Friday, June 27, 2008 at 06:44PM I've just found a very neat solution to the problem where you have a single optical input on your HIFI, but you want to plug more than one device into it.
These people will sell you a splitter and a couple of optical cables for around a fiver which you can then use to share the one input with, say, your Xbox 360 and a Freesat box. And they work a treat.
Gadgets Friday, June 27, 2008 at 02:18PM 
Somewhere in this picture of Durham is hidden a recently graduated "Master of Mathematics". See if you can use your skill and judgement to pick him out.
Kudos to number one son. Well done sir.
pictures Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 10:13PM Our department is being seriously done up. We had a taste of this a couple of years ago, when we made our new open area, but this time the whole building is getting the treatment. This means nothing on the floor or ceiling and a lot of drilling and hammering.
But it will be nice when it is finished.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 10:31AM I've now taken advantage of the Amazon Connect service to add a little bit of Rob to the pages of Amazon.com. Hapless viewers of information about my books on the Amazon site will also get excerpts from these hallowed pages, as well as a link to my new Amazon blog with book related content.
To celebrate this I've uploaded the second section of Simple Simon, an XNA pattern matching game which has nothing to do with pies, to verysillygames.com.
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