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It's not raining, and according to my garmin I've just been out cycling in temperatures in excess of 15'C, which is T-Shirt and Shorts weather in my book.

31 today! So for just over a month you're older than me again....

no escape from the cake

...and, following on from that, how I really struggled to come up with one that was, and was fun.

I'll be referencing what I shall refer to as "the L4D Boardgame", which doesn't exist, but various design notes and thoughts can be seen here.

"I can't play online Risk anymore." said a new Chom Isis player "I just assume everyone is not trustworthy - which makes winning really hard. Chom Isis has ruined my enjoyment of Risk."

Supreme Commander 2

I do this every so often. I take on about a million projects. They never give up, they just grind along.

I went to the IET/BCS lecture down in london on thursday it was by Professor Christopher Bishop, chief research scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge. It was titled "Embracing Uncertainty: The New Machine Intelligence". It was at the IET HQ down in savoy place in london a very nice building on the Thames with view of the london eye and big ben next to the savoy hotel.

Some time back I stumbled across the reprap project (www.reprap.org) a worldwide open source project initiated by Dr Adrian Bowyer at the university of bath the goal of which was to design and build an affordable 3d printer that could self replicate ie print all it's own parts.

The snow seems to have held off a little in the past month, so I've been working on getting some mileage out of the bike. It's still been stupidly cold, and wet, and windy, so it's been a long way from pleasant, but it's important that I get myself moving now, so I don't suffer too much in June.