Occupational Thoughts -

Yesterday I got up at 4:30 to blockade the AWE ‘nuclear bomb factory’ in Aldermaston. It was cold, some people were arrested, and there was a tent operated by the Oxford branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament which gave out food to the protesters. Protesting makes people hungry, they passed out some excellent organic [...]

In true fashion my blogging has a little lag that means I blog about things sometimes a week after they occur. Better late than never though, #Oxtuttle is a real-life meetup for social media enthusiasts in Oxford. While I was there I met my next door neighbour, which was weird because I had forgotten they [...]

Yesterday some people came round to play Castle Crashers, we moved on from that to Guitar Hero: World Tour, then to Halo 3’s Multiplayer, then to Worms 2. In short it was good fun. I was also lent Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and a Gamecube. Today I tried it out:

You can see from [...]

Back from my last post I was thinking about design and I remember having played Bioshock this week. I returned and took some pictures:

Apparently the game is a critique Ayn Rand’s philosophy. I don’t know Ayn Rand, or her theory of Objectivism. But I gather it has something to do with leaving humans to do what [...]

I’m back from holiday, while the parents went out running I stayed in the Youth Hostel and played Secret of Monkey Island. I clocked up over 6 hours of play time and finished it. I think it’s the first point-and-click adventure game I’ve ever completed, the story is engaging and brilliantly simple. The characters are believable and easy to [...]

Today it is the 25th of December, and we’re going off to Derbyshire Staffordshire later on this morning. But before we do, here’s my vlog on the arguments for piracy:

It took me ten takes, I was using a sheet of notes and after the 6th one I dropped that and wrote out a script. It’s not [...]

This morning I drew up a little piece of political satire about Peter Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill:

If you don’t get the joke it’s a play on the All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme from the game Zero Wing.

On Friday I followed another tutorial on the Pain.NET forums. This one was to simulate the depth of field effect, to make things easy I used a Halo screenshot. Starting with this:

I cut it into it’s seperate objects:
Then applied a greyscale gradient to each object (note that the Spartan is our focal point [...]

The overall result of this observation is that if you like Halo you should definitely play ODST. I advise against buying it now as it seems like little more than an expensive expansion to Halo 3 but root around for a second-hand copy in the bargain bin in a few months time. The new gameplay [...]

I grabbed this from Gmod after a play on the verb ‘genommen’ in German.

The word means ‘to take’ however in this case it also refers to the Heavy eating his sandwich.
I don’t even know if it’s grammatically correct.
Also at school one of the Media Studies teachers asked me if I was “that guy who blogs about [...]