It's siggraph time and the specs for OpenGL 3.0 have been released. It's been a good few years since Khronos/ARB announced they were working on OpenGL 3.0, over a year of silence, 11 months late from when they were originally meant to have it launched but it's finally released. OpenGL 3.0 is here and not even close to what they promised ( Read more... )

XNA GameFest London 2008 was yesterday (or the day before?) Sigraph 2008 starts in 3 days. Nvidia's NVision is at the end of the month. I'm pretty sure there's a few other developers conferences this month that I'm forgetting. Suffice to say, there should be lots of great geeky things announced this month ( Read more... )

I've been looking into XNA more and more lately, having read that it's mandatory to sell your XNA on the 360 rather than offer them for free (presumably because of the infrastructure required to keep it all going) and that the developers get 70% of the sales ( Read more... )

I feel absolutely terrible, I've got a cold but it really is one of the worst I've had in years. Didn't get more than an hour's sleep last night because of my nose being completely and utterly blocked up and running almost constantly, oblus oil did bugger all to help me breath and sleep. I feel so knackared, aching like hell, got a rough chest and ( Read more... )

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R.I.P. Porsche
2007-10-18
Forever remembered for being an awesome cat

Yay for having a day's entertainment watching people steering with their arses! Complete with webcam set up to record the most hilarious bits.of arse steering!

It's snowing! It snowed yesterday morning and kept trying to start again all day, but it's now snowing liike twice as hard and doesn't seem like it's going to stop any time soon. Apparently saturday's scheduled for snow too. Hooray! Real, thick snow rather than the slush and ice we usually get!

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I am old. That is all.