Tag: dave hughes

Pledge to Elite Dangerous NOW. If this game doesn’t get made I’ll blame YOU. Yes, YOU personally. Look. Trailer to show how awesome it’s going to be…

David Braben, one of the brains behind Elite, that game that has dominated my psyche for the last 30 years, has launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at crowd-funding Elite IV, the long-awaited sequel to Elite that has been bugging people since Frontier First Encounters turned out to be so dire. Not only that, but it…

It’s been a while, I know. Of all things that put me back in front of the blog-o-board, it’s been the recent acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney. So why so quiet on the blog front, Hughesy? Busy times. So many things happening, none of them good. I may go into them on another post, but…

I feel vilified in my beliefs that film critics are knobs. I’ve been a fan of Edgar Rice-Burroughs’ John Carter Of Mars series for a good few years now (even since finding them on the Gutenberg Library) and was quite excited by the imminent release of the film. I was thinking about going to see…

Happy Star Wars Day to everyone.

Found this on the Oolite forums. Check it out. I demand it to be so. http://www.numbersleuth.org/universe/  

Comics. Comics comics comics. I have a dilemma. I have the bug to write and draw a webcomic again. The problem is that I stopped doing the last one because life was just too action-packed to be able to draw a comic on a regular basis and if I start to slip and say “oh,…

A workmate made the following comment during a conversation lamenting the loss of the space shuttle: “A clear indication of the decline of the US as a superpower was its decision to cut space expenditure and not create a shuttle replacement. Superpowers like to be ahead of everyone and this is a clear indication that…

Well, that’s that done. Hughesd is no more. My web site is now daftworks.co.uk and my email address is too! I’ve had the same domain and email address for nigh on 12 years and it feels like I’ve changed something fundamental about myself. I know I haven’t. It’s just a silly address. Or is it? I mean, I…

Something’s not right… The migration over to a linux hosting platform has made something screwy with the site’s content management interface. All the icons that tell me what’s going on have vanished! I wanted to post more, but it’ll have to wait. until then, just beware that there may be some odd behaviour on the…