Presented by aurynn shaw
The last few weeks, I’ve been on vacation. I got to play a lot of videogames; write a lot of code; read, and just enjoy life.
By the very end of it, I was feeling pretty profoundly bored. I had all these things to write, all these new games to play, but there I was, barely able to give a damn about anything I wanted to do.
continue reading...So, I got a two-week Summer holiday over Christmas. It was wonderful; sitting around, enjoying the company of friends and family, eating amazing food. Enjoying life.
Suffering, as all gamers do, the darkness that is the Steam Sale. So many games, so many choices. So much horror.
continue reading...I wrote about my thoughts on Skyfall1; teal deer is that I don’t like it.
I got some great feedback via Twitter and App.net that I need to cover.
continue reading...I didn’t like it. The misogyny aspect was a bit overblown, but made for great Internet controversy.
Well, except for spoiler turning the strong lady sniper from the beginning of the movie into, and I wish I were joking, a secretary.
continue reading...In 1994, I played Doom, as did most of the computerized world. Isolation, despair, and horrific demons rushing through a trans-dimensional vortex to devour a remote military/research installation.
Fairly standard sci-fi tropes, as well as an amazing technological achievement. Doom was the revolution, was, even if not the first game, the first major achievement of first-person shooters.
continue reading...As a followup to my article1 about a really delightful bean-based noodle soup, I’ve started making a delightful vegetable stirfry from the same basic noodle soup packets.
You will need:
continue reading...So. KiwiCon1. This is a wonderful NZ security conference. I attend to keep abreast of the things I ought be afraid of while developing software; new attack vectors and things I need to care about.
Scary stuff, most of the time. Like having a NFC cellphone be able to pretend to be a credit card, being skimmed from somewhere else. Whether or not you need to be concerned with timing attacks against your login system.
continue reading...As a follow up, of sorts, to why some phones do and do not work for me, I had a conversation with a close friend.
We’ve had the same argument for years; I find that Linux sucks, she the same for OSX. I find older Android unusable, frustrating. She finds it intuitive, wonderful.
continue reading...I’ve made mention a few times recently on app.net about how I make an amazing noodle soup using simple packet ramen.
It’s true. I do make an amazing thick soup, generally from a ramen packet.
continue reading...Months ago, Microsoft threw a lavish, Apple-inspired event announcing the Surface; a tablet, or a computer? “No compromises” was the message, taking shots at the restricted world of iOS apps.
Rumours abounded in the following weeks, with an article at Ars Technica1 positing a $199 price point, the destruction that would wreak, and why Microsoft shouldn’t do that.
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