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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.

London's Burning

Written on Wednesday 10 Aug 2011

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,...

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Where Culture Comes to Die

Written on Sunday 31 Jul 2011

So, yesterday we had dinner at this place, which delights in the horrible name of “Georgie Porgie’s Buffet World”. Delighting in horror does not stop at the name. It is this place’s ethos, its mission statement. It is an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant that knows not the boundaries of culture, of...

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Could I Live Without...?

Written on Tuesday 26 Jul 2011

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...

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Previewing Android's New Market

Written on Wednesday 13 Jul 2011

Google has a new version of the Android Market app on the way, and just like every other tech blog in the world, here’s a preview. The home page has taken inspiration from Windows Phone 7’s tile interface, making the browsing experience visually richer and much more interesting to flick...

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Farewell, Atlantis

Written on Friday 8 Jul 2011

After thirty years and a hundred and thirty-five missions for NASA’s space shuttle fleet, the final launch comes and goes remarkably quickly. The event itself snuck up on me; courtesy of Twitter I had fifteen minutes’ warning to find the live stream, set my laptop down on the table, and...

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IE6, WordPress, and Dick Moves

Written on Monday 4 Jul 2011

For years, anti-IE6 sentiment on the internet has been rising – and justly so. It’s ten years old, and cares so little for standards that web developers often have to code for it specifically. Quite reasonably, they – we – are a bit fed up with that. Successive versions of...

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Geo-IP Security: Option Three

Written on Monday 4 Jul 2011

Facebook, and many other online services, have an almost-clever security measure that tries to protect users against account theft. It uses your IP address to do a “Geo-IP” lookup – that is, to figure out roughly where in the world you normally access the site from. If an access attempt...

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A Place for Google Plus?

Written on Thursday 30 Jun 2011

“Google+”, Google’s new stab at social networking, is doing the rounds of tech news sites today. So what’s it like – if you scored an invite, should you be using it, and if you haven’t yet, are you missing out? If you’ve used Facebook – and let’s face it, you...

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Twitter, Facebook and the Expectation of Privacy

Written on Thursday 30 Jun 2011

I’ve been asked a couple of times why it is that my status posts on Facebook are locked down, visible only to friends or sometimes friends-of-friends: …but yet with the same button-click that I post to Facebook, I post exactly the same thing, publicly, on Twitter: Surely that’s undoing all...

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A Knot is Tied

Written on Sunday 12 Jun 2011

Just over seven years ago, after one potential student house deal fell through, I asked around the Games Society to see if anyone was in a similar situation. I met one girl who was strange and hyperactive and who was looking for other people to share a house with. She...

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