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Designing Technology around People

George Orwell’s 1984 is rightly a hugely famous novel of the twentieth century. His depiction of a totalitarian future was so griping and compelling that the words and phrases he...

Perhaps You Shouldn't Get Involved in Free Software

Say you’re a bright young kid at Univeristy and you’ve decided that computer science is what you want to do with your life. What should you start doing with yourself...

The Worst Desktop Operating System. Evar.

I complain a lot about FreeBSD here and on Twitter and, thankfully, I am now about to stop using that horror on my desktop. But why horror?

On the Nature of my Damage

Recently I have realised that at a very early age my attitudes towards and interactions with computers were permanently damaged. Like all geeks, I first started programming in primary school....

Steve Jobs & the JesusPhone Will Save Us

Ahh, audiophiles

I’ve always enjoyed audiophiles; it’s pretty hard to find a single group with so much rich potential for mockery. But, through all my laughter at their talk of high quality...

On Reading and Writing

You may have noticed a pattern in my posting over the last few months. There was a lengthy quiet period at the end of last year, followed by many posts...