Where I've studied/worked

• Balliol College, Oxford. BA in Physics.
• Reading University Meteorology Department. PhD and then post-doc research with Prof Keith Browning.
• Lucent Techologies. Programmer working on 3G mobile telecoms.
• Climax. Game/physics programmer at the Portsmouth office, working vehicle and character movement/physics.
• Crytek. Senior AI programmer - worked on navigation for Crysis.
• NaturalMotion. Lead behaviour engineer - responsible for the simulation/character control technology used in the Euphoria engine.
• WeightShift. Founder/director - we're making tools for film and video game animators to let them use simulation and AI for creating creature animation.

Programming

• GameDev.net.
• Programming Guide For Video-Gamers - Collection of links to aspects of video game development.
• Gamasutra.
• Flipcode - in its day the best video game development forum/source of info, but now it's retured. I had an image of the day back in 2004.

Music, cello, concertina etc

• Cello.org
• International Concertina Association
• Concertina.net
• Not-evil source of music recordings to buy
• Ekhart Topp guitarist and banjo player in Frankfurt - also info about sessions.

Games

• There is only one game worth playing (well, apart from Far Cry ): Quake 3 Arena.
• I worked on Sudeki.
• and Crysis
• and Clumsy Ninja
• and PicaSim

Nature stuff

• British Dragonfly Society.
• Libellen Europas Libella = dragonfly in German.
• Gesellschaft deutschsprachiger Odonatologen (GdO) = Society of German-speaking Odonatologists.
• Matt Rowling's European Butterflies.
• Moths and Butteflies of Europe and North Africa.
• UKMoths.

Short art/films/animations/entertaining stuff etc

• Bodo Klös
• Strandbeest
• Salad Fingers
• Mitchell Rose: comedic short films
• Martin Hill sculpture