Category: Daily

  • SAND

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    Today’s part of the SAND conference (Swansea Animation Days) was concerned with animation & science, & mostly 3D animation. Hey, look how we can use Doom for some serious training applications! In fact these days the Farcry, Half-Life 2 & Unreal engines are used, with Farcry’s world modeller being the simplest to work with. An…

  • Party

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    A video of Jack on a bouncy pirate castle. Quicktime required.

  • Lapse

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    I spent this morning teaching the anatomy of the female breast to medical students. We teach them in small groups that rotate from teacher to teacher, so I repeated my “lesson” 4 times. Why then, in 2 of those sessions did the word “intercostal” vanish from my brain? No, I wasn’t distracted. It’s a perfectly…

  • BST Ends

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    People moan when the clocks go back, mostly I suppose because it indicates the onset of winter, cold, wet days & long dark nights. Me, I like it. I leave the house early to cycle to work, so when the clocks go back I get up when it’s light again, which is much nicer. I…

  • Blown Down

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    Aaah crap. My PDA is dead, no sign of life whatsoever. And Orange have locked my phone because they didn’t take my direct debit. I reckon that lottery ticket might have been jumping the gun somewhat.

  • Blown Away

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    Nice. Today was one of those very few days where the wind switched and I actually had a tailwind to work and a tailwind from work. Sweeet. Time to buy a lottery ticket.

  • More Comment Spam

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    Snigger. Some twit bot just tried to comment spam a “comment spam” posting on my blog. Blocked and deleted.

  • Buying a New House

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    So as most of you have heard, it looks as though we’re finally moving to Swansea. We’ve been trying to sell our house in Cardiff for almost a year now, with no luck. The solution? A part-exchange on a new house (Kim’s idea). It turns out that when the housing market is weak, people building…

  • Video iPod

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    Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Apple’s new Video iPod yesterday. But hey, you all knew it was coming, and I’m sure you read about it elsewhere. No? OK then, here’s your link: Video iPod The funny thing is, it’s not a “Video iPod”. It’s just the new iPod. So if you go out and…

  • 24 Series 4

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    This latest series of 24 is pissing me off. It’s so full of holes, dodgy plans & screwy concepts that I’m now hoping the bad guys are going to win out. CTU & all are doing such a bad job, & the bad guys are as competent as ever suggesting that they deserve to succeed.…