I had my first interview of the current job hunting period yesterday. Although the end result was the company in question didn't want to go forward with the process I thought it might be do some introspection and contemplation as to why.

The job would have involved joining a small …

After my fun playing with the 3D desktop bling on my Netbook I finally took the plunge on my main desktop machine. This was after all the reason I had specced it with hardware capable of doing 3D with open drivers. In the beginning it worked well enough but it …

The future is here. While I have reservations about wide scale surveillance and recording every e-mail I send it seems very sensible to equip the Persons in Blue with personal video recorders. Especially if it reduces the amount of paperwork the Police have to fill in when the could be …

I've just finished reading Halting State by Charles Stross.

It's an enjoyable SciFi whodunit mystery set in the near future involving a robbery in a MMORPG. The book is presented in the second person narrative which is unusual but helps give a sense of the setting. It's set in a …

I've long held that Wikipedia provides a "good enough" source of facts for a lot of information. Sure I wouldn't base my moon landing equations on equations copied from Wikipedia's page on celestial navigation. Not at least until I'd verified the cited facts with "reputable" sites. The trouble with checking …