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Welcome to owenrudge.net!
Welcome to the online home of Owen Rudge! I'm a student studying Computer Science, and this is my personal site which has evolved over the years from a small site about Visual Basic to a sprawling mass of relatively random stuff. I do a lot of programming and web development in a variety of languages (including C/C++, Visual Basic, and PHP). Click here to find out more about me.
This site contains a good smattering of information on Visual Basic, the GEM GUI for DOS, my OSPlus utility kit for DOS, the fantastic game Transport Tycoon, the FreeDOS operating system, the Age of Empires game, and includes some miscellaneous utilities you can download. It also some personal stuff such as my blog, and a gallery of desktop screenshots, DesktopShots! Feel free to explore using the navigation bar at the top of the page. Be warned that a lot of the information hasn't been updated in some time, such as the Visual Basic section - since becoming a student, I've ended up with a lot less free time!
Is there something you would like to see on owenrudge.net? Just want to get in touch? Drop me a line!
Site news: About Me update
I’ve finally updated the About Me page with more information, well, about me! To be more precise, I’ve split it up into a few different pages, depending on what you want to know about me, and I’ve updated details of the likes of the open source projects I’ve worked on.
On another, unrelated, note, I’m thinking I will stick my entire site in a Subversion repository, to make maintenance easier, and also to provide a nice history feature - if I update something and break it entirely, I can go back and figure out what caused the breakage a lot more easily. While this’ll make more or less no difference to you, the end user and visitor, it’ll be beneficial to me. ![]()
Latest blog: Twenty-one
So, what’s new since the last blog? I’ve been:
- Listening to Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust a fair bit, although not quite as much as before
- Finally driving my car now that the log book arrived
- Working on my Google Summer of Code project
- Going to St Andrews for the Graduation Ball
- Playing Team Fortress 2
- Watching more House, Doctor Who (the last few episodes were rather good), Top Gear (the Japanese race was excellent), and other such things
- Swimming
- Driving a bit more
- Turning 21
Yes, the car log book arrived just in time for me to head to St Andrews, which was nice. The car’s a lovely thing, drives very nicely, and isn’t too expensive to run. The ball was very good fun, and nice to see everybody again before assorted people go their separate ways. Then I was back down here keeping busy with Summer of Code and the like. I also decided to take up swimming again, having discovered the local pool in Mold, as sitting on the computer all day is probably not the best thing to do be doing, from a health point of view. I used to swim a lot in Orkney, so hopefully this’ll be good for me.
What else… well, last Wednesday, I turned twenty-one years young. It seems to be pretty much like being 20, except that now I can go and buy a drink in the US if I want. (If anybody wants to volunteer the cash for a plane fare, that’d be most appreciated.) My birthday itself was mostly uneventful, really. On Saturday, I went down to Bristol to see my academic mum, Rachel, as it was her birthday then, so we had a bit of a joint celebration that night - good fun indeed. Apart from that, I’ve been doing some more work on Wine - I’ve got an Add/Remove Programs applet complete, which has been submitted to the wine-patches mailing list, and I’ve been improving the old-fashioned non-shell-namespace Control Panel too this past few days. Last week was mid-term evaluation week, where students had to turn in evaluations for their mentors, and vice versa. I’m pleased to say that I passed (if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have been getting paid!), and hopefully should be getting some money to pay the bills over the next week or so.
I’m heading back up to St Andrews in about two weeks, for the rest of the summer (and, indeed, the rest of my final academic year). Then, a week or so into August, it’s the second annual Transport Tycoon Forums meet, this year in London. It’s looking like it’ll be much bigger and more exciting than last year. I’ll be staying a few days in London, to see some of the sights, and hopefully not be bankrupted by the experience.
So that’s me for the time being. Has everybody else been having a good summer so far?
