One of the first things I wrote about here was reading a book called "Racing the Beam" about the Atari 2600 game console. A lot of the book was just how hard it was to program any game at all on the very limited hardware. However there is now an easier way for us weak modern programmers.
I saw this a few days ago. It's what it sounds like, about an hour of one person singing songs and a bit of chat. For me, probably the most interesting bit was Andrew admitting that a big part of the reason for doing an online event was a trick to force themselves to practice.
The British Library has an exhibition on called “Secret Maps”. I like maps, and I like some secrets, so I went to the exhibition. I’m not sure the name is a good description, it’s more about the politics of maps. Sometimes, that’s trying to keep a map secret, but it’s more often about what is included or ignored in a given map.
A new post after almost a year. And the site now has the magic of multiple pages, thanks to Jekyll. All I have to do now is have something interesting to write here.
I read a book called "Racing the Beam" about the Atari 2600. The Atari 2600 was the first successful home game console and it was hugely successfully in the USA. I'm old enough to remember when Americans who didn't play computer games called everything "Nintendos", before that the same sort of people called everything "Ataris". It was first released in 1977 and stayed in production until 1992, but the USA sales collapsed in 1983. The sales in the rest of the world where never as impressive, you needed to make a different version of the every game for it to run on a PAL TV, so most of Europe only got a subset of the games. In Japan, which does use NTSC, they only officially released the console after the Nintendo Entertainment System, a much more powerful console, had already come out.
I went for a walk and found a new way (or at least new to me) to get from Rock Edge in Headington into Oxford city centre. This is almost all parks or off road paths, ending with a walk along the Thames path.
This would be a very good Slow Way except they don't think that Headington is a place.
I made this website. At some point I might put something useful here. Until then hello to all the hacking bots and AI scrapers that are the only people reading this.
This is based on Better Mother Fucking Website. So it looks like there's swearing in the first ever post.