Personal
[ Feb 25 2018 ]
My Old Day Job – Part Three
This is part three of a four-part series, detailing the last year at my old software job. It’s a terrible story of a company gone very, very wrong.
Personal
[ Feb 25 2018 ]
My Old Day Job – Part Two
This is part two of a four-part series, detailing the last year at my old software job. It’s a terrible story of a company gone very, very wrong.
Personal
[ Feb 23 2018 ]
My Old Day Job – Part One
A long time ago I worked in an offfice, and I started keeping a log near the end of my time there because, frankly, it was batshit insane and getting batshit insanier by the week. This is that story.
Games
[ Feb 11 2016 ]
Thinking about Video Games
I’ve never really been comfortable with modern game thinking. A lot of people I know subscribe to this idea that videogames can be more than they are, that they should be more. More emotion, more story. They see this as the way forward, a way to… I don’t know, legitimize the medium they’re invested in. […]
quote
[ Dec 24 2014 ]
I demand to know.
“From the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge: ignorance. I do not need to be comfortable, and I will not take refuge. I demand to know.”
–Richard Morgan, from the novel Black Man.
Personal
[ Apr 18 2013 ]
Australia, lol
Australia bickers over the internet. 25 megabits, or 100 megabits? Meanwhile Japan is rolling out 2 gigabit – 20x faster than Australia’s biggest dream.
Personal
[ Sep 4 2007 ]
A new toy
I was in Japan last week and while I had a fantastic time I didn’t find much to buy. A man can only eat so many メロンパン or メロンソーダ, ya know? I bought a couple of cheap trinkets for the camera, but was otherwise prepared to go home with total expenditures of less than two […]
Personal
[ Jan 14 2006 ]
A momentous evening.
It’s been an interesting night. First I found a microscopic baby gecko in the kitchen. After chasing him around for a while, I coerced him onto my hand. Then I had a nasty, nasty shock. Witness The Lurking Horror!! He’s missing a leg. After hosing him down with enough poison to gas a moose he […]
Personal
[ Jan 6 2006 ]
The Book
The hard part about writing a book to someone else’s spec: they change their mind and mobiles? What do I know about mobiles?
Personal
[ Jan 6 2006 ]
Plenty of changes around here.
Things are happening. Things are always happening, of course, but lately they’re happening a lot. First, the big news: I got paid for the book. More on that soon. With the money I’ve paid off most of my car loan, and I’ve earmarked a couple of dollars for some new toys. My love of photography […]
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