July 2010
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June 2010
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Why I'm Going Mac
So I’ve made the decision over the past month that since my laptop is on the way out (pic below) I’m going to upgrade to a MacBook Pro.
I’ve taken a fair bit of flack for this decision, mainly due to how vocal I am in my disapproval of certain Apple products, but it’s a simple choice really and here’s why.
I’ve owned about 4/5 laptops in 3 years.
Me and...
May 2010
3 posts
Just wow
clientsfromhell:
From a call I just had with a client:
“White people are the majority so it should be all white people on the homepage”
mappeal: People are taking the piss out of you... →
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere…
March 2010
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Smorgazbord: Play With Us →
This is the Microtalk I gave at GDC this year. It’s a very shallow explanation of The End and The Way, which are touched on in previous posts but merit more extensive explanation and examples in future posts.
I decided to give the sort of talk that I like to receive: lots of pictures; too much…
February 2010
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Disconnected (or how I'll cope without a...
So as some of you may know my BlackBerry has been malfunctioning for the past few weeks since I updated the OS. The battery has been running at a minimum heat of 38°C on a near daily basis and as a result I’m having to send it in for repair. What’s strange is how much this worries me. For a year now I’ve been constantly connected. To my email accounts, my twitter accounts, the...
“Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion”
– Tina Fey (via kapi)
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"Just remember it'll look good on your CV"?
No doubt at some point in your life someone will have uttered this phrase to you, usually in an attempt to get you to do something you won’t be paid for. When you get to University/College/the end of high school you’ll hear it more and more.
“It’ll look good on your CV/personal statement”
I remember this being the reason it was suggested we did volunteer work or...
January 2010
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Doctors Without Borders on Tumblr →
staff:
Doctors Without Borders is doing an extraordinary amount in Haiti. Please support their efforts and donate anything you can.
November 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
8 posts
Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut →
dwlt:
merlin:
inky:
In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must...
AberPlay Podcast 1 →
The first of a series of podcast relating to gaming in general and the Dundee development scene.
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.”
– H. Jackson Browne
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Augmented Reality vs. Traditional Immersion
This is a piece I wrote in second year at university for a personal project. There are a few mistakes particularly in the “uncanney valley” description and the conclusion was somewhat rushed but I’ve been meaning to make it available for quite a while now. I’ll try and make a version with all the images available soon as none of the images I have seem to work with...
“In 1960, there was a great book called The Making of the President,” he recalls....”
– Joe Queenan meets screenwriting legend William Goldman | Film | The Guardian (via dwlt)
“It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.”
– Calvin and Hobbes
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination...”
– Albert Einstein
Switching on/Switching off
Recently I’ve been wondering if it was worth sustaining my many social networks, that were going unused, merely for fear I may lose contact with a small amount of people. Then I realised I don’t keep in contact with these people since I don’t use these accounts. While I may log in every so often I noticed I hadn’t truly used Myspace in nearly two years.
So I did the...