Blog Archive — Page 27

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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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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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