My Bloody Ears

I've just got home after seeing My Bloody Valentine play at the Roundhouse. Sweet Cheeses it was loud! Imagine standing under a rocket while it launches. Now imagine that kind of volume for around 90 minutes. Complete sensory overload, and I loved every minute of it.

MBV are one of those bands I've always wished I'd seen live the first time round, but seeing them tonight brought back all the same feelings I had the first time I listened to Loveless, complete with shivers down the spine. I'm so glad I got to go. HUGE thanks to Tessa for sorting it out.

Best. Comeback. Ever.

Rot or Not

Rot or Not - Rate My Zombie sorta thing. Some people have far too much time on their hands. This makes me happy.

I'm in love

If You Like It So Much Why Don't You Go Live There is rapidly becoming my favourite website ever.

That is all.

Finished

Well, it's taken a while, but I'm pleased to finally announce that The Internet has been completed. We can all go home.

Congratulations to everyone involved. Give yourselves a pat on the back and have a celebratory cup of tea.

StannahWorld

A few years ago I was enjoying a lunchtime pint or three with some friends from work, and in the way that drunken conversations often go, we played with the rather silly idea of a world (possibly our own in the not too distant future) where everyone travelled around on Stannah Stairlifts. We're not just talking up and down staircases, oh no. Everywhere. Rails would be laid down every street, connecting up to your dwelling's own internal rail system, to provide the ultimate, high-speed, environmentally friendly, safe and - most importantly - effortless mode of transport ever.

And that's where it should've ended. Just a drunken ramble down the pub. Being drunk, of course, and rather enamoured by the idea, I took it upon myself to illustrate this crazy world of stairlifts, and thus StannahWorld was born.

Since that fateful day in November 2000, many people have contributed to the growth of StannahWorld and the concept itself occupies a much larger space than its physical representation. That is, I've been too lazy to make pictures for all the ideas we've had. There were a couple of games made at one point, which I'll try to dig out the code for, but in the mean-time, feel free to gorge yourselves on all the scenes that have made their way into pictoral form so far: StannahWorld, StannahWorld Themepark, Stannah Scalextric, Stannah Rally, and Stannah International. They're all here.

Enjoy!

Bang!

I've been toying with the idea of making a Flash game that uses the Microphone object for some time now, but nothing really sprang to mind until yesterday, when the spark of inspiration I needed that had been lying dormant since childhood finally ignited. Cowboys and Indians! Running around, pointing your finger-guns, shouting "peyowww!" and all that jazz. Anyway, the idea is pretty simple: two players wait for the signal, then whoever shoots first, wins. Or shouts first, rather - the trigger will be voice activated.

Initial code tests are looking good; I've got the trigger working, background noise detection & compensation and timing functions in place. Next job is to get the multiplayer shizzle sorted. Updates will follow!

Website!

After 6 years, I decided it was high time I had a website. A proper website, I mean, that wasn't just a list of links to work I've done, in black text on a white page. My main justification for not bothering to spend time designing a site was that I had very little - if any - content to display on it. Well, nothing's changed, I just found a rather nice template over at OSWD and thought, "Yeah. That's me. That's reevo.com."

So here it is. reevo.com.

Woo.