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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.
I’ve tweeted this already, but just so it goes out to LiveJournal and other blog-followers too: The great Googly gods have blessed me with a bajillion Google Wave invites. I have 20 left right now. First 20 people to send me their e-mail address get ‘em. I’ll send out the...
I can’t be the only one thinking along these lines right now, so… have blog, will rant. I think Peter Mandelson has too much power. First off, he’s unelected, not having been a Member of Parliament since 2004. So how come he manages to be such a prominent figure in...
The rain here is not falling or even pouring. It is constant, pervasive. As you look into the grey mist a hundred metres away in all directions, if you’re lucky, you can make out the merest hint of an angle to signify the way the squally wind is buffeting the...
Right, having pitched a roleplaying game setting with the caveat that I wouldn’t run it, I appear to have acquired four potential players. So, here’s the deal. With four or possibly five committed players, I will run an online game. It will be run on a wiki rather than on...
I have thought up yet another setting for a roleplaying game that I will probably never get to run. This may be of interest to my former “Changeling: In Love and War” players since it’s in the same world, though the feel of it is completely different. Pretty much the...
Ahahaha WHAT. I feel that the order of the Universe has somehow been challenged. And defeated. Note: The account is @fakerupe, so er, yeah.
Once again, the world has whirled its way around its orbit and arrived back at what us mammals call “November”. Perhaps it’s the shortening days, the wind and rain, or maybe just the after-effects of Hallowe’en, but November has had a strange effect on me in recent years. At University,...
Allow me to share with you one of the most bizarre and infuriating login forms I have ever seen. This is it, the one for CPP Identity Protection. Yeah, you read that right. “Password or username” followed by “E-mail address”. The site drops hints that apparently passwords are discontinued, and...
This e-mail was sent to Andrew Dumbreck at Ofcom on 16th September 2009. Dear Sir, I am writing to you regarding the document entitled “Enquiry to Ofcom from BBC Free to View Ltd concerning its DTT high definition multiplex licence”, which I have just been made aware of via an...
This letter was sent to Sir John Butterfill MP (Conservative, Bournemouth West) on 22nd April 2009. Dear Mr Butterfill, The content of the Government’s proposed Intercept Modernisation Programme and discussions regarding the creation of a central government database for recording internet traffic data have been brought to my attention by...