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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.

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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And So Into Summer

Written on Friday 3 Jun 2011

Every year, when the days start to heat up, it feels like a liberation that some strange part of me worries might never come. But it’s here now, as inevitable as any season. May turns into June with barely a second thought. The wind swings around to the south, blowing...

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A Flotsam Person

Written on Tuesday 31 May 2011

Whilst walking the night-time streets of Guildford, Eric remarked to me that it was a place that felt permanent; a place where one could put down roots. My home, and now hers, stands in complete contrast. Bournemouth is a new town, founded two hundred years ago as a seaside resort...

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On Game Design: Time to Quit

Written on Wednesday 25 May 2011

Not long after my post about the game DJ Rivals, I finished the main part of the game and hit a metaphorical wall. There was no more story; I’d bought every item in the store and mastered the game’s hardest moves. The game tries to offer replay value via progressively...

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Cultural Travesty Pizza

Written on Friday 20 May 2011

Over the past couple of hours, I’ve been encouraging the people of Twitter and Facebook to help me create the world’s greatest culinary cultural travesty. Starting with a pizza base, as probably the easiest thing to hold all the other stuff, I intend to pick one of the suggested foodstuffs...

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The UI of Least Resistance

Written on Tuesday 17 May 2011

I was working up to a blog post on Ubuntu’s new “Unity” interface a couple of days ago, but repeatedly stalled when it came to making a point. The only point I could come up with was essentially just “I don’t like this”, which isn’t the greatest of subjects for...

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Promises Fallen by the Wayside

Written on Friday 6 May 2011

Nearly six months ago, I sketched out some ideas for a site then called “healthi.ly”, since renamed to Daily Promise. In time I coded it up, made it public, and made the same commitment I have to other sites in the past – 20 active users gets it its own...

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On Game Design: DJ Rivals

Written on Friday 6 May 2011

There’s a formula common to many of today’s popular “casual” games. If you’ve played a bunch of Facebook games recently, you’ll probably recognise it. It goes a bit like this: You have a pool called something like “Stamina” or “Action Points”, which refills slowly in real-time. Once you’re out of...

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An Ending in Darkness

Written on Friday 29 Apr 2011

I lie unmoving on the floor of the bedroom, stretching my back into shape as I listen to the splattering of raindrops against the window. A cold north wind blows them on, a rare wind in these parts. So rare is this wind, and so sheltered is our flat from...

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