Kell's like a wise old chinese guy with a long moustache. contract revoked 2? eh?? 

Patience, grasshopper. 

A famous filmaker once said: "movies are never completed, they are abandoned"

How very true. I personally feel that I "abandoned" Bastion to work on the other maps in the series, with the idea of releasing them as a complete episode, including a "Special Edition" version of the original map that more accurately represented my original vision.

That said, next Summer's First Anniversary "Bastion Redux: Shuffler Shoots First" Edition, (working title) will probably be the next time I revisit this seminal garrison of evil. It will have to wait as I'm currently knee deep in giant spiders on the slopes of the Marcher Vale - let's just say you might wake up to find a nice little stocking filler this Christmas ^_~ (or most likely, in the new year). 

STM, an instant message / email system I've been working on is in a BETA 1 stage. This means it is 'known bug free' and running on a fast server (the Alpha was on my home network and a lot slower). There is also a heap of documentation, a few screenshots and an FAQ :]

Anyone that had an STM Alpha login still has that login, however the old messages will look all messed up (I've changed some of the encryption stuff)

You can login / sign-up now at https://stm.lvlworld.com (its free and complete anonymous) 

Why do we need another one? ICQ, AIM, MSN, whatever are not enough why exactly? 

no client! 

20aa465d60027d37644dde1d8c2633c2:stm.lvlworld.com
contact me;)
The idea behind this thingy is great! I can use everywhere with no need for addtional software:) 

I can IRC and use MSN on my mobile phone (which is a very cheap model too). Again, what am I missing? 

CZG's got a good point actually. Like if you're using another computer that doesn't have shit installed, and the owner doesn't want shit installed.

Plus, if Jago isn't using it, that's another bonus compared to IRC! 

CGZ doesnt have a point. You can use IRC through a web-based client and you can use gmail, yahoo, hotmail, whatever for mail. 

what about webmail? it has the same features and even more! maybe it's not that interactive but wtf? 

nt 

Try http://www.google.com/search?hl=fi&q=irc+web+client&spell=1 

Tulokset 1 - 10 noin 1 790 000 osuman joukosta haulle irc web client. (0,30 sekuntia) 

See what gems you find hanging at other forums?

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/projects/doom3/doomlog/doom3log_1.html 

there was a web based icq client too. I definitely used it at uni at least once. 

pretty stunning bit of work. Can't wait to see it finished. 

STM is clearly not for you because you seem to have everything you need, but for some people (like me) STM fills the need - its web-based, go anywhere, secure, anonymous and completely spam free (and always will be spam free).

IRC, email (even gmail :]), ICQ, MSN and many others (like Jabber) all IMHO have issues, are not secure, require something other than a browser or a 'real' login or something else like banner ads etc. STM is non of these and 100% go anywhere.

So, enjoy the secret police monitoring your IRC chat, gmail giving you content based ads, MSN reading your chat logs and ICQ 'look at my pictures' request :] 

Althought I keep hearing that GMail has these content-based ads, for some obscure reason I am yet to see _ANY_ ads when I login and use GMail and I've been using the system for quite some time now. I could be the only one though, I dunno.

As what comes to IRC, if you want to be paranoid, you can always use DCC Chat which establishes a direct connection between the users, bypassing the IRC servers and thus monitoring software which could be possibly setup on the IRC server. You could argue that you can still sniff a DCC Chat session, but then again, your ISP can sniff EVERYTHING, including STM. 

I take it back, I see you are using SSL. 

Jago, you have not even tried STM (not that you have to). However for someone that has a lot to say, you have no experience with the product.

The fact that you 'can' set up a DCC chat in IRC means it is not the default setting. Besides that, who is to say that your ISP or any ISP between you and the person you are chatting with, is not mointoring your so-called direct coonection? Do you really think DCC is secure?

With STM, its secure from the start with nothing for the user to worry about other than adding contacts.

Anyway, enough chat Jago, either user it or don't, I really don't care. Feedback however is more than welcome :] 

I got myself an account to see what all the fuss is about right before I retracted my comment about encryption. 

I was just formulating a sarcastic comment along the lines of "my days of getting a boner for custom computer cases are over", and then I skipped to page 17 and thought, "hmmm, damn, okay... I'm impressed". :) 

Please tell me some of you are working on quality hl2dm maps. We're dieing here:
http://s94249274.onlinehome.us/hlcrap1.jpg
http://s94249274.onlinehome.us/hlcrap2.jpg 

I got myself an account to see what all the fuss is about right before I retracted my comment about encryption. Speaking of security and such, why should I be trusting YOU and whoever runs the site to not log every message sent/received and read them?