Isn’t the Web great? Isn’t it crazy and anarchic, vibrant and wild, unpredictable, awesome and thoroughly marvelous? Well it has been, but there is no guarantee that it will stay that way. I’ve been working with and researching Hypertext for nearly fifteen years. The Hypertext systems that I studied for my PhD were alternative contemporaries […]
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Adolescent 30’s: Grand Theft Morality
Two years ago I wrote how the arrival of a bouncy baby Wii for my birthday had caused me to revert to childhood, well my birthday has rolled around again and this year I received a much more mature and responsible present: an XBox 360. I know, I know (holds head in hands), I’m just […]
The Last Golden Age of Television
When I was a student one of my neighbors in my University halls of residence popped in with a 3.5inch floppy disk, and told me that on it was a file in a new format called MP3. At the time audio compression was pretty abysmal, and a 3 min song made around a 30MB file. […]
Duck Taped by Apple in California
Why is the brilliance of the new iPhone 3G so intangible? When I try and explain why I’ve replaced one 3G, GPS enabled, touch screen smart phone (a TyTN II) with another I get blank stares. When I show people how it works, they nod and smile as if to say that this is just […]
OSX again and again
I came across this fabulous music video created by Dennis Liu using only Mac OSX – even if I hadn’t switched I’d think this was brilliant: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kxDxLAjkO8&w=540] I’ve been using the Mac now for almost two months and the shine hasn’t rubbed off yet. Some of my earlier quibbles have disappeared as I’ve got used […]
In the Beginning there was the Word, and the Word was: Crash!
Arghhh!!! What is wrong with Microsoft? How has one of the biggest software companies in the world got it so wrong? As you may know I recently escaped to a Mac to avoid the problematic and unappealing MS Vista, unfortunately I still do a lot of document editing and so one of the first installs […]
The Switch is Flipped
In my last post I described why I have decided to switch to a Mac. Well a shiny new MacBook Pro rolled up earlier this week, I’ve had a few days to acclimatise, and its probably a good time to report on what life is like this side of the switch. Before the machine arrived […]
Switching to Mac
Right – that’s it. I’ve had enough. It’s time to say goodbye. I’m fed up of hourglasses, crappy modal dialog boxes, ugly UI and an OS that reboots itself without bothering to ask first. After 15 years of suffering its time to move on. I’ve decided to buy a Mac. Don’t get me wrong, while […]