Robotperson

I’m going to try and recommend links on a more regular basis. God knows, I spend enough of my time surfing around and I come across interesting things often enough. Here are a few sites I’ve been checking out recently: I’ve just read "Dude, where’s my country?" by Michael Moore, and am feeling more than […]

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past couple of weeks creating a new eBay item template. I’ve put a few items up this week , so for now you can check the template out here. Look familiar? After doing a similar template for Jez, a friend here in Brighton who deals in old […]

Last Friday, March 19th, saw two significant life events for Lara: First, it was her 30th birthday; and second, the last ever episode of her favourite show, Sex and the City was on TV. The symbolism of this coincidence was not lost on us, and to celebrate these eras ending we took the day off. […]

Robotperson site development continues, and I thought I’d give you a run down of what’s new: My portfolio pages in the resumé section are now up-to-date. There are 30 odd projects to read about of which only 6 or so are recent enough to be of direct interest. To help readers save time I’ve divided […]

Number 1 in a series: Air Mule Click to enlarge.

People often ask me how it’s going with the commute – whether it’s getting to me at all, or if I’m sick of it yet. I’m actually quite positive about my time on the train, and generally my replies reflect this. There are hidden advantages – like lots of time to read, and the excellent […]

Robotperson is moving: virtually and actually. First virtually: Over the last week my web hosts, Portland, have been under assault. Someone with a grudge has launched a denial of service attack, and to protect their network Portland have taken the targeted box offline. Robotperson, and all the other sites hosted thereon have been down as […]

Mother recently passed on to me an ingredient for her bolognaise recipe which her own mother, my Maltese Grandma had tipped her off to. As she casually mentioned this my thoughts turned immediately to Mediterranean family secrets, omerta, and the general glamour of secret things. Consequently it was with a measure of excitement in my […]

I’ve discovered a new genre of music. Such moments are always exciting, but this time it’s particularly so as the style in question is very much up my street. It’s called variously Chipstyle or Chiptune (I’ll go with Chiptune) and the basics are as follows: Chiptune is electronic music made on outdated sequencing platforms like […]