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The Great Purge revisited

I was browsing the Google Analytics statistics for this blog and noticed a couple of odd things in the results for search keywords used to find it. Firstly, more people find this blog searching for my wife than for me, which has now encouraged more healthy competition in the Hamon household, as if more was […]

Posted on 2009/02/10 by dominic in personal | Tagged meta | Leave a comment

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As most people know who read this blog, at least two of the three of you, I’m a software engineer working in the games industry. Most software engineers eventually specialise in some field or other, whether it’s gameplay, audio, AI or something else. Somehow, I never have. I’ve remained a generalist; a jack of all […]

Posted on 2009/02/06 by dominic in personal | Tagged work | Leave a comment

I love this integration, but I am concerned about having my twitter password saved by a third party. staff: Tweet from Tumblr We’re testing Twitter integration on Tumblr. You can set it up by going to the special address: http://www.tumblr.com/settings?twitter This will automatically send your Tumblr posts to Twitter (you can toggle this when posting). […]

Posted on 2009/02/05 by dominic in personal | Tagged meta, reblog, twitter | Leave a comment

A fitting tribute to Ricardo Montalban if ever there was one. Star Trek Opera (via hesdeadjim)

Posted on 2009/02/05 by dominic in personal | Tagged khaaan! | Leave a comment

Raising the dead

It seems we can learn from our mistakes! Obligatory warning: This is another DnD post. This weekend’s DnD session was the one where I first found out if my party were going to raise me from the dead or if I was going to have to roll up a new character. I am not yet […]

Posted on 2009/02/05 by dominic in personal | Tagged dnd | Leave a comment

Smallest exoplanet yet found | Bad Astronomy

Link: Smallest exoplanet yet found | Bad Astronomy Stories like this just blow my mind. The mere fact that there are people with the technology and skills to make such delicate measurements is enough to amaze me, but add to that that what they’re measuring are planets orbiting other stars and I find myself stunned. […]

Posted on 2009/02/03 by dominic in personal | Tagged reblog, space | Leave a comment

mental_floss Blog » Comics Grammar and Tradition

Link: mental_floss Blog » Comics Grammar and Tradition I’ve always had a soft side for typography, and in the past have slipped into grammar nazi mode more than once. I’ve also been a fan of comics and graphic novels for many years. Combining these is this set of rules for grammar and typography in comics […]

Posted on 2009/02/03 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

Drinking to Success – Forbes.com

Link: Drinking to Success – Forbes.com Now to spread this around until we get free beer day alongside free donut and bagel day.

Posted on 2009/01/30 by dominic in personal | Tagged reblog | Leave a comment

The perfect gift

Sometimes, you get the perfect gift. The gift that my wife bought me for Christmas finally arrived today, and it is every bit as awesome as she promised that it would be. Presents are kept as great secrets in this house, and when it didn’t arrive for Christmas, she was very upset, and insisted that […]

Posted on 2009/01/30 by dominic in personal | Tagged books, christmas, star trek | Leave a comment

From Not Only… But Also, everything you could want to know about Alan A Dale. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, the two geniuses behind this show, are staples of British Comedy from the 1960s. They predate Monty Python and were clear influences on the sometimes surreal, always just plain silly, humour. Sadly, the original tapes […]

Posted on 2009/01/29 by dominic in personal | Tagged british humour | Leave a comment

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