- Electric Top Hat released Modulo today, a “unique and horribly addictive puzzler” for the iPhone. Being a poor student I don’t have an iPhone (or, in fact, any phone right now) but if you do you should go check it out. (youtube, press release)
- Gary Short and Oliver Sturm began the Sod This podcast recently (Ok, so not that recently – I forgot to mention it until now). “Sod This is a mixture of two rather technical people having a chat, discussions about relevant or not so relevant technology, programming questions and sock monsters, and interviews that Oliver and Gary record with people they meet at the events they attend around the world.”
- Liam Wong has founded the Whitespacers community – a group, not surprisingly, for those based in Whitespace to encourage more interaction between different years and groups at Abertay. Also a great opportunity for those interested in studying at Abertay to find out more about what things are really like, and make some friends before you even get here.
Links
April 29th, 2009
Updates, and a new theme.
February 17th, 2009
New Theme
Oh yes. That is a brand new theme you see before you. Thoughts? Opinions?
It’s a bit minimalistic (read: boring) and relies more heavily on the default Kubrick theme than I would like, but it shows up and seems to work – what more could you ask for? Hopefully being plain and simple means I won’t get sick of it as soon as I have with other themes, and it’s as simple as can be – no magazine style front pages to fiddle with and waste time on.
If you want any of the source code, drop me an email and I’ll fire it off to you. I don’t think there’s anything particularly complicated or inspiring in there, but if you’re curious let me know.
PS. Did I mention I *HATE* web coding?
Linking To Me
On this note, I’ve also pointed http://hazelmckendrick.com at my about me page (which still hasn’t been updated unhappyface), as you can hopefully see from the different banner I’m using there. If you’re linking to me in any sort of professional or academic capacity, I’d appretiate if you could use that link instead. Blogging people – feel free to stick with kcnb. Cheers 
Portfolios
A few of my friends have now got their portfolios online (or will do in the near future) – please go check them out on my links page.
New Domain
February 15th, 2009
You can now access the site from http://HazelMcKendrick.com (I hope).
Ever so professional, right?
I guess I’ll probably just get it pointing to the About Me page when I update that. Which will be soon. Honestly. 
On a related note, this means the site will probably be down for a couple of hours at some point, so I can get some things transfered and sorted out with my host.
More Changes.
February 3rd, 2009
So, any of you who’ve been hanging around longer than a couple of days (ok, so noone. You’ll just have to take my word for what follows) will have noticed that there have been a few changes around the site lately.
As you can see, for the first time I’m using a theme which I did not create myself. I have plans for how I’d like the site to look in future, but given my lack of time for web programming and my hatred of PHP, I suspect KCNB’s appearance may not change for some time. I do intend to keep updating the site, but I wouldn’t hold your breath for regular posts. I’ll write when I have something to say.
We Need Some Time Apart
January 5th, 2009
Suffice to say from my lack of updates (again), blogging isn’t really working out for me. I’m kind of sick of this updating for a couple of months, having uni, and giving up again thing. So I won’t be posting to KCNB in its current form any further.
However, I have found something which was working well for me: Tumblr. I guess most of those posts wont mean a lot to anyone but myself, but I found it a great way to keep my thoughts organised during a project and stay on top of links and sources I’ve used.
This in itself is not really enough: I’d like to have a space to maintain my portfolio of projects and games. So my intention is to cut things back here, have space for my work and use it more as a personal homepage, and incorportate a micro-blog into the site. This means I can easily share what’s going on in a way that is useful to both myself and hopefully to others facing similar problems, with a system I might actually use, and also have the space to make longer, more thought out posts if the need arrises.