Mark of a man

I've been marking today. All of it. I started with a big pile of scripts and now I have the same pile, but with numbers scrawled on them. I also have an empty red pen. And I'm not half way through yet.

..and a free picture of the top of a boat.

Broken Illusions

I was talking to someone today who reckoned that I might have a fault on my blog server. "You know" he said, "There are no updates for ages then a whole bunch appear. Either there is a problem with your hosting or you just wait a while and then put up a load of posts all at once."

Indeed.

Stuck in a loop

My little Samsung Q1 PC has not been a well machine for a while. Fresh from its Java update over the weekend it has taken to sulking shortly after being powered up. Investigations revealed that a certain svchost process was taking the computer away without being asked. Being the subtle soul I am, I discovered that if I just kill the process the machine comes back, but this is hardly an elegant long term solution. So today I did some digging.

Turns out that Windows Update has a dark side which can cause it to lock your machine up. I took a while to find out what to do to get back into the driving seat, but if you have an XP system which has mysteriously slowed right down you might find it useful to take a look here.

Interesting Video

I'm not sure how much of this is true. But if it all is, we are in for interesting times.

360 Magazine and Rob

How much fame can a man take? Some time back Jon Gordon from 360 magazine came up to Hull to take a look at what we are doing with XNA. Jon recorded a chat with me, spoke to some students and then went back to headquarters to prepare the article. Today I received an advance copy of the magazine, issue 23, it should be in the shops at the end of this week.

And there I am, with the whole interview laid out along with quotes from students and everything. Great stuff.

What with this, and my picture in Vista magazine, I think I might see about getting an agent.....