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SingShot PDF Print
Friday, 15 September 2006
I have just come across SingShot, a fantastic site that brings karaoke up to Web 2.0 standards. Anyone can sing into their computers microphone and have their warblings mixes with the backing track totally automatically and without any downloads. Tracks can then be shared and scored by fellow participants in the common social networking way. Shame there aren't any RSS feeds though!
 
Drake equation PDF Print
Saturday, 02 September 2006
I just came across the Drake equation which attempts to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy with which we might come in contact. The thing that gets me is how low the answer is! Even if you put high estimates into the equation the answer come out in the 1000's. That's a thousand odd civilizations in our entire galaxy! I do think there is intelligent life out there but going by these sorts of estimates we are so amazingly far away from contacting them that we can forget about it for a long long time!
 
It's all Meez PDF Print
Wednesday, 23 August 2006
I know, I know, I have a pile of work that needs to be done! But I was supposed to be skating tonight (rained off) so I can relax a bit.... I made a Meez...
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UT2003/UT2004 Map pictures PDF Print
Sunday, 02 April 2006

As you may have seen I have written my own server query script for my Unreal Tournament Server mainly because I wanted to learn how to code UDP packets in Perl. However, when the script was finished I wanted a good picture of each map to show which map was currently playing so, to cut a long story short, after much messing around I created animated GIF's for all the maps that that I used using the screenshot images from the maps themselves.

I figure that these pictures may be of use to other people with server query scripts so I am making them avaliable for people to use, all I would ask for is a link back to my page somewhere on your site (it's not much to ask for). This thing has now ended up so huge and I have created 629 map pictures for UT2003 and now UT2004.

Last Updated ( Monday, 26 May 2008 )
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Things to do before I'm *cough* 30 PDF Print
Tuesday, 25 May 2004

Having originally written this in my 20's I'm now updating this for the later years in my life.  Strange how I actually feel younger now than i have in a long time.

Well I'm now in my 2030's and half way though a mid youth crisis, I have a house and a car and a job with responsibilities and can no longer do the fun things that I used to (like I did anything before anyway!!). So, I have decided to make 'the list', a list of things to do before I'm 3040, I need your help here, I need suggestions, send them to me and I will see what I can do.

 

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UT2k Query Script PDF Print
Wednesday, 04 June 2003
This is only the second script that I have actually published so I hope you like it. This script came about due to the huge interest in the script I wrote for my website that queried my UT2003 server and returned as much information as possible about the game to a page. Lots of people e-mailed me asking for the source so I tidied it up and that is what you see here.

This script works fine with UT2004 I just haven't removed all the references to UT2003 yet :-)

I never claimed to be a professional Perl programmer and as such I would class this script as perminantly in BETA. I am always looking for comments on my work so if you see an improvement that can be made to the code, have an idea for another project or just like the script then please take a moment to contact me .


What it does
This script queries the game server on the GameSpy query port (usually +10 from the base port), the results are then parsed and cleaned up to make them easier to understand (e.g. True/False is turned into Yes/No) before being output to an HTML page. The resulting page also includes the meta tag to refresh and so the browser window can be kept open and the page will automatically update itself. There are a number of configuration settings that allow you to tweak the timeout, refresh & title as well as page colour settings and as an optional setting you can include your own HTML before and after the query which allows you to keep the same look and feel of your site.

Last Updated ( Monday, 26 May 2008 )
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Revolving head PDF Print
Tuesday, 29 April 2003

I had this idea ages ago, I have absolutely no idea where it came from but I suddenly realised that instead of the normal picture of me I should do something special. Then I came up with the idea of a rotating head!! Tell me if you like it, I think its rather cool, it certainly took me long enough to do!

Rotating Head

Last Updated ( Sunday, 25 May 2008 )
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