Mon, 13 Sep 2004 - Back home
Been back for almost a couple of weeks but haven't had time to update
the diary. Took a very long time to get over the jet lag (almost a
week), probably due to the 11 hour time difference. The flight back on
British Airways was
very nice, with seats that go completely
flat - I wonder how their First Class could be any better.
The garden doesn't seem to have survived my holiday, the drought or
the cold too well. Except for a new weed which has done exceedingly
well and spread over most of the backyard. It also seems to take a
large amount of soil with it when removed from the ground which is
rather annoying. On the bright side, no sign of snails yet!
Having lots of fun working on K42. Spent a couple of days setting up
the infrastructure, but since then having been continuing the
programming I started in NY. Its nice to be doing lots of coding
again. Very addictive.
Am vaguely looking for a cat, but haven't
managed to get myself organised enough to look at any kittens yet. I
did spend a little time adding an entry to Wikipedia which
Rusty reminded me of recently. I'm not sure all of the information
in there can really be trusted though.
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Tue, 13 Apr 2004 - Far Cry
After reading some good reviews I picked up a new PC game called
Far Cry on the
weekend. It really is the next generation of FPS games - the graphics
are quite amazing, though it made me wish my computer was a bit
faster with a recommendation of a >3GHz CPU and 1Gb of memory for
high performance. What is really impressive though is how realistic
the physics model is. Everything seems to move like it should -
objects hitting another result in the effect you would expect. Early
on in the game you can push a shelf of items over, though what is
really cool is that you can push the shelf upright again. The
AI for the opponents is also very good - they work together as
a team and do intelligent things like walk up the stairs backwards to
avoid getting shot in the back.
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