The Yellow Star Kid

Just hit 10 feedback points on Ebay. I now have a yellow star after my name. Great!. Now to start selling those plasma TVs for fifty quid each.....

He Drives Through the Night

Here's a plan. Sit in your comfortable, warm, room at home and use your awsome powers to restart a machine around three miles away. Then marvel at your good fortune when the restart goes wrong and all is silent on the network. Swoon as you recall that the system is required for laboratory work in the department which starts at 9:15 am in the morning.

Then curse, go out into the driving rain, get into the car and fume into work to press a button on the front of the darned machine so that it starts up properly.

And I didn't even get a hero's welcome when I got back home again.

Need for Madness

I've got to come up with something mad in around 15 minutes. My own stupid fault. We've set the Student Games Programming Club the challenge for each of them to storyboard a mini-computer game. Of course, in the spirit of leading from the front I've got to create one as well. I think this is why leading from the front has fallen into disrepute in military circles.

Absolutely no idea at the moment. The game must take around five seconds to play, involve graphics and sounds, and not be obscene or defamatory. But still be fun. Ho hum.

The presentation is in around an hour. I'll let you know (presupposes existence of audience - but I'll go with that for now) how I get on. I'm going to try to persuade the students to let me put all the efforts out on the web for the big wide world to enjoy....

Smartphone and Drinkies

My little smartphone can take nice pictures. I call this one "the start of a good night out".

Absence Makes....

Number one son has been gone over a week now. Only last week we installed him, my Creative Jukebox and a load of other stuff in his room in Durham.

I really do miss that jukebox.