Saturday, July 17th, 2004
Today we watched the start of the Leamington Rotary Club’s raft race in Jeffson
Gardens, and I took some photos.
Archive for July, 2004
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004
I reverse engineered the Warning Forever hi score file. On the one hand, this
means that if I wanted to I could falsify scores. On the other hand, it means
I can extract the scores (and other stats) to HTML and
publish them.
Now, if only I were good enough that my scores were worth publicising…
Monday, July 12th, 2004
One day after I mentioned the exclusive Beta-testing programme, Chris has
finished Attack of the Robot Cats from Mars. Since the version we’ve been
playing, he’s added sound and music, a hi-score table, the second-smallest cats
do a little roll when you hit them the first time (if they’re descending),
and there’s a nifty effect at the Game Over [...]
Sunday, July 11th, 2004
We played quite a lot of Chris’s unfinished “Attack of the Robot Cats from
Mars”, and this prompted me to rediscover Warning Forever, a magnificent and innovative free
Japanese shoot ‘em up.
I don’t think I ever gave it the attention it deserves. 6,141,800 is my
top score so far. I’m sure you can all beat that. It’s important [...]
Thursday, July 8th, 2004
I stumbled on some pictures of my very own 30th birthday party, that I’d not seen before, on Dan’s photo gallery.
(Update) It seems some people haven’t seen Dave’s pictures of that weekend either.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2004
I got into a nasty habit of starting one book before finishing the previous
one, so I made everything right by finishing three I had on the go this
week.
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette
Break by Steven Sherrill
It’s high concept! The Minotaur was not killed in the Labyrinth by
Theseus — he struck [...]
Monday, July 5th, 2004
We spent a very pleasant weekend visiting Chris and Rae at their new home in
Blackwood, Gwent.
It was their Bow wedding anniversary, so I gave Chris a 3 litre bottle of Bow
to celebrate. And a pastry brush.
Many balloons were admired, much Singstar was played, and much jelly was
consumed on Saturday night, when their deviant friends all
came [...]
Friday, July 2nd, 2004
We went to the newly opened “Mumbai Bluu” bar in Leaminton last night, which
used to be the Coach and Horses. I’ve posted my impressions in the Orkut “Warwick and Leaminton Spa” community forum, because I am a community minded man.
On the way out we met our neighbour Jo for the first time (having lived below [...]