Posted on Tue 04 January 2011 in geek • Tagged with call of duty, cod, cod:bo, games, ps3, review
As is becoming traditional I got the latest instalment of the Call of Duty franchise, Black ops, as one of my Christmas presents. What follows is some brief comments having finished the single player campaign last night. I don't think I've been overly hammering it but I reckon it took …
Posted on Tue 07 December 2010 in geek • Tagged with infowar, internet, wikileaks
Unless you have been living under a rock the last week you cannot have missed the latest wikileaks data dump. This iteration of leaks had lead to what could possibly be described as the Internets first Infowar. Aside from the predictable Denial of Service attacks there has also been political …
Posted on Mon 06 December 2010 in geek • Tagged with cambridge, larp, lrpm tt
I spent a large part of the weekend at the Cambridge Treasure Trap end of term banquet. The format is a cross between a full weekend of club LARP and a day event with a Céilidh tacked on the end.
Most of the Cambridge TT event are effectively day events …
Posted on Fri 19 November 2010 in geek • Tagged with development, edit with emacs, emacs, help
I thought I might just mention the current state of the development for Edit with Emacs. A number of useful contributions have come in but I want to be able the "incremental edit" feature in the elisp edit server. I had a go but got stuck (marvel at hack in …
Posted on Wed 03 November 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, screen
As someone who spends most of the day attached to their keyboard I'm fairly sensitive to RSI inducing things. One thing I do suffer from is what's colloquially known as "Emacs Pinky". As the Ctrl is the start of practically every editing command in Emacs it's the left little finger …