wake up and smell the copy
Posted in internet, technology on Mar 25th, 2010
Conventional wisdom has it that digital doesn’t degrade gracefully. That unlike, say, the random fuzz introduced into a conventional analogue TV picture by interference, you get the blocky, stalled or jittery breakdown more familiar to digital viewers. It’s generally true, but not always, as I think the image above – produced when a network fault [...]
Posted in digression on Mar 19th, 2008
I’m hurt. I’ve been trying very hard not to just slag off the BBC lately, and a friend pointed out this evening that he kind of missed it. Well, if you think I’m going to say something sarcastic about under-bonnet forecourt-proximity-detecting depreciation devices you’ll be sorely disappointed. Instead, a mini rant about Microsoft. Regular readers [...]
Posted in digression on Mar 12th, 2008
A mechanical Etch-a-Sketch clock. Fact. VIA Guardian technology blog
Posted in digression on Dec 12th, 2007
I’m not happy. I worked for too many years in IT, and if there’s one lesson that you’d think I would have learned from my time there it’s that faster is not always better. This would, on early evidence, seem to apply to my internet connection, which was upgraded about a week ago from a [...]
Posted in journalism on Oct 28th, 2007
There are people starving, others dying of disease and many millions who are oppressed and victimised, but if there’s one thing that people seem to give a shit about it’s technology. I’m utterly at a loss to explain why. This isn’t the grumbling of a marginalised old-timer, I should point out. I may (dimly) remember [...]
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