Andy Balaam

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Andy Balaam's blog
Wrestles with God - a place for Christians, nearly-Christians, ex-Christians, and anyone else who's interested, to talk about our lives with and without God. There's also a static archive of the old site, Guilty Expression.
WideJenga - innovative balancing game
NumberOfCoefficients - a new branch of maths.
I have lots of IdeasForProjects, but I don't manage my time effectively enough to put them into action.
Some comics - by me
Planet Andy - blogs I read
Developmental Neural Networks - my research at Sussex Uni.
Mnemonic - industrial metal by Pete Beresford and me.
Red Rag Band - energetic folk/rock music by Ed Sherwood and others.
Rainbow Gardens - Ben Coventry's gardening business (site designed by me, formerly at www.rainbowgardens.co.uk).
Alison Balaam - Counsellor - Person-centred counselling (site designed by me).
Andy Balaam's wish list

duckmaze - you is a duck what is in a maze, like.
mop(e)snake - a classic snake game.
Gnome Attacks - a city destruction game.
Troncode - write programs to play a simple light cycle game (and participate in competitions).
Zoomy - a picture-zooming game for 2-year-olds

FreeGuide TV Guide - a TV guide program.
Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player - a music player that remembers where you were and restarts at the same place.
Record TV - Desktop-focussed TV recording system that tries to do one thing well.
Quick and Dirty Sync - no fuss - just make two directories the same.
migratedata - copy data from one database to another (e.g. migrating from PostNuke to WordPress)
XMLTV - back end for the FreeGuide project (among others) to which I have contributed code.
DIYBlog - have a blog or planet using only FTP web space.
PGAL - a library to parallelise a Genetic Algorithm developed by Ian Macinnes with help from me.
GALab - a fairly complete project (now abandoned) to make simple agent-based genetic algorithm research possible through drag-and-drop without any coding whatsoever. Developed with Mike Ducker.
ContentManagementSystem - a WYSIWYG page editing system I borrowed and integrated into a sort of version control system. Also can be used as a sort-of WYSIWYG wiki.

Natrail - a fast, simple version of UK national rail enquiries (NOT WORKING - try http://www.traintimes.org.uk).
OSS UI Review - my fledgling project to standardise user interface reviews for open source software. So far this is just a proof of concept.

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