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Humble Beginnings

Way back in the earlier days of EVE Radio, Urban Mongral had this nifty little show called Desert Asteroid Disk, a knock-off of a BBC show where someone was “marooned” on an island and interviewed there. Here of course, Urban maroons people on a roid.

Anyway, Urban convinced me to do this, and this is pretty much how he and I met up for the first time and did anything broadcast-like together. Our microphones sucked, but I got to choose what music was played. This is pre-POS war stuff, and even back then we’re being wistful at the promise of faction warfare. I was also in my carebearing mode at the time.

Was a blast to do the interview (my first), and was really neat to hang in the various ER chat channels when it was broadcast and chat with folks as they listened. It’s a bit dated now, but might be a fun listen for someone anyway. Enjoy!

[audio:http://www.winterblink.com/audio/Winterblink_interview.mp3%5D

EVE Fanfest 2007

Well I figure it’s about time I dropped a note about what I’ll be up to this year in Iceland during Fanfest 2007.

Some may remember my Fanfest Galleries from last year, consisting of a pile of photos I took while in Iceland during Fanfest 2006. This year I’m going to be doing the same, but instead of waiting until I get home to prep the pictures for viewing online I’ll be doing more of a live thing this year.

I kinda got the idea while I was doing the photoblogging of the EVE 4th Alliance Tournament, putting stuff up almost as it was happening on a special Flickr gallery. I wanted to do something like this last year but the missing link was having no hardware while on site.

Well, I just received a brand new Dell Inspiron 1420 (separate blog coming with specs and pics and stuff), which means I’ll have a PC with me in Iceland to do this with, which is something I didn’t have last year. This will let me blog the events and get pictures up in a much more timely fashion. Now it’s not like I’m going to be a gargoyle or anything (reference from Snow Crash if you’re scratching your head), but time and alcohol permitting I hope to have pictures up as rapidly as I can for folks who are unable to make it to the party this year.

I really enjoyed being able to bring the close-up Tournament experience to folks who were only able to watch it via the EVE TV camera streams, and the response I got from players was nothing short of amazing. I only hope this year at Fanfest I’ll be able to help bring the experience home for those who aren’t able to join us in Iceland.