Since dipping my toe into cross-disciplinary research, I’ve noticed that it seems the best known results of a field are … More
Category: rant
New old laptop
My old laptop was falling apart, but buying a new one presented all kinds of ethical problems of which I … More
Sonic boom
I’ve been peeved by this FT article, and failing to express my annoyance over on twitter, so time for a … More
Novels are digital art too
Digital means discrete, and analog means continuous. Digital and analog support each other, as Deleuze and Guattari put it: … … More
Cyclic revision control
There is something about artist-programmers, the way they’re caught using general purpose languages and tools in specific, unusual circumstances. Many … More
Languages are Languages – follow up
There are some interesting comments to my “languages are languages” post that I wanted to highlight — a disadvantage of … More
Languages are languages
Ian Bogost has an interesting argument that computer languages are not languages, but systems. He starts off arguing that learning … More
The tyranny of deadline extensions
At least in my world, it has become normal and expected for deadlines to be extended by around a week. … More
Meaning of Hack
This post dedicated to Olga, who went missing a few days ago. (she came back, after three weeks out in the … More
2000 to 2009
Inspired by Christof, here’s my roundup of 2000 to 2009, seriously inhibited by my terrible memory. Will add to this … More