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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.
A little over ten years ago, my friends and I began a collaborative fiction project that we named “The Fanfic”, though it bore little resemblance to fanfiction as it is commonly known. Rather, it was something like a ‘fanfic’ of our own invented characters, thrown together in a neutral setting....
@CampaignReboot, making a good point as always, earlier linked to this CNN article which bemoans the state of the United States’ missile defence programme after the failure of a Ground-Based Interceptor test. Just to reinforce his point, let’s look at how insanely difficult a task a Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) missile...
Diaspora*, for those unaware, is a distributed and privacy-conscious social network currently in development by students at New York University. It raised $200,000 of funding via Kickstarter back in June, and is currently in alpha testing state. By virtue of my pseudowife’s donation, we have been sent both the developer...
Two weeks ago, I sat in this same warm office, looking out at the cold world outside. And this is what I saw. I saw Laurie Penny’s Spider Jerusalem-esque piece for the New Statesman, covering the student riots, and I saw Wikileaks preparing to dump 250,000 classified US Embassy cables...
After a couple of weeks of development – documented here, here and here – I think I’m ready to call Daily Promise version 1.0. It’s a site that helps you keep track of your promises day-to-day, giving you a pretty display of which promises you’ve kept when, and letting you...
After a couple of days and one frantic family-free morning, Daily Promise is getting near completion. Here’s what’s new since last time. (This is post number 3 in my series on the development of _Daily Promise. The others are here: Design Sketches, Coming Together.)_ Friends Page Here’s the Friends page...
Despite the lack of response to my earlier post, in which I floated my design concepts for “Daily Promise”, boredom won out in the end and I started coding anyway. It’s now coming together, and all bar the Twitter-integrated social aspects are largely complete. Here’s how it’s developed: Home Page...
Hey! Do you like fear? Do you like bullshit headlines? Well, has Sky got an news for you! “Super virus a target for cyber terrorists”, which bears the even more fascinating <title> tag of “Stuxnet Worm: Virus Targeted At Iran’s Nuclear Plant Is In Hands Of ‘Bad Guys’, Sky News...
Current flavour of the month of some of the geek crowd, “Health Month”, is a social network of sorts on which users compete to achieve certain health-related goals. Each month, each member sets a number of goals for themselves to achieve. Its core mechanic is health points – you start...
The distinction between surface ships and submarines in Sea Battle has turned out to be a more thorny issue than I originally imagined. The original plan was to have two classes of vessel, based on their hull types - ship or submarine - and weapons that could hit ships, submarines,...