Flairing bottle and video – December 2002, Christmas present from Kix
Kix got me this flaring starting kit. I broke lots of things practising, except the bottle – which is unbreakable. I got quite good at it without water in the bottle but can’t do it for real.
Pub Optics – December 2002, Christmas present from Kix
Kix got me four pub optics that dispense 25ml of anything. I’m not actually a big drinker but I like to make cocktails and these help me to keep track of appropriate measures.
Sony car miniDisk player – December 2002 Christmas present from mum and Grandpa
My travelling buddy with a friendly multi colour display which flashes and pulses with the music. MiniDisk might not be a hot technology any more but I’ve got lots of disks and it’s better than CD (much better).
Halo
XBOX,FPS,9/10 – August 2002 There’s so many good things about Halo but if I was to name the best I would say it was the vehicles. When you get in a vehicle the view moves from 1st person to 3rd person and the feel of the game totally changes increasing variety and pace. Other AI […]
Tony Hawks 4
XBOX,sport,9/10 – August 2002 When you break these games down it is really just a exercise to memorize sequences of buttons. But with todays zillion-buttoned controllers, this is made difficult. There’s something about Tony Hawks games that gets you addicted so that you feel you have to complete all the tasks (but your’ll never be […]
GBA Mod (July 2002)
The Afterburner is a do it yourself kit that lets you install a transparent lighted plate over the GBA’s LCD screen. Installation is pretty scary, you have to do some modification to the shell of the GBA itself and some soldering onto the GBA circuit board. It’s quite easy except for applying an adhesive strip […]
I Graduated – Now a “Master” of Engineering! (1st/August/2002)
Final mark: 2:1 (67%) MEng ACGI Uni Year 4 – 2001/2002: 67.5% Uni Year 3 – 2000/2001: 72.6% Uni Year 2 – 1999/2000: 67.4% Uni Year 1 – 1998/1999: 53% (see details)
Diablo
PC,RPG-Hack&Slash,10/10 – June 2002 Diablo I: This game was the first to introduce me to both character development and inventory management. Completing quests and killing enemies both increases experience and allows you plunder the spoils of your adventures to enable you to become more powerful and better equipped. But the game also manages to immerse […]
Dungeon Siege
PC,RPG,8/10 – June 2002 This game must have impacted my 4th year exams, it is one of those games that eats your time because it’s so playable. It’s fun to explore the rich fantasy world which is made gorgeous to look at by things such as large numbers of trees and ground-plants with convincing leaves, […]
My 4th year University Project (2002)
For my final year project I wrote a piece of software that I called VISSIM (Visual Traffic Simulator). It was a tool to try to model and visualise urban road traffic. I proposed the project myself because I was interested in the problems of congestion in London. Although I worked really hard on it and […]
“Cassandra”. 26th June 2002 – 1st March 2004
I mistakenly bought Cassandra with a serious problem that I didn’t spot in the test drive. She couldn’t carry passengers without bottoming out and making horrible scraping noises. Throughout the 2 years I owned her, she became less and less reliable. She started not starting and cutting out mid-journey. She met her end in a […]
Fire Breathing
Kix got me a fire staff for my 22nd birthday. You soak each end in parafin and light it. I learnt some staff tricks but only to a basic level. The strange thing about a fire staff is that it spins more slowly when it’s alight. It makes a glorious noise as the burning ends […]
