Cooking With Richard

For the past few weeks N-sama has been wondering about the strange secret project I’ve been engaged in. Well, here it is, revealed to the world for the very first time:

JONESFORTH

The internet in all its glory forgets my first brush with FORTH, which happened in around 1981 or ’82 with ARTIC’s FORTH. I still have my original cassette and manual.

Ever since then I wondered how it worked …

Only now have I found out and become enlightened.

Please somebody buy me a Jupiter ACE.

But can you tell what’s missing from the photo?

Yeah!

A thing of beauty …

Habitual birophagists will be familiar with the unwelcome crunch of plastic and the taste of ink which comes from poorly designed promotional pens. Google’s free pens (of which I got a big handful at their last bash in Belgrave House) suffer in particular from a weak plastic screw joint, and they break apart after even relatively short hacking sessions:

Here’s hoping that the smart folks at Google can rectify this problem (metal pens, anyone?) and send me some. I don’t need to tell them — they’ll find me.

More birophagy:

Download great desktop backgrounds for your computer .. like mine!

Just go to the Pages -> Desktop backgrounds link on the right hand side of this page!

• 4-core AMD Athlon development box
• 2-core Intel Xeon development box
• IBM X60s laptop

3502-9369-5389-2620

To join you’ll have to add me to your address book by following these instructions:

1. Go to the Wii Message Board (the mail button, bottom right)
2. Go to Create Message (the right-hand button at the bottom left)
3. Go to the address book
4. Click Register → Wii
5. Follow the instructions to add my number 3502-9369-5389-2620
6. Mail me! I have to add you to my Wii before anything happens

I have to admit I splurged out on Mario Kart a few days ago. It’s a very good game — even after 9 years.

Some of them are a little bit uncanny actually.

I look rather mad, but that’s because I was concentrating on taking the photo. Actually my new job’s pretty cool.