February 2010
6 posts
In Transition
So in the whirl of getting ready for our big move to Scotland and the excitement of finding a new flat (omg, it’s huge), we somehow didn’t notice until the other day that we really only have one weekend left in London. Nearly six years for me and three for Valerie will be over pretty soon. All of a sudden things we’ve been meaning to do for years have become things we’ll...
“Tomorrow, it’s Prague - and if it’s possible to have too much pork or too much...”
– Anthony Bourdain
Arguments of Technical People Against the iPad, No...
“I am a coder, and I learned my chops on systems of type X, ergo any new coders and tinkerers of the futures can and should discover their passion for code the same way. Change is bad because I can’t contemplate the possibility that anything but the systems and standards I grew up with will produce coders. And therefore everything must remain the same and all devices and systems must...
John Scalzi on the latest AmazonFail →
A very succint and useful analysis of the spat between MacMillan and Amazon over the weekend. I’ve bought books and countless other products from Amazon for years - indeed, they were my first and only online shopping experience for most of last decade.
Now, however, I’ll be getting my games, music and DVDs from Play.Com and my books from Waterstone’s, when I don’t just...