Power-up is a computer games symposium in Bristol July 14-15. July 14 is my daughter’s birthday, and we’ll be in the South of France hoping for Bastille Day fireworks to celebrate her seventh anniversary, so I’m definitely not going – but it […]

Why does it cost three times as much to buy one article online from the New York Times as it does to buy a whole newspaper, on paper, in Norway? And it’s nearly six times the cost of an Australian newspaper. Do […]

Matt writes about starting with the default template and changing it as you notice the hordes of other bloggers using exactly the same template. A common enough experience, I imagine. But then he cites Manovich: Lev Manovich makes the interesting argument that […]

My daughter got her first email account today! And look what she sent me: You are the most wandefolest mummyin the world from your daughter Isn’t she just gorgeous!? I think someone helped her spell “daughter” 🙂

Damnit. Saw Matrix Reloaded tonight and I realised that in the brief, semi-obligatory reference to The Matrix in my thesis I wrote Mr Andersen when I meant Smith. Mr Andersen is what the evil sentient software agents call Neo. Agent Smith is […]

The sound of my keystrokes is accompagnied by the voices of women laughing as they walk home, the distant closing of office doors and a soft drizzle of rain against the constant hum of cars and city. I think summer’s arrived with […]

Wow. Look at all the different ways the exact same HTML can be displayed using different CSS stylesheets: The CSS Zen Garden. (via Jon)

Lilia Efimova‘s right: a lot of research bloggers don’t really use their blogs to document their research. We write around our “real” research”, yes, and blogging has definitely informed my research, and my research focus has changed through blogging, but I bet […]

I haven’t been reading Francis Strand’s weblog How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons recently, and coming across it again I’m amazed, again, at the skill and calm with which it is written. It’s a wonderful example of a narrative weblog. […]