Found an even cheaper source of DVDs – Australia! DVD.net do dead cheap DVDs (mostly ‘cos of the strength of the pound against the aussie dollar – something like 1 UKP buys 2.77 AUS$) Couching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for UKP 13.56, Aliens:SE for UKP 8.41, or how about The Matrix for UKP 10.25, all including […]

Last day of July! Just a quick entry – found a very impressive retailer of Region 1 DVDs: North American DVD. I ordered Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Friday 20th, and it arrived on Friday 27th, with total cost of UKP 15.84 (and this was one of their more expensive DVDs). The online […]

Meant to say – saw Shrek last week at the cinema (superb film – go see!), and then Gone in 60 Seconds on DVD (a moderate film; not really enough plot or action to satisfy, and only one significant car chase in a film where 50 high-performance cars are stolen!). Also played my first Playstation […]

Very exciting week – had my first paper published (at my first computing conference), and found out that one of my patents has been granted!

Well and truly broken my enigma losing streak; although there have been a couple of tricky ones recently, which I didn’t do. Last week’s (1141: Powers of Two) was good, haven’t started this week’s yet. Summer School two weeks ago, photoshoot this morning, and then away at a conference Monday and Tuesday – what a […]

Long time without an update – mainly ‘cos nothing’s happened! Did find a very good online gaming site; check out itsyourturn.com

Ok Enigma this week – used the computer as a calculator. I’m away all next week in Guildford at the BVMA/EPSRC Computer Vision Summer School. Should be good. European Grand Prix this weekend too.

Great Enigma (1139: A Simple Addition) this week – took me probably about 3 hours in the end, but it’s the type I enjoy most.

Wow – not written anything for a while – been busy + had a week off last week. After two weeks of naff enigma’s (1136, 1137) last week’s was good (1138: Pedal Power), although I have little confidence in the answer I eventually got! This week’s is my favourite type (letters for numbers). Oh yes, […]

What a nice weekend. My mum and step-dad came to stay, plus I had Monday and Tuesday off, watched a grand prix, and got to play loads of Tomb Raider IV. Lots of new words too: stripling \STRIP-ling\: A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood. inveterate \in-VEH-tuh-rut\: Firmly […]