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The latest very silly game is on the stocks. (or should that be in the stocks). I've even got the title screen finished, as you can see above. The letters rotate and jiggle in a most engaging manner, and purists will note that the shadows for the text are in exactly the right place for all of them.

Clever eh?

Now all I need to do is write the game itself....

I wrote this ages ago, and I still like it:

"The dish was concerned about the way that her father kept introducing her to spoons."

Well, actually, not here. They are at VerySillyGames. These are actually the PDF files for chapters 1 and 2 that went to the printers. I've also included all the sample code so that you can make yourself a moodlight. I've posted them in celebration of the fact that the book is now being printed, ready for a release towards the end of Feb.

For some reason (actually a search to find the seven signs of ageing - don't ask) I found my way back to my old Crazy World site today. I had a read of some of my old posts, circa 2005.

I was much funnier then.

Perhaps the extra  cares of the world in the intervening three years have worn me down. Perhaps I have run out of whimsey.  Either way, I have now resolved to up the light hearted content (and probably the number of puns) and really, really write another Trip Hazard episode.

And maybe a sequel to The Little Brown Ikea Pencil of Doom.

You have been warned.

The new semester started today. Did my first lecture at 12:15. Didn't manage to escape until ten minutes after the finish, because there was so much discussion about what I'd said. I love lectures like that. At lunchtime I went out for a walk and took the little camera with me. Whenever I travel far afield I take lots of pictures, and I really must remember that there are some nice bits just around my workplace too.

I love the colours on this tree

Go Hannah Pickard

Green campus

The Venn Building