At Home with John and Debbie

I’m really keen on the new Channel 4 idents.
You can see stills of them all, and video of some of them here.
My favourites are the motel and the council tower.

The old Mac vs PC one-mouse-button vs two-mouse-buttons “debate” is raging once again over on Slashdot.
I’ll quickly state my position on that: the best mouse driven interfaces I’ve used are Sun’s OpenWindows (now very obscure) and Acorn’s RISC OS (which was always pretty niche too). Both mapped three mouse buttons to the functions “select” [...]

Since I added a gaming category for the Warning Forever post, here’s what else I’ve been playing:
Metal Slug 3 on Xbox: a perfectly converted 2D arcade game in which impossibly cute sprites shoot each other into smithereens. Lovingly animated blood splatter effects… Also, you get to ride an elephant with side mounted machine guns. [...]

It looks as if there have been quite a few revisions of the wonderful Warning Forever. I’ve been playing version 1.04. It turns out that version 1.06, supposedly the final version, was released a couple of weeks ago.
It’s claimed there are bug fixes: but I never experienced any bugs anyway. The only other [...]

We’ve had a nice night out in Baroque then Moo (interrupted by an abortive visit to an over-full Mumbai Bluu) to celebrate Ian’s birthday.
Abbi had to leave early to feed their puppy, then not long after, Tom went after her because, I dunno, her loves her or something.

I just wasn’t getting on with that Philips wireless base station. It’s designed to be very easy to use, if you have the environment they expect, and in that environment it want to be your router. We already have a router.
So yesterday, I phoned the number on the PC World receipt, to ask whether [...]

Blogging/Podcasting/content management/etc. developer and pundit Dave Winer often gets mentioned in NTK, generally when he gets petulant, or says something silly. He lives in a world where people use Macs and are prepared to pay him money for some kind of web scripting thingy. Hence when he pronounces, I generally pay no heed.
But, he [...]

Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky.
The Mac Mini is released, people look at the US price, people look at the European price, and they do some sums, and they take into account tax, and upgrade options, and eventually they come to the conclusion that, on balance, Europeans aren’t being ripped off all that badly. Certainly not as [...]

Reading through the GPS/Postcode document last night, I noticed that three consecutive paragraphs began with a completely extraneous “So, “. Don’t look for them, they’re fixed now.
I’m asking you to point out any other bad habits in my writing.
I know about my over-reliance on ellipses…

Your basic method of listening to an iPod in a car is iTrip: a neat little gizmo that sits on top of your iPod, almost as if it was designed to fit just there, and broadcasts a weak, but nonetheless illegal (in the UK) FM radio signal. iTrip is just about adequate. If [...]