You notice things more when you’re on a bike compared to driving along, cocooned in your comfy car. Wind direction, surface gradient, slippery death-dealing manhole covers, the glass and debris in the gutter, and things at the side of the road. I noticed the sign below as I cycled through Templepatrick (a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland) the other evening…

The CodeIgniter PHP web application framework on which this site is based made a security and bugfix release version 1.6.3 a few days ago.

I’ve just had the chance to upgrade the site to this new version and ran into a little problem that stumped me for a while, as the upgraded site just displayed a blank page, no errors and nothing in the logs…

I’ve released an updated WHDLoad patch for Kingsoft’s gravity cave fighter, Gravity Force.

The patch fixes a logic bug where the high scores are not saved if you didn’t use any of the cheats the patch provides, instead of not saving if you did use cheats. Thanks go to daxb for finding and reporting this problem.

Download the patch, instructions and pre-installed image from my download pages or from the Official WHDLoad Website.

I’ve released an updated WHDLoad patch for Hard Drivin’.

This version is a bugfix release to correct a crash when saving high scores.

I’m still searching for three rare compilation versions of Hard Drivin’ as below:

• Action 5 compilation
• Summer Smashers compilation
• Sport Games Hits compilation

If you have any of these versions or know where I can get them, please get in touch!

Download the patch, instructions and pre-installed image from my download pages or from the Official WHDLoad Website.

I’ve used the FriendFeed public API to display the latest entries from my FriendFeed … feed, by using jQuery to make an AJAX call to the FriendFeed API to retrieve the latest entries in JSON format then insert suitable markup to the page document to display the results.