Blog Archive — Page 19
These are some pretty old posts! If they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can skip to more recent entries or head back to the homepage to see some more up-to-date stuff.
These are some pretty old posts! If they are of interest, feel free to browse. Alternatively, you can skip to more recent entries or head back to the homepage to see some more up-to-date stuff.
Dusk falls across Dorset, darkening the fields from Christchurch in the east, past me, way past me out to Lyme Regis in the west. My week is done, and with it October, and with it the harvest and the last of the warmth that summer left behind. The night will...
Dear GamerGate supporters, trolls, flamers and everyone associated: Here is a pale blue dot. Really, it’s the pale blue dot. To abuse the words of Carl Sagan: That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. That’s you, everyone you have ever loved, and everyone you’ve ever hated. It’s every videogame player, creator...
Part 1. US Edition vosotros. vous. ihr. The more languages I learn, the more it stands out that English has no second-person plural, no way of saying “you” and explicitly meaning more than one person. That is, of course, except for “y’all”, a term that I’ve found myself using more...
Yesterday, a friend of mine started me on a quest that was to be filled with despair. It started innocently enough. I've just had a thought that blew my mind: Emoji fonts in roguelikes. This.. Changes.. EVERYTHING!— A powerful cabbit (@Eldritchreality) September 21, 2014 I gleefully replied with my 140...
It turns out that my previous post about SuccessWhale, bemoaning how it had stagnated and become more trouble than it was worth, was just enough venting to kick me up the arse and get me going again. And so, not long later, I am proud to announce the release of...
Last week’s European parliament elections saw big gains for right-wing parties across the continent, many trading on policies opposing immigration and the European Union itself. I worry for those of you that cast your vote against immigration regardless of the other policies of the party you voted for. I worry...
It’s no secret that the current state of my SuccessWhale social network client is not a good one. It currently exists in three forms: The main server runs SuccessWhale version 2.0.3. It’s not been updated in nearly a year, and the only changes within the last three years have been...
Last Saturday was the Linux User & Developer Raspberry Jam event at Poole RNLI college. I took the tank, of course, and the child too — worrying all the while that they’d be the youngest kid there by about ten years, and would get bored within half an hour. How...
The early years of the twenty-first century. The boundaries between the real world and the cyber world grow thinner with each passing day. Megacorporations vie for our attention, our clicks, our hearts and minds; their walled gardens are their own private networks in which they suck up our data and...
“All I’m doing is building stuff,” they say. “That’s what Minecraft is good for, isn’t it?” I reply. “It’s like Lego with infinite pieces.” “Yeah,” they say, and turns back to the computer screen; back to the childhood task of creating the new. I turn back to the washing up...