Alan Turing was one of, if not the greatest computer scientists in the history of the world.
He is one of my biggest inspirations and he was an incredibly clever, brave and generally remarkable man.
If you don't know much about Turing this post may be rather less interesting, but the man was an absolute genius who cracked the Enigma code during the Second World War and shortened the war by two to four years and also developed the things we call 'computers'.
Turing Machines are very simple mathematical devices that take in an input and decide what to do with it. Couple loads of these and you have a system like computers of today. That's how transistors work in the CPU of the computer and so on.
Turing committed suicide after being chemically castrated for being gay back in 1954 - an unbelievable loss to the world.
Anyway, in the next few days I'm sure the world will celebrate this man for what he did.
I am proud to say that for the first time this week I will be releasing a beta of my own software, this time not BlackRabbit, but to the general public, not just to people I know. The new software contains multiple measures to ensure that it will not be copiable. It also contains my new registration application.
The application, which is known as Painter Pro, is what was formerly known by its codename "Aberdeen". This is the first time I have released the name. As of today, I am also considering other names.
If you are interested in testing the software, then please feel free to contact me using the usual methods.
Today I am going to review the BlueLounge CableBox in my blog. Firstly, it is nothing more than a box with slots for wires to go through. And it's aim is to tidy up wiring. They cost around £25, which is a bit steep for nothing more than a box.
However, and this is a big however, the CableBox, despite being nothing more than a box, is getting a 8/10 from me because of the fact that has worked how I wanted it to but because it's expensive for what it is.
It's easy to see how it has changed my wiring system (I am still in the process of tidying my wires, but you can see how the BlueLounge CableBox has changed it all so far!).
As you may have noticed. I've been working on the site quite recently. There is a new blog specifically for BlackRabbit now. Here I will post updates about BlackRabbit and what I intend to bring to it within the future years.
As you may have noticed. I've been working on the site quite recently. There is a new blog specifically for BlackRabbit now. Here I will post updates about BlackRabbit and what I intend to bring to it within the future years. Twitter is now deeply integrated into my website now too.
As of today, the site has moved from freefind.com to Google for the search provider. I am most happy to say that you can now search the website from the largest search provider around - Google.
I must also point out whilst I am here, the website has two or three other changes. Firstly, I have changed the section known as VB.NET to Developer, as I use different languages as well that I would like to be able to display on the site. Secondly, the new section known as Education has been recently added, here I will share stuff relating to learning - hopefully. I also do not intend to keep the section related to YouTube, as it has become apparent to myself that it is unnecessary as it has not been updated with a single script yet.
Remember, find out more on Twitter.
Since the last post on the blog, I have procured a new development in software. This development has worked out to the best with BlackRabbit. The project known as "Warsaw" is considered a great improvement and with use of BlackRabbit, we have developed a "concise set of commands" which operate to reduce the time wasted repeating tasks over and over.
After today's episode of Spooks, a series which has kept me on the edge of my seat for nearly ten great years, I am saying goodbye to it. The series which is produced for and aired by the BBC has made television great again for me, along with the similar Hustle programme which is shown early in the year as opposed to late, are both set to end in the current series. Television to me will once again only become the occasional programme and EastEnders.
Spooks will also go down in my own books as my favourite TV series of all time followed by Hustle.
We are going to miss it, but I would like to take a moment to say "thanks" to all of the Spooks greats for making it so epic; Peter Firth, Nicola Walker, Richard Armitage, Rupert Penry Jones, Hermione Norris, Miranda Raison, Matthew Macfadyen, Robert Glenister, Tim McInnerny and Raza Jaffrey).
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz
8GB DDR2 8500 RAM
1x 120GB SSD, 2x 1TB hard drives, 1x 2TB hard drive
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
XFX ATI Radeon HD5670
Blu-Ray ROM, Blu-Ray RW and DVD-RW drives
Card reader and Floppy disk drive
Lian-Li PC-60B Plus
Corsair HX850W PSU
Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 v2
Labtec Arena 5.1 Surround sound
Dell P2310h 23" 1920 by 1080 LCD monitor DVI
Wacom Bamboo Graphics tablet
Logitech Quickcam Sphere AF
Hauppauge HVR-1100 TV card
40 inch Samsung LE40M87 LCD TV in duplicate setup
Wireless Philips Headphones
I watched Muse live at T In The Park (on TV) and I have to say they are as good as they are on the CDs when they are live! What a performance it was!
