The life and times of a software and web developer
I started watching "Orange Is The New Black" last night. Yep - that's right - I just started with the hugely successful TV show that's headed towards it's sixth season - and here I am, starting with season 1. I'm SO good at keeping up with all the cool kids.
After playing a spirited game of "Settlers of Catan" with the children last night, I sat down late in the evening with my other half and said "shall we watch a movie?". We rarely sit and watch movies together at home - either the children are wandering in and out of the room, we are …
We took the newly crowned (as of this morning) Miss 14 out to the cinema last night to watch "Jumanji : Welcome to the Jungle". She had no clue the tickets were booked - only that we were going out to dinner at the restaurant next-door to the cinema. I sprung the surprise on her …
I'm sitting in the dark of the junk room at home, debating with myself it it's worth staying up to watch the fight between Connor McGregor, and Floyd Mayweather. If I do stay up, I'll admit now that I'm not going to pay for it - so unless I can find somebody streaming it, I …
After clearing the dinner things away this evening, we huddled around the TV in the living room, turned the volume up, and sat down to watch "Skull Island" together - the latest monster movie to arrive on Amazon.I was quite possibly the biggest monster movie fanatic in the known universe when I was young. I …
I have a confession to make. I never played "Dungeons and Dragons" when I was younger. Meeting me as an adult, you might suspect otherwise - I own or have owned nearly every video game system back to about 1984, own a growing collection of comic books and graphic novels, and have always found complicated …
Our eldest daughter is being taught Japanese at the school she visits twice a week, I think mainly because an insightful teacher realised it would be an “in” with her, after a conversation about Manga and Anime.At dinner she mentioned a board game the teacher had started to show her called “Go”. I will freely …
We watched "Warcraft" last night - the movie based on the massively multiplayer role playing game "World of Warcraft" (or more specifically the never-ending line of Warcraft role playing games, for the anal fans that will correct me immediately. There are rumours of a World of Warcraft sequel in the works).I remember when the movie came …
After repeated requests from both my own children, and various children of friends that realised I might have the skills required to do it, I have installed a Minecraft server on the internet for them all to play on together. It's perhaps worth mentioning that I have only played Minecraft for a few hours, several …
