Zen and the art of Zombie special operations.

A PhD in Operation Market Garden? That'll do nicely

My name is Ed Fowler; I am a long term computer game addict. There I’ve said it. Not exactly controversial to those that know me but it’s still a strong statement of position. It’s not a harmless vice, It’s not without real world effects as well. For example during a blissful three months “gardening leave” when the dot-com bubble collapsed I had an extended period of doing bugger all at home. I could have used the time to up-skill, learn a language, get fit or actually do some gardening.  I spent it getting Zen-good at Return to Castle Wolfenstein. An admirable investment in total pointlessness I'm sure you’ll agree.

Cereal, Obol, cartoons and Fortean times in Bournemouth

Hello, is that the BBC? it's Aliens I tells you, Aliens!

It’s a bit of a portmanteau posting today, frankly I'm mildly hungover and still a bit confused over the depth of thought my daughter has put into her view of the perfect milk-to-cereal ratio.

I want it all, I want it all and I want it now!

Here's one I made earlier and yes the shape is damn near impossible.

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small parts”-- Henry Ford

I admit it, beneath the suave, urbane façade I present to the world, I'm a bit of a geek. Probably a lot of other things as well, but certainly a geek about certain things. I love culinary technology, I love sci-fi, I think games are what computers are made for and I when I want a gadget I want it now.

cake, process and efficiency

are you sure this is the expenses process?

There is a creative process I go through to write each day. It might not look like a process, involving numerous cups of tea, bottles of diet coke, the odd cream bun and the occasional cake, but it’s a process trust me on that.

Why a systems architect needs cufflinks

There are some days when I'm glad I'm so lazy that I can’t even get up from the sofa where I'm typing this whilst watching Mythbusters blow something up for the three millionth time to find my wallet. Otherwise, if I were more go getting and active, I might have got up, found my wallet and dropped £200 on this pile of geek-crack.

Pay attention 007, just in case your presentation is too big to email...

I want it now

As a society I think we have rather got used to things happening quickly. We’ve all this automation, all this IT, all this production line manufacturing and with the rapid maturation of technologies like 3D printing this is only to get worse. Just about the only area we expect things to take more than days or weeks is construction and even then there are exceptions to that:

15 days? Strewth!