I a brief moment of bored madness, I think the tiredness may have motivated me, I’ve had a little play with my iSight – and now I’m sharing the freakiness.

Second Life are setting up UK development offices in Brighton and looking for new staff. What’s more interesting, is that this job post actually lends weight to something I’ve been saying for a few years now: Brighton is the UK’s answer to San Francisco.

Several years ago I wrote Marbles Squared, a ‘lightweight addictive puzzle game’ for the Palm Pilot. I would often peruse Google for reviews and download figures, until one day, I found an article that referenced my little game.

I remember, back in 2000, I think, while I was away for maybe my first snowboarding holiday, upon my return, I found my desk (…and my email) had been in constant use. Nothing unusual compared to nowadays, but back then, there was only 5 of us, so I definitely thought: “who’s been sleeping in my [...]

Merry Christmas all – and a pre-emptive happy new year! In other news, my entry for Andy Budd’s Santa letter won a copy of his book and a 2gb iPod Nano. Superb! Congratulations to those who also won the book.

Just a big thank you to everyone who came to Julie and my 10 year “togetherness” party last Saturday! We hosted an 80s party at Heist in Brighton and it was a ball. Lots of superb costumes and lots of retro tunes. Here’s the invite I put together for the occasion:

Jonas, a good friend from work is getting Married this weekend. In Hungary. He’s marrying a Hungarian, so it makes a lot of sense. 160 people, from 19 different countries. An open bar from 7pm until 3am. It’s going to be messy. Jonas (aka Jan) has done an amazing jobs of organising all the people [...]