Eragon - all pervasive

December 6, 2006 | Movies, Video Games

I read the first two Eragon books recently, the third and final is currently being written. My timing seems to have been quite good because as I was reading the second book, I found out that there was a film being made… and then there are the inevitable video games. Now on the company I work at are running ads for Eragon on our website. It’s everywhere!

The youth of Christopher Paolini, the author, and the success it has achieved are astounding. Christopher was 15 when he graduated from school and started the first book, and 18 when he started the second. The book was self published by his parents, and is now being turned into a movie (released next week) and video games for pretty much every game format.

The first of the series, Eragon, has been criticised as being a little formulaic and derivative but I …

Elebits - domino course

December 5, 2006 | Video Games

Elebits is a new game for the Nintendo Wii and until I saw the following video I wasn’t overly interested in it.

It rather reminds me of the Half Life 2 physics demo that was set up all that time ago, albeit on a smaller scale.

Firebug 1.0 beta released

December 4, 2006 | Links

FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, an error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

I have been using Firebug extensively to help when designing websites and today Phu pointed out that a beta of the new version has been released. I don’t need to use it at the moment but based on a five minute pay that I’ve just had it’s well worth a download and will no doubt be used extensively in the future.

Very cool.

24 Ways (web design stuff)

December 3, 2006 | Links

24 Ways was started last year by Drew McLellan. He calls it a geek advent calendar. I call it cool… which must make me a geek.

Last year there were many cool new web based hints tips and general goodness released, and based on the first 3, this year looks to be more of the same. If you’re a web geek like me then this could be a good springboard for new ideas for your site.

Let’s hope it continues as a yearly thing.

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