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Category Archives: Rants
Wii Gorilla Arm
Everyone seems to have a Wii now. I’m still waiting to see if “Gorilla arm syndrome” kicks in. 🙂
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Why The Chinese Government Must Ban All Of Wikipedia
After being unblocked, the Chinese Government has re-blocked all of Wikipedia. With the goal of Wikipedia being to provide free access to the sum of all human knowledge, China had a choice of either blocking everything or just blocking what it does not like. Its … Continue reading
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like.com – Now This Is Exactly What Is Wrong With The World Today
I find like.com rather a rather appalling application of cutting edge computer science. I’m probably nothing like the target market but I find myself disgusted at people bragging about the ocean-boiling computing power required to allow people to purchase yet … Continue reading
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Using New Monopoly Visa Debit Card Gadget As A Project Management Tool
In their latest edition of Monopoly “Monopoly Here and Now Electronic Banking“, Parker Brothers has made some changes. Players now use a Visa debit card to keep track of their bank balances. I can’t find any detail on how the … Continue reading
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I have a 4 Colour Pen, Fear Me Now
On the topic of how we do our thinking/wire-framing/documentation, in a wonderful thread in Leisa Reichelt’s blog…. Also here in a thread on UML vs Nothing and a post from Melissa Firth‘s shiny fresh new blog that mentions UML being used to outline the narrative of a … Continue reading
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Why Transcendental Compression Is Impossible
By “Transcendental Compression”, I mean the concept of taking p or e or, root 2, any of the Transcendental Numbers or functions and using some part of the sequence of its digits as a dictionary for tokens in a compression algorithm. … Continue reading
Posted in Coolhunting, Faster Than Light, Rants
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June 6th Is JavaScript 'Array' and 'Object.prototype' Awareness Day
I want my children to grow up in a world when coding in JavaScript does not result in a fistfight. Brendan Eich may have intended Arrays to be only numeric, but the reality is they do more, and people have … Continue reading
Posted in JavaScript, Rants, Web2.0
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The Internet Background Radiation – A Billion Little Virus Tipped Arrows Snuffling For Unarmoured Flesh
Ever since the mid 90’s when I first started getting unwanted packets arriving on my networks, I’ve been keeping an eye on what has been named the “Internet Background Radiation” (IBR). Analogous to the real world background radiation that constantly zaps through … Continue reading
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SGI Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy – Hopes to Trade Out Of It In 6 Months
Sad news for the ex-poster-child of everything that was cool about computers and the internet in the 90s. SGI Invented the OpenGL standard, which drove the development of the graphic card industry. That same industry made SGI’s expensive technology obsolete. … Continue reading
Posted in My Hardware, Nostalgia for Misspent Youth, Rants
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Bypassing The Eolas Embedding Patent – In Pictures
As you now probably know, Microsoft has released a patch to IE6 because they have failed on appeal to overturn the Eolas patent on browser plug-ins, despite much back and forth and valiant efforts from the W3C. The effects of … Continue reading
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