I'm currently pondering sending the following letter to Larry Page, and the entire board of Google. Sending physical letters still has slightly more impact in these kinds of situations. (Altho, I'm not sure if I want to send it to their US office, or C/O their London office.)

If you have any wording change suggestions, please make them. And if you'd ( Read more... )

'A Dance With Dragons' just arrived on my Kindle.

For some reason I have become embroiled in fixing Usability issues with XBMC. This is hampered by both the usual 'UI design by programmer' issues of open source, and that like many media projects of it's era they adopted the Skinable Interfaces mantra.

I entirely endorse Makali's comment on what should happen to programmers who suggest Skinable ( Read more... )

Supper comes from the Chip Shop with good chips but bad maths.

Meal Deals
Mini Fish, Sausage, Chips and Mushy Peas - £3.50
Sausage, Chips and Mushy Peas - £2.00
...
Mini Fish - £1.00

Congratulations New York.

Listening to the Portal 2 Soundtrack made me buy some Leroy Anderson music on iTunes. There is a perfectly logical connection between them...

Aigh. Aigh. Aigh. Why did I work out a nice way to rescue this novel I wrote to make it publishable, and not realise it's going to be a really hard thing to work out.

I just saw something on the TV that I just can't quite comprehend.

"To celebrate the release of Transformers 3 you can win tickets to see its fantastic premier"

I understand all those words have meaning, but put together that way just doesn't make sense!

Michael Bay is promoting Transformers 3 as being 'must see in 3D' while the entire 3D film industry seems to be wobbling on the cliff face that all prior gimmicks have fallen off.

I first saw 3D tech cinema when I was a kid at Disney World Florida's 'Muppets 3D' show. It was the same polarised glasses, and the same problems. The glasses made it ( Read more... )

The first corporate heads to roll over 'Duke Nukem Forever' have tumbled from the chopping block. 2K have fired their PR Firm.