About Me

OK so this is what I'm about...

I'm a web developer specialising in ASP to Flash applications, but mostly I like to write games for fun.

I also create contemporary digital artworks that embrace the latest available software.

And I've got two young children, so I have to do a mortgagey type of thing too. This is the full-time job as a college lecturer running an Interactive Media course in Leeds, UK. It's great fun to do as I've got fantastic students, great colleagues and a course that pushes not just their boundaries.

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Continental Underground Travel - of the fantastic kind!

Underground is a series of fantastical underground rail networks (after Harry Beck) that connect each part of the globe to the others. What would you think if you could jump on a tube in London and arrive within an hour in New York? I suppose you'd h...

iPhone Phrenzy

This was the question that a couple of my friends were asking after they'd just purchased their spanking new Apple mobile products. They had a good idea what they wanted, but didn't really know the best source/s of purchase and/or download. After a f...

Keith Gray, Dental Technician Extraordinaire

My dad touched a lot of people's lives over the course of his own. He enjoyed his life and took great satisfaction in practising his Dental work to an incredibly high standard. As a father, he was always there for my brother and myself. Now I've go...

Top Student Excuses

My colleagues and me are constantly amazed at both the level of innovation and re-cogitation of excuse that we receive. We thought it might be fun to list some of the most inventive ones.

So You Want to be a Web Developer / Designer?

In 1999 I found myself to be in the same position as so many other people, I was in an unfulfilling job. OK, I was good at it and it paid the mortgage, but it wasn't what I wanted to do. I'd been dabbling with the Internet for a few years and couldn'...

Is Adobe CS3 Trying to Mess Up Web Development?

I'm a College Lecturer of Interactive Media, and unluckily for me my college went out and spilled a load of cash on CS3. Im talking from a Flash ActionScript viewpoint when I say it's new, clumsy and full of glitches. I've been to the Adobe CS3 roads...

Blackcurrant Jelly Sweets

I have this vivid memory from my childhood of Midget Gems and Sports Mixture. Lovely jelly sweets in a multitude of flavours: rasberryish, pineapplyish, orange, lime, peary and licorice. As a kid, these are more often categorised as red, yellow, oran...

Optical 3D Feast

Stand in front of these artworks and try to figure out what's going on. As the pieces are devised using 3D computer software there's a natural depth within them that offers the viewer more than usual 2D artwork. The featured picture shows a section...

Excuse of the Day

My students often point out funny things to me, and I think it's kind of selfish of me to keep them to myself, so here they are - the clean ones at least! Have a go at putting your own caption to them if you'd like.

Alternative Cocktails or What they Should be Called in the Real World

The mystique of the phrase "Shaken, not Stirred", the wonderful vision conjured up by the cocktail named desire... Angel, Singapore Sling, A Slow Comfortable Screw! Real life just isn't like that. You're more likely to encounter The Devil, a Singing...