Simplifying the Landscape

At the end of the last post I wrote about the actual implementation of my Clockwork Aphid project, I said the next step was going to be display simplification. At that point I’d generated a few landscapes which were just starting barely starting to test the limits of my computer, though they were nothing like [...]

Mercury Rising

Monday the 5th of September was Freddie Mercury day. The day he would have turned 65, had he lived. This makes me feel a little old, but that’s not the point. The day’s Google doodle (pointed out to me with furious glee by one of my coworkers) led me to YouTube and numerous videos of [...]

Revisiting the Language Issue

Some time ago, I wrote a series of posts about language choice for my Clockwork Aphid project. In the end I decided to start the project in Java, this being the language I’m most comfortable with. Once the project reaches a stable state, with some minimum amount of functionality, the plan is to port it [...]

Separation of Concerns

It’s seemed to me for a little while that the fifteen word film reviews I’ve been writing on this blog don’t really fit in with the rest of the content. They feel too short compared to everything else, and WordPress feels like way too much infrastructure for writing them. I love WordPress’ power and flexibility, [...]

The Ol’ Homestead

You may or may not be aware that, though I now lived in London and previously lived in Edinburgh, I’m originally from South Yorkshire. Since I visited my parents this weekend for my father’s 60th birthday*, I though I’d take a moment to talk about a couple of Yorkshire related titbits which have crossed my [...]

Dogfood, Nom Nom Nom

Dog food, the common noun, is reasonably self explanatory (pro tip: it’s food for dogs). Dogfood the verb or dogfooding the verbal noun, though, might require a little bit of explanation. At the root of it is this: if you make dog food, you should feed it to your own dogs. There are essentially two [...]

Who Likes Short Shorts?

I think I love almost everything about this short film. That being the case, I’ll quit my chin wagging and just get on with showing it: Mucho kudos to Dan Trachtenburg, Danielle Rayne, and everyone else envolved. No get back to it. I want more!

Book Related Blog Post

I finally broke. I’ve been saying for some time that if the Kindle, or a similarly capable eReader, went under the £100 mark I would splash out and buy one. Until quite recently I had been quite tempted, but this condition was never satisfied. Had I seen one for sale in a bricks and mortar [...]

The Inbetweeners <= 15 Words

Speaking as an English former sixth form student: painfully, hilariously and very true to life.

Cowboys and Aliens <= 15 Words

Starts like Carpenter, ends like Bruckheimer, with wrist mounted deus ex machina. Bad? No: Unspectacular.