Yesterday, via MLW Games, I added two mirrors serving the download for Renegade X – Black Dawn.

You can find the download links from MLW Games: Download Renegade X.

C&C Renegade X Black Dawn is the free fan made single player campaign released over the weekend. As demand is quite high, download speeds may be slow in peak time. If so, all mirrors offering the download installer can be found at http://renxgame.com/

For a complete post about Black Dawn, visit http://www.mlwgames.com/news/53/renegade-x-release-and-video

The New York branch of Mill has been working on their Mill Touch screen.

Check out their video here: http://www.themill.com/work/mill-touch/behind-the-scenes.aspx

From Mill: Remember the giant, interactive touch screen that detective John Anderton used to fight pre-crime in the movie, Minority Report?

Remember how crazy and far-fetched that concept seemed at the time? And that was only 2002! Fast forward to present-day, and you will find the new Mill Touch at the center at our Mill New York office.

Executed from concept to launch in-house by our NY Digitial team, it is a rear projected, 5×3 interactive touch screen panel made entirely of switchable glass.

In my previous post I mentioned buying 52 lottery tickets (random lucky dips) for fun and an experiment.

I had a 1 in 1.09 chance of matching 3, and winning £10. Which – I did. But that was it!

The numbers were 04, 09, 13, 15, 18, 40 (bonus 30)

I matched 1 number in 18 rows.
2 numbers in 6 rows.
3 numbers in 1 row.

Number variance was quite interesting. I matched the numbers as follows:
04 – six times
09 – six times
13 – five times
18 – five times
15 – three times
40 – nine times

From this experiment we can see the probability worked out. I had a very very good chance of winning £10, and I did.

However, when buying 52 tickets, there is a 1 in 19.85 chance of matching 4 balls this would roughly get you between £60 and £150. This means for a very good chance of matching 4 balls – you’d have to buy 20 times as many tickets, costing £1040.

Was a 1 in 1067 chance of matching 5 balls (a prize of £1500) really worth spending £52? No.

Lesson: you’re more likely to make money by putting your money in a bank or investing it.

After losing £4 on two tickets for the Euromillions yesterday (where the Scottish couple became Europes biggest lottery winners) I decided to try an experiment.

I just bought 52 lines of the UK National Lottery. A bit mad perhaps? But it’s the same as playing once a week for a year (so I will not play again for a year). This is for a bit of fun, an experiment and an end to my lottery gambling. So I may as well increase my odds? In fact it will be very very unlikely that I don’t win at least some of my money back.

The stats:

3 numbers: 1 in 1.09
4 numbers: 1 in 19.85
5 numbers: 1 in 1067.14
6 numbers: 1 in 269,230.77

I will post how I get on!

After a year or so of no blog, I thought it was time to get going again.

With hundreds of visitors a day to my posts about the iCare motorbike and the Aston Martin 177, it was rather stupid to let it slip!

But now I’m starting again and hopefully will keep it alive better!