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The entire premise of Red Dwarf rests on this one scene:
Lister’s cat is discovered because he takes a photo of the two of them and has it developed in the ship’s photo lab.
In 1988 – when Red Dwarf was first aired – nothing in the world seemed more natural than to get [...]
For reasons best known to themselves, certain sections of the entertainment industries seem to believe that bolting the stable door shutting down The Pirate Bay will stop all piracy.
It’s as though they think that people won’t be able to use a proxy, circumvent the Cleanfeed block, or simply use a search engine [...]
I am an evil, capitalist, unfair bastard of a landlord. At least, that’s what my worry is. I try really hard to be honest, fair, and uncuntlike as possible.
I never wanted to be a landlord, I wanted to be a lumberjack! but somehow I ended up as one.
Let me roll back a [...]
My shelves are empty. The half-dozen Billy Bookcases I bought from Ikea are now little more than scrap. I have burned my books. A bonfire of ideas and ideals.
My bookshelves used to burst at the seams.
Every individual shelf bowed violently from the over-stuffed mass of paperbacks squeezed onto it.
Shakespeare rubbed [...]
It was a stroke of marketing genius to declare that the national dish of Britain was Chicken Tikka Masala. A dish almost totally devoid of Indian origin – but exotic enough to make us seem comfortable with multiculturalism.
I like a good curry. Damn. Even the word curry is a generic Britishism designed to cover [...]
India is an explosion of colour. The food, the clothes, the temples. They all pulse like a rainbow.
But not me. I’m white. Very white. More than that – I feel white and foreign. I feel out of place. The people I meet are friendly – but it’s clear I don’t really understand the culture, [...]
There’s a whole science dedicated to the universality of human expressions. Across vast continents and endless oceans, humans make the same face whether in a state of grief, joy, or disgust. More or less.
The face of the Indian street vendor clearly said “Oh, FFS!”
I had made the universal tourist mistake of paying for [...]
The heat. That all oppressive heat. Not that you’d ever notice it; you move from air-conditioned hotel, to air-conditioned taxi, to air-conditioned office.
Yes, cars everywhere. A fifteen minute walk quickly turns into a twenty minute taxi ride. No one walks here – the streets are too crowded for that.
Our hotel is hollowed out [...]
Today was my first day in India. Bangalore, to be precise. The city is hot, noisy, full of dangerous drivers, cows on the road, and a disturbingly potholed pavement.
I entered a modern looking mall. Partly out of tourist curiosity, mostly for the air conditioning! I saw something which shocked me.
As I was coming [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about APIs and their design recently.
I stumbled on this fantastic quote from Greg Parker:
When I first started learning C++ (back in the bad old days) I was convinced that any 1st year student could design a better programming language. One which behaved in a sane fashion without a [...]
Dave Winer is totally off base when he says “Hackathons are how marketing guys wish software were made.”
Perhaps it’s different in his part of the world, but over here, hackdays are fun!
All the hackathon / hackdays I’ve been to are, essentially, Scrapheap Challenge* for software people.
*Note to Americans, Junkyard Wars [...]
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