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 [...]
Yesterday I posted the following on Twitter: Why is the #golang community so much more holier-than-thou than the #ruby community? Harumph to all sanctimonious hackers. This got a concerned response from someone who works at Google as a “Go Gopher”, whatever that means. It also made me feel like a dirty troll, which wasn’t my [...]
Monday, September 20, 2010
Apart from text adventures, I love point-and-click adventure games (of the Monkey Island ilk), and the more modern Japanese interpretations of this genre (such as Hotel Dusk and Another Code). These latter games tend to be more focused on telling a story, and the interface offered to the player is subsequently stripped down (with less [...]
Monday, September 6, 2010
StackOverflow is a Q&A website for professional programmers. Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood developed the concept as a direct competitor to Expert Sex Cha… errr, Experts Exchange, and I now find that answers on StackOverflow are often in the top few results when I search Google for geeky, programmer-type stuff. They’re doing some good things; [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
I’ve been lurking on a thread over at the Pigmi Discussion List that’s been debating the pros and cons of Game Classification, in the wake of the news (reported on Kotaku) that the Australian Government is working to close a loophole that allows unclassified games and applications to be downloaded and used on mobile devices. [...]
Played Geometry Wars projected onto the side of a building at a party tonight. Nice concept, but a 15m display might annoy the neighbours, doncha think?
My machine at work was nagging me to activate XP, and all the licenses had been maxed out, so we bought a single copy of XP Pro, and I entered the license key. Everything seemed to work, and I left on Friday a happy man. This morning, however, it was a different story. Upon logging [...]
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I was using the computer in the boardroom at work, and someone had left their USB memory stick plugged in. “No worries”, he said. “Let me eject that”. He moved the mouse to the USB icon in the Taskbar, waiting for the balloon help text to pop up (it says “Safely Remove Hardware”), and then [...]
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My parent’s bought themselves a PC. Not terribly successfully. Their brand new HP Pavilion a6130a desktop, with Visa Home pre-installed, came with the default amount of RAM: 512MB. To an old-timer like me, that’s a massive amount of memory, as I got by quite well with 512KB on the old Amiga, thankyou very much, so [...]