Dan Harvey's Weblog

Moved home

Dan Harvey — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:45:35 +0000

I’ve moved my blog to danharvey.wordpress.com.

This is the url I originally wanted but when I signed up before wordpress didn’t let me register. When I tried again recently I found I could, which was odd, so I’ve moved my posts and starting using that before I start to get linked in more. I’ll probably close this account down soon as I don’t need it anymore.

16 bits of fun

Dan Harvey — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:36:59 +0000

This brings back some memories from the past of Saturday mornings when I went into Dad’s work and played DOS and WIN 3.11 games.

SkiFree – http://ski.ihoc.net/

Apparently it got ported at some point to the Game Boy Colour, I never spotted that.

It works fine in Wine too, enjoy.

What are you doing?

Dan Harvey — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:16:34 +0000

Is a question people ask you all the time, and so do Twitter and Facebook too.

I used to never use the Facebook status as I didn’t like putting my whole life into Facebook, but recently I started to use Twitter to post (more tech related out bursts) and the Facebook application to update my status when I post in Twitter. This made me think about the different between these two status feeds, Facebook is more about what I’m doing that my friends would be interesting in and Twitter is more posting comments to like minded people which my friends don’t always appreciate. This leaves me with posting more general things in Twitter or just updating both separately, which I don’t want to do.

Maybe there should be a new service where you can compose your status and tag what it is about, then have it sent to different status stream services appropriately. For this to work you would need to get replies (or comments in Facebook) to be in one place too, which will be hard till Facebook opens up more. We’ll see where this unfolds this year I guess as the usage of conversational media grows on the web.

My first blog, well sort of…

Dan Harvey — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:44:27 +0000

This is my first blog on wordpress, I started to use blogger about a year about but didn’t use it much and have now decided I want a site on the web to post things I think about, tech things I do, and to back post things I’ve written and done in the past.

I’m going to start posting mostly about my thoughts and experiance with technology hoping they might be useful or intresting to discuss, I’ll probably also post on other intresting things, but with my MSc taking quite a bit of time, we’ll see what else I get upto.