February 2009
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I love a sausage
One thing about moving countries that is often overlooked is the problem of finding new versions of home comforts. Whether it’s the channel that shows the rugby (or where to find it online) or where to find the best pizza, these are the things that make your new life in your new country easier and better.
After many years of moving around, I’ve realised that my most important home...
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Runhello - Jumpman Game →
I love the idea of taking simple game ideas and exploiting new technology to make them special. Whether it’s rendering techniques, or just adding physics and a z-buffer, the effects can be wonderful.
Also, this video reminded me of Repton, which I haven’t thought of in years, and made me smile like a 9-year-old.
Courtesy of haha.
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The Great Purge revisited
I was browsing the Google Analytics statistics for this blog and noticed a couple of odd things in the results for search keywords used to find it. Firstly, more people find this blog searching for my wife than for me, which has now encouraged more healthy competition in the Hamon household, as if more was needed.
The second is that the third highest ranking keyphrase used to find the blog is...
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[REDACTED]
As most people know who read this blog, at least two of the three of you, I’m a software engineer working in the games industry. Most software engineers eventually specialise in some field or other, whether it’s gameplay, audio, AI or something else. Somehow, I never have. I’ve remained a generalist; a jack of all trades and master of none, as the saying goes. This has worked...
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Raising the dead
It seems we can learn from our mistakes! Obligatory warning: This is another DnD post. This weekend’s DnD session was the one where I first found out if my party were going to raise me from the dead or if I was going to have to roll up a new character. I am not yet particularly invested in my current (dead) character, Tordek the Dwarf Paladin, but rolling a new character when one dies does...
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Smallest exoplanet yet found | Bad Astronomy →
Stories like this just blow my mind.
The mere fact that there are people with the technology and skills to make such delicate measurements is enough to amaze me, but add to that that what they’re measuring are planets orbiting other stars and I find myself stunned.
Sadly, I’m sure this will illicit the over-excitable press to extend the findings to something more than they are which...
mental_floss Blog ยป Comics Grammar and Tradition →
I’ve always had a soft side for typography, and in the past have slipped into grammar nazi mode more than once. I’ve also been a fan of comics and graphic novels for many years.
Combining these is this set of rules for grammar and typography in comics by Nate Piekos, courtesy of mental_floss.