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Spore Creature Creator

Kevin Muma — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:11:58 +0000

The Spore creature creator is out. There is a free version and the full version for $10.

The full game is coming out in September. In the meantime I’ve been making creatures with the free demo.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Kevin Muma — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 04:58:43 +0000

Yesterday I caught the movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang at the local Rainbow Cinema.

I don’t want to say too much about the film about the film, for fear of giving away some of the surprises. What I will say is that I thoroughly enjoyed it. It has a film noir detective angle, and it contains elements which reminded me of some of my favourite movies: Adaptation, The Singing Detective, and Get Shorty.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was extremely funny. I’m not sure how it will stand up to multiple viewings, but I may try to see it again. Unfortunately the film has only had limited release.

[Update]

I watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang again this week, I found it still entertaining, but not as engaging the second time.

The Beginning

Kevin Muma — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 05:30:28 +0000

I started programming soon after my family got our fist computer, a 486/33 DX. It all started when at about 13 years old, I discovered that DOS came with QBasic. So I bought some old books on BASIC and started teaching myself programming. My early attempts in BASIC didn’t lead to any finished products. My biggest undertaking, converting an Asterix chooses your own adventure book into a computer text adventure, ended when I discovered, through a letter to the publisher, that the rights to Asterix computer games had been secured by another company.

From QBasic I moved to Visual Basic. Then while attending high school I taught myself HTML, JavaScript, and PHP and set up own Apache webserver. Once I finished high school I went to university to learn more about computers.