Occupational Thoughts -

Yesterday the projector we have stopped working, this is because it’s summer and it had gotten hot, and the thermal switch popped out. The thermal switch stops the bulb from lighting and blinks with a yellow orange error message that something’s gone wrong. The projector is a Sanyo PLV-Z5, and in order to open it [...]

On Thursday I went to #Voicetweetup and got the chance to handle an iPad, imported from America by Amanda Clark. It’s by all means an impressive device, and I admire it’s aesthetic simplicity, yet overall it’s a flawed product. The reason I see it as flawed is that it’s not open. To help you understand what I [...]

This is my first post for 24 days so you’ll be wondering what I’ve been doing for the last two weeks, most significantly I went to London to an education rally organised by the SWP, met some students who oppose cuts to education, met a guy who also opposes education cuts in school and had a meeting at [...]

In true fashion my blogging has a little lag that means I blog about things sometimes a week after they occur. Better late than never though, #Oxtuttle is a real-life meetup for social media enthusiasts in Oxford. While I was there I met my next door neighbour, which was weird because I had forgotten they [...]

The traditional argument against Wikipedia goes a bit like this: Wikipedia is a ‘web-site’, on the ‘internet’, I don’t understand it very well but apparently anyone can contribute to it. And since everyone on the internet is stupid then this ‘web-site’ must be full of lies. Unfortunately the traditional media is full of people who are fearful [...]

This morning I found the site http://iscrapbecause.it/ and on it anyone can post reasons they think something or someone is crap. These are my comments: Left4Dead2 is crap because it is pretty much the same as Left4Dead1. Killzone 2 is crap because it isn’t Halo. Xbox LIVE Gold is crap because it costs £30. Activision [...]

Who’s up for a round of spot the fail? I’m pretty sure this is spam so if anyone else encounters it, just leave it alone.

Last weekend I cycled out to Maplin to buy a microphone, I insisted on not buying a fuzzy desktop one so ended up with a black metal beast: It records in stereo, and produces excellently clear sound. Nobody complains that my “microphone has gone all crackly” on TF2 anymore.

I was surprised to find that the police force who controlled the Rage Against New Labour protest in fact have a Twitter account. They posted the following messages on the 27th: How’s that for transparency? My footage of that protest is currently encoding and will be up as soon as I sort out my video archive. The [...]

I thought I’d interrupt my normal flowing journalism to highlight how annoying it is that Facebook promotes crappy applications. Especially those which have no discernible function than to propagate themselves through people’s friends lists, snaring more and more people in their evil net. One good example is Fan Check, an app which using your personal information calculates who your biggest fans [...]