Friday, January 15, 2010 at 08:18PM 
Iain Kelwick, the Manager of SeedSoftware has started a blog. This is a proper technical blog which will have genuinely useful things in it. The kind of thing I aspired to before I started going on about CSI and Silent Witness. You can find his first posts here:
Link, Software, development Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 10:38PM 
On Tuesday night I can watch CSI Las Vegas. And see autopsies.
On Wednesday night I can watch NCIS. And see autopsies.
On Thursday and Friday night I can watch Silent Witness. And see autopsies.
Then on Saturday we get CSI New York. And see autopsies.
I’m sure this can’t be healthy.
Life Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 08:02PM 
I’ve been recording XNA screencasts for the last six months or so for Thirteen1 magazine. The aim is to give you a gentle introduction to programming, using XNA games as the basis of the teaching.
I’ve just reached the end of the first section. If you want to view the screencasts, and download the practical sessions that go with them, you can find them on VerySillyGames:
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 09:10PM 
My “big” Christmas present to myself was a Chumby. This is a fun little internet appliance that you can write programs for. I’ve started doing just that, and you can find out more at my newly minted Chumby pages.
Rob
My Chumby program is now live. In the unlikely event that you actually have a Chumby you can find it here:
http://www.chumby.com/guide/widget/Experiment%201:%20Slidy%20Clock
Gadgets, Software, development Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 08:42PM If you want to start writing applications (or widgets) for the Chumby device it helps if you know how to write Flash programs. At the start of this exercise I didn't, and so I had to spend some time in the learning curve.
If you are rich (and a graphics designer) you can simply shell out for a copy of the Adobe developer environment, that lets you create applications using timelines, and all kinds of things that can make things move around the screen. If you aren't rich (but are still a graphics designer) I can reccommend the products from SwishZone that seem to make animations that work, and don't cost that much.
However, I'm not rich. And I'm not a graphics designer, so I wanted to write programs that looked like programs. So instead I'm using FlashDevelop which lets me write programs that look sufficiently like C or C# that I feel mostly at home.
If you want to download the FlashDevelop project and source for my first ever release (Experiment 1: Slidy Clock) you can find it in the downloads part of my Chumby pages. I'll be releasing more experiments as I find out more about how to program this splendid little device.
