Occupational Thoughts -

Yesterday some people came round to play Castle Crashers, we moved on from that to Guitar Hero: World Tour, then to Halo 3′s Multiplayer, then to Worms 2. In short it was good fun. I was also lent Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and a Gamecube. Today I tried it out: You can see [...]

Before I go full rant I should say that I totally understand the upset caused by state propaganda. I’m writing this in response to a former comrade who clearly flinched at the notion. It offends their libertarian instinct. I had that same knee-jerk reaction too, now after careful reflection and having read the first few chapters of this book, I’m [...]

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 [...]

So far we’ve had 2 days of school off due to the snow, but it won’t last which is why I’m writing this now. I took the opportunity to finish one machinima. Actually that’s wrong, I didn’t finish it properly, but I improvised with the footage I had and finished it the best I could. There was [...]

Apologies for the spree of posts, I’ve again picked up on whatever it is that motivates me to write and I’m running with it. This post is about this story. I know it’s an old story but I’ve only just discovered it. The jist of it is that there’s a law in place to protect [...]

It seems I’m on a roll here, I’m doing 3 posts in one day. It’s coming at a cost though, I still haven’t done all the essays that were set over the winter holiday. For the moment I’m going to rage at something which has bothered me since I tried writing those damned essays: the [...]

Back from my last post I was thinking about design and I remember having played Bioshock this week. I returned and took some pictures: Apparently the game is a critique Ayn Rand’s philosophy. I don’t know Ayn Rand, or her theory of Objectivism. But I gather it has something to do with leaving humans to do [...]

On Friday I went to the London Design Museum, it’s a fairly small place with only three exhibitions. Nevertheless it was educational and I found some quirky facts like that Braun clocks were always kept at 8 minutes past 10 in promotion photos because that’s the time the hands look most evenly spread. The exhibitions were on the surface just [...]