Wednesday, October 20, 2010
In 1992, a couple of years before the Web started to gain traction, Virtual Reality was the new hotness. I was a second year Engineering student, and encouraged the head of one of the research groups on campus to allow me and two fellow students to work on a VR project over the summer break [...]
Hmmm… eight days since my last post. Looks like I’ve fallen off the wagon. For a while there I actually had a backlog of half-a-dozen posts ready to be published, and it was great. Writing is like exercising; it’s hard to start, but it feels fantastic once you’ve built up a rhythm. Take this, then, [...]
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
I clicked the Readability bookmarklet by accident when viewing my profile page on Twitter and was surprised to get a single, nicely formatted page of every tweet I’ve ever written (all 500-ish of them). I had fun taking a look back at the last 31 months. Here’s a selection. 2008 My next-door neighbours are involved [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
People like cleaning up. Well, not always literally, and not quite everyone. But, for whatever reason, there seems to be something that’s intrinsically enjoyable about reducing entropy. I enjoy actual, real-life cleaning up once I get into the swing of things, and then I can’t stop until it’s “done”. But getting motivated enough to start [...]
OK, I promise, last of these historic posts! The title was inspired by Andrew Braybook’s game diary in ZZAP!64 magazine, which you should immediately read. I wrote this 13 years ago, when I was young and stoopid… Football I went to a football game the other day with a few friends. One of them commented [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Does it seem to you that people reach a point in their lives where they just stop learning new stuff? We recently had a baby boy, and I tell friends of my parents that he was “just over three kilos” at birth, only to be met with blank stares. Seriously. The hospital is complicit in [...]
We’re watching Twin Peaks at the moment. Lain lent us the Gold Box Set, and Daz (brother number one) comes over each Tuesday night. He and I watched Twin Peaks when it first aired, in ’91 or ’92 or whenever it was. I’d “tape” it, using a “video recorder”, or we’d watch it live. We’d [...]
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
It is often contended that no word in the English language rhymes with “Orange”, but few people know the true facts of the matter: Boris Brinkle, a turn-of-the-century copyright lawyer from Hungary, devised this cruel and totally untrue rumour to deter those who seek the truth. My uncle inherited paperwork from the estate of Professor Brinkle when he passed away earlier this week, and he uncovered an explosive documents, the contents of which I’ll transcribe herein.