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“They don’t want you to have stuff archived in your house”
Darknet’s on a blogging frenzy today, and there’s some excellent content to chew over. First up, an interview with the former CTO of ReplayTV talking about the studios’ attitudes towards digital recording: [The Hollywood studios] essentially wanted to control what anyone could record on TV. They wanted sole discretion over how long you could keep…
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Indie aliens
As game development budgets get higher and higher the games industry looks more like Hollywood every day, with mega-budget blockbusters and lots of me-too titles following in their wake. Alien Hominid bucks the trend: it’s a quirky platform shooter with impeccable indie credentials. Alien Hominid started life as a Flash game on Newgrounds, and it…
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Digital liberties under attack
I’ve been following the Darknet blog for a while, which is designed to accompany the book of the same name. The subtitle – Hollywood’s War Against The Digital Generation – makes it pretty clear which side of the fence it’s on. In today’s update, Darknet lists the top 10 digital liberties under assault, which includes…
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We are here to help each other through this thing, whatever it is*
I’m disabled at the moment: I can’t walk properly, and even simple things like going to the corner shop take a lot of effort. It gives you an interesting perspective on things, and on people: it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that, as Slipknot put it, people = shit. To take just a few examples:…
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Queasy Tiger
I upgraded to Apple’s Tiger operating system a few weeks ago, and while there are some fun things in it – Spotlight, the new QuickTime player and a slight performance boost – I can’t say the experience has been particularly positive. I’ve found Automator almost unusable, Safari even more crash-prone than it used to be,…
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A vision of Hell(gate)
The forthcoming Hellgate: London game looks fantastic, and the developers have uploaded some hi-res video clips to whet your appetite. They’re cinematics rather than in-game footage, but the current clip is worth a look if you’ve even a passing interest in computer animation. You’ll need broadband, though: the full-size clip is around 200MB.
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Facing up to your own mortality
Today was a sad day. The barber looked at my eyebrows and said, “would you like me to give them a trim”? I’m now officially old :(
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Under the knife
That’s my back op rescheduled: tentatively, 3rd June. So I’ll either be completely AWOL for two weeks afterwards, or blogging like a demon because of boredom ;-)
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Why I’ve been quiet
Once again, sorry for the lack of updates. I haven’t been able to blog for a bit because I’ve been: * very, very, very, very, very busy * going to see Eels live * lying on the floor feeling sorry for myself and waiting for painkillers to kick in * redecorating the flat * trying…
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Frog rage
God bless the BBC. No, not because of its internet activities, or its tendency to give me cash for the odd radio appearance: because it’s ad-free, it’s currently the only UK broadcaster that isn’t bombarding everyone with Crazy Fucking Frog all the time (although that may change: if the Crazy Frog single charts, which it…