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These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.
These are some pretty old posts! I don't blog that much any more, but if they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can go back to the homepage to see some more recent stuff.
It should have been obvious when TweetDeck was acquired by Twitter back in 2011 that it wasn’t long for this world. Even more so when the only significant update in the intervening period was to remove a feature (handling tweets over 140 characters). Although Twitter started out by enthusiastically embracing...
Today’s tech news is awash with Human Rights Watch’s latest campaign, the sensationally-titled “Ban ‘Killer Robots’ Before It’s Too Late”. I’m not sure which I find most irritating about it: The fact that they’ve chosen to lead with a photo of a Taranis UAV, even though in the photo caption...
I love the way the BBC tries to make everything so relateable to everyday human experience. Case in point: this article about a new technique for measuring the mass of supermassive black holes. In order to convey just how heavy these things are, the caption on their first picture relates...
My quest for an Android game to match the joyous beat-synched twitch reflexes of Audiosurf have very nearly come to an end. My newest drug is named Beat Hazard Ultra. (Android, iOS) It’s angling towards being a bullet hell music game, and it almost – but not quite – succeeds...
First of all, a big shout out to les hommes et femmes at http://korben.info/, who today have taught me an important lesson. At about 9:30 today, they posted a list of 50 things to do with your Raspberry Pi, which included the Raspberry Tank. At about 9:40, my web server...
Long ago, in the early years of Facebook’s rise to power, it became apparent that it had another key feature alongside feeds and wall posts – the friends list. Not only was it a good way to keep in touch with friends after University, it also became a good way...
With every passing day, my Facebook feed is spending more and more time informing me that old school friends “like Amazon”. (No shit, really?) In the background, it’s fiddling our feeds, showing and hiding entries according to what it thinks is relevancy, and also what it thinks is profit for...
Once upon a time, I firmly held the belief that established rules were there for a very good reason – that even if I didn’t understand that reason, there surely was one, and thus I should follow those rules. Then I discovered corporate bureaucracy. What that taught me was that...
There is serious ongoing consideration of whether young people aged 16 and 17 should be allowed to vote in the upcoming Scottish independence referendum, and politicians and news outlets alike are wondering if the same could happen for our General Elections too. I find it a little confusing and very...
This morning I half-heartedly posted on Facebook: Today’s Game Theory problem: pick an ideal date for picking sloes, bearing in mind current warm/wet weather predictions for October and a population density of 10000/sq.mi. of other potential sloe pickers. (10 marks) Well, I’m bored, so let’s get our geek on. Again....