Blog Archive — Page 13
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My BlackBerry Week
My phone, an HTC Desire HD, is a gorgeous slate of metal and glass; thin but with a huge screen, and when I bought it back in December of 2010, it was the most powerful and capable phone on the market. It is part of the future of ‘computing’, capable of 99% of what I use my laptop computer for. It’s also irresistible to my Cut the Rope-completionist son, and unfortunately, heavy gaming use drains the battery in a little under three hours. Normal use, for me, toasts it in between 8 and 12.
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What's for dinner?
What’s for dinner? Videogame lava is what’s for dinner.
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"Quick Energy"
Late last night, my wife thrust into my hands a bottle of something called “Quick Energy”, with instructions that I should drink it in the morning, and a minor warning that it might be absolutely disgusting. Well, as a man who is still trying to track down a way of importing Four Loko, I guess I have no grounds to decline this.
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Cheating in the Age of Micropayments
So, the other day I cheated at a videogame for what is probably the first time in years. Not for unfair advantage over other players, but merely because it was one of those games with no end, and before consigning it to the dustbin of history, I wanted to see what the best weapons were like.
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Whither the State Religion?
This so-far unloved petition was shared with me on Facebook the other day, and while I can’t bring myself to sign it – I agree with most, but not the dis-establishment of the Church of England – it has got me wondering why we still have such a thing as a “state religion” in the United Kingdom.
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London's Burning
From John Wyndham to Alan Moore, the British have long had a morbid fascination with the downfall of society; the government as the enemy; that dark time after the “stiff upper lip” fails us. Though that upper lip remains stiff in the form of #riotcleanup and Operation Cup of Tea, tonight, London burns.
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Where Culture Comes to Die
So, yesterday we had dinner at this place, which delights in the horrible name of “Georgie Porgie’s Buffet World”.
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UI Through the Eyes of a Child (Part 1/n?)
My son is at the age where every question starts with “why” and everything, no matter how obvious, is to be questioned. I regularly get asked about various iconography and bits of user interface that seem intuitive to me, but to someone without many years of experience are clearly not. Through his eyes, I am beginning to understand the issues faced by new users of computers, mobile phones, and so on.
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Not Exactly Canon
Joseph: “What’s if I was a real superhero?”
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Could I Live Without...?
A couple of months ago, I was particularly scathing about the crop of Facebook games that I was playing, particularly ones that had no end. The result? I no longer play any games on Facebook whatsoever. As I bemoaned at length, not one of them was adding to my life in any appreciable way.