Today I launched google search and saw a tiny, self-effacing, non-intrusive little grey banner at the top of the search page. It was asking for donations to …
Gynnies and Andies – part deux
Blimey… You turn your back for a minute… and the gynnies have whizzed through the evolutionary equivalent of a few millenia! Witness:
The real lesson of Rapa Nui
So…. I just watched a documentary on Easter Island… and I want to grab its makers and shake them, vigorously. Less of that for the …
Whiplash: it needn’t all be whip and lash…
First off, Whiplash is an awesome movie. I loved how different the story was, and I thought the casting was very apt (Paul Reiser as …
Holography Schmolography
[updated 2014-09-04] The whole holography thing. YES. I am actually going there! I’m going to place a bet against (some) physicists. I have absolutely nothing …
Jodorowsky and his Dune
I was supposed to see the 12:00 showing. I didn’t. I fell into a phonecall lurking in some region of space-time that also happened to …
heartbleed: this is why C/C++ is, to this day, still too powerful for us
It starts with this piece of good-intention paving for the current https:// roads to hell: So we’re introducing a heartbeat, a transmission which seeks to …
You want me to WHAT my phone?
So while our Microsoft Exchange Server has always been a tad pissy with my Android phone, my employer has reconfigured it recently to up the ante: …
Equipment for off-grid homes
It takes quite a bit of doing, all this off-grid home stuff! Worst of all, the only thing I could remember from high school electronics …
TEDx talk on telling the African Story
Good journalism on Africa on journalism mashup talk: Bit of a sprig off the ‘ole HTWAA meme…. Update / sad post-scriptum: Komla Dumor is… dead. …