And Jenson Button Wiiiiins

Hellooooooooo
If you didn't know already, it was the start of the new F1 season this weekend. Sorry if you are still to watch the race, but you have had plenty of time by now. The race itself was good fun. Lots of interesting stuff and some good overtaking. And particularly good for Brawn GP. If you don't know, they are what used to be Honda, but they only had about 2 weeks before the season to go from not expecting to be racing at all, to getting the team ready to actually winning the race, so good for them. On the BBCs coverage, it wasn't bad and it was nice to not have adverts, but i think they are still learning and i hasn't too happy how they didn't show the build up for the repeat. Hence i woke up at 6:00AM (that's actually 5 because of the clocks going forward) to watch the real race with all the extra, including an interesting extra they had afterwards on the red button. Lets just hope that next weeks race will be as good.
Nothing much else happening this week, plenty of work to do. The lights in my shower room broke half way through a shower and blew the fuse for all lights in the house. But that's fixed now.
So, that'll do it for now
Have fun
Jay

Happy Mothers Day

Hellooooooooooooooo everyone and a very happy Mothers Day.
I hope everyone has had a great day. I haven't done much, but i did buy lots of orange juice and Ragu, so good all round. Lots of stuff going on at work now, although a lot of it is catch up as everyone is back now. Not much else going on up here, so i will keep this short.
Have fun
Jay

Happy Birthday Dad

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Before i start i would like to say Happy Birthday to dad for tomorrow (9th). I wont say how old he is, but lets just say its a special one ;).
This week has been quite quiet as expected. I actually spent almost 3 days making the shadow behind our job adverts look slightly worse. A;though that makes it sound like a waste of time. We have had trouble in the past with the shadow obscuring the adverts and just generally not displaying well in some different browsers. So, i spent all the time testing out different ideas in as many different browsers as i could until i found one shadow effect that looked the same in all of them. Here is an example of the final result http://www.executivesontheweb.com/project-manager-235916. If you are bored then please could you test this in all browsers you have access to and let me know if any look bad.
Also this week i have been working on a little scrolling shooting game similar to one i did for one of my uni modules, but incorporating my particle engine and generally making it better. If i can work out how, then i should be able to show people who are interested when i am home next weekend.
Well, i think that will do it for this week, im not sure if there will be a post next week, but i should be seeing a lot of you then anyway. So, see you next weekend
Have fun
Jay

The Quiet Before (and After) the storm

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Not much happening this week. I have been resting after what happened last week. Also, if you don't know, i will be home in two weeks for Tom's/Dad's Birthday party. As far as work goes, i have really just been tweaking the site over the last week. Attempting to turn our popular features into very popular features. Also there is still talk of our next big project. I wont say what it is on here, just in case it affects it in some way, but some of you should know what i mean. Although it will probably be put on hold for a few weeks now, as Justin is on holiday for the next 2 weeks, making for a quiet fortnight.
In games this week. I have been playing more flower. If you haven't already, i would still recommend anyone get this. Also, i am getting near the end of Fallout 3 for the second time. Oh and this.
In other news, we finally have a full house again. Someone moved in downstairs last week and someone has just moved in upstairs as well. Both of them seem fine, which is good.
Well, i think that will do for this week, i think im going back to bed. (Who writes a blog at quarter to ten on a Sunday morning...)
Have fun (and buy flower...)
Jay

Watching the pressing of buttons

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The weekend i have been very busy watching Auntie Sue press buttons to find out about Lichfield history. Which was actually more interesting than it sounds, although that is not very hard. But because of this i have forgotten what i was going to write. So just a short update to let you know i am still here thinking of everyone.
Have fun
Jay

Don't Feed the Yao Guai

Hellooooo Everyone,
Just a quick update this week. Not much happening really. At work i have been implementing a system to allow people to import there email contacts to the site and then send them an invite to join. This is proving quite annoying as each email system is different and some don't even provide the data. But s far i have a system to get emails from google mail and any non web based email system, like MS outlook. All good fun.
For games this week, if you cont tell from the title (probably not) I have been playing a lot of fallout 3, still, as it is a really great game. Just make sure you don't finish it. Also, this week Flower finally came out on PSN. If you don't know, Flower is a rather odd game that has you control the wind with the objective of pollinating flowers to turn a very dull landscape bright and colourful. Its quite short, but for £6.29 i would recommend it to any one that like something nice to look at or who wants to relax for a few hours as it is very simple to control, but very beautiful.
In the news this week, more people complaining about stuff.
Well, on that note i think i will end for this week
Have fun
Jay

Bankers are bankers

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Not much going on this week, so i thought I'd talk about something boring. If you haven't already heard, the band of England has this week put the base rate down to an all time low of 1% and as far as im concerned this is an absolutely ridiculous thing to do. Unless i have been very miss informed, the reason we are in the economic state we in s because the bands loaded out too much money. So the band of England's response to this is to make it even easier to borrow money. To say a cliché in an unusual way, My house is on fire, i know what to do, lets turn on the gas. And on a person level, i have some savings and i have a student debt, before i was making money on this arrangement, but now i am not, because apparently saving is a bad idea now.
Well, now that i have got that off my chest, lets find something more interesting, Games. This week i have been playing a lot of Fallout 3, which is a very good game. And if you are into RPGs but are worried about it having guns, don't worry, they work much like a fire spell if you use the auto aiming system. The only real problem i have with the game though is the end. I wont give away the ending, but when i they say they have multiple endings, all they are, are different static pictures with a narrator talking over the top. And that's if you get that far without turning off the game from the really naff bit just before the supposed ending.
In other gaming news, Telltale games in planning on making a Wallace and Gromit games. If you don't know Telltale, they making point and click adventure games, in episodic format with lots of humour along the way. Which, i reckon, with the Wallace and Gromit licence could make for a very good game/series.
Well, i'm tired and it getting late so i will just say that it has snowed here again today, although not much.
have fun and keep warm
Jason