I’ve had to do 7 releases this week! And there may be another one tomorrow. It’s more than a little bit crazy! I seem to have spent most of this week managing code rather than producing or correcting it.
Ho hum…
The Gaean Trilogy
I’ve started reading the Gaean Trilogy by John Varley. This must be at least the fourth time. I’m currently on the first of the trilogy – Titan. This series of books is a must for any Science Fiction/Fantasy fan. Truly awesome story. I’ll try to write more when I’ve finished the first one.
Happy Halloween
I thought I’d get into the spirit of the season with a new theme! Do you like it? I like the fact that the ghosts don’t move when you scroll. Spooky!
Jan’s decorated the house ready for tomorrow. Jamie is going over to Bekki and Thom’s tomorrow for Bekki’s Halloween party. It’s finishing early so I’m going to miss it. I’ve asked Jan to take pictures though.
I carved my first ever pumpkin tonight! What do you think of him? Mean looking isn’t he?
ORA:CLE
I’ve just finished ORA:CLE by Kevin O’Donnell Jr. It’s about the fourth time I’ve read it! It is an amazing book. Set in the far future, it involves a globally linked data network, the population of earth confined to indoors while the streets are re-forested to combat CO2 excesses, an invading race of aliens, brain implants, politics, and hacking! Some of the concepts in the book are way ahead of their time (the story was started in 1980).
Money-back guarantees don’t count for very much if you’re dead before you can cite them. Computer-linked expert Ale wants to survive 2188, but he still catches himself making the mistake of trusting electronic gadgetry…
Someone is out to get Ale, and he is sure he knows who…
Highly recommended, although it seems to be out of print.
A Midsummer Night’s Gene
I’ve finished A Midsummer Night’s Gene by Andrew Harman. It wasn’t too bad. The blurb on the cover hints at him being on a par with Terry Pratchett. I don’t think so.
The book whilst having an interesting world (set ‘next year’), and a apparently convoluted plot, really didn’t get going until fully half way through. And then only picked up pace in the last quarter.
It had it’s funny moments, but there was far too much repetition of clever phrases. They worked the first time, but not the second, and in some cases third time.
All in all, I will only recommend that you borrow this from the library.
Nothing Broken
I went to A&E (Accident and Emergency) this morning regarding my ankle. After getting it examined, examined again, X-rayed twice, and then examined again, it was determined that nothing is broken. Good. I was sent to a physiotherapist who explained that I have been doing the wrong thing by avoiding any strain on my ankle. All though to be fair I did worry that something was broken.
Anyway, I’ve got to exercise it now, stretching it and balancing on it. This so that the damaged tissue doesn’t heal compressed and hardened.
I worked from home this afternoon, and I’m back in the office tomorrow.
Sunday, Lazy, Sunday
Another lazy Sunday. I helped Jamie make a pretend book for a fancy dress night at Brownies tomorrow. Finished the book I was reading. Started another one I’ve read before. My ankle’s been playing up again. Steve, Kim, and Megan came round. Steve told us all about his night at the WWE wrestling last night. That’s about it really…
Gallery Updated
I’ve finally skinned the gallery to match the blog.
I’ve also uploaded another set of test pictures taken with the Vivicam 20. These were taken on a sunny day and you can see the difference. I also discovered that the camera will hold 71 640×480 shots!
My maths must be getting really rusty because that doesn’t add up: 640 x 480 x 24-bit (3 bytes) x 71 uncompressed images comes to 62MB. That should not fit in 8MB in my book! I can only presume that they are compressed despite the manual claiming they are BMP file format!
