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Here are the latest renders of the model of my scooter.

I am fairly pleased with how it is going. The most tricky bit so far has been the curved bit behind the seat I re-started that one from scratch once because I wasn’t happy with the way that the polygons were going. The pictures in [...]

Here’s a picture of me on the bike that my dad’s been fixing up. My family took the bike out to a private (and very pot-holey) road on Dartmoor. I’m trying to get used to using a bike with gears (my scooter’s an automatic) so maybe I can get a full motorbike license.

I’ve decided to try and model my scooter using Blender. The picture below is part of what I’ve got already, the left handlebar grip. I’ve also done some of the wheel and the seat.

The basic shape is a cylinder which was subsurfed and extruded to make the basic shape, the texture for the grip was [...]

With the release of Blender 2.40 I’ve been trying to get into 3D modeling. Here is a quick image I put together in less than 5 minutes (after watching the video tutorial on Dupliverting).

The image above was made bt dupliverting a NURBS Sphere onto an IcoSphere and then applying a Ramp as the material in [...]

Starting from tomorrow at 9am I will be a LAMP developer. Yay!
I’m sure my friends will be glad for me no longer whinging about:

Being very bored, there’s only so many times you can be entertained by watching your kernel re-compile
Feeling rejected because hardly anyone was replying to my job seeking efforts
Having no money, most of [...]

My router broke sometime between 3am and 11am (when I was asleep) this morning. I thought it might have been the plug so I went into Maplin to see fi I could get a new one. It turned out the one the guy reccommended was the same as the one I’d bought in there a [...]

As most of my friends will know I had a job interview today for an ICT Technician at Devonport High School for Girls. The short story, I didn’t get it.
The long story is…
There were three other candidates for the job being interviewed for the job on the same day as me, down from a short [...]