I 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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Continue reading