tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53251521359717105132024-02-02T05:47:35.435+00:00RWTWMWelcome to my blog.
There is no theme here, the intent being to entertain and inform you about whatever takes my fancy. In other words, I'm opinionated and love to write.RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-62729223850158638862013-12-10T23:33:00.000+00:002013-12-10T23:33:04.328+00:00I made a game......That sadly doesn't have zombies in it. I announced on here a few months ago that I had left my gainful employment in order to pursue a career in development. The result of my first such attempt is called Save the Village and is out now on Google play. This is the link.
If you have an android device, please download it. It's free!RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-26334024625528767582013-11-27T05:02:00.001+00:002013-11-27T05:02:15.798+00:00Some thoughts on national economicsI've been thinking recently about how to design an economic system that might actually work for both a nation and it's citizens. It's too early/late to do this with any real form or structure, but some of the ideas have been floating around in my head whilst I was trying to sleep so I thought I may as well get them down.
The problems are apparently legion in the UK. Our productive base is too RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-14930635531639205012013-09-20T17:48:00.005+01:002013-09-20T17:48:52.553+01:00The long hard stretch to the finishAs I noted last week, I am currently developing a game for Android. The concept for the game (Save the Village) is a relatively simple one, catch the fireballs as they descend the screen lest the village below burst into flames. While the graphics are, shall we be polite and say simplistic, the gameplay is actually fairly compelling. This isn't me saying so myself per se, but friends and family RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-36899936493199500812013-09-13T01:11:00.001+01:002013-09-13T01:12:02.145+01:002 LinesI posted a couple of days back about how I'm trying to become a games developer. At the time I was feeling pretty good about the whole thing. Well, as it goes I'm still feeling pretty good about the whole thing, but I have been bashing my head against a brick wall with an issue for the last couple of days.
So the game works, it does everything it needs to in terms of playability. OK the RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-61593364446060111982013-09-12T00:10:00.001+01:002013-09-12T14:03:58.315+01:00Foot... BAAAALLLI guess I'm what you'd traditionally term a 'bit of a geek'. I enjoy physics, video games, statistics, understand how to read weather charts, and until recently spent a lot of my spare time learning how to program. 'Until recently' as I now spend most of my time doing that.
For all that though, I do break with the exaggerated American high school stereotype in that I'm quite a sports fan, most RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-81861879110390529072013-09-10T23:57:00.002+01:002013-09-12T14:03:12.765+01:00Into the unknownSo today I wanted to spill my mind about the last 6 weeks or so. I was going to do that yesterday, but my brain was crazy melted by the wonder of Sharknado so I wrote about that instead (seriously if you haven't seen it get some mates round and give it a whirl).
So anyway before I get hit by another wave of B C D-movie delirium...
Anyone that knows me reasonably well in person will know that I RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-21375675639812697922013-09-10T01:20:00.001+01:002013-09-12T14:02:05.847+01:00Sharknado: the drinking gameI was planning to write something moderately self absorbed on here this evening, tracking the last couple of months of my life, plans for the future, all that jazz. That's going to have to take a back seat though, for today I arrived (late, as ever) to the party they call Sharknado.
So many people have commented on the joy of watching the film at the same time as the world, with the Twitter RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-77985553048165157962013-09-08T23:52:00.004+01:002013-09-12T14:01:07.210+01:00Just something....It's weird talking into the abyss. Twitter, Blogger, Facebook. All these words and thoughts that spill (mostly on twitter in my case) onto social media, forums and the like that have barely even been committed to your own thoughts before they are part of the global conversation.
Talking on the internet is as if everyone is attendant at a giant party, but instead of hanging with the two people RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-82865515073474827622013-05-06T01:02:00.000+01:002013-05-06T10:35:33.113+01:00Anarchy - the flawed idealI saw a comment on twitter today that I felt needed a reply, however at the time I was in no position to do so and anyway it's the sort of reply that stretches the ability of 140 characters. The comment was as follows:
... remove the gov and we don't have the problems and remove capitalism and we r free..
(Name and pic removed at composers request)
Bang, there you go, government and capitalismRWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-80755823140637678082013-04-25T00:27:00.000+01:002013-04-25T00:27:26.187+01:00Programming a copyrighted dice game 1My most recent missive was about the torment of learning, or at least of not learning when attempting to. It was borne entirely of frustration because I'm trying to learn quite a few things at the minute, and getting stuck on any of them feels like time wasted.
One of the things I'm trying to learn at the moment is c++. It's not the easiest thing to stick at when it's going badly, but is so RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-5995413574773815352013-04-01T02:38:00.001+01:002013-04-01T02:38:05.493+01:00The plateauI love learning. Always have. Not just the facts and figures bit or the book smarts, but skills, physical abilities, so many things that it's possible to do I like to try. See if I'm good at them. If I'm not I try and get good, if I am I try and get better.
I'm a bit like a magpie though. A new idea crosses my mind and it's like a shiny trinket to be chased to the detriment of whatever I'm RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-27692557400880242682012-09-07T11:13:00.001+01:002012-09-07T11:13:05.158+01:00Adventures in breakcoreHello again. I've decided to re-relaunch this blog after deciding that I like talking about things, but can't get anyone to listen to me. Nor can I get them to listen to any music I like, which means that you, lucky reader, can discover new music with me.
So, having listened to a range of different genres of dance music over the years I have settled (as the title may suggest) on something dubbedRWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-9159180701865864902011-07-05T00:01:00.000+01:002011-07-05T00:01:38.900+01:00M&M World - A world of M&MsI was walking around London today when I saw this...
