i'm still here

View: The view from my new bedroom window

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:00:52 +0100

View:

The view from my new bedroom window

Breakfast: One of the most delicious breakfast’s at...

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:00:53 +0100

Breakfast:

One of the most delicious breakfast’s at Aaron’s house.

Lily: A frog chilling out in the garden pond.

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:25:00 +0100

Lily:

A frog chilling out in the garden pond.

Aliens: Dragonflies.. mating? Where does one begin and the...

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:24:56 +0100

Aliens:

Dragonflies.. mating? Where does one begin and the other end?

Gizmo: Our new cat, gizmo.. also affectionately known as...

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:24:51 +0100

Gizmo:

Our new cat, gizmo.. also affectionately known as elvis.

Flags: People protesting Iran election results in Sheffield...

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:38:26 +0100

Flags:

People protesting Iran election results in Sheffield city centre.

Protest: People protesting Iran election results in Sheffield...

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:38:20 +0100

Protest:

People protesting Iran election results in Sheffield city centre.

Sketching some ideas for the front page of tweetmapper. Trying...

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:30:37 +0000

Sketching some ideas for the front page of tweetmapper. Trying to explain how it works in a quick and understandable way…

Photo

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:17:29 +0000

I’ve been really quiet with a small new project for the...

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:18:13 +0000

I’ve been really quiet with a small new project for the past week…

The game is still ongoing and very much at the back of my mind - we are hoping to get the new app to a finished state by the end of the week, oh yea click through to follow me on twitter!

See that little warning sign? Yea.. thats what happens when...

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:12:11 +0000

See that little warning sign? Yea.. thats what happens when Windows 7 goes wrong!

I thought i would have a little experiment installing it on my netbook and after it went into hibernation it never came back. Currently running ‘parted magic’ from a usb pen to try and recover my old xp installation which has gone mia as well!

I now use bittorrent so much its actually quite uncomfortable to...

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:43:00 +0000

I now use bittorrent so much its actually quite uncomfortable to download a large file from only one server.. Im not the first person to say it by any means, but why doesn’t Microsoft distribute Windows 7 Beta via bittorrent?

Im guessing it would go someway to legitimising the legal uses of bt, and we can’t have that!

I hope the wireless doesn’t cut out at 2.3Gb.

I have a couple of Spotify invites spare if anyone is...

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:27:00 +0000

I have a couple of Spotify invites spare if anyone is interested…

Just arrived back in Sheffield after my Christmas break.. the day job starts again tomorrow :-( Both...

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:35:10 +0000

Just arrived back in Sheffield after my Christmas break.. the day job starts again tomorrow :-(

Both cadyou and my personal homepage are currently offline which sucks, apparently my hosts are replacing the motherboard!

In other uninteresting news i seem to have fixed a few memory leaks in the topdown engine, and will be putting it online for people to play with just as soon as there are some temporary road graphics in there to properly show the ground. yay.

Ridge: Looking along a hilltop ridge between Hope and Castleton

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:23:58 +0000

Ridge: Looking along a hilltop ridge between Hope and Castleton

back?

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:24:04 +0000

A bit of a hiatus mainly due to Christmas time with family and friends.. but also not knowing what to post about as i am currently doing little bits on various projects!

I fixed a huge stumbling block on the top-down engine yesterday which was causing objects to spawn late and ‘pop up’ on screen. Unfortunately even simple sounding issues like this are becoming complex in the engine as there is so much to keep track of between the tile engine, 3d renderer and physics components.

I am going to spend the next day or two simply tidying the code so it is easier to continue to the next features. There is one bug left to fix on the AI vehicles and then i will start on either AI / user controllable people or a mission engine (which can be used for structuring races should this get used for a racing game)

playable swf soon?

maybe.

I have been quiet recently, especially on the game design front....

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:12:13 +0000

I have been quiet recently, especially on the game design front. This is due to two reasons, a lot of issues surrounding my other big project - cadyou - and the run up to christmas meaning i have to socialise… bad eh?!

I have been making some big changes to the infrastructure behind cadyou due to reaching the limits of our hosting package - i am hoping to move a lot of the files over to Amazon S3 over the next few days which means unlimited storage and bandwidth :-) After which i will be hitting the game again over the christmas period.

Using your browser URL history to estimate gender

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:39:59 +0000

Using your browser URL history to estimate gender:

I am 100% male… apparently

(via gtmcknight)

Brilliant! gtmcknight: Engelbert Mural (via Wired)

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:12:57 +0000

Brilliant!

gtmcknight:

Engelbert Mural (via Wired)

"So entrepreneurship is a dangerous field, he said. The difference between being an idiot and being a..."

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:14:28 +0000

“So entrepreneurship is a dangerous field, he said. The difference between being an idiot and being a genius is very, very thin.”

- http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2008/12/03/how-to-spot-a-breakthrough-tips-from-early-amazon-investor-nick-hanauer/