Rotates.org V13

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.” - Terry Pratchett

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:43:33 +0000

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.” - Terry Pratchett

The difference between a normal photo and a stock photo: the blue shiny planet Earth with grid lines...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:38:15 +0000

The difference between a normal photo and a stock photo: the blue shiny planet Earth with grid lines on it in the stock photo.

New theme

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:02:00 +0000

Oooh look, a new theme! Same colour changing gubbins as before, but a fresh new non-Flash look, with some spooky negative-percentage background trickery going on in the header!

More updates soon - exciting news this way comes!

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:47:47 +0100

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone

Copy and paste from Photoshop to Word = spinning fireball of OLE death

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:18:04 +0100

Copy and paste from Photoshop to Word = spinning fireball of OLE death

Merry Christmas, happy new year and so on

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:01:17 +0000

First of all, apologies for not updating in yonks - I could give you the usual programmer excuses about real life, work and so on but you’ve heard them all before, so I’ll dive right in to what I’ve been doing:

Archaos is very, very slowly moving along - we’re talking geologically slow here, but nonetheless there’s still a roadmap and there’s still progress on it. My aim now is to have a release before my 30th birthday (next year) and I’ll be damned if I don’t make it!

I’ve been experimenting with presentation and so on, and came up with a little thing tonight which I thought was quite cute. I’m really feeling the love for CSS3 and HTML5 now.

Wordpress has become my new powerhouse tool at work, and I’ve been churning out sites left, right and centre in this wonderful blog engine turned CMS (as of 3.1 especially so) - check out some of the following:

The last is our most recent project, and is very much not a site you’d expect to be Wordpress powered - such is its flexibility!

I don’t update on Twitter much anymore, as it’s become a bit of a joke now with all of the celebrities and ridiculous trends; it pains me to say it but I think Twitter is more about Justin Bieber now than anything sensible. Alas, I spend most of my social networking time now on Facebook.

Finally, I’ve booked a flight to Arizona in September for a two week photography road trip with two of my good friends - should be awesome!

Anyway, hopefully that’s got everyone up to speed on what I’m doing - keep your eyes peeled in the coming months for updates on Archaos and other projects.

I may be getting old, but I saw a girl in Tesco today wearing only shoes, a pair of tights and a...

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:03:11 +0100

I may be getting old, but I saw a girl in Tesco today wearing only shoes, a pair of tights and a shirt… is this ‘fashion’? wtf

Victory!!!

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:10:32 +0100

I actually just did a \o/ in the middle of the office.

http://mashable.com/2010/09/10/adobe-responds-to-apples-new-rules/

Yes. Very much yes.

Raise dead

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:11:27 +0100

Well well well, I guess I haven’t posted here in… ohhh, ages? I owe you all an apology to be perfectly honest, as I’ve neglected to work on Archaos (or indeed any personal projects) in the time since my last update.

Life has panned out for me - work became extremely busy in the last few months, and my ever expanding role has ever expanded - and indeed shifted towards a more theoretical and management-style thang. I’ve been working directly with clients and producing a lot of exciting stuff for a lot of exciting projects which, if I get off my lazy arse and update this blog more often, you will no doubt hear about!

Another significant development is that I’m no longer a lonely geek sat in his room listening to chip music and writing Javascript - I’m a very much not lonely geek sat in his room listening to chip music and writing Javascript. I have indeed found a (dare I say it) lady geek - though to her credit, not even close to the caliber of my pure unadulterated nerdiness - whom I spend as much time with as my work and her sanity allows. I won’t allow myself to become soppy and embarrass her (and myself) but… well, I absolutely love you, and you make me a very, very happy boy. Oh bugger, I don’t think I succeeded there. Never mind!

This has meant of course (yes, you all knew it!) that my personal projects have taken a back burner in all of this. Well, I say a back burner, but I actually mean ‘have been placed in tupperware tubs and frozen’. I must say now that my passion for Archaos in particular has not waned one bit - however after such a hiatus, I’d like to start a lot of it again rather than try and work my way back into the existing code base. A problem with learning as you create is that everything you did a month previous is a bit crap - so stuff I started last year is gonna be pretty goddamn terrible now.

I will return to Archaos. I absolutely promise I will, and I have been reading Gooey Blob and other Chaos related stuff. The end of the year always proves to be a better time to get on with personal projects, and I hope to have something playable in December.

To those of you who still read this, still follow me on my similarly neglected Twitter account, I salute you - and I’ll be around more often!

P.S. Check this out. WOW!

“Teen found on fire as he tried to steal live 11,0000 volt cable” http://ping.fm/zNzS9...

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:15:09 +0100

“Teen found on fire as he tried to steal live 11,0000 volt cable” http://ping.fm/zNzS9 fail

App store now works on iPads in UK :D

Thu, 20 May 2010 11:32:35 +0100

App store now works on iPads in UK :D

Portal for Mac?http://ping.fm/PF6NR

Fri, 14 May 2010 18:57:58 +0100

Portal for Mac?http://ping.fm/PF6NR

How enchanting, it appears politicians have discovered it’s possible to achieve things via...

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:18:40 +0100

How enchanting, it appears politicians have discovered it’s possible to achieve things via teamwork. Well done!

A night of watching Bear Grylls eating scorpions and frogs methinks.

Fri, 07 May 2010 18:58:33 +0100

A night of watching Bear Grylls eating scorpions and frogs methinks.

Time for bed. I’ll see you all in the morning when the Tories are in power, despite everyone...

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:18:26 +0100

Time for bed. I’ll see you all in the morning when the Tories are in power, despite everyone claiming they didn’t vote for them.

I just did a genuine facepalm at the BBC election 3D Knightmare-esque failure. Save us all…

Thu, 06 May 2010 18:12:15 +0100

I just did a genuine facepalm at the BBC election 3D Knightmare-esque failure. Save us all…

Christ, if you have an appointment at James Cook today don’t bother. No parking anywhere and a...

Thu, 06 May 2010 12:16:12 +0100

Christ, if you have an appointment at James Cook today don’t bother. No parking anywhere and a billion people waiting to be seen.

The women in the Wilkinson Sword Quattro for Women ad are terrifyingly skinny. Ugh. Begone.

Wed, 05 May 2010 18:34:46 +0100

The women in the Wilkinson Sword Quattro for Women ad are terrifyingly skinny. Ugh. Begone.

iPhone has lost all my contacts and iTunes doesn’t seem to have backed them up… arse.

Wed, 05 May 2010 17:48:03 +0100

iPhone has lost all my contacts and iTunes doesn’t seem to have backed them up… arse.

Is it normal for my teeth to be MORE sensitive after a filling? I normally don’t have a...

Tue, 04 May 2010 18:17:59 +0100

Is it normal for my teeth to be MORE sensitive after a filling? I normally don’t have a problem.