My iPod’s battery only lasts for 40 minutes after each charge now. Luckily it’s only six months old so still covered by guarantee, and so today I had my second experience with Apple’s service telephone. This time one of the guys who […]

Noah’s written a useful post showing the development of the writing for the soon-to-be-released game Fable. It’s interesting seeing examples of what bits of dialogue looked like as the writers wrote it, as it was sent back by coders and rewritten by […]

For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of — to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being […]

My phone beeped early this morning with an SMS from my mother: “I’m safe.” She’s in Jakarta on business. Yesterday she was at a meeting just a couple of blocks from the Australian embassy; today there’s a three metre deep crater there. […]

gmail-is-too-creepy.com not only outlines why it’s probably not a great idea to give Google all your email (they will never delete anything and they can link your email contents to your searching and your blogging and your comments on Blogger weblogs), it’s […]

Today the sun was shining so brilliantly that I scrapped the lecture plans and took my students to town to do field work instead. We collected photos of stickers, tags and street art, talked about viral marketing and art outside of galleries […]

Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s Listening Post won the Ars Electronica prize and was described to me in email as one of the most beautiful works of electronic literature ever. It’s found literature really: bits and pieces from chat rooms and discussions […]

I’m hired! Permanently! Forever! YAY! S 78/04: TILSETTING I STILLING SOM F?òRSTEAMANUENSIS I HUMANISTISK INFORMATIKK Vedtak: Arbeidsutvalget tilsetter Jill Walker i utlyst stilling som f??rsteamanuensis i humanistisk informatikk med virkning fra 01.10.2004. I’ve been teaching here at Humanistic Informatics on temporary contracts […]

Oh look! This has to be a sign of Success! Ian made a green version of my blog design! I stole the stylesheet for my first blog design from Stewart of Sylloge.org (I later apologised and was forgiven), and it’s so cool […]