December 20th, 2007
I have written a number of crosswords, both concise and cryptic. In my concise crosswords, the meaning of the clues is obvious, the clues are straight. Most of the crosswords I write are ‘cryptic’ crosswords, and I have included a couple of examples:
I wrote this puzzle as an example of a ‘quiptic’ crossword, for the Guardian website. Quiptic crosswords are a simple version of a cryptic crossword. For more examples of crosswords, with tutorials on how they work visit the Guardian crossword page.
This is a crossword designed for the Institute of Financial Sevices newsletter.
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December 20th, 2007
This is a handy place to store things like attempts to learn some Flash skills a few years ago. I made a nice little push-button chart illustrating the phonemes of Arabic, as I was thinking of chucking it all in and getting out to the Emirates. I ended up staying in Blighty and never did learn Arabic, but I still have this example of probably the only bit of Flash I ever built from scratch.
On a slightly less virtuous note, I have an addiction to Star Trek: The Next Generation. I have all of them on DVD (in seven nice shiny pods), but find it very difficult to find particular episodes as the indexing is so poor. So I built this. With links. And a star rating. Was gong to add more elements to the table, may do that one day when I’m at a loose end - but don’t hold your breath!
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