Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Legitimate comment spam?
I have literally just received some comment spam on my blog. Nothing unusual in this, I get 50/60 comment spams on Binary Moon every day.
What is strange is that it made sense. It was a genuine comment from Channel 4 (a large uk television channel) looking for contestants for a new tv show. It was on a post about game programming despite the comment having nothing to do with game development. It included a name and phone number ...
Rubbish (dangerous) design
I've been meaning to post about this for a while and this post by tech blogger Jeremy Keith reminded me about it. This is slightly different to the average post you'd find here on Binary Moon, so if you want the normal content you will have to wait a few days. I have a number of posts in the wings so things should be back to normal shortly.
I live in London but recently have ...
Miniclip wins Webby Award – I get to go to New York
A couple of weeks ago I was taken to New York for the 10th annual Webby Awards. Miniclip, the company I work for, had won the peoples voice award for gaming and the boss was kind enough to invite me (and a couple of others) along to the ceremony (thanks a lot Rob).
We flew over on the Saturday, spent the Sunday lazing around in New York (lots ...
Miniclip wins a Webby Award – yay for me!
Miniclip, the company I work for, has won the peoples Voice Webby Award for Games, for the second year running.
Hooray.
Interestingly the site that won the critics choice for games was running a game that Miniclip commissioned. Is that a double win for us? Obviously it's not but congrats should go to Bloc Media who made an incredibly cool game, Stackopolis.
Vote for me at the Webbys… please
Ok - technically I'm not up for a Webby but the company I work for, Miniclip, is up for an award.
We're clearly the best company in the games category so head on over there and show your support
We won the peoples voice last year but there wasn't much competition, this year we're up against Star Wars Galaxies and Disney's Toon Town, both very big companies with a lot of dedicated users.
Adsense
The more observant amongst you will have noticed that I have recently added Adsense ads to Binary Moon. What you most likely won't have noticed, unless you checked out Bubble Blitz online, is that I've also added them to Binary Sun.
Why Binary Moon?I'm not overly keen on advertising but I thought I would try them out. To keep things nice the ads on Binary Moon will only be visible in certain places.
If you are on a post with ...4 Things
I've been tagged by Phu over at ifElse so here's my list of 4 Things...
Four jobs that I've hadFlash Games & Web Developer 3d Artist Sales person in a record store Sales person in a pet shopFour movies I can watch over and overDonnie Darko Oldboy Lord of the Rings Star WarsFour places I have livedLondon London London Note: I've only ever lived in and around London, but I have lived in 3 different places within LondonFour TV shows I like to watchLost The ...The Cult of the Mac
I recently turned to the dark side and got a Mac... well... an iPod Nano to be specific (so not a Mac at all then). It was actually my Christmas present from work and is quite a nice little mp3 player. However, having used it for a few weeks I have a few things to say (about Mac's in general).
InterfaceOne of the things you will hear absolutely everywhere, is all the ...
