Procedural Landscape Generation:

Revisiting the Language Issue

Some time ago, I wrote a series of posts about language choice for my Clockwork Aphid project. In the end I decided to start the project in Java, this being the language I’m most comfortable with. Once the project reaches a stable state, with some minimum amount of functionality, the plan is to port it to C++ for comparison purposes, this being ... Read more
14 Sep 2011 / 6 minute read / hacker

The Ol' Homestead

You may or may not be aware that, though I now lived in London and previously lived in Edinburgh, I’m originally from South Yorkshire. Since I visited my parents this weekend for my father’s 60th birthday1, I though I’d take a moment to talk about a couple of Yorkshire related titbits which have crossed my mind recently. The first is the fact t... Read more
11 Sep 2011 / 2 minute read / globe-trotter

Dogfood, Nom Nom Nom

Dog food, the common noun, is reasonably self explanatory (pro tip: it’s food for dogs). Dogfood the verb or dogfooding the verbal noun, though, might require a little bit of explanation. At the root of it is this: if you make dog food, you should feed it to your own dogs. There are essentially two reasons for this: If you don’t personally ... Read more
26 Aug 2011 / 3 minute read / hacker

Who Likes Short Shorts?

I think I love almost everything about this short film. That being the case, I’ll quit my chin wagging and just get on with showing it: Mucho kudos to Dan Trachtenburg, Danielle Rayne, and everyone else envolved. No get back to it. I want more! Read more
24 Aug 2011 / less than 1 minute read / cinephile, geek

Book Related Blog Post

I finally broke. I’ve been saying for some time that if the Kindle, or a similarly capable eReader, went under the £100 mark I would splash out and buy one. Until quite recently I had been quite tempted, but this condition was never satisfied. Had I seen one for sale in a bricks and mortar store while I was over in the US of A, I think I probabl... Read more
23 Aug 2011 / 6 minute read / bibliophile

The Kaiser Chiefs Do NOT Get to Say They Called This...

Well. These are certainly interesting times to be living in London. Interesting times to be living in England full stop, in fact. In particular, I definitely picked an ideal time to move to Clapham. I have a bad habit of being more or less completely oblivious to what’s going on in the world, unless it happens in either the tech or movie indust... Read more
14 Aug 2011 / 5 minute read / blogger

Film Related Blog Post

“Given that you’ve just told us that the second one is one of the worst films you’ve ever seen,” asked Pete, “why on earth did you feel the need to go and see the third one?” It was a good question. In all fairness I do not have good explanation as to why I paid actual money to see Transformers: Dark of the Moon in the cinema. I suppose I was r... Read more
07 Aug 2011 / 5 minute read / cinephile

The Sound of One Hand Clapping...

…would make significantly more noise than I have on this blog, as of late. There are a couple of reasons for this. The main one is that I don’t actually have the internet in my new flat yet, and won’t for another 9 days. Bloody Virgin Media. Serves me right for not going with media which has a bit more experience, I suppose. I’m writing this at... Read more
18 Jul 2011 / 2 minute read / blogger

For Boobs, Mikael?

Warning: this post contains a picture which includes boobs. Be prepared for that. If your manager is looking over your shoulder, don’t click; or at least have an excuse ready. If you’re offended by the sight of boobs… well… I’m sorry. But I probably don’t know how to talk to you in that case, anyway. Lastly: if you’re American, you’re not suppos... Read more
09 Jun 2011 / 3 minute read / bibliophile, cinephile

Full Nerd II: Nerd Harder

It seems that people really enjoyed my post about the computer history museum. At the time I wrote it, I was worried that it might constitute just a little bit too much nerd, so I held back on my initial impulse to put in more pictures and gush enthusiastically about how awesome it all was. With hindsight, perhaps I can afford to ignore that pa... Read more
06 Jun 2011 / 4 minute read / hacker, 2 more