using Vocaloid.
I've still a lot to learn, and definitely need to figure out a better way to add my own "words" into the dictionary, but it's a decent enough start, and is suitably silly in that oh-so-special AL-Style!
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For a long time, I've been "putting up" with a bizarre issue with my laptop's soundcard.
No matter the drivers I use, or settings I tweak, the soundcard seems to keep falling asleep.
If you try to play a sound (via ANY media program/app/windows dialogue/etc) it'll "reboot" leaving a 1.5 second gap before it starts any audio.
Give it a 3 or 4 second delay of no-audio, and the soundcard seems to fall asleep again.

I spent most of last night fiddling around with my new toy, Vocaloid.

The framework's looking quite stable, but there's no guarantees that it is!
As such, I'm currently thinking of making February a full month of Flappadiddle 2.

Each weekly release will be a slightly more fixed up edition of the game, and hopefully over the course of February, I can build the game up to a decent enough standard, and drag the Framework along with it.

A familiar set of spikes to dislike, and a nice variable path to follow.
Next will be adding in other objects to play with!

People might look at the fact that I spent all day, yesterday, working on an "unrelated" Icon Resizer project, but the new framework needed a new version of the tool.

v1.0 of my new version of the Icon Resizer.
Completely rewritten over the space of today.
You can Download Icon Resizer 2 v1.0 here
Icon Resizer 2 takes a selection of icons, at whatever sizes you CAN be bothered to make, and outputs a whole array of (mostly iOS) different sized icons that you can use in your games.
With the addition of some Screenshots and your game's logo, the tool will also generate all manner of screenshot sizes, as well as generating a bunch of Banners and H...

With my new Data-Start and Data-End elements in place, reading data from the server is infinitely easier.

Since I'm having to deal with html-responses in a raw fashion, I'm seeing a few quirks in the way that the different servers send their replies.

I spent most of the night, switched off from coding, and instead watched a lot of YouTube stuff.
Lots of complaining about YouTube's stupid new Ad-Revenue rules, meaning hundreds and thousands of vloggers are being hit hard.
In addition, @Geekanoids is having a terrible time after a burst pipe caused oodles of damage to his Studio.
In many ways, YouTube isn't the greatness it used to be, but annoyingly they've pretty much destroyed any and all competition, so people are stuck w...

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Aha!

The scoreboard admin page has been "broken" for a long while.

The new server has a great virus-scanning feature, which blocks any downloads should the file contain any kind of possible dodgyness.

You'd be amazed how many errors have cropped up in the AGameAWeek script!
The previous server was setup to display major errors onscreen, rather than logging them, but the new server logs EVERYTHING!!!

Our new server overlords have been chosen.
AGameAWeek and Socoder now exist on a Kloudhost server.

If you're a frequent visitor, you've probably noticed the occasional MySQL "Too many connections" error cropping up on the site.

Having spent a couple of hours playing Flappadiddle, last night, I wondered what a new version of Flappadiddle might turn out like.
I should probably work on getting the framework up and running before doing that, though..

I spent most of yesterday, once again, trying to get Android to work.

Yesterday was spent, as expected, doing the Little Lever site.

For the past couple of years, I've hosted the forum for LittleLever.info on my old SoCoder server at GoDaddy. When I recently moved SoCoder to the new Zen Internet server, I neglected to move the LittleLever site across.

I started work on Draw-To-Buffer today, and managed to get a couple of basic functions into place.
Create buffer of X/Y size, Clear buffer, Fill buffer with X Colour, Draw a line to the buffer, and then the most important one.

The framework isn't done.
Stop playing around with possible games, and get the framework finished, first.

Still plenty of Framework things to finish off, and yet my mind's whizzing ahead to the next task.
Hang on, Jay.. Get it all done properly!!

The big file transfer continues, and last night it managed to copy my massive Mod Archive across. Over 180,000 files overnight! Wowie!!

The MacMini's still doing the "All my music over to the new NAS" file copy, so I can't currently do anything iOS related.
Instead, then, I'm wondering what style I might go in for a new JNKPlat.
Do I do "fluffy" like 2010 was, or super retro like 2008?
Or do I try to come up with something new?

Yesterday was spent mostly watching a lot of progress bars.
Not a lot I can do when both the MacMini and Laptop are sitting there copying insane amounts of data over to the new NAS drive.