May 31st
I recently posted "For cock's sake, if you're a content producer of some kind, stop adding DRM to your stuff" and it seems Apple have been listening! You can now buy your music from the iTines...
This appears to mean "come down to the post office at a time suitable to us only and collect your parcel yourself". Doesn't feel very royal, special or delivered to me.
I suggest they change...
May 27th
If you've never seen this classic short film before, set 10 minutes aside and watch closely. The premise is simple - start at a metre and zoom out by a factor of 10 every 10 seconds. How long...
Quad bikes make no sense. I know this because I rode one yesterday on a bumpy off-road track (the image above isn't me). They're not quite cars, not quite bikes. Seems like you get the worst...
Do you recycle stuff? Its hard to have missed how politically correct it is to recycle things these days. We are meant to collect up used paper to turn into new paper products. Old glass can be...
May 25th
(warning: contains Lost season 3 spoilers)
Advice for attractive young women: Don't join the cast of Lost. Your odds of survival aren't good. Even if you do survive, you won't get an easy...
May 22nd
For cock's sake, if you're a content producer of some kind, stop adding DRM to your stuff. Here's why, in very simple terms:
You're alienating your customers by making them jump through...
May 21st
Over the last few years it has become increasingly difficult to get anywhere in Britain. Trains are vastly overpriced and unpleasant. Buses are worse. Cars can hardly move on motorways for all the...
May 16th
I have a dead hard drive from my old Deeperbeige computer that is just collecting dust. It spins up and seeks, and even reads data for a while.
The question is what to do with it. I have...
May 15th
In this article I posed a physics/intuition question for your ponderance. The point was to see how well you intuition served you in a simple bike puzzle.
If you stand to the side of...
May 13th
A new concept in gaming - browser abuse!
Play my new Scrollmaze game. Starts easy. Feels like a fun concept, then you hit about level 5 or 6 and the impossibility factor ramps up absurdly...
May 12th
Lou Read sung the title. Well, almost. But he probably wasn't singing about his new motorbike tyres.
I have cause to sing about mine though. What with the new tyres having a round...
Eurovision Song Contest: A bad reason to take Doctor Who off the air for a week.
May 11th
Had my first real slide on the bike this morning. Cornering ultra-slow on badly worn tyres I caught a patch of wet tree-mulch with the front wheel. I stood the bike up to avoid it slipping from...
May 10th
Further to this post , I'm now back from the ID lecture. Thankfully it wasn't quite what I expected. I'm always happy to be surprised.
The speaker didn't go down the well trodden (and well...
May 6th
I didn't vote last Thursday. I never do. I don't know much about politics but I do understand a bit about statistics.
For me to vote I'd have to make a decision on who to vote for. This would...
May 5th
Apologies for the poor frequency of bloggage over the last few weeks, but I have a good excuse (well I think it is anyway).
I've been making The Hazard Perception Challenge website for...
On Wednesday I'm off to a lecture arguing for Intelligent Design. No, not arguing for the human use of intelligence whilst they're engaged in the act of designing things (which I'm all for), but...
Try this as a thought experiment. There's no tricks here, just use your judgement to guess what should happen in the following physical setup. You have a bicycle with stabilisers stood on flat...
May 2nd
A friend at work today happened to mention he personally knew the one and only team to ever complete the ancient children's TV show Knightmare. Several hours of nostalgic video clip viewing later...