Women at EuroGamer

It was also nice to see that there were women at EuroGamer :)

EuroGamer Expo 2012

Just back from a fun day at EuroGamer in London. Loads of unreleased games to play as well as some old classics in the retro zone. Seeing manic miner playing on a real ZX Spectrum brought back memories of attending the "LET" computer show back in the 1980's. Things are a bit more hi-tech these days but still lots of fun.

 

 

I'm doing my "where's wally" impression. Can you spot me ?



Windows 8

I am now running Windows 8 on a laptop. I can’t say I was impressed with the upgrade installer and the new UI is not very intuitive. I guess it’ll take a bit of getting used to but all the admin stuff seems hidden away. Probably great with a touch screen but with a mouse it’s a right pain. Maybe there are some keyboard shortcut keys? Need to investigate after I get Delphi running :)

A new blog for my radio interests

As I don't want to fill this blog to too much random stuff, I have created a new one for my amateur radio ramblings. If that sort of thing floats your boat, then check it out over here: M0ZQR

Pi in action

Having now sourced all the additional bits to get my Raspberry Pi working, I finally got it powered up. I had a small issue as I didn't know what the username and password had been set to. After a quick look at the Raspberry Pi site I was able to access Debian in all its glory. Next I wrote the obligatory "hello Pi" app in Python which fortunately worked first time. Next is to buy a wireless USB dongle from eBay and to think about building a box to put all this in. Here is a screen shot of the rather "in-ya-face" background.

Racing at Rye-House

Here is some video of my son racing at Rye-House:

My Raspberry Pi is here

At long last my Pi has arrived. I've placed a Debian image on a new SD Card and will be powering her up as soon as I can find a spare keyboard and mouse. Here is a picture of her: