Author Archives: Keith

So long, Veer :(

For a long time, I’ve enjoyed finding imagery via Veer.com. Well, ok, perhaps “enjoyed” isn’t quite the right word. Anyone who has spent an afternoon viewing 6,000-7,000 photographs of too young, too pretty and entirely too sharply or provocatively dressed men and women will know “enjoyment” isn’t what you feel. When you’re looking for images [...]

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Too many interesting things

I was writing down a to-do list at work today and realised it was getting out of hand. Not the list of things I needed to finish; whilst there’s plenty on it, it’s not intimidating, just a lot of work. What struck me was the number of non-essential “exploratory” ideas I wrote down towards the [...]

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I hate Valve

Well, alright, I <3 Valve. If you play PC games at all it’s very difficult not to love Valve just a little bit. They’re so unashamedly keen, and successful, and funny, and community-minded, and clever with PR, and, and, and stuff, that you can’t help yourself. But I bloody HATE the sales they have on [...]

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Why does everyone hate Flash?

I was killing some time and a random selection of links took me via the Doghouse Diaries to this post on Not Even Philosophy about various things Apple have done, including the changes to the iPhone developer agreement, and it got me thinking about Adobe Flash. In particular, this section: Not only is it Apple’s [...]

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Yes I can

Playing Torchwood, however briefly, means you’re no match for me, dear. I pop bubble wrap at 3.39 bubbles per second! I popped 196 bubbles in 57.9 seconds at www.Virtual-Bubblewrap.com! Can you beat my score?

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