Monthly Archives: May 2009

Social Networking: An Analysis Of Hypocrisy

May 17, 2009 – 21:57

It would be fair to claim that I’ve been a little hypocritical in my darting around the issues regarding Facebook in the last year or two. This is highlighted by the analysis of my behaviour (!) in Jack Scott’s article about why he doesn’t use Facebook. My article discusses some issues identified by Jack so [...]

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Twilight Imperium

May 17, 2009 – 14:17

Yesterday a subset of Maclab was summoned to play Twilight Imperium, one of Zen’s many board games. It’s ideally a 6-player game (though an 8-player expansion is available) and is definitely an all-day event. We started playing at about noon and barely finished by 6PM. Under the watchful eyes of Zen and Peter, the only two [...]

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The Power Of Good Keyboard

May 13, 2009 – 18:16

Back when I was a lad, a right fuss was made about having proper posture when using a computer. Either that’s become assumed or nobody cares any more, which is a pity because laptops present a new challenge in the war against injury when computing. Exhibit A: The new mac keyboards. Unlike every non-musical keyboard [...]

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Blogging is back in town

May 9, 2009 – 20:55

The act of weblogging is a sporadic event for me. I’ve tried serious posts, insane posts, long posts, short posts, sparse posts, frequent posts, informative posts and utter gibberish—mostly labouring under the impression that someone somewhere really cares. It’s my blog and I’ll do what I want to, as it were. So it was that [...]

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