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These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.

Sea Battle: Here Comes the Science Bit

Written on Tuesday 16 Nov 2010

Another day down, and somehow Sea Battle is remarkably close to the finish line. (No idea what I’m talking about? See previous blog entries 1, 2 & 3.) First things first, my failings: CPU use and mouse sensitivity are still not fixed. I’m now having to re-render more of the...

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Sea Battle: That's what Guns are for!

Written on Tuesday 16 Nov 2010

Another day – or three, in this case – brings another ton of functionality for Sea Battle. (Previous posts: 1, 2) Today’s release reduces the target frame rate from 60 to 30 frames per second, in an attempt to alleviate the CPU hogging reported by aefaradien in the previous post’s...

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Sea Battle, now with more Processing

Written on Friday 12 Nov 2010

Nearly a month ago now, I blogged some sketches and ideas for a game I felt like writing. masterofwalri made a passing reference to Processing in his comment, and having heard people mention it in the past, I figured I should check it out. I’m very, very glad I did....

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Windy Morning Mechanics: How Big a Sail do I Need to Fly Away?

Written on Thursday 11 Nov 2010

I recall walking to school in a hurricane in what must have been 1989 or 1990, grabbing onto a nearby fence to hold myself steady, wondering how strong the wind would have to be to pick me up off the ground. In the intervening 20 years I never did work...

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Waning Technological Desire

Written on Thursday 4 Nov 2010

What seems like a long time ago, I blogged about the unrelenting pace of technology and Internet-borne social interaction, and how much I loved it. But that was a February day with the promise of Spring in the near future. Now it is Autumn, and I am not altogether sure...

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A Farewell to Marmablues

Written on Tuesday 2 Nov 2010

May 1998, half a lifetime ago. It was my 13th birthday, and my parents – no doubt annoyed by four years of me messing with the family computer – bought me my own. It had a 333MHz processor, 32 glorious megabytes of RAM, and most exciting of all, a 56k...

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The Atheist's Sense of Wonder

Written on Friday 29 Oct 2010

I’ve no idea why this thought should crop up now, but I recall being asked several times by religious folk why I would choose not to believe in a god. Often their question is something like “Why believe that everything you see around you was created by random chance, when...

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October's End

Written on Wednesday 27 Oct 2010

How quickly this October has come and gone! Barely a memory ago, it was summer, and we took the train home along the beach in the sunshine. But before long jumpers came out of the cupboard, then coats, then hats. Suddenly the ground is frosty of a morning, I wake up...

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Alarm Apps, and the Lulz that can be had

Written on Wednesday 27 Oct 2010

I am in the middle of creating an Android app that’s a kind of super alarm clock. (God forbid I should have less than six projects on the go at once.) In the run-up to your chosen alarm time, it pulls down various feeds from the internet so that it...

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Alright Government, Hands Off Our Internet

Written on Tuesday 26 Oct 2010

And that is an ‘our’ that does not extend to those inside Westminster, because with a few notable exceptions, MPs have shown an almost complete lack of understanding of the internet and how it works. Guess what’s back from the dead? Our old friend, the Intercept Modernisation Plan. Between this...

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