It’s nearly time for their new album to be out, and now here’s a single too. I couldn’t help myself but buy it, and now I’m really looking forward to listening to it repeatedly for a while.
Author: ashleyelsdon
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Messing about with Mindstorms
Well I’ve got going on my next mindstorms project. It’s been a long time since I’ve done anything with this stuff, so I’m not entirely sure how it’ll turn out, but it’s fun to start thinking about how to put stuff together again, and trying to work out just how I’m going to achieve what I want to with this project.
A little development log of sorts
So as you know I’m always tinkering about with Palm OS stuff, and usually talking about it on Palmorama too. However, I thought it might be interesting to start off a little development blog of sorts for my latest creation, Seq1. I’ve started it off here as a page on the site, and I’ll be adding to it over the next few weeks and months.
Doctor Who: Engines of War, the verdict
So I wasn’t really looking forward to this audiobook. I’d bought it to see what it was like, to try it out and also because of the narrator, Nicolas Briggs, who I think is excellent. He really delivered with this book. His voices were excellent. Very convincing and very consistent. I was very impressed with that aspect of the production.
But what about the story? Well, I’m not going to give away any spoilers, so if you were thinking about listening to it you can read on. I liked the story a lot. It didn’t hold back at all. For me it seemed to give the War Doctor a proper identity and developed the character in the way I’d hoped that the writers would. It also firmly left open the possibility of a new set of War Doctor stories, and I hope that this too gets developed. I would certainly give them a listen if they appear.
So, all in all, a very solid audio story. Maybe Big Finish could take this further? I know they’d do an excellent job of it.
If you’re interested in Palm OS stuff …
Then you should visit Palmorama some time. It’s one of the other sites I write and is only about the old Palm OS stuff. You might like it.
Charlie Hisgon’s The Enemy
I’ve been a fan of these books since I started reading the first one. This year the last book in the series is due to be released in September. Book 7 will be the last book in the series. I know that they are really children’s books, but I still really like them and have read them all twice now I think.
I’m really looking forward to book 7 so I’ve decided to re-read all of them in the run up to the release of the last book. I’m going to enjoy doing that too.
Juice Vocal Ensemble
I went to see this group the other week and really enjoyed their musical styles. This was the first time I’d seen the group although I have seen / heard similar styles like this before. It was good, fun and they certainly are very talented indeed.
Pebble SmartStraps
This is so clever. Such a great idea. I’m really impressed with Pebble and what they’re doing with their latest products. I can see this being very popular. I hope that some really interesting strap designs come out soon now that they’ve released the 3D print files for the design.
I can see all sorts of cool uses for this technology.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
I went to see the recent film adaptation of this and really enjoyed it, so I thought I’d buy the graphic novel to see what that was like. At first glance it looks interesting, so I’m looking forward to giving it a good read soon.
Palm OS virtual machines
You probably know by now that I’m a bit obsessed by the old Palm OS and PDAs in general.
One of the best emulators for Palm OS is PHEM. It runs on Android. PHEM works by using Palm OS ROMs. You can load as many ROMs as you want and then from those ROMs create as many sessions or virtual machines as you want.
This is pretty impressive. I’m just getting back to this and will be creating a variety of little machines soon.
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