Jasp’s Blog

Oh dear, and to be frank this post isn’t going to make things any better. I was playing arround on the website Wordle, which generates a tag cloud from any text. I ran my blog through the program, and company names seem to dominate somewhat. I’m not quite sure how MOO became so prominent, I’m [...]

I recently upgrade my computer, and yet since then I have been almost entirely addicted to the ASCII game Dwarf Fortress. My 8800GT weeps with boredom, yet my processor still seems to get a fair work out due to the sheer ammount of detail involved. I’ll speak more on the game properly later, but I [...]

For ages I was hovering midway down Google for searches for James Glover both in quotes and out. But today I’m at the top of the first page, and am also in second position. I don’t know how long this will last, as I’ve been here once or twice before, but I will enjoy it [...]

annoyed at the scientologists he saw in edinburgh #

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I’m about to update to Wordpres 2.3. If everything looks odd I’m just ironing out the bugs.

On my (one of my) first day(s) at school I arrived to find a new delivery of BBC Micros. The slightly imposing size of the system sat on its trolley obviously impressed a young me, yet what surprised me even more was seeing the system in operation. I was fascinated, and immediately decided it was [...]

DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier, and in short is a permanent ‘address’ (like a URL) which will always point at a particular document. In particular DOI’s are used to make it easy to find academic papers, and saves one having to find the journal’s webpage, navigate to its archives, pick up the volume in [...]

Today sees the European release of the game Bioshock, an FPS which has been receiving plaudits and review scores which are truly astounding, with Metacritic reporting aggregate review scores of 96/97% for the PC and XBOX360 versions respectively. I don’t normally play FPSs, but I’m sorely tempted by what is clearly an astounding game.
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Due to excessive comment spam from a particular IP address (81.95.146.227) I have since blocked this IP from accessing my servers and have also contacted their host. Fortunately this appears to be a server, rather than a zombie system, so I don’t think I’ve blocked any genuine users.