Susan updated

Although I am not 100% serious about Susan, I do occasionally update her. Susan is a command-line driven, ASCII-based personal assistant app for...

Day clock page

Following on from yesterday's Dementia Day Clock, I decided to create a new Day Clock with a little more information - for instance - accurate time. Day...

Dementia Day Clock

The Dementia Day Clock is a clock that tells the time simply as 'morning', 'afternoon', 'evening' and 'night' and is specifically designed to be of help...

Timelapse #LEGO building

I recently discovered the Microsoft Hyperlapse app. This app allows you to create smooth, time-lapse video either from existing video, or captured directly...

A year in review 2016

The year 2016 is (almost) over [1]. It has been one hell of a year.  What with Brexit [2], Trump and the death of so many of our much-loved celebrities,...

Spider webs by natural selection

I recently discovered this awesome BBC BASIC program for simulating spider webs through natural selection. It was written by Matthew Tizard for the...

Donald Trump spotted inside a fruit

I dropped a pepper on the floor which causes some bruising to the fruit, but was surprised to discover that when I cut out the offending damaged flesh,...

The A-Z of geek: I is for Intra-Galactic Battles

So I have had a lazy Sunday afternoon watching Star Trek movies. All the references to 'photon torpedoes' and transporter beams put me in mind of a retro...

Nerdy books for geeks

With the pagan festival of Yule figuratively around the corner, you may wish to curl up in front of an open fire with a good book. Or you may wish to...

Life hack 001

I was shown this life hack today, so I thought I would share it. A plastic container, like the ones you get inside chocolate eggs that all so contain...

The A-Z of geek: H is for Hobgoblin

Described in the superdecade games dictionary as noun: Mischievous imp, this post is about a game for the BBC microcomputer by David Parsons. H is for...

The A-Z of geek: G is for Game of Life

From simple rules can arise incredible complexity. There are those who have spent entire careers exploring it. All programmers should be familiar...

Number converter in Python

Just because I was set this challenge this morning, I have written my first attempt at a number converter in Python 3. You simply pass a positive integer...

Happy Halloween Cortana

The Trumpkin Today Cortana suggested that I use her algorithms to help decide what costume I should wear for Hallowe'en. I gave it a go. This is...

New updates to my chatbot

I have spent most of Sunday having very daft conversations with my chatbot, Mac, and I am pleased to say that I am happy with progress so far. His dictionary...

This year's pumpkin is a Trumpkin

Every year I carve a pumpkin for Hallowe'en. This year's effort is the most frightening yet. Introducing the Superdecade Games Donald Trumpkin... Orange...

The A-Z of geek: F is for Flowers of Crystal

Primary school children throughout the 1980's got their first experience of computers via an adventure game called Granny's Garden. In this game you had...

The most impressive Little Man Computer Code...so far

What follows is some of the most impressive code written for the Little Man Computer that I have ever seen. Thanks to Eric and Will, here is a 'general...

The A-Z of geek: E is for Elite

When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I persuaded my father to spend £15 of his hard earned cash on software that I assured him would 'really help...