Now that's what I call Silly

I've just spent 24 quid. That is probably what some people spend on drinks on a Friday night. I could have got half of Bioshock for the 360 (which number one son says is worth a punt). I could have bought "Elite Beat Agents" for the Nintendo DS (but I don't have to because number one son got me it for my birthday). Instead I've bought:

www.verysillygames.com

- for two years. I know I could have got it cheaper, but I like to have all my domains in one place and I've used my favourite company for years and they have a very easy to use interface.

It occurred to me that I'm going to need a place to put all the silly XNA games that will form part of the book. So I bought the domain. At the moment it points into this site, but that can change. Anyone fancy setting me a site up for 25% of the equity, a profit sharing scheme and fringe benefits (in other words no money at all)?

Oh and Chapter 3 is coming along nicely. I should have it on the site some time next week. Prepare yourselves for the gaming sensation that is "Color Nerve" (note American spelling in vain attempt to increase market penetration).

Windows Vista Performance Patches

There are a couple of patches that you might want to apply to your Vista machine. I've put them on two of mine, and whilst I've not noticed a huge improvement, they haven't made things worse....

KB938194:Improves the compatibility and reliability of Windows Vista
      <http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938194>
KB938979: Improves the performance and reliability of Windows Vista
      <http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938979>

XNA Book Chapters

I've posted a second chapter of the XNA book (actually I put it there on Tuesday). Remember that you can keep up to date with the book progress by subscribing to the RSS feed for the book journal. You can find my feeds here.

Radio A Levels

Went up town first thing today to do a paper review for Radio Humberside. We had a chat about the UK A-Level results, which are out today. Apparently everyone has done better than ever, and this is a national scandal. Although if everyone was doing worse, that would be a national scandal too. And if everything stayed exactly the same, that would be regarded as deeply suspicious because someone would obviously be fiddling the results....

I've seen modern A-Levels at first hand. I've know the amount of work that kids have to put in to get through them. All I would say is kudos to anyone who has got good grades, I hope they take you where you want to go.

Early morning Hull. Don't you wish you lived in a place that looked like this?

The BBC building

Last Imagine Cup Pics

These are the last few pictures that I've just pulled off the camera. Korea seems an awfully long way away now, even though it is really less than a week.

 
On the way to the airport. Not sure what the red stuff is

Lottery burgers. Guess which one is for the Microsoft person....