My birthday: the year gone by

Today is my birthday,  and I thought that I might take this opportunity to look at what’s happened over the past year.

Galileo’s Physics

Another site that I’ve made for physics:

Galileo’s Physics

Nice one, Microsoft!

I had the extreme misfortune of using Windows XP today, and my experience was not brilliant. Upon startup I was greeted with this dialog:

Sure, it is true that closing Explorer will make your system more secure, but why not shut down Windows all together if Microsoft are going down that road? As it was, explorer.exe wasn’t terminated until the dialog was dismissed, so whichever imaginary security threat that caused this message was probably still running anyway.

Good old DOS games

The other day I came across DOS Museum, a website dedicated to the preservation of DOS games. I was instantly reminded of my childhood favourites like Hocus Pocus, Word Rescue, Commander Keen, Jazz Jackrabbit… my eyes are beginning to glaze over already. I still have lots of respect for the old developers who had to optimize the hell out of their games to overcome hardware limitations, unlike modern developers and their GiB large products.

If you are a sad individual that never had the chance to experience pixellated madness, have a look through the catalogues and install a few games in DOSBox, an open source MS-DOS emulator. They are much better than a lot of Flash games!

Nuclear history of Russia

For Physics at school I put together a website about Russian nuclear history. You may find the use of Ajax interesting…
http://russiannuclear.uuuq.com/