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tartley.comI left this as a comment somewhere else, in response to someone complaining about how: “…musicians are asked to just get over the fact that no one pays for music… [it is] my hope that someday more people make the same realization that unless people to help finance records, you’ll never get that fantastic song [...]
A quick response to to polymath Chris DeLeon’s thoughtful post exhorting the virtues of Philosophy. A position of ignorance Right off the bat I should qualify all this by saying that I don’t know anything about Philosophy. I’ve never studied it. It seems at times to be an alien mismatch to the sensibilities of my [...]
I just bought a NetGear ReadyNas Duo to connect hard drives to my home network, to stream movies and the like to our fabulous Xbox Classic media center. In the process of researching, I was wondering whether the kind of hard drive connection matters. I mean, if you plug USB hard drives into a device [...]
by Michael Foord and Christian Muirhead Disclaimer: I’m friends with both the authors and was sent a freebie review copy by the publisher, so I’m bound to be breathlessly gushing in this review. Fortunately, that’s easy to do, because the book really is great. (Except for Christian’s chapters… Joke!) Having spent some years working with [...]
I’ve had a passing interest in computer graphics for years, but had avoided the technology of shaders these last few years, thinking that they were just another layer of complexity which I didn’t need to embark upon while I was still getting to grips with the standard OpenGL API. With hindsight, I was wrong. I [...]
Against my better judgement I couldn’t help but snag a torrent of this. Sure enough, as the opening credits kicked in, my housemates assured us it was rubbish. But then what happened is that I proceeded to love it. Clearly it polarises. The whole thing is shot in a shaky handicam held by one of [...]
The Earth obligingly stood still for us twice this week, on back-to-back nights. In each, a lone alien man arrives in a spaceship with his giant robot buddy Gort, to tell humans that they must mend their destructive ways or be destroyed. The 1951 version was very Fifties – intrusively hopeless special effects, and seems [...]
