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On Friday morning, it was announced to team Bravo that Pandemic was going to be focusing on the other team’s game and our team was cut. A number of people moved across onto the other team, however a number were … Continue reading →

Last week I migrated rantspace to a new server… which subsequently went down because of a few problems at the datacenter.  That’s what I get for being the guinea pig pioneer of the new server. But everything is back up now and the problems have … Continue reading →

Another week, another blank Saturday, and what do I have to show for it? Nothing. I remember, before I had my job, I would spend the majority of my time coding my game engine. The engine that would get me … Continue reading →

So, I haven’t blogged for a while. I know, I’m sorry.  I was going to say alot has happened, but that would probably be a lie.  But a few things have.First thing: my wisdom teeth are no more. My bottom … Continue reading →

 The properties of the memristor were firstpredicted in 1971, and now have been proven to exist.  This discovery is huge, because it allows a new type of memory that is smaller (HP have already prototyped memory with over 6x the … Continue reading →

I woke up on Monday morning to this:..accompanied with a light buzzing sound.  Fortunately for me it seemed to break when it went off at the scheduled time, so I got to work on time.. but for the rest of the … Continue reading →

So today I finally got my Arduino Mini and it’s associated USB adaptor, and when I pulled it out I was kinda shocked at how small it really is. This little beauty has an ATmega168, with 16k of flash, 8 … Continue reading →

So, I’ve been trying to get my Asteroids game (the first game I wrote in my engine, back in 2002) working again.  Since I wrote it, I’ve done a few major changes, and not bothered to keep it up to … Continue reading →

I spent some time playing around with a piece of normal glass, but it turns out that normal glass almost totally blocks near infra-red light! You can clearly see it’s green when viewed side on. However, it is possible to … Continue reading →

When I first got vista, I looked around for some articles on the Desktop Window Manager, since it can do cool things like real-time thumbnails previews of apps. So as I was exploring, I came across the actual API to … Continue reading →