Jun 22
Looks like the world is waking up again to the greatness of Apollo again. Perhaps my dull space related ramblings herein will be scoffed at less now. Perhaps not. Anyway, I was watching some of the various Apollo/Moon related coverage last night (who’s surprised?) and a question occurred to me. If you could choose, would you rather be the first or last man on...
Read MoreJun 18
At risk of being accused of the geekiest blog post ever, I give you a very good punt at the title. (Although this is perhaps more autobiographical/social history than full-on tech gunk.) In the beginning there was only silence. As an 11 year old boy I sat at the my ZX81 and black and white portable TV* and played Quicksilva Scramble (all hail @zoupdragon) in a very...
Read MoreJun 15
With the football season over and the transfer window in full flow, there is a dearth of real football news so you get a lot of speculation and nonsense instead. It don’t half bring out the clichés. So I was reminded of an oft repeated conversation between me and @khev, there are rules in football reporting. Certain things can only ever be described in one...
Read MoreJun 11
Thirst for content can, from time to time, expose a lot of bland nonsense. There are sites/content authors that mistake lists of obvious blurb for content. We all know who they are, I don’t need to name and shame (the list would be too long). A large part of the reason for this is the democracy of access. Many sites make it very easy for people to become...
Read MoreJun 11
StumbleUpon has, for many years now, been my way of finding new, interesting stuff on the Web. The stats today show that I have ‘Stumbled’ over 25000 times. It solved the problem of getting stuff you might like ‘pushed’ to you and removed the need to go looking for anything specific. StumbleUpon always said that the more you rated the more...
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