A couple of weeks back, I had a some success with creating a port of Ruby to AROS operating system with the help from mazze of the aros-exec.org forum.

I started with a port of miniruby, which is a bootstrap ruby interpreter used in the ruby distribution compile process.  This worked splendidly once mazze helped me chase down fixes for the last few missing symbols in the compile process.

This weekend I was invited by my friend Paul to visit Muston.  I had never heared of it before, but looking at Google Maps I saw it was near Filey and looked like a typical 'quaint' North Yorkshire village.  As I later found out this week was the Muston Scarecrow Festival.

I have recently evaluated Drupal as a content management system and have now migrated the content from my old site and Wordpress blog here. So there you have it.

Long term readers will notice that it's been a while since I have updated this site. Since changing job, I hope to now have more time to dedicate to the site and fun stuff to report on :)

I wasn't too sure what to expect of Bioshock. I know it has been a long time coming and was not sure what to expect. I know that there had been some criticism of the game, but that sounded like the criticism of Deus Ex 2 and Thief 3 over their PC only predecessors in that the games were cut down or simplified for the console. Personally I liked Deus Ex 2 and Thief 3.

Are interruptions killing productivity in the mordern desktop computing environment? At least in my experience this seems to be the case.

It's been too long since I've used a Linux box since I bought my Mac Pro in October.  As good as Fink for the Mac is, it's no Linux replacement.  So today I've decided to install Ubuntu 7 on my TV media machine, currently running Vista.  The first thing I did was to pop in my Partition Magic CD, however, it didn't like the Vista partitions.  I thought I'd go into 'Computer Manager' in the advanced controls in Vista and check what the partition type was.  When right clicking the parition, I noticed  that there is a resize partition option.  I thought, "this will never work", particularly on a p

Following my decision last year to invest in a cheap second-hand PSOne, I have decided to take upon myself the ownership of a PS2. Seeing as the PS3 is due for launch this month, I expected the price of the PS2 to plummett, just as the XBOX did on launch of the 360. Looking at this particullar case, however, I can that this is not going to happen due to two things. 1) The PS2 is still the biggest selling console (who's still buying one?). 2) The PS3 is £425 at launch, which by anyone's standard is costly. In light of this, I plumped for a second hand one in the original larger black design.

I have finally decided to implement something that has been rumbling around in my mind for a while and that is book reviews. This is mainly for my own personal reflection, but if it's of any use to someone else, then that's cool by me. It's easy to forget reading a book after a few years, so it will be nice to look back on in years to come. I've decided to link this in to the Amazon associates programme, which means I get a small cut out of any click-throughs that result in a sale. Yes, I have no shame ;) Anyways onto my first book. Naruto - Issue 1.

After a few months of pondering the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3, I decided to plump for the 360. After a start with a fairly uninspiring set of launch and early titles, the 360 seems to be graced with some truly impressive titles lately. The Wii, whilst innovative and having a lot of great first party Nintendo titles, gives me the impression that I'll be playing the same games that I've been playing for over ten years, such as Metroid and Zelda. I got to a point a few years ago with Metroid Zero Mission, where I realized this was happening.

A rather strange experience I had yesterday was in York. Myself and Alex happened to walk through a part of York that I haven't been past in a long time. In this area I took the photo below: