Bioshock 2

Okay. I bought this game today (And paid an eight pound steam premium to download it tonight rather than wait two days for a copy from Amazon) and: IT’S AWESOME!

I’m only a couple of levels in and already I’m gripped. The plot has unfolded fast enough to keep me hooked, but there’s enough being kept [...]

STATISTICS

Not a major post here, just me posting about realising I’ve been making a large mistake. I’ve been struggling with R (A statistical programming language) recently, and I believe I have discovered why: I’ve not been treating it as a programming language! It’s all very well me knowing it’s Turing-complete, but I’ve been treating it [...]

The Pale Blue Dot - 20 years later

This post taken from my post on HisDarkMaterials.org’s “Science, philosophy and religion” forum.

Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the Voyager one completing its mission. At that point, NASA ordered it to turn round and photograph all the planets. Over the next four months they were all photographed and the images were returned including [...]

Edd's £1 Gamble!

Last weekend I logged onto the betting site I use to look at the odds on some matches, and noticed I had a pound left in my account. An idea struck me: How long can I make this pound last, betting it (and it’s return) once a week, on the most obvious result of that [...]

MTG Proxy Generator

I, along with my housemates, are massive Magic: The Gathering fans. I’ve been playing since first year of uni, and am now training to be a judge. Anyway, my group of friends got tired of buying using pens to make crap mock ups when we were play testing decks, so a proxy generator was built. [...]

Welcome... 2.0

I broke my last blog with some ill-advised plug in installations, so I decided to start over. This time I’m going to be realistic – I don’t have a huge amount of interesting things to say, so I will update this blog when I feel like it. Months may go by between updates, followed by [...]