It's on the corner of Leicester Square and Wardour St. just opposite the KFC and the McDonalds. On spotting it I sighed, as clearly here was just one more notch for rampant consumerism at a time when it's getting harder for the average man to put bread on the table. 'But that's the way of the world these days' I thought. In RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-87653456618012383222011-05-17T00:46:00.000+01:002011-05-17T00:46:12.265+01:00Re-launchOk. So I've decided I'm going to do this again.
Hello and welcome back for those of you that have missed me in the almost a year I've not posted (where does the time go?). The plan is to try and post a couple of missives a week in order to get me back in front of the computer and writing again. Because I have this terrible habit of thinking I don't have anything important to blog about, I'm not RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-10248197021581339182010-07-27T14:08:00.000+01:002010-07-27T14:08:36.141+01:00AV campaign posterOver at Lib Dem voice there is currently a competition running to source a poster to promote the Alternative Vote campaign, for next years referendum.
Here is my offering:
If you came here via the comments page on LDV, please take your time, have a look around the blog, and if you are feeling really adventurous, maybe leave a comment or two. Cheers.RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-51469247652339713682010-07-27T01:02:00.001+01:002010-07-27T10:28:14.848+01:00looking for workI'm not sure any semi-regular experience comes close in the horrible stakes to job-hunting. It's so ridiculously soul destroying and demoralising that it leaves you unconvinced as to your ability to do any job at all. And I say this as someone who has only received one rejection letter to date.
Let me start from the top:
I found out last week that the company I work for is in severe dire RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-66031177949384234422010-07-16T16:39:00.000+01:002010-07-16T16:39:03.909+01:00More re-hashing: Raoul Moat and FacebookPosted on a forum of which I am a member, about the RIP Moat facebook pages. In reply to a call for them to be banned.
As far as I can tell the page that was removed was done so because it breached the T&Cs of facebook (I believe there were comments inciting violence). The problem with banning this sort of group as you seem to suggest, is that you won't actually be stopping people from RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-78063533471882501862010-07-15T17:48:00.000+01:002010-07-15T17:48:47.641+01:00Guitar hero: On tour reviewIt has (once again) been quite a while since I blogged. So to remind myself what it's like to use the blogger software and to help achieve my goal aiding potential employers by having all of my writings in one place; here is a review I wrote for the TVUSU magazine about 2 years ago. Enjoy.
You know something is awry with guitar hero – on tour almost as soon as you first switch on the powerRWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-1853659933148676012010-05-13T13:52:00.000+01:002010-05-13T13:52:49.275+01:00The ConDem pact
We have a new government. It's not what many people wanted, but the vagaries of First past the post mean that is not irregular. I for one am cautiously optimistic. Yes we effectively have a tory government, and I can't say I trust them as far as I can throw Mount Everest, but that's beside the point. This coalition deal was one of only two realistic options on the table, the progressive 'RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-40469505648852292022010-05-10T14:51:00.000+01:002010-05-10T14:51:44.170+01:00No Women? Unfair or representative?So today @hannahnicklin @davecoveny and others have been discussing the lack of female representation during the coalition negotiations. My argument in short was that if the Parties in question had no strong female negotiators, why should there be Women involved?
Let me make something very clear, I am not in anyway suggesting that women cannot be good negotiators or that female negotiators do RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-10794662829588570842010-05-10T09:51:00.001+01:002010-05-10T09:54:17.271+01:00The markets are jittery!Don't under any circumstances expect this to be coherent or sensible, I just wanted to get something committed to 'paper' about the uncertainty of the markets, whether that be stream of consciousness or not.
I don't remember us electing a bunch of suited everything-phobes to run the country*. Why is it we are being held to ransom by the markets? The thinking behind this seems to be something RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-8420024243087652552010-05-08T17:45:00.000+01:002010-05-08T17:45:22.223+01:00Hung parliamentSo, I've been quiet for a fair old while. I didn't have much time to blog during the election campaign, and with my limited amount of followers I thought it unlikely that I would do much of an influential job here, deciding instead to go and campaign on behalf of my local Lib Dems.
So here we are, the votes are in and we are in hung parliament territory with one of the trending topics on twiiterRWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-34882124497877616152010-03-25T20:44:00.002+00:002010-03-26T15:21:48.802+00:00Something about MephedroneIn the run up to the much-anticipated-but-ultimately-not-very-groundbreaking budget we got to witness what may be the last Prime Ministers Questions session before the election. During it I saw a striking illustration of the ignorance and hysteria that plagues our parlimentarians regarding drugs. Labour MP for Ayr, Sandra Osbourne stood up and said the following...
"...will the prime minister RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-57808287061859388562010-03-22T23:39:00.000+00:002010-03-22T23:39:35.577+00:00Before the business of the day can start...So, I actually came on here to write a nice informative piece about the deficit, what it means, how it effects us, what it means for the budget and so on. I thought it would be a nice informative and traffic inducing (well ok, getting my hopes up I know) post.
In connecting to the interwebs I innocently signed on to twitter, eager to see what the news of the moment was. Any further info on the RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5325152135971710513.post-10035214556220354552010-03-17T17:30:00.000+00:002010-03-17T17:30:28.893+00:00In the world of the mail, this shit mattersThe top story on the Daily Mail website right now?
This is the Mail taking offence at the fact that on measuring young 5 year old Cian's Body mass index, they sent a letter stating that he was defined as obese on the index and the dangers this could cause.
This seems reasonable no? I mean, are we not running headlong into an obesity epidemic, that could cost the country billions and it's RWTWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14870386629446143494noreply@blogger.com1