Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:06PM 
This is not where I bought the chipboard.
Most of our loft now has chipboard on the floor. I should have done this years ago before I, ahem, put my foot through the ceiling. (Dave next door came round and helped me sort it out – he was a bit late getting over to our house because it too him 20 minutes to stop laughing.)
Life Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 10:36PM Went to London today and one of my favourite places ever, the Science Museum. 
Always a bit scary when you find stuff you used to use in a museum.
These too (scarily enough)
But not one of these….
Where it all started, with Mr Babbage..
Indeed.
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 10:38PM 
If you go to the North America TechEd site you are presently faced with the deeply scary picture above.
Blimey.
Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 08:05PM 
Spent pretty much all of today playing MineSweeper. Around 23 times. All of the first year get 15 minutes each to show off their programs and so Mike, Simon and myself were looking at how well they had done implementing this classic game.
It never ceases to amaze me how different people find their own way to write a program to solve the same problem. Some worse than mine, some better than mine. And just about all of them working.
In fact, some of them should make an appearance on Xbox Live at some point. They really were that good.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 10:59PM 
We had the first Hull Digital event at the university today. People found their way to the department OK, because (or perhaps in spite of) the arrows that I stuck on the wall using borrowed blu-tack.
Anyhoo, we had two speakers and both were excellent.
Andrew Chalkley, from Cake Solutions showed just how powerful Ruby on Rails is. He did this by creating a complete blog site, with comments and user authentication, in around fifteen minutes. The fusion of language and tools that you get with this framework looks very powerful, and well worth a look I reckon.
Then Craig Albeck took to the floor. Craig works for the Hull based company behind Omerta (a text based Mafia game) and ThirteenOne (a free on-line video gaming magazine which actually features some stuff by me). In a very interesting talk Craig spoke of his experiences in the market place and how to get out there and build a brand of your own.
Great stuff. I’m looking forward to the next event.
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