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Say, who remembers when I wrote about the Sony QX100 NFC-wireless-camera accessory thing? It was a cool piece of tech, but pretty limited, as first generations often are.
I remarked at the time that it would be an amazing piece of HERE IS MY MONEY PLEASE TAKE IT tech if, instead of it being a point-and-shoot system, it offered a real sensor and an interchangable lens mount.
continue reading...Hi, Twitter.
It’s time we had a bit of a talk.
continue reading...Ori and the Blind Forest came out last week, and I was very, very excited that it did.
I’d first seen a trailer for Ori, oh, sometime in 2014. It looked incredible, sad humming music over amazing artwork of a giant black creature and its small, white companion.
continue reading...A few months ago there was an announcement about a new Ghostbusters movie. This is interesting, Ghostbusters was a fun movie back in the day and it’d be neat to see a modern take on it. Great.
Even cooler was the fact that the Ghostbusters team was going to be entirely composed of women. Excellent! The lack of gender diversity is hugely glaring, and the growing awareness of how awful things are is resulting in positive steps like this.
continue reading...So it’s a big tech show-annouce-press-everything-thing right now. Just past? CES maybe? MWC? I don’t actually know. Stuff’s going on, things have been announced, some of them look shiny.
Some of those things don’t look shiny.
continue reading...It’s been several months since I’ve posted anything here. It’s been several months since I’ve felt like I was able to think coherently enough to write. It’s been several months since I’ve felt like I’ve really been myself.
In a nutshell, depression sucks.
continue reading...Once upon a time, in the mists of nostalgic yesteryear an amazing 4X game was released, and this game was known as Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.
Alpha Centauri was positioned as the spiritual successor to the amazing Civilization II, a game that let you guide a civilisation (surprise!) from the mists of history to the cusp of a future world, conducting diplomacy and more aggressive diplomacy as your history unfolded.
continue reading...As you may have heard, Wasteland 2 shipped on Sep 19th.
I’ve been looking forward to this came since its debut on Kickstarter, desperate for the world. Post-apocalypse! Roleplaying! The heredity of my most-loved of games, Fallout and Fallout 2.
continue reading...I was amazingly honoured last night to be asked to sit on a panel of Women in Technology last night, addressing young women in the Wellington Summer of Tech program.
One of the questions that kept coming up and kept being addressed was one of how we should stand up for ourselves and feel like we know enough to contribute.
continue reading...In case you missed it, this massive bug in Android got revealed today, and it is quite a doozy. In this vulnerability, the original stock browser lets code from any website read from any other tab, and that other data could be anything at all. Banking information, for instance.
Following through the link to the browser share breakdown, Ars Technica is seeing 20% usage from that same, flawed Android browser, in spite of the push from Chrome. Other browsers could also be using the flawed underpinnings, and you’d never be able to tell.
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