Adam Chamberlin

Enter the latest 360 offering from THQ; Saints Row. Set in the fictional city of Stilwater, Saints Row thrusts the player into a violent gang war between 4 rival gangs fighting for supremacy. Volition has taken the tried and true open world formula and has given it a much needed next-gen face lift, offering unparalleled customization as well as robust multiplayer over Xbox Live…a first for open...

You may notice a couple of changes around here. I’ve been working on a few different ideas for the metadata. The main one being the photo album page. For many month’s I’ve used the WordPress FAlbum plugin for displaying photographs from my Flickr account. However I found this a bit bloated, it adds lots of code and calls on the server from within WordPress. I wanted to find a simpler approach to...

It was a year ago to the day that a group of ex Grabor employees all met together at the Boat House in Sudbury. So what better way to mark a year on but to organise another meeting. I was not certain what to expect, not really sure what a lot of the ex workers were doing with themselves these days. Added to the fact I was not feeling too hot I actually wanted to pass on the day. Regardless Lucy...

Wild Wales Challenge The Wild Wales challenge is an event held on the August Bank Holiday Monday every year in the village/town of Bala in North Wales. It is a one day event that takes in some 90 miles of North Wales. In recent years the event has attracted some 600 riders, not bad given the size of the sports centre where you start, yet this event is not a race, it is as it claims a CHALLENGE....

Testing Testing One Two Writer The other month Microsoft released Live Writer, an application to enable the end user to write blog entries from the desktop. The idea is a nice one and so far it does fit into the whole Microsoft Office application suite very well, however with is once again a piece of Microsoft software, to which my only use is at work. Not bad come to think of it as I can sit here...

Frost is actually named after ex warehouse man; Colin Frost. The idea was to keep a simple and clean white/grey scheme to the design. As per most of my design ideas now I wanted to keep the main articles separate from the ‘sidenotes’ or secondary articles. Frost began it’s life back in June, with a few sketches on my notepad. Next step was to rough out a visualisation of the design (pictured...

This should hopefully be a ‘come back’ style of post, as you will know I have been some what pre-occupied with other things and the whole blogging side of my life was put on hold. Yet what better to kick start your progress than a new theme! I present to you: Frost. It is still not 100% complete but over the next few days it should be tweaked to a point of being workable. The second more important...

If you are a regular you will notice a complete lack of activity. If your a new visitor; don’t worry you have not missed much! To be honest I’m not sure what has happened to me or where my motivation has disappeared to but it has definitely gone somewhere, even my Flickr account has been very quiet. Since last month I have reached one of those ‘crossroads in your life’ stages. You know the ones...

Floyd Landis has won the 93rd Tour de France. The tour started off on rocky grounds with some of the top names being suspended of racing by their teams. Since then the entire race seems to have been turned on it’s head with no real structure to the teams or the race. A lot of people claimed that since Basso and Ulrich were out the tour had been handed to Landis, I was not too sure about this and...

Whoops! In the last couple of weeks I have really let myself slide, I’ve gone off the rails and so far I’m carving a nice little single track though the land of Unhealthy looking for some where to stop. Thats right I’ve hit the beer and smokes pretty bad lately! I blame Kevin next door, since he has found a new sense of single freedom I felt guilty for not helping him make the most of it. Plus he...