I'm not dead yet!

It seems to me that people make a whole bunch of posts like these, saying that real life just got in the way for a bit or whatever, but now it's back to the action of the internet. Well, there may or may not be something wrong with doing that, but I don't see much use in making any sort of excuses. If it was that important to keep up with what's happening on the intenet, at whatever sites or whatever you spend your time, then you would perhaps just stick to it. Anyway, while I think that that is quite important, I also think that it doesn't help trying to explain anything, especially when you had a valid reason for being away.

Alright, so I was away for about 3 months and got back a few weeks ago. I was up North (which is still pretty far South compared to most other places in the world) and I am so glad to be home! Cape Town is definitely the best, so here, have a picture of Table Mountain which I took recently from the harbour wall.

Before I get into the update, I think I promised something like an analysis and comparison between the different web browsers. Well, the conclusion I came to is quite simple: use the one that you prefer and that you find works best, or just use whatever one you are used to. One exception is that I would select Chrome over Safari. Chrome is based (not sure of the specifics of this) on Safari in some way and has more features which make it natural to me to prefer it.
Firefox, when I first installed it, was very bland, but it's strength lies in the add-ons. I soon had a couple of add-ons installed which added all the functionality I was used to having in Opera. There were a few things that it did even better, for example the synchronization add-on stores a bit more than Opera Link does, such as passwords and such.
In the end I decided to stick to Opera for one simple reason, though. That reason is Opera Turbo. Without it it is often impossible to browse the modern internet and retain your sanity on a slow connection.
So, to summarize, if you're not on a slow connection then just use whatever browser is most comfortable to you ^_^

Now for the update you may or may not have been waiting for. There has been a bit of a mix-up with the staff of The Duke's Daughter (name still not necessarily final) but I won't bore you with that. It is still going ahead at this time, though. I just recently completed writing the first good ending, along with a bunch of bad endings, so there is not that much more to go.
On the subject of Paper Tiger, the sprite creation program, I hadn't worked on it too much even before I was away. I have almost completed rewriting the internal workings of it now and once that's complete I should be able to get to writing how it draws the actual sprites. My target is to have a working (to some degree) version ready by the end of January so that it can get some testing before NaNoRenO in March. At the moment it doesn't look like it will be quite so easy as push a button and the character comes out, but it should make it rather easier for a writer to get a project done without an artist, in the given time.