These little updates pre-date the term "blog", so it never really occurred to me that this was a blog until someone referred to it as such. So, it's about time I embraced the blogginess of it. Above you will now find a link to an RSS feed, which I have been meaning to add for years. To the left you will now find links to friends' blogs.

I've made it to London, safe and sound. Huge thanks to all the people who helped on Saturday and Sunday!

I am now technically a Londoner, though I do still feel like a bit of a tourist. Except for a moment today when two actual tourists asked me the way to Greenwich Park.

Once again, a new year is with us (and has been for some time). We've entered not only the 2010s, but also the second quarter-century of my life. With my Amazon contract finished, what better time to move on to pastures new?

So, this time next week I'll be living in London. Okay, it's not exactly pastoral, but you get the idea.

In other news, OpenJazz has been undergoing development on sourceforge, and I've been working on another film with EMPS.

Sometime between 7pm and 9pm GMT today, GeoCities finally closed down. Many of us have fond/embarassing memories of the service that provided us with our first web presence. In commemoration, I've put up a reconstruction of one of the earliest incarnations of my GeoCities site. It's cobbled together from files scattered around my hard disk, so it may not be a perfect snapshot. Apart from some minor changes to get them to work, though, each page is entirely original.

As you may be able to guess, I was a little bit of a Doctor Who fan.

Retro clichés to look out for: animated GIFs, embedded MIDI, web rings, "best viewed with netscape navigator 3.0 or better," and JavaScript gimmicks. Watch out for an actual example of the Millennium Bug (which, interestingly, Firefox and Internet Explorer deal with differently). For the web developers among you, check out the source code and stare in a disbelieving manner at the funky JavaScript.

In my defence, I was 13 at the time. And, who knows? Maybe a decade from now, the current site will seem appallingly ill-conceived.

Returning to the present for a moment, I feel compelled by GeoCities-esque "neighbourly" duty to mention a few of my friends' websites. First up is Spotify.fm, a service which tells you when music by your last.fm artists is released on Spotify. After that, there's Very Top Five, which is amusing.

As of today, I've been working for 3 months. Yay! I've also got a new kitchen, and the flat has just been painted. Also yay! Furthermore, EMPS got going again last week. More yay!

Now for the sad part. Today I received an e-mail from Yahoo entitled "Final notice: GeoCities is closing". GeoCities was this site's first ever host, way back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Last year I brought back some of the site's original content. Stay tuned for more.

Still, out with the old, in with the new. After much indecision, I've joined Twitter, and you can see the results in the box above.

I now have a job! I start on Monday at a company called Amazon. I think they sell books on the Internet or something.

I've also been elected EMPS Webmaster, and I've been working on a new website.

I've been with 5quidhost for a year now. They provide me with statistics! Among other things, I know that 25.6% of visitors arrive via this Wikipedia page. It was 37.7% last year.

Speaking of Wikipedia, I came across this recently.

This as been a pretty good few days, all told.

Saturday saw our Western film winning an EMPS Golden Video Award. Here's a picture of the group shortly after our win:


On Sunday, I released a new version of OpenJazz. It now has multiplayer support! It's already been ported to Mac OS X.

A new version of OpenJazz is due out soon. This will be a major update, so stay tuned!

Over the weekend I took part in a 24-hour film competition. The fruits of our labours will be shown at the Golden Video Awards this Saturday.

The release of Jazz 1 Editor has prompted me to work on OpenJazz again, and I've just uploaded a new version.

The editing of the Western film is now mostly complete. It will be shown at the Golden Video Awards on the 14th of March. This will be a black tie occasion, starting at 19:30 in the Terrace Bar, Teviot Row House, Edinburgh.