Probably one of those rambling updates, so coming up with a title seems too much effort ( Read more... )

That's home covered- now to catch up on things that've happened when I've been elsewhere:
Weekend before last: For reasons too long and complicated to go into, we ended up in The Goose on Gloucester Green in the early evening, and it's as loathsome as ever. Not a decent pint in sight, and rammed full of the sort of people that think going into town ( Read more... )

"What're you up to?"
"Just skinning Geoff"

(Name changed to protect a confidential project)

#12 in an occasional series:
"Seeing as the power's out, we might as well fit those UPSs now."

(After disappearing into the server room for a bit)
"Hey- you get to do a restore test of that data you've just backed up".

Accidently ended up in the Cellar till 2am drinking Tequila last night. Was woken up at 10am by Dan phoning wondering when I was likely to make it into work. Am currently medicating myself with Nurofen and cherry coke.

The PS2 version of Black Hawk Down, the last game I worked on, went on sale in the US yesterday. Despite a couple of hiccups on the servers, at about 6pm we became the first PS2 game to run a 32-player online match- go us! (now where's my bonus?)

Durr... what to talk about ( Read more... )

The increasing LJ-ness of everyone I seem to meet (and prodding from stompyboots) is leading me to think that it's worth another go at updating this thing again ( Read more... )

One of the things about not having a computer around over Christmas is that I spent more time than I'm used to actually thinking, rather than monging in front of some game ( Read more... )