Author Archives: icabod

11/2009: Postscripts 19

I’ve just finished my November 2009 book – only a couple days late. I had chosen the latest edition of this unfortunately irregular anthology. I say “irregular” as since I’ve resubscribed the editions appear to be coming out less often – in fact I think there will only be three this year rather than four. [...]

Book-a-month

I’m a slow reader. It’s not a bad thing, but where some people I know can read a novel in a couple days, I will use up my lunchtime reading a ten-page short story. It can take some motivation to decide to read a novel – hence my preference for the short story. A 300-page [...]

Random files and Image Stitching in DOS

I’m a bit of a fan of command prompts and batch files. Geeky yes, and most other geeks would probably hate the fact that I rather like doing things in Windows command line interpreter (cmd.exe). “Hey, I could find a random file in a single-line perl script, and it would stitch two images together, and [...]

OverXposed To The Sun(down)

This was my first competition entry that hasn’t been ZX Spectrum-related. “OverXposed To The Sun(down)” caused RC55, the party-organiser, a little worry considering the title. It’s actually my attempt at something like “clever photography”, and happened almost by accident. I was playing with my video camera and took a few still shots while the camera [...]

Tribe

With Sundown 2009 coming up next month I figured it was time I actually posted some information about my entries for last years Sundown.
This is a screenshot for “Tribe“, my fairly quick-hack demo which saw something of a new style for my… stuff. I took what I call the “CPU-Approach”, which means a complete disregard [...]

Flickrs

I’ve had a few people mentioning that I’ve not been posting more photos of Jamie here, so a very quick pointer to my Flickr page, where I occasionally post new pictures.

Welcome James…

On Monday morning, September 29th 2008, at 2:37am (BST), my wife Catherine gave birth to James Cooper, our son, weighing 7lb 13oz. James is our first child, and so far parenthood is proving to be rather… surreal. You don’t really notice that anything has changed, until at some point you realise that almost everything has. [...]