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Had a bolt of inspiration last night, wasting time perusing Facebook. I was intrigued by the way the date/time stamps works on items in the news feed, only just noticing recently that they can update on the fly. So, like all good, bored developers, I tried to do it myself.

I've spent a considerable amount of time during my life as a developer praising the benefits of Wordpress, specifically as a content management system. And there have been some bumps along the way, which often left me bemoaning my beloved system. Today Matt Mullenweg and the lovely people at Wordpress.org released Wordpress 3.0, named Thelonious, which probably is the most CMS like Wordpress yet.

Two days ago I watched the LOST finale, the final episode of a show been watching religious for the 5 years, through all 6 seasons. What an ending. I've had a while know to think about the show and let the emotion subside, so I'd thought I'd document my thoughts.

Radio silence once again due to University work and job commitments, hopefully I'll be able to post a new pieces of work to the portfolio once they go live. Good news on the academic side: my Maya project got 78% overall, so a nice 1st for the module! One more exam to go on Software Engineering and thats me for the year.

One of my modules this year was to recreate part of the dwarven city of Ironforge from the World of Warcraft using Maya 2009. I have never really ventured into 3D so I didn't really know what to expect from the module, and at first I was a little skeptical about how much I would actually enjoy it. All in all though, I'm very appreciative of having this module as part of the course, and am very happy with the ...

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Been a busy few weeks at the University of Kent, wrapping up my Maya project and finishing off a rather successful rugby season. But most importantly the time has come to start planning my final year project!

When I first set out with this new design last May, I promised myself that the site would be equal parts portfolio and writing. The reason for this is I wanted the 'blog' to be full of useful information on web development and the like, rather than superfluous diary entries. And so, in what little free time I have to dedicate to this site, I've updated the portfolio ...