Game Development

Blog 702: The Most Productive Time of the Year

Employment is now over for the year. I’ve booked myself three weeks of holiday, from here to the first week of January, so I’ll have the longest contiguous period of free time I’ve ever taken for… well, years. (It’s also time to stop shaving — will this be the year I finally achieve a coherent moustache?)

What am I going to do with that time? The same thing I do every year… I’m going to make a video game.

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Music

Blog 373: Card Readers & Mix-Tapes

My hi-fi has an sD card reader in it.

I never cared about this when I bought it; I was more concerned about it having the ability to switch itself on in the morning, and the ability to switch on at the same volume I last disabled it with (my last hi-fi had neither of these abilities; I had to race to the volume control to damp it down from a horrifying 14 before the digital radio managed to tune in every time I switched it on).

So I didn’t care much for the fact of a card reader’s existence; the rest of the hi-fi satisfied my criteria. But recently, I have found its presence… Rather liberating.

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