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Cross-site image linking vandalism

It never gets old. Thank you for the giggles, Video Game Freedom.

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Just Married!

At the end of March, Susan and I exchanged rings, vows, signatures and thumbprints on a beach near to Tulum, Mexico, with eighty-five of our families and friends, plus ‘TriPawd’, the beach’s resident three-legged dog. Thanks to everyone for coming all the way to join the party and making it so special. It all worked [...]

Actual vs Perceived threats (aka People are Crazy)

Susanna Hertrich has an art / thesis project to artificially stimulate people’s threat perceptions (by giving them goosebumps, or making hairs stand on end) in response to actual threats, as opposed to perceived ones. It’s a topic that I’m unnaturally preoccupied with, since the most egregious examples of the disparity between the two seem to [...]

When Google Maps goes bad…

Had me cackling all over the office. Bloody brilliant.

Lappy sketch lives!

My lappy sketch lives! on Kamil’s blog title. Har! That was an easy post. No thinking required.

Countries and US States visited

The old tartley.com used to have one of these, so here’s a quickie replacement. It tends to overstate the case somewhat, a single foray across a border floods entire countries. I’d imagine good old Google’s freebie geospatial tools could be put to use to create a better one, but for the time being, here’s an [...]

A Case for Forward Error Correction

Announcing the first draft of our white paper, The Case For Forward Error Correction (PDF), outlining many of the revolutionary technical features which we leverage in our current project. I’ll be submitting it for presentation at the proceedings of the British Computing Society, and at the ACM later this year. Many thanks to all of [...]